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2021-09-12 Fifth Column
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School board member whose father led mosque with ties to al-Qaeda opposes resolution to honor 9/11 victims
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Abrar Omeish, who serves on the school board of Fairfax County Public Schools and whose father was the director of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque with al-Qaeda ties, spoke out in opposition to a resolution honoring the victims of 9/11.
The controversial mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, had hired Anwar al-Awlaki
 ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, an al-Qaeda operative to serve as its imam. Former President Barack Obama
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later ordered the top al-Qaeda operative to be killed by dronezap. The mosque itself was regularly attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as well as the shooter in the 2009 attack in Fort Hood, Texas.
Omeish said a school board resolution calling for a moment of silence marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11 was not "anti-racist." While acknowledging that 9/1 was "jarring" and a "historic turning point in [American] history," the resolution failed to address "state-sponsored traumas" against American Moslems.
"Just two years ago, even I was profiled as a threat, in one of the most traumatic experiences of my life," the school board member said.
This claim appears to refer to an incident where Omeish was pulled over by the coppers for running a red light and was removed from her vehicle after she failed to show her license. Video footage shows the obvious traffic infraction and establishes that responding officers could not make out her appearance.
Omeish called for a system "where all pain and trauma is acknowledged as legitimate and worthy of recognition" before declaring her opposition to the resolution: "I vote against this today because our omission of these realities causes harm. We are elevating a traumatic event without cultural competence."
The issues with "cultural competence" are expected to be addressed by the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)'s "equity team," which Omeish hopes "will follow up with Dr. Amaarah Decuir and other state advisors whose expertise enlightens us on this topic. I hope we can include these components in our broader anti-racist, [and] anti-bias work." Decuir had produced a video for the Virginia Department of Education that instructs educators on how to teach about 9/11.
"We are not going to reproduce a false assumption of Moslem responsibility for 9/11. We're just going to begin right there and name that there is no responsibility ...We're also not going to reproduce what's understood as American exceptionalism ... You name what happened and that's it. There's no further need to describe it, embellish it, name them, provide details. That's not relevant ... don't reproduce a single American narrative, that there's only one way to understand 9/11," the video's content taught school personnel.
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