Syrian
Immigrant, Who Congratulated 9/11, is a Homeland Security Adviser, 6/13/16
According to the Daily
Caller, one of the sitting members on the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s
Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism is a 25-year-old immigrant of
Syrian heritage who said that the 9/11 attacks “changed the world for good” and
has consistently criticized and lambasted America, free speech and white
people on social media.
Laila Alawa was one of
15 people tapped to serve on the newly-formed HSAC Subcommittee on
Countering Violent Extremism in 2015 — the same year she became an American
citizen. Just last week, the subcommittee submitted a report to Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, recommending the DHS avoid
using Muslim terminology like the words “sharia” and “jihad” when discussing
terrorism.
Alawa says she
immigrated into the U.S. when she was ten years old. Her family had already
left Syria by the time she was born. “But
I will always be Syrian. I will always be from Syria. I will always be of
Syria,” she wrote in November 2015, calling the country her “homeland.”
In 2014, Alawa
commemorated the September 11 attacks by tweeting that “9/11 changed the
world for good, and there’s no other way to say it.”
In April 2013, she
responded to a tweet from activist Pamela Geller who called the Boston
Marathon bombings “jihad” by tweeting: “go fuck yourself.
On September 21 — the
day after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the U.S. would accept
85,000 Syrian refugees in 2016 and 100,000 more in 2017 — Alawa mocked the
“Salty white tears all over my newsfeed.”
In the Countering
Violent Extremism report published last week, Alawa and her fellow
subcommittee members recommended that the Department of Homeland
Security “adapt to the changing nature of violent extremism itself” by
devoting more attention to “anarchists, sovereign citizens, white-supremacists,
and others.”
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