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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.

islamism.news/2023/02/14/mef… 2/ @COPAAusa and @CouncilofPakis1 claim to represent Pakistani American interests, but have been charged by the @PakinLosAngeles Consulate with promoting Pakistan’s “soft image” in the U.S. Their leaders are either members of @PTIofficial or promote PTI officials and causes. Image
Jul 28, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
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.com 2/ “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.