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A Major Muslim American organization, Emgage Action, has endorsed Kamala Harris, and advised against third party votes!
Emgage Action, which works to turn out Muslim voters, said Muslim voters need to stop Trump first and then push a potential Kamala Harris ad
Though not uncritical of Harris, they have clearly recognized what the priority is- stopping the virulently bigoted fascist maniac who is one bad day from becoming "dictator on day one".
One of the nation’s largest Muslim political groups endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday despite fierce opposition to her Midd
“We feel it’s our obligation to speak truthfully to our communities as they grapple with perhaps the most difficult electoral choice they’ve ever had to make. We are very clear-eyed and honest that the vice president still has a ways to go, but we feel there’s a fighting chance to move her on those issues and prevent the very real threat of a Donald Trump presidency."
Wa’el Alzayat, the CEO of Emgage Action
The Biden administration will renominate a board member at an anti-Israel group to help lead the Small Business Administration, one year after the nominee was blocked by Republicans, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Dilawar Syed served on the board of Emgage Action—a group that describes Israel as an "apartheid state" and defends the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement—until at least 2021, when President Joe Biden nominated him as deputy administrator at the SBA, according to federal disclosure records.
Syed is one of 85 failed nominees whom the Biden administration is resubmitting for confirmation by the new Senate, the Journal reported on Tuesday.
Syed’s affiliation with Emgage raised concerns among Republican legislators and pro-Israel leaders, who blocked his nomination in September 2021. Since last February, Syed has served as a special representative for trade at the State Department, a position that doesn’t require Senate approval.
Emgage has accused the Jewish state of instituting a "racist, undemocratic Israeli apartheid rule that steals [Palestinian] land and destroys their homes to make way for illegal Jewish settlements" and said it "support[s] the right to boycott, divest, and sanction, as well as the Right of Return of Palestinians."
The group also lobbied against legislation that would penalize boycotts of the Jewish state and called the BDS movement a "constitutionally protected nonviolent response that seeks to end the occupation."
Syed told legislators during his unsuccessful confirmation process that he doesn’t support the BDS movement. But Republicans questioned his affiliation with Emgage and his refusal to commit to recovering $100 million in federal COVID relief funding that they say was illegally distributed to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
Tom Jones, the founder of the American Accountability Foundation watchdog group, told the Washington Free Beacon in September 2021 that Syed’s involvement with Emgage, "paired with his lack of a commitment to recover PPP funds illegally allocated to Planned Parenthood, should immediately disqualify him as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration."
Other failed Biden administration picks who will be renominated include former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India and Danny Werfel as IRS commissioner, according to the Journal.
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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed the country’s largest Muslim American PAC, Emgage Action, on Monday during the organization’s annual Million Muslim Votes Summit. The summit aims to motivate Muslim Americans to increase voter turnout...
Aysha Qamar at Daily Kos:
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed the country’s largest Muslim American PAC, Emgage Action, on Monday during the organization’s annual Million Muslim Votes Summit. The summit aims to motivate Muslim Americans to increase voter turnout in November. Biden spoke to the group as the first Democratic candidate to directly appeal to a large Muslim audience, organizers for the event told NPR. At least 3,000 people RSVP’d for the live-streamed event, Emgage Action said. As The Washington Post notes, in the past candidates have been “cautious” in conducting direct outreach to the Muslim community. Both former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton did not attend any Emgage Action events.
During the summit, Biden vowed to end the Trump administration’s “vile Muslim ban” on his first day in office in addition to addressing issues of Islamophobia through hate crimes legislation like the Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act and the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act. “Donald Trump has fanned the flames of hate in this country across the board through his words, his policies, his appointments, his deeds and he continues to fan those flames,” Biden said. “Under this administration, we’ve seen an unconscionable rise in Islamophobia.”
He added that the Trump administration has targeted both Black and brown communities and urged Muslim Americans to join Biden “in the fight to rip this poison from the government root and stem.” Biden appealed to the Muslim American community by noting that he did not want to just earn votes because of Trump’s lack of leadership, but because Biden wants to “work in partnership” with the community to uplift voices and “rebuild” the nation. “Muslim American voices matter to our communities, to our country,” Biden said. “But we all know that your voice hasn’t always gotten recognized or represented.”
