Brother of 9/11 victim sounds alarm as radical Muslim candidates overtaking Dem party
A man whose life has been deeply impacted by radical Islamic terrorism is incensed as people he claims hold extreme beliefs are winning Democratic Party elections at alarming rates.“When it comes to terrorist sympathizers, I don’t really suffer fools kindly, and this guy is beyond the pale,” Don Arias said of Dr.Adam Hamawy, now the Democratic nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s blue-leaning 12th Congressional District.Arias is an Air Force veteran and former New York firefighter who witnessed the grave destruction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
His brother, who worked on the 84th floor of the South Tower, died in the subsequent 9/11 terrorist attacks that changed the trajectory of American history.Arias spoke to his brother, Adam, the morning of the attack after the first plane had already struck the North Tower.Adam described to him the chaos, as desperate victims jumped from the burning skyscraper that once anchored the city’s skyline.“So, that has stuck with me for many years,” he told Fox News Digital.
Arias has since gone on to advocate for the families of victims of 9/11.Hamawy is a veteran combat plastic surgeon who now operates his own private practice in New Jersey.He won a crowded Democratic primary to replace outgoing Rep.
Bonnie Watson-Coleman, D-N.J., on June 2.He emerged victorious despite heavy baggage, including ties to radical Islamic terrorism.In his past, Hamawy cozied up to infamous terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as the “Blind Sheikh,” the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who died in federal prison in 2017.The pair met in 1991, when Hamawy was a young adult, and soon thereafter Hamawy began accompanying Abdel-Rahman to mosques.In the same year, Hamawy, the sheikh and others took a 13-hour car ride from Abdel-Rahman’s home in New Jersey to a conference in Detroit called “Towards a Global Islamic Economy.”The congressional hopeful testified on behalf of the defense in the she...