In order to protect the US national security, American authorities need to implement stringent vetting measures on immigrants and naturalized citizens, in particular, those who hail from the “power house” of Islamic terrorism; the Palestinian territories and Jordan.
On April 2, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of Salah Sarsour:
Today, @ICEgov arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces.
He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton.
This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending… https://t.co/L38liuCxVy pic.twitter.com/9IXWuo0t0f
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 2, 2026
Even though DHS referred to Sarsour as a Jordanian national, he is actually Palestinian, born in the West Bank.
According to Human Rights Watch, “more than half of the 6.3 million population of Jordan is of Palestinian origin.”
In addition, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) “has registered 2.2 million Palestinians [in Jordan], though the total number is thought to be higher.”
According to the Washington Institute, a D.C. think tank, 85% of Jordanians support Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood, the pro-Hamas movement, won 31 seats in the 2024 parliamentary elections, making the movement the largest party in the Jordanian legislature.
The U.S. State Department consider Jordan a friendly country, making the U.S. visa-granting process to Jordanians more lenient than other Arab and Islamic countries.
It is noteworthy that Abdullah Azzam, who was widely recognized as the primary mentor to Osama bin Laden, was Palestinian who held a Jordanian passport. Also, Jordan was home to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which morphed later into the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham, or the Levant (ISIS).
Like Azzam and Sarsour, the notorious Palestinian terrorist, Rasmea Odeh, held a Jordanian passport too, and lived in the U.S.
Odeh resided for years in Chicago, Illinois, with permanent resident status, but her past terrorist activities were discovered when she applied for U.S. citizenship. In 1970, Odeh was convicted of two bombings in Jerusalem, including one that killed two young men at a supermarket. Odeh pleaded guilty in April to concealing her convictions after she applied for U.S. citizenship in Detroit in 2004. Her record would have disqualified her from entering the U.S. a decade earlier.
Odeh’s social base of support was “Little Palestine,” an Arab quasi-ghetto located primarily in the southwest Chicago suburbs, and home to the highest concentration of Palestinian Americans in the United States, estimated to be more than 150,000. Those suburbs are home to many pro-Hamas organizations and mosques and are a hotbed for the recruitment of anti-American and antisemitic activists.
Odeh didn’t serve any time in prison after pleading guilty to misleading U.S. immigration officials, but she lost her citizenship and was ordered deported.
Odeh was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the most violent and uncompromising PLO faction, whose founder, George Habash, held a Jordanian passport also, like Sarsour.
Sarsour was the host and chairman of the largest antisemitic annual conference in Chicago, which American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) organized in 2018. AMP is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, an antisemitic and organization that aims at the destruction of Israel and the American culture. Sarsour ordered the removal of this author from that AMP conference because he was taking notes. Sarsour sent five security guards who escorted this author out of the conference venues.
In addition, Salah Sarsour used to fundraise for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), an organization that was shut down and its members convicted in the U.S. for funneling over $12 million to U.S.-designated terror organization Hamas.
An Israeli report added that the funding activity, such as Sarsour’s took place through the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and through the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an organization the U.S. government alleged was set up to provide propaganda services to Hamas.
Sarsour is also president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) and the registered agent for the Wisconsin chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.
His brother Jamil is a Milwaukee businessman who co-owns with Salah a furniture store in Milwaukee, and is also a known Hamas operative. Jamil Sarsour was arrested in Israel in 1998 for providing financial and other assistance to Hamas military commander Adel Awadallah, who is known to have planned jihad suicide bombings in Israel. Jamil Sarsour eventually pleaded guilty in an Israeli military court to giving $40,000 to Awadallah. During an interview with Israeli police, Jamil said that the Palestinian police had arrested his brother Salah in 1995, and when he visited him, he saw that he shared a cell with Awadallah.
Jamil described to the Israelis his brother Salah’s involvement with Hamas and fundraising activities by the HLF on behalf of Hamas. Sarsour told the Israelis that some of the members of the Islamic Center in Milwaukee and his brothers Salah and Imad Awadallah were involved in raising money in the name of HLF that was actually intended for Hamas.
The Sarsour brothers and other Hamas supporters also used London as a transit point for Hamas communications and funding. In 1990, Hamas operative Sheikh Mohammad Abu Tair moved to Great Britain. After a trip to the West Bank to visit his family in 1994, Jamil Sarsour was asked to take a package back to his home in the United States and mail it from there to Abu Tair in Great Britain, which he did. (Levitt, Matthew. Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. Yale University Press, p. 78)
Salah and Adel (who were cellmates in an Israeli prison) became close friends. At the time, Adel and his brother, Imad, headed the Qassam Brigades in the West Bank. According to Jamil, Salah passed money over to Adel several times.
The Sarsour brothers passed the Awadallah brothers checks drawn on their furniture store’s business account because they did not want to use personal checks from either of one of them, so that the U.S. government wouldn’t be able to trace the checks back to them personally.
In January 2003, Jamil Sarsour was charged in the U.S. with money-laundering offenses related to his funding of Hamas military activists in the West Bank. Sarsour pleaded guilty and served four years’ time in an Israeli jail for providing funds for Hamas. Jamil added in an interview that the account was in his brother’s Salah and his name, but “the money was Salah’s even though the account was in both of our names.”
When Israeli authorities first arrested Sarsour in October 1998, they found almost $10,000 in cash and over $60,000 in personal checks, cashier’s checks, and money orders, as well as two American passports in his name. Salah was also arrested in Israel for funding Hamas with family money. (Levitt)
Israeli authorities arrested Jamil Sarsour on October 23, 1998 “for his involvement with the HAMAS terrorist organization, specifically, for providing financial and other assistance to HAMAS fugitive and military activist,’ Awadallah. Jamil Sarsour was interviewed and provided information concerning his and his brother, Salah’s activities in support of HAMAS over the last several years. During the course of his interview, Sarsour described his brother Salah Sarsour’s involvement with HAMAS and fund-raising activities by the HLFRD, in Richardson, Texas on behalf of HAMAS.”
Salah Sarsour is part of a U.S. Muslim network that supports terrorism. On his Facebook page, Sarsour poses with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a black leader of the Muslim Alliance in North America, is scheduled as a keynote speaker. Mr. Wahhaj was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
While the Hashemite Royal family sounds U.S.-friendly, for pragmatic reasons of acquiring U.S. aid in funds and military protection, the majority of the population is not.
The DHS should investigate all Jordanian Americans who support terrorism, as well as peddle anti-Semitism, anti-Israeli and anti-Western sentiments that hamper assimilation in the American community.
Hesham Shehab was the Chicago Associate of the Counter Islamist Grid (CIG).
ploome says
all muslims are a threat to national security
ploome says
Good that he is being deported, the sooner the better.
And by the way, deport the Gov. Tony Evers also. Hope he finds out how his opinions will be received elsewhere.
Winston 101 says
Yes, but . . .
The ideas and concepts in Islam are directly Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Ideas such as:
Islam requires that Sharia applies to believers and nonbelievers alike.
Unbelievers deserve death due to their insulting Allah by not believing in him.
The highest level of worship in Islam is to die in Jihad against the unbelievers, in the service of Allah.
Taking these ideas out of Islam is like trying to take “collectivism” out of Communism
and “Racial Purity” out of Nazism.
The believers in those belief systems recognize that their belief systems would be negated by the removal of their core beliefs. Islam cannot be “reformed” without making it into something that is not Islam.
It would be like taking the wet out of water.
Immigration is supposed to be, in the vast majority of cases, for the benefit of the host country.
The U.S. does not allow entry to practicing Communists and Nazis. Those deciding entry have read the writings of those belief systems and recognize the incompatibility of those ideologies to U.S. laws.
They don’t just ask individuals believers to what extent they are a violently totalitarian.
Islam’s ideology, as written, in the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah, proves its ideas to be even more incompatible than either Nazism or Communism. Those systems didn’t try to pass themselves off as a “religion” by throwing in a few religious ideas among the vast number of governing ideas.
It does not ultimately matter which Islamic country the immigrant comes from.
What matters is if that immigrant hold beliefs that are incompatible to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Since the U.S. rejects ideologies whose writings espouse violent totalitarianism, then the U.S. can’t want believers in Islam.
The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens.
You don’t do that by playing “Islamic Roulette” with your citizen’s lives.
“Moderate” and “Radical” Muslims all read the same “holy” books of Islam. Attend the same Islamic military outposts (mosques/Islamic Centers).
Declare the Muslim Brotherhood to be the terrorist organization that it is. No purchase of land by Islamic agents, domestic or foreign, no building of mosques/Islamic Centers (Allah’s military bases.). No “gifts” of Islamic Study Depts. in our universities and colleges. No Islam.
Bar Islam at the borders of our countries.
JB says
100% correct. And why so, so many are blind to this just baffles me.
somehistory says
there are many kinds of roaches. But they are **all** roaches. Cockroach, German, etc.
muzzies are like other people….some from Africa, some from Europe, and the ME…when it comes to places to live and “be from.”
The way they are different from other people is that they are all adherents of islime and follow the commands and demands written in their book of demon filth. So it matters, but very little, from where they come. The Government would do all Americans a favor if they used that fact as a guide, because the strong adherents of that book are bound and determined to destroy the nation and subjugate the people left alive.
Troybeam says
NO matter what Islamic nation Muslims come from ALL need to be deported because their first duty is to Islam and sharia.
They have no allegiance to America. Islam is using the first amendment to operate inside of America, religious status needs to change and Islam be declared a foreign entity threat inside of America.