Michigan Islamists Applaud Trump’s Pressure on Israel, Meet With FBI Director Nominee

Prominent Islamist activists, in continued contact with Donald Trump and his most senior advisors since the election, have praised the president-elect for his role in reportedly forcing Israel into accepting a ceasefire.

News of the ceasefire particularly delighted Samraa Luqman, co-chair of the Abandon Biden campaign in Michigan.

Luqman told CBC news: “I’m thrilled that the one promise that President Trump made to me has actualized before he even got inaugurated. … If there’s anything I feel, it’s anger that Biden couldn’t have done this sooner himself and [offered] relief for the children of Gaza.”

Luqman, along with radical officials at the Islamist-run city of Hamtramck and Dearborn, were key to Trump’s successful appeal to Muslim voters in Michigan.

The Abandon Biden campaign is tied into America’s leading Islamist organizations. The initiative received backing from officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as well as a variety of prominent Islamist imams and activists. In fact, as noted by
Citizens for Confronting CAIR on Television, senior leaders of CAIR were involved in the effort from the very start.

Luqman’s own political candidacies have previously received the endorsement of the Islamist-aligned advocacy group Emgage, and enjoyed considerable attention on the social media pages of CAIR and its officials.

Luqman has now not only credited Donald Trump for the ceasefire, but disclosed that she and “Arab & Muslim leaders” had been in regular communication since the election with Richard Grenell, Trump’s nominee for “envoy for special missions.”

Most astonishingly, the same day the ceasefire was announced, Luqman and unnamed fellow activists claim to have met with Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI Director.

The message from American Islamists who worked closely with the Trump campaign is presented clearly: Trump has kept his promise to restrain Israel, and is rewarding Muslim voters by imposing a ceasefire deal on Netanyahu.

CAIR leader Dawud Walid said of the ceasefire and Muslim support for Trump in November: “At least in the short term it seems like the calculation that the community made has paid dividends.”

Meanwhile, the “Imam’s Coalition for President Trump” released a statement in which they “commend[ed] the decisive efforts of President-elect Donald Trump and his team in securing a ceasefire in Gaza.”

Michigan imam Belal Alzuhiry, a key supporter of Trump, stated: “We were promised, and it was delivered. This moment stands for God and history. We worked to achieve it, and it was realized. Thank you to President Trump, who, by everyone’s agreement, was the one who pushed and insisted on a ceasefire. Thank you to him and his team, who fulfilled their promises to us!”

Imam Alzuhiry is an extremist, who seemingly declares and endorses claims that the Iranian regime and Shia Muslims are mere agents of the Jews. In October, upon receiving the imam’s endorsement, Trump apologized to Alzuhiry for his past comments about Yemenis as “terrorists.”

Some Islamists have gone further, posting ostensibly humorous cartoons implying Trump’s support for Islamism and jihadist causes.

The head of the Muslims for Trump organization, Rabiul Chowdhury, appears to indicate that Trump and Hamas’s position are now aligned.

In the U.K, British Muslim outlet 5Pillars and its readers also welcomed Trump’s involvement in the ceasefire, with one comment appearing to praise the defeat of sinister Jewish influence: “Trump won the first battle against the unseen governing body in USA.”

Popular Facebook page “Muslims for America” described the ceasefire was “BROUGHT BY MAGA” and celebrated that American Muslim “votes paid up.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “thanked President-Elect Trump for reportedly putting pressure on all parties, including Netanyahu, to reach a deal.”.

CAIR head, Nihad Awad, who was criticized by the Biden administration after he praised the October 7 attacks, issued a statement in which he “commend[ed] President-Elect @realDonaldTrump for pushing for a ceasefire deal and reportedly warning Netanyahu that Israel, too, would face consequences for continuing to refuse to make a deal.”

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a Turkish regime-linked umbrella group of Islamist organizations and Hamas-aligned charities, also “recognize[d] President-Elect Trump’s reported role in pressuring Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire deal.”

Islamist activists in Michigan have credited Trump, his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law Massad Boulos, Richard Grenell, activist Oubai Shahbandar, among other MAGA operatives for so successfully winning over Muslim votes in the state.

But Grenell in particular appears to have won particular admiration.

Two months before the election, Grenell organized attack ads that highlighted to Michigan Muslim voters that Kamala Harris was married to a Jew.

Despite being a second term president, Trump’s team, and Grenell in particular, have remained in touch with their Islamist deputies. Samraa Luqma has noted Grenell’s “continuing engagement and communication with grassroots Arab & Muslim leaders monthly since the election.”

Grenell has also continued to echo Islamist calls for the release of Imran Khan, the jailed former leader of Pakistan. These posts have led to significant coverage in Pakistan.

Imran Khan is a particularly important cause to South Asian Islamists in the U.S, such as the Jamaat-e-Islami-aligned group PAKPAC, which Grenell has embraced particularly closely. In October, PAKPAC endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy.

Similarly, Amer Ghalib, the Salafi mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, has continued to receive, months after the election, personal letters from Trump, praising his “contribution in achieve his historic victory. … President Trump doesn’t forget his supporters, and … is a man of principles.”

Ghalib accuses Arab leaders of being secret Jews, and he has endorsed descriptions of Jews as “monkeys” who levy taxes on “the air we breathe.” Under his watch, to celebrate the October 7 massacre, his city council renamed the town’s main street “Palestine Avenue.”

This week, the incoming administration announced that pro-Hezbollah imam, Husham Al-Husainy, would deliver the benediction at President Trump’s inauguration.