Ann has posted on Esam Omeish a couple of times, bringing your attention to this Muslim jihadist who caught our attention because he spoke at a religious event at the Hagerstown mosque. Here’s an excerpt of one of her posts that summarizes what happened:
Dr. Esam Omeish’s tenure on a Virginia commission to address immigration problems in that state was shortlived when tapes of past statements supporting Jihad came to light. Omeish is President of the Muslim America Society (MAS) an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Go to the Center for Vigilant Freedom here for the full story.
Now here’s a blog post from April 29 by Marc Fisher on the Washington Post web site, From Fairfax to Richmond, “The Jihad Way?” , on candidate Omeish who ran for state delegate in the Democratic primary.
Esam Omeish’s campaign web site is fairly typical for a candidate for state delegate. The big issues for his Fairfax County district are traffic congestion, growth issues and public education.
But Omeish, who is running for the Democratic nomination in the 35th district, covering an area from Vienna west to Monument and Leehigh, is no ordinary candidate. He’s a surgeon with a classic immigrant success story, having arrived in this country as a young boy who spoke no English, yet rose up through the Fairfax school system to attend Georgetown University.
And Omeish is also a Muslim fundamentalist rabble-rouser whose videotaped rants urging crowds of demonstrators to adopt “the jihad way” led to his resignation from Virginia’s state Commission on Immigration just 24 hours or so after Gov. Tim Kaine appointed him to the panel last fall.
This is full of links to Omeish’s jihadist statements. And he points out:
A candidate who speaks with great pride and zest to an audience of fellow Muslims about people “giving up their lives..for the sake of the Muslim honor” should also be someone who happily delivers the same message to the Virginia voters he hopes will choose him for public office. But there is not a word in Omeish’s campaign literature about this great passion of his life.
So how did he do? He came in third out of four candidates, with 1,040 votes, or 16 percent. That is, over a thousand Virginians voted for a jihadist candidate.
Hat tip: Robert Spencer