Dem Senator Who Attacked Hegseth Over Christian Tattoo Has Ties To Hamas Apologist Org
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is attacking a Trump administration nominee’s Christian views despite her yearslong partnership with a radical Muslim group.
Warren sent a critical letter to Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth before he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, questioning his fitness based in part on Christian tattoos that she labeled extremist and became a topic of the hearing. However, Warren spent years backing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which calls itself a Muslim civil rights organization, before she went quiet as the White House denounced CAIR for sympathizing with Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel.
Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in which she claims that having a Deus Vult tattoo, Latin for “God’s will” and a Christian motto that dates back to the First Crusade, makes him a “potential insider threat.” pic.twitter.com/4lySEYI9vn
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 7, 2025
A CAIR press release published days after the attacks said Israeli oppression was the “root cause” of Hamas’s violence. The White House condemned the group in December 2023 after National Executive Director Nihad Awad said he was “happy to see” Palestinians breaking their “shackles” when Hamas invaded Israel, killed more than 1,100 people, raped women and took hundreds of hostages. Awad later claimed his words were taken out of context and that CAIR does not approve of Hamas killing civilians.
Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR San Francisco, made headlines last year by saying Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s “martyrdom will not be in vain.” (Read more from “Dem Senator Who Attacked Hegseth Over Christian Tattoo Has Ties To Hamas Apologist Org” HERE)
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