[ April 18, 2024 ]
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Earlier this week, I applauded the news that an Egyptian American woman who was imprisoned in Cairo for several years was freed after Donald Trump struck a deal with the Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi.
But now it turns out she is Muslim Brotherhood.
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Who told him this would be a good idea? Who in the Trump administration vetted her? If it had a smell to it, why touch it? Too many others without questions should be released. There are or were several Christian leaders in jail in Egypt for converting from Islam, etc.
Aya was arrested “on seven counts, including operating an unlicensed organizations, inciting street children to join pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests and sexually assaulting minors.”
Who is Aya Hijazi, the American freed from jail in Egypt?
By Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, April 22, 2017:
President Trump met with Aya Hijazi on April 21, an Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)BEIRUT — During nearly three years spent shuttling between an Egyptian jail and a Cairo courtroom cage in a case dismissed by human rights groups as “bizarre,” Aya Hijazi’s American citizenship did not seem to count for much.
She was a dual national at a time when Egypt was gripped by the widest-ranging crackdown in its modern history. Her case had become a national scandal, cast by state media as a victory of law and order. And despite calls for her release, the Obama administration seemed to have little leverage with the Sissi regime to make it happen.
But on Friday, she entered the White House as a free woman, having flown home on a U.S. government plane after being acquitted in a Cairo court.
The court’s decision came after months of backroom negotiations between the Trump administration and representatives of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi.
Hijazi, 30, grew up in Falls Church, Va., graduating from George Mason University before moving to Egypt for further study. She went on to found the Belady Foundation, an organization that aims to shelter and rehabilitate marginalized street children.
As a crackdown on civil society groups was gathering pace in May 2014, police raided the Belady Foundation’s Cairo premises. Hijazi was detained alongside her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, and others at the foundation. She would have to wait four months to even find out what she had been arrested for.
Despite flimsy evidence, the group was eventually charged on seven counts, including operating an unlicensed organizations, inciting street children to join pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests and sexually assaulting minors. The group denied all the charges, and human rights lawyers said the evidence against them was fabricated.
The state’s own forensic report found no evidence that any of the children in their care had been sexually abused. Reports suggested that a boy they had allegedly kidnapped had never been to the Belady Foundation, and he was later found in another province.
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Aya Hijazi sits while reading a book inside a holding cell last month at a courthouse in Cairo. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)As Hijazi’s imprisonment wore on, the case only unraveled further.
A senior Interior Ministry official told the al-Arabiya television network that the police raid on the Belady Foundation had not been authorized through proper channels, and that his officers had found no signs that children were being held against their will.
At one point, one of the children who had testified against Hijazi even wrote to her in prison, apologizing for a statement that he said had been given under duress.
Her trial was repeatedly postponed, often without a clear reason. When Hijazi did appear in court, she cut a quiet figure in the defendant’s cage. In one memorable image from a hearing last month, she appeared in a different world altogether, lost in the pages of Maya Angelou’s memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
In a statement published after her acquittal, Human Rights Watch was quick to point out that her case was not unusual. “Aya Hijazi, her husband, and their colleagues are finally free, but the system that subjected them to a travesty of justice for nearly three years remains unchanged,” said Joe Stork, the organization’s deputy Middle East director.
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52 Comments
6 years ago
What the…? Several Christians languishing in prisons in Egypt, likely never to get out, or to be executed possibly, and trump works to free a muslim brotherhood pusher and possible pedophile? Like you, when i first heard the story- I was like ‘awesome!” But now, learning this, it stinks to high heaven-
6 years ago
Reply to
bob434
If similar effort were directed to freeing Christians in Islamic prisons, then at least we have “parity”. However, this writer sees no directed effort at freeing Christians with the vigor, pomp and circumstance with which this woman was released.
This President had better wake up to the true nature of the enemy in our midst.
6 years ago
Reply to
bob434
Yes, It’s hard to defend what Trump just did. Maybe he’s just got too much stuff on his plate these days. I hope it doesn’t mean he’s soft on Muslim fundamentalists. But then again, why hasn’t he done something about these organizations embedded here that have direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. I’m starting to get concerned.
6 years ago
Reply to
Gordon Miller
I think a lot of people are starting to get concerned- but we’re still willing to give him some time to prove himself- a lot of folks i think voted for him ‘with reservations’ – they were afraid his liberal roots would come out once he got elected- and havign invanka and jared basically influencing his decisions isn’t helping ease people’s fear of him turning on republicans- He’s flip flopped on several things that have a lot of folks concerned- before election he called climate change a hoax (i disagree- it’s real, BUT we’re just not the cause of it) now he’s unsure if he’s gonna pull out of paris agreement- and complaining the agreement is ‘binding’- He said Mexico gonna pay for wall- now he’s begging congress to pay for it (Personally i don’t care who pays for it- spending a one time fee of say $25- $50 billion dollars will save us between $400 billion dollars per year and $600 billion- these are old estimates by the way- but that is what it costs this country every year when illegals commit crimes, hurt folks, send our money over the boarder etc). It would be well worth the money to pay for it ourselves! He was goign to do away with IRS and now he isn’-t- was gonna repeal and replace HC law- now it’s obamacare light apparently- He was gonna deport all illegals and muslims, which would get wild cheers everything he said it- now he’s telling ‘non violent illegals’ that he isn’t targeting them- There are a number of major key issues he’s flip flopped on that have folks very nervous about him- It’s still early- so we’ll give him more time- and yes, getting htigns done in government is hard- but my goodness- many of hte key points he ran on, which convinced independents and even some democrats to vote for him, he’s flip flopped on- other things he has kept his promises on- major things-
6 years ago
Reply to
bob434
Too bad we lose, and in the long run all you know will be saying I told you so.
You give a sad list of his major reasons we fell for, and he has failed on every one of them.
Just what will you need to convince you that this is truly the end.
Also see the you tube vid I placed elsewhere for his Bannon replacement, it’s enough for me.
6 years ago
No one ever said that President Trump is an ideologue.
6 years ago
She was charged with inciting children to join pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests. Where is the evidence she was a member? There was no evidence she was guilty of any of the charges, and she was subsequently acquitted. What evidence exists that she belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood?
6 years ago
Reply to
spclopr8tr
Agree. Nowhere in the article there is any link to Muslim brotherhood.
But why Trump does not talk about releasing christians and their brutal persecution in Egypt, Iraq (both so called allies).
while he bombs Syria , which protected christians and other minorities till sunni saudi/Obama funded jihadis began to takeover
6 years ago
Something bizarre happening in Washington if this is true. I know if we back Erdogen Islamic MB we are heading in the wrong direction
6 years ago
Reply to
James J
Thanking McSjamster. Trump should fire Flynn that fast. Bannon shouldn’t be moved around either. He should fire his son-in-law. We didn’t vote for this Manhetten liberal.
D
6 years ago
Trump has been bought out by Islam it would seem.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alice Severson
Not an idiot, wake up and smell the coffee.
See the vid on his IN LAW, this is very bad, look up you tube vids on him.
6 years ago
Bring her back to America to answer charges in a non shari’a court.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The USA doesn’t have jurisdiction to charge her since she didn’t commit any crimes in the USA. Trump intimidated Egypt into denying them the ability to mete out justice.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Why would there be no trial if criminal activity was suspect? Trials are used to prove guilt or innocence .
6 years ago
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6 years ago
The woman’s US naturalization should have been revoked.
D
6 years ago
He apparently got conned. Another consequence of losing Flynn.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Or the ‘Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam’ ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis or any number of other MB operatives whose identities remain unknown, beyond the fact they are legion. Barry and Hillary placed them there. “Extreme vetting” died when Gen. Flynn and K.T. McFarland were shown the door.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
The longer Trump ‘delays’ designating the MB as a terrorist organization and treats them accordingly (which I, personally, doubt he’ll ever do), the fewer days we have left as a free, Constitutional Republic. That is a fundamental fact for which previous few will even acknowledge…
6 years ago
Reply to
Pastor C
What beats me is that he doesn’t take a lead from President el-Sisi who know what dung the Muslim Brotherhood is.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Barry and Hillary took care of that. They, just like roaches, may be found hiding within the walls and running rampant throughout every sector of our government. There’s no telling which one is bending his ear…
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
It’s a real pity Flynn lied. He knew Islam, knows it is cancer, but made a serious error that has cost the president a sound advisor. The the liberal media hates him is testament to his being the right man for the job. The fact is, he let himself and the people down.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
…………….or distancing himself from Steve Bannon…………
I hope Trump hasn’t joined the swamp.
6 years ago
The seizure happened almost at the time that Morsi was deposed…if she was really innocent, you would have heard a push to free her when Obama was in office.
6 years ago
This article lacks any evidence of her being in Muslim brotherhood.
6 years ago
If she’s from Falls Church, VA, she needs to be watched.
6 years ago
Reply to
marycat485
That may be why she was let out so as to gain information on further activities.
6 years ago
Time to put an end to dual citizenship. Dual citizenship did not exist until the 1960’s.
6 years ago
Reply to
karl59
Exactly. If she doens’t know who the hell is she, why did Trump fight for her? He should rather fight for the deliberation of Christians, not MB muzrats.
6 years ago
Sensationalist garbage.
6 years ago
Trump had better not be Obama 2.0. I hope he’s reading this.
6 years ago
I suspect that Trump was intimidating Sisi, while Obama knew better.
6 years ago
Well, If nothing else it puts a damper on the leftists who will be confused as how to handle this and furthermore she is not a russian so they will be really upset. They will have to go escape to some climate show. It sounds like some trade off deal though on face value it appears troubling..
6 years ago
Take heart, at least she only occupies a spot in the news cycle for a day instead of a key position next to the President as did Brotherhood-tainted Valerie Jarrett under Obhammud.
6 years ago
Mattis, McMaster and Gorka won’t say boo to Islam, and they’re Trump’s worst picks for advisors.
6 years ago
It didn’t sound like their was much evidence against her.
6 years ago
Second guessing why Trump does what he does when it comes to foreign affairs, wars (and even choosing his own cabinet as the snakes are all over the White House and many are invisible, for all intents and purposes), is useless. We know the president no longer has power over these matters as they are, have been and always will be completely controlled by the globalist shadow government we’ve had for many decades. Remembering this, we should accept our own responsibility in, at least, giving President Trump a brand new Congress that will work WITH him and FOR us. That would make his job easier for him to keep ALL of his promises, which, never forget, is his goal.
6 years ago
Learn just who may very well be, and is advising the POTUS…….
Also look at the rest of the vids…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39hRGHr0X_k
6 years ago
Hopefully she was released by Trump for interrogations to lead to more pedophile connections to be investigated. Google: Ronald Bernard Dutch Whistleblower. The 29 minute English subtitled video will explain how he laundered money globally for “elite” Luciferians that sexually trafficked children and murdered them in Satanic cult ceremonies. It will wake you up to the evil people who run our world.
6 years ago
If true, the person who vetted her should be terminated FORTHWITH.
Drain the Cesspool NOW!
D
6 years ago
This woman will come back to bite him in the ass. Pretty bad vetting there President Trump
6 years ago
I don’t like this. The Muslim brother hood? They are an enemy to the USA Buck ??⚔?? 100% disabled Vietnam veteran Christian Right wing republican . Life time member NRA and friend to Israel
