The “red-green alliance” refers to the political Left’s reliance on Marxists and Islamists as vital, sometimes-overlapping electoral constituencies. This phenomenon is now common in Europe, and perhaps its most vivid American manifestation to date arrived in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, where Democrats nominated a Squad-style socialist and Islamist for Congress.
Retiring incumbent Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) has comfortably won multiple consecutive reelection campaigns, routinely topping 60% of the vote. The party’s new nominee will therefore be the prohibitive favorite to become a congressman.
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Who is Adam Hamawy? One of his loudest and most prominent supporters is streamer and Democratic “influencer” Hasan Piker, who has stated, openly and genuinely, that America deserved the jihadi massacre of nearly 3,000 innocent civilians on 9/11. That grotesque detail is particularly relevant to Hamawy’s political rise.
Hamawy, a medical doctor who has done some commendable things in his career, was also an admitted associate of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the “Blind Sheikh.” Rahman was an arch terrorist who was convicted in the 1990s of masterminding the first World Trade Center Bombing, with the goal of toppling the towers and killing thousands. This was the Islamist terrorists’ first attempt at 9/11-level destruction and mass murder in lower Manhattan. He was also found guilty of working to orchestrate a complex terrorism plot against multiple additional targets in the Big Apple.
Hamawy, now the Democrats’ standard-bearer in a congressional race, traveled with the Blind Sheikh, served as his personal translator, and was a witness on behalf of his defense at the terrorism trial. During those proceedings, he confessed that he’d heard Rahman preach jihad against the United States on numerous occasions. At the very least, none of this stopped Hamawy from remaining close with Rahman, helping him communicate, or testifying for him at trial. Hamawy also went abroad to volunteer for a “charitable” organization in Bosnia. Days prior to Tuesday’s primary, journalists at Jewish Insider revealed that the group in question turned out to be an al Qaeda front, which was subsequently disbanded.
Hamawy is passionately endorsed by a man who proudly declares that the U.S. had it coming on 9/11. He was a confidante of a convicted terrorist who took Islamists’ first shot at the Twin Towers. And he then happened to wind up working for an al Qaeda front group abroad. That’s quite a fact pattern.
What, incidentally, is the significance of Bosnia? Longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy McCarthy was part of the federal prosecution team that put the Blind Sheikh away decades ago. In a recent interview on my radio program, he dropped some interesting breadcrumbs on this front. McCarthy explained that during the court proceedings, Abdel-Rahman’s team argued that the confirmed bomb-making connected to this case was not intended to kill New Yorkers, but instead, “what they planned to do was go [abroad] and participate in the jihad” elsewhere. Where was that supposed terror destination? Bosnia. Who in their right mind believes that Hamawy’s volunteer pilgrimage to that exact country, to work at what turned out to be an al Qaeda subgroup, was an accident or coincidence?
The candidate’s apologists, who are generally the usual suspects of Israel-bashers, socialists and Islamists, are trying to gloss this record by citing other good deeds performed by Hamawy over the years.
Let’s play this out. Let’s give Hamawy an extreme benefit of the doubt and concede, for the sake of argument, that he regrets his decision to knowingly befriend and work for a hardcore jihadi, and to rush to his defense during his terrorism trial. Let’s also stipulate, again for the sake of argument, that Hamawy was somehow hoodwinked into working for an al Qaeda front group overseas, and that the incriminating Bosnia connection truly was coincidental.
If later munificent actions were part of a lifelong pursuit of penance for those horrible mistakes, Hamawy wouldn’t dream of enthusiastically campaigning alongside a violence-advocating extremist who’s openly declared that America deserved the slaughter of Sept. 11, 2001. But that’s precisely what candidate Hamawy has chosen to do. He is due zero benefit of any doubt.
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I’ll leave you with a macabre, sickening postscript: New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, which Hamawy is now favored to represent, includes a small township called Cranbury. That’s where a young father and husband by the name of Todd Beamer was living back in 2001. That American hero, revered by countless Americans for his “let’s roll” courage on an airplane forcibly controlled by al Qaeda terrorists, was murdered that fateful day.
Beamer died protecting others and doing his utmost to foil his killers’ plot. His final resting place is back in Cranbury, within New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, which appears poised to elect Adam Hamawy to represent them in the very Capitol building that Beamer’s plane was hijacked to hit.
