Arab Muslims are fooling no one with “uncommitted” vote

If I were a Muslim Arab American living in heavily Muslim Dearborn, Mich. — and I am registered Democratic as almost all of them are — I probably would have voted “uncommitted” in Tuesday’s primary. (And 56% of that community did.)

It would have been fun as a protest — in the primary — but who am I kidding?

On Nov. 5, I will vote for Joe Biden.

Why? Because the other guy is whom Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib referred to when she charmingly shouted, “We’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.” Standing at her side was her 10-year-old son, who she’d probably buy a Hasbro paraglider for Ramadan.

The MFer is Donald J. Trump, in case you forgot, who once tried to impose a ban on Muslims entering the country. Yes, some argue it was a ban on Muslims from certain nations, as if all Muslims from those nations were terrorists. 

The details don’t matter. What does matter is the Muslim Arab Democrats of Dearborn think it was a Muslim ban.

So will they vote for Trump? 

No.

Will they sit on the couch in November and allow their inaction to permit Trump to win Michigan? 

Again, no — and I guarantee the pottymouth Ms. Tlaib will be bullhorning Arabs to get to the polls.

And I, as a Muslim Arab American living in Dearborn, would go to the polls, maybe hold my nose, and vote for Joe Biden. 

The call to vote “uncommitted” was heeded by 13.3% of Michigan voters Tuesday, which doesn’t seem like much. But — let’s crunch the numbers. 

Of Michigan’s 8.2 million registered voters, 200,000 are Muslim. In 2020, Biden won Michigan with 50.6%, a margin of 154,488.

Because Muslims are only 2.4% of the electorate, 13.3% is a pretty impressive number, but Michiganders still gave Biden 81.1%. Muslims obviously had support from other voters, such as younger voters, who also don’t like Biden’s Mideast policy. And they are wrong.

And the Muslim voters mad at him for “backing Israel” in the Mideast war? They are wrong, too.

Why?

Because Israel is our ally, and Gaza-controlling Hamas is a gang of murdering Islamic terrorists.

Because Israel is a vibrant democracy and Hamas hasn’t had an election since 2006. The Palestinian Authority hasn’t had an election since the same year.

But wait! The PA did schedule elections for May 2021.

What happened?

Good news and bad news.

The good news was the announcement — finally! — of an election. The bad news was that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “postponed” the election for fear that Hamas — the terrorist gang — would have won a majority.

Just imagine what Palestine would be like if that happened.

I fully understand the Arab Muslim community is reacting to the almost 30,000 Gazan deaths since Israel began its campaign.

It is horrific. Almost anyone would be moved by it.

But — like it or not — American Arab Muslims must be reminded who started the war.

That was Hamas, which knew Israel would retaliate with ferocity to the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

Hamas knew that and did it anyway, for political gain. Hamas’ hands are coated with blood.

American Arab Muslims — and I use this phrase to separate them from other ethnic Muslims — like it or not, are roughly in the same position as American Germans and Japanese during World War II. Like it or not, the leaders of their homelands started the war and, in the long run, their civilians suffered the consequences.

American Arab Muslims — and foolish others — are demanding an unconditional cease fire to stop the killing. Israel will not agree to that, and shouldn’t. America will back Israel, and should.

Why?

We could have a cease fire today if Hamas surrendered, as did Germany and Japan. 

An unconditional cease fire — like the one that was in place when Hamas started the Oct. 7 massacre — would leave Hamas in control and Hamas has said repeatedly it would attack Israel again. Do you expect Israel to accept that?

Of course not.

What the American Arab Muslim community should do, to end the war, is demand that Hamas terrorists surrender. But how can that happen when Tlaib voted against a bill to bar Hamas members from the U.S.? Only one other House member voted with her.

American Arab Muslims are good people, right?

They believe in democracy, right?

They oppose terrorism, right?

They want to end Gazan suffering, right?

Then they should drop the dead-end “uncommitted” nonsense and demand that Hamas surrender.