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State Rep.Madeline Dean Gushed About 'Josh's 'Commitment To His Jewish Faith & Community'- After VP Wannabe Disavowed His 1999 Pro Israel Op Ed
November 30, 2025
MIM: This flyer was deleted from Temple Beth Am's website shortly after PA State Representative Madeline Dean's name was added to the speakers list . A staff member at Temple Beth Am informed us that the program was going to proceed as scheduled despite having been informed that Imam/Shakyh Basheer Bilaal a non listed Muslim speaker was a documented pro jihad Jew hater who works with CAIR. The response to this was 'if you have an issue with the any of the speakers you don't have to attend'.
Link to event registration webpage -https://www.oyrtbetham.org/event/interfaith-thanksgiving-service1.html
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MIM: In March 2025 Jew4Jihad and 'Dhimmicrat' Josh Shapiro,attended An Iftar dinner at the Al Aqsa Islamic Society/Islamic Academy and declared: "This is a moment where I think communities are fearful of the federal government and that's deeply concerning to me and I want the Muslim community to know that they're welcome here in Pennsylvania"."I've got their back and I'm going to protect them and I'm going to do everything in my power to ensure that their rights are protected here in the commonwealth."
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MiM: Governor & 'Jew4Jihad' Josh Shapiro with members of the Al Aqsa Islamic Society iincluding Imam Mohamed Shehata (at the far left with beard and white kufi) in the Germantown area of North Philadelphia.The smirking bespectacled guy holding Shapiro's Proclamation is Al Aqsa Islamic Society spokesman Marwan Kreidie,who ran for public office himself and is a big player in Philly politics. Kreidie 'helpfully' wrote an Op Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer declaring that Shapiro was "not an Islamophobe" after CAIR tried to scuttle a possible VP position pick by Harris. More information: Al Aqsa Islamic Society spokesman Marwan Kreidies' Op Ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer declaring that Govenor Shapiro (and vice presidential pick wannabe) is not an Islamphobe. MIM: The Jews4Jihad run site Mondoweiss explains that Jewish Gov. Shapiro would be a liability as Harris' VP pick and "alienate" Muslim/Democratic voters. August 2,2022
https://www.jns.org/pa-governor-disavows-college-op-ed-arguing-peace-with-palestinians-virtually-impossible August 2,2024 |
MIM: In 2024 Sami Hamdi spoke at Imam Basheer Bilaal's 'Islamic Cultural Center of Willowgrove in PA which was cosponsored by the Muslim American Society (MAS) the American wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. The event was a fundraiser for the MAS YOUTH division.
According to Discover The Neworks MAS was "Founded in 1992 for the purpose of promoting "Islam as a total way of life & stated that American foreign policy is to blame for the 9/11 attacks". 'In 2014e UAE designated MAS and CAIR as terrorist organizations.'
"https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/muslim-american-society-mas/
On October 12, 2025 Hamdi 'self deported' to his home in the UK after being arrested by DHS enroute to speak at a CAIR banquet in Tampa. CAIR had campaigned for his release and issued a statement saying: "Alhamdulliah Sami Hamdi is free and in the air on his way home" and claimed that Hamdi had been detained for 'his support of Palestine'. CAIR made no mention of the fact that both Hamdi and his father Mohamed E;hachmi Hamdi remain closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Tunesia, where his father had been jailed for his political activities. Mohamed Hamdi fled to the UK in 1987 where he was sentenced in absentia to '20 years of prison with hard labor' in Tunesia die to his leading role in the 'Mouvement Tendence Islamique'.
https://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational/posts/sami-hamdi-is-free-and-in-the-air-on-his-way-back-to-his-family-alhamdulillah-he/1316148653882652/
According to Joe Kaufman "In a piece for FrontPage Magazine titled "CAIR-FL Gala Features Speaker Who Championed October 7 Massacre," dated September 24, 2025, I documented Hamdi's record of glorifying Hamas, spreading anti-Israel propaganda, and praising the October 7 massacre. I argued that allowing him into the country would endanger our national security and embolden Islamist extremists.
"Hamdi's social media presence has been a steady stream of radical content. In 2024, he promoted an article he was interviewed for, in Yeni Safak, a pro-Hamas Turkish newspaper that calls Israel "the Zionist enemy" and praises Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida as a "hero."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/ice-detains-hamas-apologist-sami-hamdi-weeks-after-frontpage-magazine-warned-authorities/
Basheer Bilaal spoke at a pro-Hamas rally on December 10, 2023, two months after Hamas terrorists murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more on October 7, 2023. The rally was held to protest Israel's war against Hamas.
https://canarymission.org/individual/Basheer_Bilaal Bilaal & his mosque https://www.msdvpa.org/about-us/
November 24, 2025 by Joe Kaufman Leave a Comments
Ads circulated by Philadelphia-area religious institutions are promoting Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's upcoming participation in a Thanksgiving interfaith event this Tuesday featuring extreme anti-Israel Imam Basheer Bilaal. This controversial gathering, hosted by the Old York Road Temple Beth Am Jewish center, comes on the heels of Shapiro's $5 million grant to a mosque with a documented record of anti-Semitism – raising serious questions about his judgment and the message he is sending through his radical Muslim alliances.
Who Is Basheer Bilaal?
Basheer Bilaal is the resident imam of the Muslim Society of Delaware Valley (MSDV), which oversees the Islamic Cultural Center of Willow Grove (ICCWG) and the Muslim Youth Center of Philadelphia (MYCP). [According to Temple Beth Am, MSDV Director of Operations Teresa Hadjali will also be partaking in the Thanksgiving interfaith.]
Following the October 7 massacre in Israel, Bilaal has been a featured speaker at multiple anti-Israel and anti-American events. One such event – a large anti-Israel rally titled 'End the Siege on Gaza' – took place on December 10, 2023, outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. The watchdog group Canary Mission described it as a "pro-Hamas rally,"noting participants chanted for Israel's destruction and voiced support for "resistance," a euphemism for Hamas-linked terrorism.
At the rally, Bilaal accused world leaders, including Americans, of "contributing to this genocide and occupation campaign." He prayed for Allah to "liberate the lands of Jerusalem… Gaza and Philistine" and to "bring an end to the modern-day Pharaohs."
The event also featured Linda Sarsour, known for repeating anti-Semitic tropes, including accusations of Jewish dual loyalty and "Jewish media"; Mohammad Elshinawy, who has labeled AIPAC "the bribery commission for the genocide project"; and Susan Abulhawa, who urged the crowd to "take to the streets" and "be prepared to get arrested."
Days later, on December 14, 2023, Bilaal delivered the keynote address at a Gaza fundraiser titled 'Gala for Gaza'. After citing inflated casualty figures, he accused "the Zionist lobby" of lying about the number of Gazans killed, calling Gaza "the greatest graveyard for children in the world."
The gala was sponsored by Human Appeal, an international Muslim charity with alleged "close links" to Hamas.
ICCWG and Its Network of Fanatics
The Islamic Cultural Center of Willow Grove (ICCWG), part of Bilaal's MSDV, has its own troubling associations. Although its website claims a vision of "integrity" and "betterment of society," ICCWG regularly hosts speakers and groups tied to jihadist ideologies, including:
Shapiro Delivers Proclamation and $5 Million to Anti-Semitic Mosque
This is not the first time Governor Shapiro has been criticized for aligning himself with extremist Muslim institutions. In March 2025, he attended a Ramadan iftar at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society (AAIS) in Philadelphia, delivering a signed proclamation for Arab American Heritage Month and announcing a $5 million state grant for the mosque.
Shapiro posted on X: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Philly is a wonderful gathering place for the community – and this week, I joined them to break fast and announce that they're receiving the largest grant the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has ever given to a Muslim organization in our history."
The grant drew immediate criticism, as AAIS has a clear history of anti-Semitism. In February 2019, Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab, during a sermon at AAIS, told the congregation, "The Jews are the vilest people in terms of their moral values, their nature," and railed against "Jewish media," calling it "nefarious." According to MEMRI – which translated the sermon – Abouhatab "delivered several antisemitic sermons" at AAIS.
The mosque also openly rejects Israel's existence. In March 2024, AAIS's Facebook profile picture featured a map of Israel draped entirely in a Palestinian flag.
Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, suggested that the $5 million grant might have been "political payback" for praise Shapiro received from AAIS spokesman Marwan Kreidie, when Shapiro was being considered as Kamala Harris's vice-presidential pick in 2024. Shapiro was ultimately removed from consideration, reportedly due to his past pro-Israel positions, which he attempted to distance himself from following condemnation from groups like CAIR.
Shapiro's Engagement with Emgage
In March 2022, Shapiro spoke at a "meet and greet" sponsored by Emgage, an Islamist political advocacy group with a troubling history of extremist ties.
Emgage's former South Florida Director, Syed Ammar Ahmed, once joked that he "should have threatened to blow up" a school after a debate there. The organization's founder, Khurrum Wahid, has represented numerous convicted terrorists and was reportedly placed on a federal terrorist watch list himself in 2011. Emgage is a member of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), a coalition of radical Muslim groups that organizes annual pro-Hamas conferences.
In 2023, Shapiro reappointed Emgage Senior Advisor Salima Suswell to the Governor's Advisory Commission on Women.
Pattern of Islamist Outreach
Governor Shapiro's pattern of Islamist outreach – his involvement in events with radical imams, his empowerment of extremist-linked organizations, and his multimillion-dollar grant to a mosque with a record of anti-Jewish rhetoric – raises legitimate concerns about the alliances he is building and the values they represent.
At a time when antisemitism is surging across the country, Pennsylvania's Jewish governor should be modeling moral clarity, not embracing figures and institutions that promote hatred toward America, Israel and the Jewish people. Whether out of political calculation or deeply flawed judgment, Shapiro's choices send a troubling message about where he stands and whom he is willing to legitimize.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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MIM: Interfaith As Bad Faitth - Dialogue As Dawah
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The Intellectual Jizyah: When Appeasement Becomes Surrender Part 1:
In the annals of history, the jizyah tax, a levy imposed on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, served as both a symbol of protection and a marker of subordination.
Dhimmis, as these protected minorities were known, paid for their safety (as a protection from the very ones that collected the protection money from them) but lived with curtailed rights, forever reminded of their second-class status. Today, in the West, a subtler form of this dynamic is at play: an "intellectual jizyah," where Jews and Christians, in their earnest efforts to foster dialogue and peace with Muslim communities, unwittingly cede ground to ideologies that view them not as equals, but as inferiors to be tolerated at best.
This is a cautionary tale about the perils of asymmetrical appeasement — a phenomenon where well-intentioned gestures from one side are interpreted as weakness by the other, perpetuating a cycle of dominance rather than genuine coexistence.
Consider the recent controversies surrounding interfaith initiatives in Europe and North America. In the wake of heightened tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish and Christian leaders have often bent over backward to accommodate demands from certain Muslim advocacy groups. Synagogues and churches host events decrying "Islamophobia" with fervor, while glossing over antisemitic tropes that sometimes emerge in those very discussions.
Universities, bastions of Western intellectual tradition, invite speakers who frame criticism of radical Islamism as bigotry or worse as racism, prompting self-censorship among faculty and students of Jewish or Christian backgrounds. It's as if paying an intellectual tribute — diluting one's own principles — is the price for avoiding conflict.
This analogy to jizyah is apt because, like the historical tax, it creates an illusion of harmony built on inequality. Dhimmis were spared conquest but denied full citizenship, sovereignty or basic dignity. Similarly, today's appeasers gain short-term alliances but surrender the moral high ground. When Christian leaders in Britain, for instance, remain silent on the persecution of Christians in parts of the Muslim world — from Nigeria to Pakistan — out of fear of offending Muslim sensitivities at home, they pay this tax.
Or when Jewish organizations in the United States equivocate on campus protests that veer into overt hostility, prioritizing "inclusivity" and asymmetrical "culture shaming" over self-defense, they reinforce a narrative that positions them as perpetual Dhimmis in their own societies. This contemporary dynamic stands in almost perfect inversion of the "Orientalism" that Edward Said critiqued half a century ago. Said argued that Western scholars, novelists, and policymakers constructed an exotic, backward, and infantilized "Orient" in order to dominate it, projecting power by defining the East as the passive, sensual, despotic Other against which the rational, progressive West could assert its supremacy. Today, in the arena of interfaith politics and public discourse, the vector of condescension has flipped.
A certain progressive Western elite, often secular, often of Jewish or Christian heritage, now approaches Muslim constituencies with an exaggerated deference that borders on romantic infantilization.
Instead of portraying the Muslim world as stagnant and in need of Western enlightenment (the classic Orientalist sin), the new posture casts Islam as uniquely exempt from the critical scrutiny that is reflexively applied to Judaism, Christianity, or Western civilization itself. Where Orientalism once justified colonialism by declaring the East unfit for self-rule, the intellectual jizyah justifies silence and self-erasure by declaring that any robust critique of political Islam, honor cultures, or theocratic tendencies is itself a form of colonial violence.
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https://x.com/ICK_GalG/status/1994000465869124000
https://www.memri.org/reports/memris-exposure-antisemitic-sermons-imam-abdelmohsen-abouhatab-philadelphias-al-aqsa-islamic#_edn2
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Senator Doug Mastriano's Facebook Post
April 16 ·
Josh Shapiro just handed $5 million in taxpayer money to a mosque in Philadelphia — and people are rightfully asking: Why?
This move becomes even more baffling when contrasted with his response to the East Palestine train disaster. While Western Pennsylvanians pleaded for help amid a toxic catastrophe, Shapiro was partying in a luxury skybox at the Super Bowl in Arizona — alongside Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs. Political calculations? Most likely. No Democratic votes to win in East Palestine, so he turned a blind eye and sipped wine while a chemical cloud poisoned his own state. Now, compare that to his rapid response when a stretch of I-95 collapsed — fixed in just 12 days. Why the urgency? Easy: that's deep blue territory, packed with Democratic voters.
And the mosque? Even if the Imam has made inflammatory comments about Israel, that didn't stop Shapiro. For votes, it seems, he's willing to look the other way.
That $5 million could have gone to countless other deserving causes — organizations like the Sisters of the Poor, for example. But instead of supporting them, Shapiro sued them not once, but three times — a stunning display of religious hostility. Yet now he's writing checks to religious institutions with no concern for the so-called "separation of church and state."
This is taxpayer money being used as political currency, and it seems hypocritical. For someone who's built a career preaching fairness and separation of church and state, Shapiro's actions speak far louder than his carefully crafted talking points.
In the end, it's not about people. It's about power. And if integrity gets left behind on the road to the "big prize," so be it.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Shapiro.
MIM: On October 27,2025 the DHS announced that Sami Hamdi had been taken into custody and would have to leave the United States. The DHS X post ncluded a video of Hamdi by MEposted by MEMRI (Middle East Media Institute) in which Hamdi is seen celebrating and praising the October 7th massacre.
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Following the October 7 terror attack, Sami Hamdi cheered on the terrorist attack: "How many of you felt it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria? Allah Akbar!" The U.S. has no obligation to host foreigners, like Sami Hamdi, who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans. And we won't. Thanks to the work of
atSecNoem
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atSecRubio
and the men and women of law enforcement, Sami Hamdi's visa was revoked and he is in ICE custody pending removal.
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