Democrats just nominated two candidates with disturbing ties to Islamic terrorism — and the brother of a 9/11 victim is furious.
Don Arias, an Air Force veteran and former NYPD firefighter whose brother Adam died in the South Tower on September 11, 2001, says the radical left has gone “beyond the pale.”
The problem: Democratic primary voters in New Jersey and New York just handed nominations to candidates who cozy up to terrorists, downplay 9/11, and call America a system of “white supremacy.”
“When it comes to terrorist sympathizers, I don’t really suffer fools kindly, and this guy is beyond the pale.”
Arias is talking about Dr. Adam Hamawy, the Democratic nominee for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. Hamawy is a plastic surgeon and veteran — but he’s also the guy who testified in defense of the Blind Sheikh, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” died in federal prison in 2017. Before that, Hamawy spent years as his translator and travel companion, riding 13 hours with him to an Islamic economy conference in Detroit in 1991.
Hamawy testified on the sheikh’s behalf during the trial. He claimed he never heard the cleric advocate jihad — a claim Arias calls laughable.
“Show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are,” Arias told Fox News Digital. “And if this guy Hamawy is going to try and forget all about that — he wants it to go down the memory hole and say, ‘oh, I was a veteran, you know, I did good stuff’ — I’m not going to forget, and I don’t think people should forget.”
In 1994, Hamawy traveled to Bosnia on what he describes as a humanitarian mission. He worked with the Benevolence International Foundation — an organization the U.S. government later designated as a financier of al Qaeda.
Arias witnessed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing firsthand as a New York firefighter. On the morning of 9/11, he spoke with his brother Adam, who worked on the 84th floor of the South Tower. Adam described the chaos as victims jumped from the burning North Tower.
“So, that has stuck with me for many years,” Arias said. He’s since become an advocate for 9/11 families.
Hamawy isn’t the only problem. In New York, socialist candidate Aber Kawas — who once suggested America deserved 9/11 — is now the Democratic nominee for New York State Senate District 12.
Kawas is the daughter of illegal immigrants and was backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. She won as part of a far-left sweep of Democratic primaries last Tuesday.
“The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy… and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11.”
That’s Kawas speaking in a 2017 podcast episode titled “Islamophobia beyond 9/11 with Aber Kawas.” She continued:
“The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery… is something I find reprehensible.”
Arias didn’t hold back.
“For her to minimize 9/11 … it’s just like, ‘oh, some people had some planes,’ you know, it’s beyond the pale,” he told Fox News Digital. “So, when I look at somebody like Kawas, when I look at somebody like Mamdani, I don’t see an American. I mean, you scratch the surface, you see a commie, you see a radical, and — forgive me for saying it — I see a Nazi.”
Arias blames the education system for grooming young voters to support radical candidates.
“It’s very insidious and it’s very seductive to the young and dumb,” he said. “It’s the young, it’s the dumb, it’s the indoctrinated who are voting for these people in numbers.”
He continued: “I don’t know what happens to a person where they actually grow to hate their own country, but I blame universities and the schools for this. It’s an indictment on our education system because almost… they’re all very young, very ill informed and they’re Islamo-Nazis at this point.”
According to Arias, voters aren’t doing their homework. If they knew about Hamawy’s ties to the Blind Sheikh or Kawas’s comments downplaying 9/11, they wouldn’t pull the lever for them.
“We’re not educating the voters, and the voters aren’t doing the proper research into their candidates, because I think if they knew that this guy, if it was top of mind awareness that this guy had these kinds of connections… they wouldn’t vote for him, and I think people need to bring that to the forefront.”
Hamawy’s campaign did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Kawas declined to answer questions.
