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Women’s March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group
Daily Caller ^ | Janaury 21, 2017 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 01/22/2017 7:16:01 AM PST by grundle

Salah Sarsour (left) with Linda Sarsour (right) at MAS-ICNA convention. Via Facebook

Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers behind Saturday’s Women’s March, being held in Washington, D.C., was recently spotted at a large Muslim convention in Chicago posing for pictures with an accused financier for Hamas, the terrorist group.

Sarsour, the head of the Arab American Association of New York and an Obama White House “Champion of Change,” was speaking at last month’s 15th annual convention of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America.

While there, she posed for a picture with Salah Sarsour, a member of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and former Hamas operative who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s because of his alleged work for the terrorist group.

Salah Sarsour, who is also a board member of American Muslims for Palestine, served as a bodyguard of sorts at the convention for Sumeyye Erdogan Bayraktar, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

While it is unclear if Salah and Linda are related (though they share the same surname, she has suggested in the past on social media that they are not and did not respond to requests for comment), she has other family ties to alleged Hamas operatives. Though she avoids discussing it now, Sarsour has acknowledged in past interviews that she has cousins serving prison time in Israel because of their work for Hamas.

Sarsour has denied having any contact with the terror group. She told The New York Times in 2012 that she would not have been appointed an Obama “Champion of Change” if she had.

The activist has risen to national attention recently. She served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and she is one of four lead organizers for the Women’s March.

The event is expected to attract 500,000 people and will feature several high-profile progressive speakers. But it has been heavily criticized for excluding pro-life women’s groups. Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group which opposes abortions past 20 weeks, was asked to take part in the event.

Linda Sarsour has close ties to that organization, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terrorism case.

HLF was found to have funneled money to Hamas, which was designated a terrorist group in the 1990s.

Salah Sarsour has ties to that group.

Sarsour was implicated in Hamas activity in the West Bank in the 1990s, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

ADL cited a Nov. 2001 FBI memo detailing information provided by Sarsour’s brother, Jamil, to Israeli investigators in 1998.

“According to statements given to Israeli investigators by his brother Jamil, Sarsour was personally involved in fundraising for Hamas. According to a November 2001 FBI memorandum, Jamil Sarsour was arrested in 1998 for funding Hamas and told Israeli investigators that Salah Sarsour was involved in funding Hamas through his fundraising for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF),” ADL reported.

The FBI memo stated that the Sarsours passed money in $1,000 and $2,000 increments to a Hamas operative named Adel Awadallah through their Milwaukee furniture store.

Awadallah was a commander in the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ militant wing.

Salah Sarsour met Awadallah in 1995 while serving an eight month prison sentence in Israel for supporting Hamas.

Sarsour has not been charged with any crimes in the U.S. His brother Jamil was arrested and charged in 2003 with money laundering after returning back to the U.S. from Israel. He served a four year jail sentence for his work for Hamas.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: disruptj20; jihadinamerica; muslimwomen; radicalislam; sarsour; womensmarch

1 posted on 01/22/2017 7:16:01 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Because nothing says women’s rights like Sharia.


2 posted on 01/22/2017 7:19:09 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: grundle

Trump can start eradicating radical lslam right here.


3 posted on 01/22/2017 7:21:43 AM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: grundle

has she had her “female circumcision” yet?


4 posted on 01/22/2017 7:28:07 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: grundle

Thank God I’m not a muslim!!


5 posted on 01/22/2017 7:34:07 AM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: grundle

...so all those women marching yesterday were doing so in solidarity with terrorist sympathizers???


6 posted on 01/22/2017 7:36:26 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: faithhopecharity
has she had her “female circumcision” yet?

Most of those stupid hats I saw weren't mutilated, so the memo must not have gotten out.

"The Mother of all Astrofurf" has Soros and Islamic connections… I'm shocked.

7 posted on 01/22/2017 7:36:43 AM PST by niteowl77 (First it was George Bush's fault, then it was the Russians' fault, now it's Donald Trump's fault.)
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To: SIRTRIS

Women of islam, deficient in intelligence and deficient in religion, per hadieth. In the koran, women are like children whom, “CAN NOT devise a plan”.


8 posted on 01/22/2017 7:37:54 AM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: grundle
I hate to say it, but Sarsur, if spelled right (صرصور) means "cockroach" in Arabic...
9 posted on 01/22/2017 7:48:05 AM PST by Ulmius
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To: grundle

The hidden agenda.


10 posted on 01/22/2017 7:49:49 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: grundle
Sarsour has denied having any contact with the terror group....she would not have been appointed an Obama “Champion of Change” if she had.

No of course not. Everyone was thoroughly vetted. How is someone who believes in a 7th century repressive legal code a "champion of change"?

11 posted on 01/22/2017 8:01:05 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: grundle

ISISlam on the march


12 posted on 01/22/2017 8:03:49 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: niteowl77

IMHO, Soros may have done more harm to people and the world as a whole than anybody since A.Hitler

The $$ should be transfered from him to a “Soros victims’ compensation fund”

which should then be distributed to aid both individuals harmed by him and nations he’s hurt (Maylaysia, UK, Israel, Russia, most of Europe with his sponsorship of IslamoNazi immigration/invastion, and USA included)


13 posted on 01/22/2017 11:43:27 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: grundle

Evil is evil whether it be abortion or sharia ... and evil feeds off any other flavor of evil. Supporting sharia only exposes the true nature of either group summed up in one word ... EVIL.


14 posted on 01/22/2017 1:32:07 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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