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Duluth, Minnesota, a place that most liberals would agree was too white, finally made history when the otherwise boring 87% white city elected its first Muslim lesbian councilwoman.
Azrin Awal, a Bangladeshi immigrant, moved to Duluth to attend the University of Minnesota, got a degree in gender and sexuality studies, co-founded the local NAACP chapter (despite not being black), was part of the Muslim Students Association and decided to run for public office because Duluth was Islamophobic and needed to fundamentally change to suit her tastes.
And that’s after only being there for 5 years.
But they were busy years in which the Bangladeshi immigrant claimed she was a victim of Islamophobia because she was called a 'terrorist' and had a hijab snatched from her head.
She also came out as ‘queer’ and her pronouns are either “She/They” or “She/Them/Theirs”. She took part in ‘drag shows’ and discussions about ‘Islamophobia’, telling students that “Islam means peace”, but not telling them what happens to ‘queer’ people under Islamic Sharia law.
But that’s probably because, despite the list of pronouns, Awal is married to a white guy.
Much like her neighboring role model, Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Awal got a job working at the DEI office at the UM Duluth which she still holds, to help ‘queer’ students. A year before her marriage, Awal told her colleagues that she was working “on self-actualizing her identities as Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman.”
The ‘queer’ part apparently still needs more ‘actualizing’. Or will be around election time.
The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute listed her as ‘Queer’ and so did election materials and pitches. Even while married to a former fellow white male classmate at UM Duluth, a waste engineer working for a state government agency, her official City Council bio states that “Azrin identifies as a Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman dedicated to equity and social justice.”
Much like men who identify as women, Arzin is a married woman who identifies as ‘Queer’.
It was always implausible that a Muslim Students Association member, an Islamist group with roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, was going to have an openly lesbian member.
But the pronouns came in handy when building her woke credentials for public office: Awal also claimed that she understood homelessness because had been homeless when she had to sleep on other people’s couches for a few months in between finding housing.
And with the promise of being the first Muslim woman, the first Asian woman, and the first ‘queer’ woman on the Duluth City Council, Awal was endorsed by the DSA and local lefties. She campaigned by accusing Duluth of suffering from “Xenophobia and Islamophobia”.
“I’m getting a lot of pushback,” Awal complained during her campaign. “But I’m also opening people’s minds and forcing people to reevaluate what equity means.”
At a council meeting in February, Awal demonstrated her definition of ‘equity’ by praising a call from an anti-American activist to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from council meetings.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation,” Awal claimed.
Azrin Awal did not discuss the superior level of freedom to be obtained in her native Bangladesh, which recently underwent a brutal Islamist coup against the minority Hindu population, and where homosexuality is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Awal has claimed that her family in Bangladesh were “spiritual leaders, they were freedom fighters”. While she didn’t go into any details, her father Mohammed Awal came to America in 1991. A year earlier, Bangladeshis had overthrown the Islamist regime of General Hussain Mohammed Ershad. It is unknown what side of the conflict Awal’s family was on, but the description of them as “spiritual leaders” raises the possibility that they were Islamists.
While advocating against Israel’s battle with Hamas, Awal claimed that the issue was ‘deeply personal to her, citing her ancestors who fought oppression in Bangladesh.’
Awal and her family lived in the formerly bucolic Maple Grove suburb of Minneapolis, which was targeted for refugee resettlement by Lutheran Social Services, among other ‘resettlers’, and now has a sizable Muslim population. Some are worried that Duluth may go the same way.
After the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Azrin Awal took to denouncing Israel and drafted a ‘ceasefire’ resolution falsely accusing Israel of “genocide”, citing fake Hamas propaganda numbers and calling for an end to military aid to Israel, which the Duluth council rejected by a margin of 5-4.
She falsely claimed that Israel is an “apartheid state” and Hamas-run Gaza an “open-air prison”.
In response to Oct 7, she posted a video by an affiliate of Minneapolis pro-terror group member who claimed that Israel controls the media. Awal later joined with the Marxist and Islamist-led ‘Uncommitted’ movement to protest Biden’s failure to completely withdraw support from Israel in order to enable a Hamas victory.
Azrin Awal promoted and took part in an event featuring Mariam El-Khatib of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) who had promoted Hamas propaganda and justified the stabbings of two Rabbis along with a mother and her two-year-old daughter. AMP has been accused of having ties to Hamas. While claiming to want ‘peace’, Awal was promoting Hamas sympathizers.
Terrorist sympathizers who described a stabbed 2-year-old girl as an “extremist”.
When Awal claims that “our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation”, the real question may be how the Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant defines ‘freedom’.
America is free enough that even Muslim immigrants who hate this country can get elected to higher office across Minnesota and everywhere else ‘refugees’ from terror states are ‘settled’.
But it’s never free enough until it can be entirely destroyed and replaced with something else.
Those who want to destroy America can wear the costumes of social justice over their hijabs, can pretend to be woke and even use pronouns, but underneath it all, they hate us.
They hate America.
