Posted on 02/26/2023 9:16:56 AM PST by DFG
A member of the same Virginia school board that came under fire for withholding information about students' scholarships has raised eyebrows by saying the Battle of Iwo Jima, a major US victory against the Japan in World War II, was 'evil' and should not have happened.
The comments were made Thursday by Fairfax County board member Abrar Omeish, 28, in reference to the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The holiday occurs on the same calendar day as the first US landings on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.
Lasting more than a month from February 19 to March 26 of 1945, the battle for the island of Iwo Jima is one of the most famous in the history of the Marine Corps. Nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines from the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions died trying to wrest control of the island from Japan's Imperial Army of Japan.
Already inciting outrage, the remarks serve are not the first time the 28-year-old board member has come under scrutiny. Elected into office in 2019 at just 24, the Muslim official also has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, and has candidly said that the district's admissions policy has an anti-Asian bias.
Her father is also a member of the Board of Directors of a Fairfax mosque where three of the 9/11 hijackers had prayed before carrying out the heinous attacks.
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It saved by Father’s life you idiot! I despise these holier than thou charlatans.
She must have been referring to the Japanese soldiers and what they did on Iwo Jima and throughout the war. That was evil.
WHO is letting these people into the USA????
WHAT IS HER COUNTRY OF ORIGIN???
A 28 year old from another country doesn’t know a damn thing about World War II and how Americans fought..
Born in 1994 & thinks they can understand?
A POX on her & all around her.
WHO is letting these people into the USA????
WHAT IS HER COUNTRY OF ORIGIN???
A 28 year old from another country doesn’t know a damn thing about World War II and how Americans fought..
Born in 1994 & thinks they can understand?
A POX on her & all around her.
Okay! Where are the morons who voted for this anti-American JACKASS?
They are starting to teach in schools that the only reason the Allies went after Japan was that Japan was only trying to kick Western Imperialists out of Asia.
They used the Okinawans as human shields and treated them crueler than they treated the Chinese.
The Immigration Law 0f 1965 fundamentally transformed Fairfax County, Virginia and most of the country forever. It is further being morphed into a pliable globalist cog by Biden’s open borders policy. Thank the Democrats for both.
When asked to explain her comments amid the backlash by the Washington Free Beacon, Omeish seemed to backtrack on that reasoning that saw her decry the Battle of Iwo Jima - often shortened to simply Iwo Jima - as an example of human evil.
This was a major factor in the decision to use the Atom Bombs, they extrapolated this to figure all of Japan would be like this had they invaded.
She added that she made the remark because the battle ‘fell on the same day’ as the 1942 executive order issued by then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt to incarcerate Japanese Americans, while noting that the order remained in effect ‘even after Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, three years later.’
Japan DEMANDED we gather up their citizens and return them. We did the same to Japan.
Negotiations for citizens was ongoing throughout the entire war.
The Japanese hold the title for evil.
The problem is the idiot voters who stay home for these elections. When only 10% show up, it will be the most motivated 10%, and this is what you get.
Looks like hatred and death run in the family. They need to be purged from society.
Well, at least we didn’t eat them, which the Japanese did to some of our POWs.
She must have been referring to the Japanese soldiers and what they did on Iwo Jima and throughout the war. That was evil.
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I think other school board members now have license to criticize Muslim radicalism, terrorism and treatment of women.
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