School board member encourages high
schoolers to remember 'jihad' as they
'enter a world of white supremacy and
capitalism' during graduation speech
Posted By: OhioNick, 6/13/2021 9:48:33 PM
A school board member called on graduating high school students to remember 'jihad' at their commencement as she warned they were entering a world of, 'racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy.' Abrar Omeish, the sole Muslim member on the Fairfax County School Board, in Virginia, addressed the graduating students of Justice High School on June 7. In English, she told them that: 'The world sees the accolade, the diploma, the fruit of all your years yet be reminded of the detail of your struggle.' But when she repeated the speech in Arabic, she told students to remember their 'jihad' - meaning holy war.
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