Would it have been “Islamophobic” to notice?
“CUNY student who menaced Muslim-American nonprofit on Instagram posed with gun, aligned himself with terrorist,” by Chris Nesi, New York Post, July 12, 2024:
A student at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College made vile anti-American and antisemitic statements online — urging his social media followers to replace fireworks with rocket-propelled grenades to celebrate Independence Day and proudly labeling himself the “Antisemite Of The Year.”
The now-private Instagram account of Faisal Alam — which was viewed by The Post — revealed a disturbing digital crusade calling for violence against America and Jews that also extended to a Mulsim advocacy group.
In one text post, found in a Story about Ramadan 2024, the 22-year-old wrote “america is just as responsible if not more responsible for this genocide against our brothers and sisters in palestine than the yahud, so if you aren’t holding the same disdain for them you hold for israel by Allah you are ignorant or a hypocrite.”
Another post from the same Story includes a meme aligning himself with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni lecturer turned jihadist who in 2011 became the first US citizen in history targeted and killed by a US government drone strike.
A post from December also includes a mocked-up award featuring his name and photo below the text “2023 Antisemite Of The Year” with a caption written above reading, “sorry I win folks good luck next year” and the face with tears of joy emoji.
The executive director of MALA said Alam “fits the profile” of a young man who was “radicalized” following the start of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Alam’s unsettling online campaign also included trolling a Muslim-American advocacy group, the Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA).
Leaders of the non-profit, which exists “to promote American heritage and American values of freedom, democracy, and pluralism,” said it was harassed online by the student who only months earlier had sought to collaborate with the group, representing himself as president of the Kingsborough Community College Muslim Student Association (MSA).
In a July 4th Instagram post, MALA wrote “a message celebrating American values of freedom and democracy” to its followers, according to the alliance’s executive director Zainab Khan.
But before long, an unknown Instagram user with the handle “fai5al346” peppered the posting with bigoted comments like “Go back to Tel Aviv and the synagogue, Yehudi,” and slamming MALA for “supporting a country (USA) that killed Muslims abroad,” the group’s leaders said.
Alarmingly, the antisemitic troll also posted a photo of himself wearing a keffiyeh and brandishing a handgun equipped with a silencer….
Patriot64 says
I hope they will put this character on the watch list.
mgoldberg says
And yet…. no doubt, they’ve not yet identified the reason for his actions.
gravenimage says
+1
Keith O says
We have to wonder why this mudslime terrorist wannabe is still wandering around breathing fresh air?
Maybe he is on the FBIs radar, just a lot of other terrorists.
Scotsman48 says
No word of when the FBI knocked on his Front Door with 8 Agents as others have experienced for praying silently.
Just imagine some racist prick claiming Negroes in America should all be sent back to Africa…
CNN would be wetting themselves in headlines for a month.
Mike says
Mr. Spencer: WHO are YOU to say that a Muslim college STOOPID calls himself GIGABYTE of the year, and FAILED with MUSTARD RINDS??!!
One should hope that he failed with pork rinds, whether they were served with mustard, catsup, mayonnaise or any other condiment!
Also, why is he stupid, just for calling himself “gigabyte”? True, he doesn’t look like a stereotypical “coding geek” with his shades, but that doesn’t mean anything.
Really, Mr. Spencer, you should give the poor lad a break. He may just have a cognitive dissonance crisis when he finally realizes that Ham-Ass is totally to blame for the conflict right now.
YOU should focus on California, and let OTHERS focus on New York…okay?!
john fleming says
Mike, feel free to stuff yourself!!!
Mike says
John: I was speaking facetiously. There’s a bloke named John Allan who sometimes comes on here, and scolds Robert Spencer for reporting on jihad in Britain, and then tells Mr. Spencer: “YOU worry about YOUR country, and let US worry about OURS…alright??”
So, I sometimes spoof his rants to take the piss out of him. Please take it with a grain of salt.
gravenimage says
Very funny, Mike. But note that not everyone here is familiar with John Allan and your twitting him.
Basi menon says
The beauty of it is that the great policies would ensure that this dangerous rabid animal will continue in his student role and stay in the country to at some point lose it and commit some horrendous act where some hard working real Americans will get hurt. Thank the administration for their complicity in reinforcing the acts of such terrorists
OLD GUY says
And here I thought that NYC had tough gun control laws. DEPORT HIM.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There are many – both muslim & non-muslim who would easily beat him for that title. Gaza residents are fiercely contesting western college mobs for that trophy
Nick says
I know one shouldn’t judge by appearances alone, but doesn’t he look like a Muzlim Moron? Nothing a baseball bat couldn’t sort out.
gravenimage says
NYC: Muslim college student called himself ‘Antisemite of the Year,’ hailed jihad mastermind, posed with handgun
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Will CUNY expel this thug? Will he be investigated by police? Deported? I wish I could be sure of any of these commonsense things happening.