You joined in prayer as I read the Koran in Arabic publicly and loudly in #Taunton while Trump2020 trucks rolled by.
Our movement has only began. It is still in your hands to continue the work, and I have your backs all the way.
— Ihssane Leckey (@ihssaneleckey) September 2, 2020
Ihssane Leckey was a candidate for Congress in Massachusetts’ fourth congressional district. In the primary last Tuesday, she finished fifth (the winner was Jake Auchincloss). After her defeat, she took to Twitter to thank her followers and boast of her accomplishments, which included: “You joined in prayer as I read the Koran in Arabic publicly and loudly in #Taunton while Trump2020 trucks rolled by.”
As more and more Muslims are elected to various offices and are sworn in on the Qur’an, it’s interesting that Ihssane Leckey apparently thinks that the Muslim holy book is the property of one segment only of the political spectrum, a partisan vehicle. She also seems to think of it as a weapon in a spiritual battle, a battle in which the enemies are Trump and his supporters, who are cast in this scenario as the enemies of Islam. Presumably she thinks of this act as somehow standing up to Trump’s supposedly “anti-Muslim” stance, which is, of course, really a stance against jihad violence and the entry into the country of people among whom is an unknowable number of jihadis. Being a far-Left candidate, Leckey is also here cementing the close alliance between Leftists and Islamic groups in the U.S. Both seem to envision the same kind of future for the nation.