Not endorsing what she said on @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson about Sharia Law in America, but there're reasonable questions on @JoeBiden's embrace of political Islam by participating in an event on July 20th sponsored by @EmgageAction, a partner organization of @CAIRNational
@CAIRNational was co-founded by known Hamas sympathizer, @NihadAwad. There is a great deal of info on CAIR’s ties/links to extremist and terrorist groups.
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Also, @JoeBiden further embraced political Islamists narratives by quoting the Hadith "Whoever among you sees a wrong, let him change it with his hand. If he is not able, then with his tongue. If he is not able, then with his heart.”
This particular Hadith is well-known in Muslim world & has been a source of much polarization & extremism there. While some #Muslims take a broad interpretation of it but in the hands of many radical Islamic groups, it's been invoked to justify all manners of terrorism.
For example, #ISIS uses it to justify the targeting of #Christians & killing of secular intellectuals, as well as #Hamas to justify and recruit for suicide bombings against #Jews and #Israel.
It is unlikely that @JoeBiden had any personal knowledge of the implications of this Hadith, but his hosts most certainly did - where Mr Biden sought to bond with broad Muslim audiences, he instead won applause of slim & radical minority of Muslims.
Additionally, @JoeBiden's words were lauded by the #MuslimBrotherhood (MB), who aired it widely on their channels in #Turkey. @AlJazeera also distributed his message making it something of a far-reaching (if inadvertent) dog whistle to extremist groups.
This has domestic implications for @JoeBiden as #Coptic and other Middle Eastern #Christian minorities who fled #MiddleEast recognize that this is political Islamists’ narrative & they're most likely to rightly reject & not endorse the candidate who is using it.
You’ll be surprised by # of #Coptic #Egyptians & other #MiddleEastern #Christians in swing states (MI, FL, PA, VA) who voted for #Trump in 2016 due to his rejection of political Islam & widespread perception that Hillary & Obama supported the MB & political Islam.
While it may help @JoeBiden domestically and in European countries like Germany, but If he wants to be effective in the Middle East, he has to distinguish himself from Obama’s policies & change the perception in the region that he's merely an @BarackObama third term.
And further pin a future #Biden Administration in the Middle East regardless of their intentions to pivot to #Asia or focus elsewhere in the world. For a good illustration, see what happened to @BarackObama in #Afghanistan and how #Iraq blew up on him.