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Feb 16, 2023 • 11 tweets • 11 min read
1/ Los Angeles-area law enforcement have been infiltrated by a pair of Pakistani American nonprofits with ties to @PTIofficial, Pakistan’s Islamist, anti-American majority political party. @LASDHQ, @LAPDHQ, and @FBILosAngeles are all involved.
1/ A Harvard student group @harvardvotes has invited #Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib to its Summer Voting Camp to teach about voting rights
There’s just 2 problems: Ghalib admitted to possible voter fraud in the 2020 elections. He’s also a racist
Read more: StopGhalibFraud.com2/ “There were 20 people around me planning to vote for Biden…I got them to vote for Sanders and did their families’ ballot cards myself,” Mayor Ghalib wrote. In Michigan, it is a felony to influence an absentee voter who is voting, or when filling out a ballot for someone else.
Oct 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
1) From asking fellow Muslims to “shed a tear for the Taliban” following its 2002 defeat, to rejoicing Afghanistan’s return to Islamic rule 2 decades later, @IAMCouncil and its associates have long admired the Taliban’s Deobandi fundamentalism. @meforum
meforum.org/islamist-watch…2) @IAMCouncil’s very first convention in 2003 included Islamists such as Asim Ghafoor, who worked as a spokesman for not one — but three separate charities shut down after 9/11 for allegedly funding Al Qaeda and the Taliban.