{"id":3102,"date":"2026-06-27T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:06:30","slug":"brother-of-9-11-victim-sounds-alarm-as-radical-muslim-candidates-overtaking-dem-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3102","title":{"rendered":"Brother of 9\/11 victim sounds alarm as ‘radical’ Muslim candidates overtaking Dem party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man whose life has been deeply impacted by radical Islamic\u00a0terrorism\u00a0is incensed as people he claims hold extreme beliefs are winning Democratic Party elections at alarming rates.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen it comes to terrorist sympathizers, I don\u2019t really suffer fools kindly, and this guy is beyond the pale,\u201d Don Arias said of Dr. Adam Hamawy, now the\u00a0Democratic\u00a0nominee for Congress in New Jersey\u2019s blue-leaning 12th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Arias is an Air Force veteran and former New York firefighter who witnessed the grave destruction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Arias spoke to his brother, Adam, the morning of the attack after the first plane had already struck the North Tower. <\/p>\n

Adam described to him the chaos, as desperate victims jumped from the burning skyscraper that once anchored the city\u2019s skyline.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, that has stuck with me for many years,\u201d he told Fox News Digital. Arias has since gone on to advocate for the families of victims of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He emerged victorious despite heavy baggage, including\u00a0ties to radical Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n

In his past, Hamawy cozied up to infamous terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as the \u201cBlind Sheikh,\u201d the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who died in federal prison in 2017.<\/p>\n

The pair met in 1991, when Hamawy was a young adult, and soon thereafter Hamawy began accompanying Abdel-Rahman to mosques. <\/p>\n

In the same year, Hamawy, the sheikh and others took a 13-hour car ride from Abdel-Rahman\u2019s home in New Jersey to a conference in\u00a0Detroit\u00a0called \u201cTowards a Global Islamic Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The congressional hopeful testified on behalf of the defense in the sheikh\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n

While Arias said it\u2019s possible that Hamawy has some positive credentials \u2014 he is a doctor and a veteran \u2014 he doesn\u2019t trust the candidate at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when he\u2019s pals with the Blind Sheikh, and he\u2019s his translator for several years, when he testifies for him in court saying what a great guy is, when he spends that kind of time with this guy, and then says that he\u2019s never heard him say anything about jihad, I have to question his veracity. I mean, that just doesn\u2019t ring true,\u201d Arias told Fox New Digital.<\/p>\n

\u201cShow me who your friends are, and I\u2019ll tell you who you are,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd if this guy Hamawy is going to try and forget all about that \u2014 he wants it to go down the memory hole and say, \u2018oh, I was a veteran, you know, I did good stuff\u2019 \u2014 I\u2019m not going to forget, and I don\u2019t think people should forget.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1994, Hamawy also went on what he describes as a humanitarian mission to Bosnia. There, he worked with the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). In a post-9\/11 terrorism crackdown, BIF was designated as a financier of terrorism by the U.S. government over its ties to al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>We\u2019re not educating the voters, and the voters aren\u2019t doing the proper research into their candidates, because I think if they knew that this guy, if it was top of mind awareness that this guy had these kinds of connections\u2026 they wouldn\u2019t vote for him, and I think people need to bring that to the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, a socialist candidate who once\u00a0suggested that the United States\u00a0deserved 9\/11 is likely to win a seat in the New York State Senate.<\/p>\n

Aber Kawas is the Muslim daughter of illegal aliens who is now the Democratic nominee for the New York State Senate District 12. She was backed by New York City Mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani, and won as part of a far-left sweep of several federal and state Democratic primaries in the city last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy\u2026 and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we\u2019re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9\/11,\u201d she said in a 2017 episode of the Asian American Writers\u2019 Association podcast titled \u201cIslamophobia beyond 9\/11 with Aber Kawas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery\u2026 is something I find reprehensible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Arias condemned those comments, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor her to minimize 9\/11 \u2026 it\u2019s just like, \u2018oh, some people had some planes,\u2019 you know, it\u2019s beyond the pale,\u201d he told Fox News Digital by phone. \u201cSo, when I look at somebody like Kawas, when I look at\u00a0somebody like Mamdani, I don\u2019t see an American. I mean, you scratch the surface, you see a commie, you see a radical, and \u2014 forgive me for saying it \u2014 I see a Nazi.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then blasted the American education system, which he views as a pipeline to far-left activism instead of actual learning. According to Arias, voters for candidates like Hamawy and Kawas are groomed in schools and in\u00a0higher education\u00a0to hold radical beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very insidious and it\u2019s very seductive to the young and dumb,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the young, it\u2019s the dumb, it\u2019s the indoctrinated who are\u00a0voting\u00a0for these people in numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happens to a person where they actually grow to hate their own country, but I blame universities and the schools for this,\u201d Arias continued. It\u2019s an indictment on our education system because almost\u2026 they\u2019re all very young, very ill informed and they\u2019re Islamo-Nazis at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that for people like Kawas, Zionism,\u00a0Judaism\u00a0and Israel have been conflated with \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d and in their minds, the alleged \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d has to be \u201cput down.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also described\u00a0socialism\u00a0as a \u201cluxury belief,\u201d and its supporters as mostly young, wealthy or upper-middle-class people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys are cruising, so they can have these luxury beliefs, these ethereal conversations about mankind. They\u2019re so out of touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamawy\u2019s campaign did not return Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment. And Kawas declined to answer questions, instead pointing to her X account.<\/p>\n

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