A radical anti-Semitic, pro-Hezbollah Shia imam has been chosen to speak at President Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
Husham Al-Husainy is the imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, Michigan.
Al-Husainy has a significant history of extremism. In 2015, he and his organization hosted a rally at the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center, in which he wished death upon Saudi Arabia, and denounced Saudis as “agents of the Jews” whose “Zionist” planes “rain down” death upon the people of Yemen.
In 2006, at a pro-Hezbollah rally in Dearborn, Michigan, he “held the picture of Hezbollah leader [Hassan] Nasrallah aloft on the stage.”
A year later, Al-Husainy was at the center of media furor after expressing support for the designated terrorist organization Hezbollah.
AL-HUSAINY: That is your explanation.
HANNITY: Is it?
AL-HUSAINY: But Hezbollah — sir, you give me time to explain.
HANNITY: This is a yes or no? Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Yes or no? Is Hezbollah...
AL-HUSAINY: No.
Daniel Greenfield has a cataloged a significant number of additional examples of Al-Husainy’s extremism.
Here's a post from Imam Husham Al-Hussainy's mosque, the Karbala Islamic Center, that appears to be mourning for Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike alongside Iran's Soleimani, for plotting to bomb the U.S. embassy in Baghdad pic.twitter.com/fsFBAFbAmD
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) January 14, 2025
Imam Husaham al-Hussainy had signed a Jihad letter urging “our sons to get ready to carry out their duty in Holy Jihad and continue the path which our young valiant men in Hezbollah began in Southern Lebanon” and not just there, but also in America.https://t.co/ej6mtSOW5B pic.twitter.com/bLqFygj42s
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) January 13, 2025
Media reports referred to Al-Husainy as a Trump supporter back in 2017. In October 2023, just before the election, as Trump was jockeying to win Muslim approval for his re-election, Al-Husainy and other local Muslim leaders appeared in a press conference organized by the Trump campaign.
Imam Al-Husainy told reporters that he endorsed Trump “because I found him closer to the Bible and Torah and the Quran,” adding that under Harris and the Democrats, “the boys will turn to girls and the girls will turn to a boy.”
Over the past year, the Trump campaign has demonstrated an increasing willingness to embrace Islamist activists in states such as Michigan.
