Email from Zionist Organization of America ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA ZOA's Klein Says Extremist, Pro-Terrorist Hezbollah Imam Should Be Cancelled from Inauguration By Sandy Fitzgerald (Thursday, January 16, 2025 / Newsmax) Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein urged President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration committee to cancel a planned benediction by Shiite Imam Husham al-Husainy for his "alarming" history in connection with statements made about Hezbollah and Jews. "It would send a terrible message and place a black mark on President Trum p's new term to give an antisemite and Hezbollah apologist a prominent platform at the Trump inauguration," Klein said in a statement Thursday. "Americans — including unprecedented numbers of American Jews — voted for President Trump in the belief that he will once again make antisemitism unacceptable in America — and have long awaited Donald Trump's return to the presidency on January 20th. Don't mar that day." According to the inauguration program, al-Husainy, of Dearborn, Michigan, is one of four religious leaders scheduled to give a benediction at the Trump inauguration. The others are the Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, senior pastor of the 180 Church in Detroit; Rabbi Ari Berman, the president of Yeshiva University in New York; and the Rev. Frank Mann, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. The Middle East Forum, in a recent document, said the imam is "pro-Hezbollah," the Jewish News Syndicate reported. In 2006, al-Husainy "held the picture of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah aloft on the stage" while speaking at a rally supporting the Lebanese organization, and a year later refused to call Hezbollah a terror group during a TV news interview. Further, the report said that at a 2015 rally hosted at the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, where he serves, he "wished death" on Saudi Arabia, called Saudis "agents of the Jews" and accused the country of using "Zionist" planes to attack Yemen. Al-Husainy, an Iraqi-American, supported Trump in October during a Republican media call, according to the Detroit Free Press. CONTINUE READING Daniel Greenfield: The Imam on Trump’s Inauguration Program By Daniel Greenfield (January 17, 2025 / Front Page Mag) “The time may be soon to go back home,” Imam Husham Al-Husainy told CBS News. The year was 2003 and Al-Husainy, along with the other Iraqi Shiite ‘refugees’ filling Dearborn’s Muslim community, had gotten their fondest wish when the United States removed Saddam Hussein. Imam Husham Al-Husainy never did “go back home” to his native Iraq. Instead, alongside urging his congregants to vote in Iraq’s elections, spent the next 20 years interfering in ours, exploiting faked hate crimes to call for Sharia law, and moving back and forth between parties. While the Iraq War would in retrospect be blamed on conservatives and Jews, it was the Shiite lobby in Dearborn, Michigan that was the most vocal in keeping the pressure on in Iraq. After the first Bush administration’s failed regime change operation to remove Saddam in 1991, the U.S. imposed a ‘No Fly Zone’ to protect the Shiite rebels, some of whom fled to Dearborn. Dearborn, once the center of a thriving industry, became the American capital of a Shiite Jihadist movement where Hezbollah flags were flown and “Death to America” was chanted. Even their initial enthusiasm for America’s overthrow of Saddam gave way to support for Shiite supremacy against Iraq’s minorities along with Israel and the United States of America. And the Iraqis who had backed Republicans to overthrow Saddam turned around and supported the Democrats so that their fellow Shiites would be able to take over Iraq after Saddam’s fall. That also explains how Imam Al-Husainy ended up being scheduled to deliver a ‘benediction’ on the leaked program for the Trump inauguration. Dearborn’s Shiite vote has swung back and forth between Democrats and Republicans based on what they wanted to see happen in the Middle East. After Oct 7, Dearborn cast its bet on the GOP to stop Israel and save Hamas. Imam Al-Husainy’s inclusion on the inauguration program signaled the Shiite Lobby’s new power. That power was meant to be used not so much for Dearborn, as for Iran’s agenda. CONTINUE READING Share This Email Share This Email DONATE Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice
