Islamic community leader Osama Siblani declared that Muslims are on the path to influencing Congress and the White House.
Speaking at an event honoring Abbas Ibrahim, a former Lebanese security chief linked to Hezbollah, Siblani said, “We have the best we can offer to the United States of America – not only in Michigan but across the country – and we [have] offered our best … The best is yet to come.”
“I can be very confident to tell you that we are on the road to the White House, to Congress, to decision-making everywhere in the United States.”
Siblani discussed an incident 40 years ago when a mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, said the city had an “Arab problem.”
“Guess what? The Arabs are ruling Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck,” the Islamic leader stated.
“So brothers and sisters, we are on the road. I am saying this because yesterday, when we welcomed our brother and leader, [fmr. Lebanese security chief] Abbas Ibrahim, at the airport, he has seen and witnessed the kind of power and connections that we have.”
Muslim activists have organized an “Abandon Biden” campaign across nine swing states.
Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are specifically being targeted for the campaign.
Abdel Salam, formerly a human rights professor at the University of Minnesota, desires to see the Democratic party become a “pro-Palestine party.”
“The big gift that would come out of punishing the president is that an entire party … becomes a pro-Palestinian party against the occupation and will begin to look for equity much more aggressively than we have in the past,” Salam said.