Guess the “moderate” imam is supposed to be on vacation that day, or something.
What’s Going On? Pro-Hezbollah Imam Set to Give Benediction at Trump’s Inauguration
A deeply antisemitic, pro-Hezbollah imam is set to give a benediction at Trump’s inauguration next Monday, and many Trump supporters who had been happy to see Trump’s repeated affirmations that he would support, not betray, America’s ally Israel are now scratching their heads. What’s going on? Was this just an oversight, a failure to vet the Dearborn Imam Husham al-Husainy properly? Or does it herald a real policy shift in the incoming Trump administration?There are other signs of such a shift, with the chief among them being the fact that Israel and Hamas are close to a ceasefire in Gaza. Back in June 2024, Trump declared: “Let Israel finish the job in Gaza.” Yet back in Oct. 2023, not long after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the goal of Israel’s war in Gaza was the “elimination of Hamas.” He has reiterated this more than once since then, making it clear that he will not consider “the job” to be finished until Hamas no longer exists as an organized group. Israel has rejected Biden regime ceasefire demands for the perfectly cogent reason that they would allow Hamas the chance to survive and regroup.
Now, however, Israel seems to have resigned itself to Hamas’ continued existence, as the New York Times reported that “Israel and Hamas are ‘on the brink’ of agreeing to declare a cease-fire in Gaza and release hostages held there, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Tuesday.” Not only is Hamas not eliminated, but it might even end up in the government of Gaza again once the war ends, contrary to repeated Israeli declarations that this must not and would not happen.
And now comes al-Husainy to give one of the four benedictions at Trump’s inauguration. Al-Husainy is an open supporter of Hezbollah who, back in 2006 at a Dearborn rally in support of the terrorist group, “held the picture of Hezbollah leader [Hassan] Nasrallah aloft on the stage.” Then in Feb. 2007, al-Husainy appeared on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, where Sean Hannity asked him: “Will you admit that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, sir?” Al-Husainy answered: “That is your explanation.” Hannity pressed him: “This is a yes or no. Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Yes or no? Is Hezbollah…” Al-Husainy responded: “No.”
If this is what “winning” looks like, then yes, I am in fact tired of all the winning already, and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
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“Or does it herald a real policy shift in the incoming Trump administration?”
You know, the neverTrump retards never ever stop trying to destroy Trump. It’s sickening and shouldn’t be tolerated by people that truly wish for America to succeed.
I’m waiting to see how they mischaracterized something here to go NeverTrump again.
My guess is this guy isn’t Pro Hezbollah. He just hasn’t denounced them vociferously.
Alternatively, does Trump get deep into the minutae like that and/or is someone slipping this one in?
“Alternatively, does…”
Normally, no. In any particular case you cannot be certain.
“They always lie” applies to more than just the rabid left.
Robert Spencer is the author of the article, and he’s a reliable, knowledgeable source on Islamic matters. I’ve been reading his work for at least 15 years, and wouldn’t hesitate to use him as a source.
“Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 29 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, The Critical Qur’an, and Muhammad: A Critical Biography. His latest book is Antisemitism: History and Myth. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community. He is a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy.” https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/01/14/whats-going-on-pro-hezbollah-imam-set-to-give-benediction-at-trumps-inauguration-n4935976
If this is a sign of a policy shift, it looks like Trump is getting bad advice yet once again – which was a continual frustration in his first term, where his actual policy often contradicted his declaratory policy. Still, in a contest between a clueless puppet and someone who actually appears to be cognizant of issues, he’s the obvious better choice.
What a surprise, a neverTrumper makes another false accusation – “…where his actual policy often contradicted his declaratory policy.”
There are compromises due to the political situation certainly. That’s it. No one ever gets 100% of their policy implemented 100% perfectly.
Trump shuts down the border tighter than anyone in history and neverTrump jerks complain he didn’t build enough “wall”. Of course it was a republican congress that refused to build the wall, not Trump. Trump found innovative ways to build wall and other ways to close the border.
It’s like that in basically everything. No credit ever given. All you have is bullshit.
How nice of you to suggest Trump is a better choice than a dementia patient.
Trump actually managed during his first term to deport very many *less* illegals than Obama. You need to look at his track record, and it’s not very good from any sort of Constitutional conservative viewpoint. It was Trump who “shut the country down”, something which he had no authority to do, and after the Las Vegas shooting, announced that he’d sign an Executive Order and have the National Guard go pick up all of the “Assault Weapons”. Trump was a Democrat up until 2015 – and a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Sure, he’s a lot better than Electrolux Kamala, but people need to watch him, because otherwise he’ll try to pull fast ones, like on the H1-B visas which Elon Musk is pushing, replacing native American labor with cheap foreign (mostly Indian) indentured servants. And he’s getting buddy-buddy with Bill Gates and other billionaires, and that’s going to end up in some disastrous policy if people don’t stand up, raise hell, and stop it.
Trump shut nothing down.
If you let them in by the tens of millions and then deport a million that is worse than letting in 200k and only catching 150k and deporting them.
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.
It’s probably a tradition to have 4 invocations. Someone screwed up getting this person. On purpose? Probably.
Do you think Trump gets to review every minutiae? He probably felt he didn’t need to tell anyone that a support for Jihad was a no go.
Now he knows.
That person will probably be gone.
And frankly, I have no reason to believe this signals any policy shift by Trump. He’ll end any anti-American Jihad like he did his first term.
Jeebus, you NeverTrump act like we don’t know exactly what happened in his first term.
1 more day. Keep digging…
Heh, I guess I had the page open from before your comment, didn’t see it before posting mine.
You’re just a “True Believer” Kenny. Trump was a complete failure in his first term and shut the country down, didn’t you know that?
I guess I should believe NeverTrump Lies rather than my own lying eyes.
Do you still have that list of Trump’s bona fide and accomplishments as a conservative from his first term?
If not I might have saved the list on my home PC somewhere.
I’ll post it below…
Thank you for confirming, for everyone that didn’t know, that you are an actual loon and a liar.
Trump closed the border to illegals. It took some time of course, dealing with the obama border, but shut it down he did you drooling liar.
Trump followed the constitution in every single way. If you are a “constitutional conservative” then the rest of us are Martians. What you are is a Trump Deranged Lunatic.
“It was Trump who “shut the country down”…”
Just another lunatic Hluce lie. Trump did no such thing. Only governors shut down the states. There were some suggestions, suggestions based upon the early predictions the virus was going to potentially kill millions, something NO President could ignore.
Some more Hluce Looney Tunes – “…and after the Las Vegas shooting, announced that he’d sign an Executive Order and have the National Guard go pick up all of the “Assault Weapons”. ”
Did you copy/paste that from some leftwing website? Or just make it up on your own? PROVE IT, or it’s just another lie. TIP – a quote from another looney isn’t proof, show us the Trump quote…
Now for the truth – Trump did try to get rid of bump stocks after LV, and was successful right up until the courts shut that down. NO confiscation by anyone, much less the national guard ever occurred or was requested. Trump has made statements about taking guns from the obvious mentally deranged. Most would agree with that, and most understand the inherent problem – who decides who is mentally deranged? Trump’s not perfect, no one claims he is.
“Trump was a Democrat up until 2015…” LOL, the lunatic continues to serve up softballs. We have this thing called the internets were anyone can look up the facts, making fools of idiots that LIE:
Trump was a registered REPUBLICAN in 1987, actually broached the idea as running as Bush’s VP, and switched to the reform party in 1999. In 2001 he switched to the democrat party, and back to the republican party in 2009. Why was he a democrat? NYC politics, and a builder in NYC work well only when the builder gets along with the political power. Nothing more than that. Not one word of lunatic Hluce is anything but a lie.
“…and a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.” Another lunatic Hluce lie. Trump is such a close friend of the Clinton’s he defeated her for the presidency in 2016. Shrillary will never be president thanks to Donald Trump, but Hluce thinks they’re pals. LUNACY.
“…he’ll try to pull fast ones, like on the H1-B visas…” Lunacy and lie (pull fast ones) all rolled into one. Trump favors H1-B visas. I favor H1-B visas when the law is enforced and with strict limits on numbers. Truly, that is not our big problem, but opinions vary across the board on this.
“And he’s getting buddy-buddy with Bill Gates and other billionaires…” Just plain BULLSHIT from a BULLSHIT Artist. Trump plays politics just like the rest of the politicians.
Hluce aligns with the marxist cabal of anti-American Trump haters. President Trump is far from perfect, but he is without question the most effective conservative president since Ike. The left hates Trump more than any man in history, and when you align yourself with those haters you are one of them.
Trump was always a Perot Republican. From his early Playboy Interview to his Presidency his views were consistent internally and consistent with the Republican Party before the Limousine Liberal Rockefeller RINOs took over. Then rebranded themselves as Neo-Conservatives under Bush. NeoCon of course means Wilsonian Democrat with some SoCon Skinsuits donned.
These same NeverTrump NeoCons are what informs these lies LooneyLuce accepts and spreads.
As you said, Trump follows in the footsteps of solid Republicans like Reagan and Ike. That is he is not a Coolidge Conservative is only because Coolidge would have no shot of getting anywhere near the levers of Power these days.
Trump however, IS making it more likely the Overton Window shifts far enough Right that Coolidge starts appealing to people again.
There aren’t two sides to this issue – none of this “either us or them” crap. That’s the Republican-Democrat Rope-a-Dope. True Believers will truly believe, even if they’re dead wrong, and the more wrong they are, the louder they get, and this is true for “right” or “left” – both sides can be just as “woke” and stupid as the other, not seeing what’s right in their faces. I don’t care if it’s Biden or Trump or whoever is popular today, my standard is the Constitution, the Declaration, and the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law set out in them. And it’s just as interesting watching the Right spin out its own excuses and nonsense in favor of its idols, as it is for the Left, both are Woke Cults…
Lunatic Hluce responds, not with facts to back up his pure lunacy, but with the same tired old trope that anyone that doesn’t agree with his lies and lunacy is a “True Believer”.
Here is a fact for you, Hluce, you have no regard for the constitution, none. You tell lies repeatedly in an attempt to back up your ill formed and looney beliefs. In short, you are an agent of the other side, a side that definitely exists. It is a side that always lies, seem familiar?
You call me a Never Trumper, and a liar, and a lunatic. You have *no* idea of who I am, and who I support. For the record, I had a Trump/Vance sign out in my front yard, visible from a major street adjacent to a polling place, and it was the only Trump/Vance sign for ten blocks around, and the reason for that was that the people I knew who supported Trump *were too afraid* to put a Trump/Vance sign in their yard. *Too afraid*… even though they were full of bluster and bravado in private, that didn’t extend to their willingness to state their position in public. Topeka is a Democrat city, and there’s little tolerance for Trump – but frankly, I don’t care – and that sign got stuck in the ground with rebar and a tripwire. I’m not going to be fucked with, and people learn that, and people know it. My support of Trump has cost me friends of 60 years duration, we no longer speak. Threats were made, and I called them on it, and they chose to walk away – and stay away. So “Never Trumper” is just a bit much for someone who has been called, in public, a “TrumpTurd” and a “TrumpTard” and the like – the epithets say very much more about the people who use them and what they say isn’t good – and that’s been going on for 8 years, culminating about a year ago, after which there has been dead silence. Bullying and threats are things I won’t tolerate, not from them and not from anyone. I’ve got principles, I stand on them and I fight for them.
You got punked…
“You call me a Never Trumper, and a liar, and a lunatic.”
To be clear, I was being kind, nice person that I am.
“For the record, I had a Trump/Vance sign out in my front yard…”
What? Wait, now you are claiming you are a “True Believer”?
LOL, lunatic is way too kind.
Everything you write is to run Trump in the ground, every damn bit. So, no, I don’t believe you have a Trump sign in your yard. I believe it just to be another lie. You know like the whopper you told about Trump being a democrat until 2015? Or the one about Trump was going to sign an “Executive Order and have the National Guard go pick up all of the “Assault Weapons””, just to pick two.
Must be a sad day for you NeverTrumpers. You failed to STOPTRUMP.
“I favor H1-B visas when the law is enforced.” It has been. We have enough American workers who have the requisite knowledge and experience who have been shut out of employment – often required to train their low-skill replacements in exchange for the severance pay to which they were already entitled – by cheap labor from India. So no, I favor the end of the H1-B visa program. If making America great again is the real goal, it’s not going to get done by throwing skilled Americans out of work, and getting people here to invest time and money on STEM educations isn’t going to go far, either, when they wind up having huge loans and no realistic prospect of employment. That’s making India (and other places like it) great, not America. Trump talks MAGA, but doesn’t do it – not in this case, and not in other cases, either.
Musk and Vivek brought that to the fore. Trump already has pushed back on that from them.
Besides. Elon and Vivek are tasked with cutting costs of government. What their personal opinions about H1-B are is irrelevant. They have no control over policy in any way.
” It has been.”
No, it hasn’t. That is another lunatic lie told by fools.
“The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. A specialty occupation is one that requires the application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and the attainment of at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent. The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.”
That has been repeatedly violated and is violated by every Indian immigrant worker that works some menial labor job with an H1-B visa.
For those unaware, there is also H2-B Visa program. This is used to hire seasonal or temporary workers. Trump has never used H1-B himself, but does use H2-B in Florida (perhaps elsewhere) to staff for seasonal labor shortages (like everyone else in Florida and resort area’s does). For example, on Hatteras Island, NC there is a 4 month long season that requires temporary workers that do not exist on the island. All those foreign kids running the cash registers at the local grocery are H2-B. Without that program the island cannot function during the summer and millions of vacationers must stay home.
Don’t let lunatics gaslight you. There are legitimate reasons for both H1-B and H2-B visa’s. The real problem is the misuse of either program.
H1-B needs to be reformed so that the visas belong to the worker. Then they can interview for and get hired by a competitor. This will drive up wages for the visa holders and you’ll see that just like everything else, when forced to pay the same the American worker becomes preferred production wise because they have the experience.
It needs work for sure. But the whole idea here is for employers that cannot get a person with the capability to bring them in. Which leads to the type of problem you point out.
Excluding the “models” part of H1-B, the applicant are required to have a US equivalent of a bachelors degree in the field required.
It’s a small problem given the number of H1-B workers is capped at about 85K per year with the total number currently under 600K, with over half in NYC.
A problem, but not the BIG problem.
Like many things in DC, the good idea on paper is abused, largely, in practice.
80k Americans without jobs mostly because they can’t compete with indentured servants. Not that they can’t do the job…
President Trump First Term Accomplishments:
1) stopped ISIS cold
2) EO stopping the drug companies from charging medicare more than what they charged foreign countries
3) EO forcing hospitals to disclose their prices
4) Move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
5) ENERGY INDEPENDENCE for the first time in my lifetime of 70 years, and record low energy prices
6) Started no new wars
6A) Abraham Accords, bringing peace to the middle east instead of war
7) Elimination of regulations, required to eliminate 8 to add a new one
8) Cut Taxes across the board
9) Increased the individual tax credit eliminating the need to file more complicated returns
10) Started the space force, sorely needed today
11) Replaced NAFTA with an agreement better for American workers
12) Put tariffs on china, starting the process of moving American production out of the enemy’s land
13) Brought back massive amounts of money saved in foreign countries
14) Withdrew from the farce know as the Paris Climate Accords
15) Withdrew from the Iran deal
16) Increased the $$$ of the average family by over 5K
17) Started the process of fixing the VA
18) Increased the spending by other NATO countries
19) Killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
20) Created several million jobs, actual creation not bafflegab bullshit
21) Economic growth rates were going up, somewhere around 4% before the marxist killed the economy with the scam chinaVirus
22) Lowest rate of unemployment ever, across the board for blacks, hispanics, asians, veterans, etc.
23) Opened ANWAR and had the Keystone pipeline being constructed
There is much more of course.
That’s just a short list. Trump did this by himself, with little to no help from the republican party opposition from the republican party and the democrats. He did this while the deep state through the FBI, intelligence agencies, congress, and the DOJ were conducting illegal surveillance and investigations. But Trump didn’t falter, didn’t stop. He just kept on working.
They just did the Invocation.
Where’s this Imam?
He was there, along with three others invited to give “benedictions” from various religions. He was the pseudo-religion representative, I guess. The travesty is, such as al-Husaini should never be allowed within a hundred fifty miles of a US President in the first fucking place. Well, unless said President decides to visit Gitmo for some reason.
There were three benedictions. A priest, pastor and rabbi. No Imam gave a Benediction.
Not so’s they’d be willing to show it on TV, I’d bet. But after looking around a little, I’ve not been able to find a thing indicating that he was either cancelled or disinvited. Could be Trump stepped in to put the kibosh on his Hezbollah ass, which would delight me no end. Like I said before, the one and only time his ilk should ever be allowed within 150 miles of any US President is if said President was visiting Gitmo at the time.
We’be all been there Mike. We see something and our mood sinks. Oh no, what is going on NOW? we ask ourselves. We begin to fret that it’s all going off the rails. There’s a sinking feeling in our guts.
What I’ve found is this helps.
Assume they are lying. You will not go wrong. Either the person or thing talked about is mischaracterized. Or what Trump said or did is mischaracterized. Or what is going to happen is completely overblown in significance.
Or they’re outright just making it up.
They Lie. All the time. About everything. If they say the sun comes up in the East, doubt them. Check yourself.
Yesterday some people were making a big deal about his Purple Tie.
Probably just matching something his wife was wearing. Who knows. Who cares.
Just look at his First Day EOs and forget about the tie.
“Just look at his First Day EOs…”
All one needs to do to understand the real President Trump…
Reports I read are that the “imam” was not there, and certainly gave no benediction.
So much for the policy change canard.
Just the normal BS that gets applied to Trump. This particular Imam was a Trump supporter during the campaign and was probably initially included for that reason, until the Orange Man himself noticed.
Meanwhile.
No more Paris Accords.
No more World Health Organization.
No more EV Mandates.
Gulf of America! 😁
Now let’s Drill Baby Drill, withdraw from the UN and buy Greenland. 😉
In fact, the “catholic” Bishop did a number all by herself. Just another left wing marxist witch…
But lets get worried about the muslim that didn’t even show up…