Florida attorney with history of controversial ties runs for office – IOTW Report

Florida attorney with history of controversial ties runs for office

American Thinker: The founder of a national organization devoted to recruiting Muslim candidates is running for office himself in Coral Springs, Florida.  It remains to be seen whether an alleged history of links to terror-tied groups will impact his candidacy.

Attorney Khurrim Wahid is competing for the June 18 election for Coral Springs City Commission Seat 2.  Wahid is the the founder of Emgage (originally named EmergeUSA), an organization that promotes Muslim candidates running for office that got its start raising funds for the election of former congressman Keith Ellison.

Wahid has already unsurprisingly received the endorsement of EmgagePAC.

Before creating Emgage, Wahid served as legal adviser for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and as director of CAIR Florida.  CAIR was subsequently labeled a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.  During the 2008 Holy Land Foundation Trial, the U.S. government showed conclusively that CAIR was founded in 1993 as part of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States in order to support the terrorist organization Hamas.  The federal judge in the case ruled that the government had supplied “ample evidence” to associate CAIR with Hamas.

Wahid’s past clients include convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizer Sami Al Arian and Pakistani imam Hafiz Khan, who was convicted of conspiring with the Pakistani Taliban to murder U.S. troops overseas.  In addition, he defended Rafiq Sabir, who is serving 25 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda.  Wahid also represented Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who received a life sentence for attempting to assassinate then-president George W. Bush.  He was also added to the federal terrorism watch list himself in 2011.  more here

11 Comments on Florida attorney with history of controversial ties runs for office

  1. Maybe not directly relevant to the subject but:
    I miss the country I was raised in and it’s clear that place is gone forever. It’s not hard to see whats ahead and it’s an irreversible direction.
    Just when you think it can’t get worse the leftists pour coal to the fire.

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  2. Well isn’t this special! This steaming dog turd is not only incentivised to lie, cheat and steal by his so-called “religion”, he’s also paid well to do so! Not only that, but he’s running for office so he can milk the public tit while running roughshod on the infidels!
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnd wouldn’t ya know it… he’s a democRAT!!
    Go ahead, tell me again they’re not trying to destroy America!

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  3. Another Mideastern primitive insinuating himself into our governmental architecture. I wonder if this is being monitored as to the numbers, they’re getting a solid foothold and that can’t bode well.

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  4. @gin blossom June 8, 2019 at 6:27 am

    > I miss the country I was raised in and it’s clear that place is gone forever.

    True, but not clear.

    Were it clear, American patriots — like Afghani and Iraqi patriots — would all be on the same page regarding United States mercenaries.

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