Islam Is the New Black

A key element of the left’s identity politics is the intersectional ranking of oppression. 

That’s a fancy way of saying that there are levels of oppression, and you get what amounts to points for each box you tick. 

At the bottom are heterosexual white women; they are victims of the patriarchy, but also beneficiaries of white supremacy and colonization, so they really are no better than white men unless they want an abortion. Wanting to kill your child bumps you up a notch, especially around election time. 

At the top would be a transgender Muslim sex offender who entered this country illegally, hates Jews, is a communist, and who identifies as a deaf furry pedophile, or something like that. Maybe their pronouns should be Jihad/pedo or something to get extra points. 

You probably have noticed that there are an awful lot of Muslims suddenly popping up as Democratic Party candidates, and that their calling card is their sympathy for terrorists and their hatred for Israel, combined with a taste for communism. Most people thought Abdul El-Sayed was the apotheosis of this trend, but he has been displaced by an actual former volunteer for al Qaeda, who is almost guaranteed to win his election to Congress. 

Muslims have replaced black people at the top of the liberal victim hierarchy, and Democrats are going to elect a bunch of Islamists into office as a response. This is how radical Islam gets introduced into our politics like it has for the UK. https://t.co/lKjb1c1wDW

— Corey Walker 🇺🇸 (@CoreyWriting) June 1, 2026

The story of Adam Hamawy seems too bizarre to be true, given that he is about to be transported to the halls of the Capitol by the Democrats, who find Islamists to be like catnip these days. Put on your keffiyah and join me and Jim Geraghty on this journey into the rabbit hole. 

You might be asking, what could be worse than a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo?

How about a House candidate who did some work for al-Qaeda?

Adam Hamawy’s past relationship with terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman has loomed over his rapid rise in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ). . . .

But just one year before Hamawy took the witness stand to describe his travels with Abdel-Rahman, the now-Congressional candidate made a different journey with another party entangled in terrorist conspiracies: to Bosnia, with a group subsequently shut down for providing “logistical support” to Al-Qaida.

In a 1996 interview with the Newark Star-Ledger, according to a copy Jewish Insider recovered through an archive of print publications, Hamawy described volunteering in Bosnia during the summer of 1994 with a Chicago-based nonprofit called the “Benevolence International Foundation.”

“I worked in Sarajevo for 10 days and then the rest in Zenica, a large regional center in central Bosnia,” Hamawy, who had just graduated from medical school, told the paper about the five weeks he spent with the organization. “We went out to hospitals around the area and in the mountains to check what supplies they needed and we tried to deliver them.”

Sarajevo and Zenica were the exact cities where Benevolence International maintained its offices — offices that Bosnian authorities raided in 2002, part of a joint effort with U.S. authorities to dismantle the group, which they had identified as a front for Al-Qaida. The 9/11 Commission Report would later identify the foundation’s base in the Bosnian capital as part of the “impressive array of offices [that] covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities” that Osama bin Laden established in the early 1990s.

Well, that explains why Hamawy didn’t list a reference for his work for the Benevolence International Foundation on his résumé. His boss was killed in Pakistan in 2011.

And that’s not all! He was a character witness for the Blind Sheik after the World Trade Center bombing because he knew him well.  His explanation? Well, he didn’t preach murder ALL the time, you know. 

Even in today’s climate, it’s pretty rare to see a serious candidate for national office venture into something akin to “Hitler wasn’t all bad, he loved animals” territory, but here is New Jersey Congressional candidate Adam Hamawy on the Blind Sheikh of 1993 WTC bombing infamy: pic.twitter.com/XBcMcX9fcb

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) June 1, 2026

Gee, that seems a bit sketchy.

Adam Hamawy’s past relationship with terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman has loomed over his rapid rise in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ). 

Their relationship spanned a 1991 road trip the two took together to Detroit, Hamawy’s service as the sheikh’s translator for a press conference in which Abdel-Rahman denied any role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Hamawy’s testimony on the sheikh’s behalf at his 1995 trial, where the Islamist leader was convicted of plotting to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks in New York City.

But just one year before Hamawy took the witness stand to describe his travels with Abdel-Rahman, the now-Congressional candidate made a different journey with another party entangled in terrorist conspiracies: to Bosnia, with a group subsequently shut down for providing “logistical support” to Al-Qaida.

He also volunteered in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war, which essentially ensures that he is a Hamas sympathizer. 

Adam Hamawy, the leading Democrat in NJ-12:

Drove the “Blind Sheikh” 13 hours to a conference, visited his home, and testified as a defense witness at his terrorism trial.

Volunteered for a Bosnian medical organization later revealed to be an Al-Qaeda front.

While threatening… https://t.co/XVRmTNqzt2

— RJC (@RJC) June 1, 2026

Adam Hamawy, the leading Democrat in NJ-12:

Drove the “Blind Sheikh” 13 hours to a conference, visited his home, and testified as a defense witness at his terrorism trial.

Volunteered for a Bosnian medical organization later revealed to be an Al-Qaeda front.

While threatening letters were sent to Jewish organizations in NJ-12, he was busy rallying with Hasan Piker.

Now he wants a seat in Congress–and so-called Democrat “leaders” are silent. Shameful.

None of that matters. Actually, I take it back. In leftist Democrat circles, it is a significant benefit, because it shows he is fighting the good fight against Western colonialism. 

Hamawy insists he is not antisemitic, and that he finds it disgusting, which must have made his time in Gaza one of the longest bouts with nausea experienced by a human being. 

NJ congressional candidate Adam Hamawy ‘lied’ in court to protect ‘Blind Sheikh,’ incited 1993 World Trade Center bombing: Watchdog group https://t.co/SDYmODmKjs pic.twitter.com/uFuWt7h1n3

— New York Post (@nypost) June 1, 2026

Or, perhaps, he is not quite being honest. He sure hates Israel, and is a strong opponent of the Iron Dome, which is purely defensive against rockets from Hamas and Hezbollah. 

However, he has drawn heat for his anti-Israel views. In an appearance last month on Hasan Piker’s show, he told Piker — a far-left streamer who’s been accused of antisemitic rhetoric — that he doesn’t support Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system because it is “insulating Israel” from “having to deal with the consequences of war.”

One element the Democrats may not fully understand is that identity politics and intersectionalism naturally lead to groups resenting each other, and black people are noticing that they don’t rank as highly as illegal immigrants, Muslims, and transgender people. And their issues don’t overlap very often, either. 

So far, that has not been devastating to the Democrats electorally, but it might be soon enough. Talk of reparations and systemic racism only go so far, because the former will never happen and the latter is abstract. In other words, it’s performative, not substantive. 

Democratic Party Islamism is a thing, and it’s not exactly catnip to ordinary people. It keeps the base riled up for the moment, but that base is likely getting smaller. 

With all that said, any erosion in electoral successes will take time. The economy always dominates voters’ minds during election time, and dissatisfied independents vote against the party in power. Democrats can still win elections. See: Jay Jones.

But such things do have an impact over the long term, as individuals and then larger chunks of groups that used to be reliable defect or become disaffected. 

Democrats are playing with fire. Let’s hope they get burned. 

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