The “Blind Sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman, who led the terror group “Gamaat Islamiya” which bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.
Following a is summary of a FrontPageMage article by Daniel Greenfield.
This article explains that The Biden Administration has removed the Islamic terror group “Gamaat Islamiya” from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations with an excuse of it being “defunct,” however it is not defunct at all, and the truth of the matter is that the Biden administration intends to implement the group’s new political party to rule over Egypt alongside the Muslim Brotherhood.
— The terror group “Gamaat Islamiya” was led by Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was known as “The Blind Sheik.” The group was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and it was responsible for many other horrific atrocities during the 1990’s as well.
— From the article: “Throughout the 90s, Gamaat Islamiya continued engaging in terrorist attacks. In 1997, the Islamic terrorist group carried out its ugliest atrocity in Luxor, Egypt, where European and Japanese tourists were mutilated and disemboweled. Among the horrors, the marauders cut off the ears and noses of several of their victims. A note praising Islam was found inside one disemboweled body. Among the victims was 5-year-old Shaunnah Turner: a little British girl. … The massacre had been funded by Al Qaeda which was allied with Gamaat Islamiya.”
— The Blind Sheik also continually issued edicts of threats of extreme violence against non-Muslims, for example pronouncing from prison: “Oh, Muslims everywhere! Cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land.” He died in prison in 2017.
— In 2011, his terror group rebranded itself as “the Building and Development Party,” and the Obama Administration welcomed one of its political figures Hani Nour Eldin and even considered freeing the Blind Sheik from prison despite the group being on the terror watch list.
— The Biden administration claimed to remove the terror group from the list of foreign terrorist organizations due to it being “defunct,” however it isn’t defunct, but rather it has simply morphed into the “Building and Development Party” which the Obama and Biden Administrations intend to see ruling over Egypt alongside the Muslim Brotherhood.
— The Biden State Department’s latest human rights report even complains about the previous ban on the Islamist party, and the removal of it from the terror watch list now deprives an argument from those who are warning about the dangers of it.
— Under pressure from the Biden Administration, Egypt has also been freeing dangerous imprisoned members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
— Secretary of State Blinken justified the decision to de-list Gamaat Islamiya by claiming that “the circumstances that were the basis for the designation … have changed in such a manner to warrant revocation of the designation,” meaning that the change was entirely political.
— The State Department didn’t remove Gamaat Islamiya from the terror list because it was defunct, but rather because the Biden administration wants it to be active again and to be able to provide support to it.
— The current head of Gamaat Islamiya’s Building and Development Party Tarek al-Zumar has been accused by Egypt of playing a role in ISIS terrorist attacks in the Sinai, and he often made statements defending Al-Qaeda, such as saying in an interview: “The whole Al-Qaeda issue has been blown out of proportion internationally. Do the mistakes made by Al-Qaeda over the past 12 or 15 years equal one-billionth of the mistakes and crimes perpetrated by the US and Britain against the Arab and Islamic nation?”
— Al-Zumar’s cousin who is also a major figure in the movement and served time with al-Zumar in prison described the head of Al Qaeda as a “man who loves his religion and justice.”
— The Biden administration wants another Arab Spring in Egypt, and it hopes that Al-Zumar and other Gamaat Islamiya Jihadists will help restore its Islamist allies to power.
– Greenfield closes by saying:
The delisting of Gamaat Islamiya betrays those seven Americans, born and unborn, who were killed during the original World Trade Center bombing as well as every innocent victim murdered by the terror group and its allies.
Biden’s treasonous actions disrespect the memories of American men and women like John DiGiovanni, a sales manager, who was parking his car when the bomb in the World Trade Center went off, Stephen Knapp, a father of two on his lunch break, and Monica Rodriguez Smith, who was seven months pregnant and was on her last day of work before taking maternity leave.
And above all else, Biden has once again betrayed America.