Dalia Al-Aqidi, a conservative Republican candidate in Minnesota's 5th District, joins Dave Rubin to expose what she terms CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood's grooming of Ilhan Omar. Drawing from her own flight from Saddam Hussein's regime via Tunisia and Greece, Al-Aqidi accuses Omar of leveraging victimhood narratives and anti-Israel rhetoric while missing votes and opposing Somalia aid. She highlights alleged immigration fraud regarding Omar's brother and criticizes mainstream media for ignoring these scandals amidst rising crime, arguing that radical Islamists manipulate identity politics to advance agendas like BDS that threaten local jobs. Ultimately, Al-Aqidi proposes a platform centered on border security, increased police presence, and bipartisan cooperation to serve all constituents regardless of faith. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm a journalist with a cause, and I've been so active against oppression, against radical Islamism, against the Muslim Brotherhood, and against CAIR, which is the Council on American Islamic Relations, that are the, I call them terrorists in suits, because these are the front of the Muslim Brotherhood, and CARE, who groomed Ilhan, groomed Rashida, and many others.
And by the way, in 2020, we have more care, has been grooming more than 120, Rashida, Ilhan, alike.
Yes, because my mom is a very famous actress And you never know who's listening to your phone calls, who's listening to your conversation, even at home.
So you're too scared to say anything or to do anything.
And we had friends that their houses were bugged and they disappeared.
They were executed for sometimes saying a joke or criticizing something.
I mean we couldn't even criticize the wars that Saddam decided to wage.
We couldn't criticize the mass murder that he did in Kurdistan, which I'm half Kurdish.
We couldn't.
So this is not the life that anybody would want to live.
Suffocating when you cannot do something and when you...
You want to make a difference, but you can't.
So that's how we decided to leave, and we just, each one of us took two suitcases, and that's it.
Yeah, I mean, did you just hop on a flight, or what do you have to do to actually get out of an oppressive regime?
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Thank you for asking this, because in Iraq, you can't just I may have to know in case the progressives take over in America, how you get out, you know what I mean?
Yeah, so if they, which they will never win, but if the socialists win, if you need to travel, you have to get a permission to travel.
And they would write in your passport, like, if I'm going to Athens, let's say.
They would write, she will go to Athens.
I cannot go anywhere else.
If I go somewhere else and come back, I'll be in trouble.
I'll be in jail.
So what happened is, I was, back then, because I studied stage acting and directing, so I was going to perform in Tunisia, in Carthage Festival.
So I had the permission to leave.
Mom had something, I think it was a movie or something in Cairo.
So they didn't notice that because we were in different delegations, that's what they call it, so they didn't notice.
So mom, because she had a baby, and she was supposed to stay more than one month, so she could take the baby with her.
And we both left.
After the festival, I ran away from my team, from the people I was with, and I gave the Lebanese delegation or my two suitcases.
So nobody knows where I'm going because the head of this delegation told me, Dalia, somebody is going from the embassy to stay here.
So I had to run away.
And it was like I was 20 back then.
And for me, it was like the longest journey.
I didn't know because I left before mom.
So I didn't know if mom left or not.
I was too scared sitting, I was flying to Athens and from Athens to Beirut, because that's where my aunt is, that's where I'm supposed to reunite with my mother and my brother.
And until, because the embassies, the Iraqi embassies during Saddam's era, they were the centers of intelligence.
So it's so easy for them to grab you inside the embassy, put you in a box and ship you back home.
So anyways, to make the story short, I got my luggage at the airport from the Lebanese friends and then I sat down and I was like, please God, please God, please God, until we took off.
And when we took off, that was the freedom for my flight to freedom.
And then, yes, and because I was Iraqi, I couldn't fly to the airport because it was, back then it was controlled by the Syrians.
So I had to stay eight hours in Greece, and then take another flight to Larnaca, Cyprus, and then take a 12-hour boat to Lebanon, To the Christian area.
And then, I mean, it took me like three days, alone, not knowing anything, 20 years old, but I made it.
When I reached there, nobody was waiting for me, not my aunt.
I had the address, okay, take me there.
I went there, it was during, you know, the mess in Lebanon.
So I reached the apartment.
It was on the 16th floor.
No electricity.
I left my suitcases after three days of non-sleep.
I took the stairs to the 16th floor.
Knocked on the door.
Mom, holding my brother, opened the door.
I just looked and was like, my suitcases are down.
Yeah, so can you explain how Chris Stevens, so the ambassador to Libya, who obviously died in the Benghazi attack, can you explain a little bit about your relationship with him?
He's very, not emotional, but he understands, you know?
And he's the one who, when we talk, he's the one.
And since then, I've been twice to the U.S.
as a tourist.
Because back then when we were in Saudi Arabia, we had Saudi passports because we were doing this high profile work during that time.
And he just was one of the best people I've ever met.
He felt for the people and that's for the past three years I've been, I was doing a show from DC, a weekly show for three years about, it's called USL, US Libya.
It's about US foreign policy and US strategies in North Africa in general, in Libya in particular.
And the people I've worked with, the Libyans, that they remember him.
And every Libyan I've met has told me stories about him.
And he was so committed to this country and to the people, the Libyan people.
And he never He wasn't scared that this might kill him.
It's not so far, and the problem is because the GNA, which is the NGA, GNA, Government of National Accord, is mainly controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
And then you have a general who was here in the United States as a refugee forever,
General Hafter, who is so against radical Islamism and then it's still, there is still a civil war, kind of.
And the UN, as we all know it, it's a failed, a very failed organization
that couldn't do anything.
And it's just back and forth, back and forth, but hopefully meetings are coming with the Europeans, especially, that could reach or could convince the Libyans to at least sit together.
I thought we're told all the time that America is an evil, racist, patriarchal state that no dark-skinned immigrant could come to and be treated fairly, especially if they come from the Middle East, a place like Iraq, something like that.
And... Is it shocking to you as someone that lived under what you lived under, had to do everything that you just laid out to even get here, when you hear all of this endless, ridiculous craziness about how horrible America is?
Because I truly believe that when you go to a new country and this country becomes your home, I mean, at least be Be grateful that you live in a country that you have the right of every single American.
You're no different than anybody else.
You have the right and you have the duties and that's how you should deal with it.
There are immigrants from different countries.
I'm not saying that they come here and they don't integrate with the community.
So they still live in a small area that it's basically they brought everything from their country and they're not willing to participate or willing to be part of the of the community. And that's why I feel that organizations
and should work on these communities to build bridges, to make them feel integrated in schools
and that workplace and others. I mean, can you believe that someone who lives for 20 years in a
Everyone still wants to come here, nobody's leaving.
We're not stopping people from leaving, but they never leave.
So, was it seeing what was happening with the far left progressives and the socialists, is that really what drove you to get into politics, or was it specifically about Ilhan, and then we'll talk more about her?
Well, being a journalist and I've been doing it for a long time and I do foreign affairs and I cover the whole world, and covering wars, conflict zones, human rights crisis, terrorist attacks all over the world, especially in Europe.
Being there, as a journalist, and I'm very active, I'm a journalist with a cause, and I've been so active against oppression, against radical Islamism, against the Muslim Brotherhood, and against CAIR, which is the Council on American Islamic Relations, that are the, I call them terrorists in suits, because these are the front, of the Muslim Brotherhood and care who groomed Ilhan, groomed Rashida and many others.
And by the way, in 2020, we have more care has been grooming more than 120.
Rashida, Ilhan, alike, that we're going to see that.
So what happened with Ilhan that, of course, I saw a couple of her interviews.
She's always on Al-Jazeera with Mahdi, Husseini, Hassani, Mahdi Hassan, that I can't stand because of his views, of course.
And he's so pro-Muslim Brotherhood.
So I told my producers, I want to interview her.
We were so ignored, and I kept tweeting to her, and I was like, okay, now we're a Muslim to a Muslim, a woman to a woman, a former refugee to a former refugee, and I was ignored, and definitely she would not Give me an interview.
So I decided, you know what?
Because I was doing my research on Muslim Brotherhood and on all this, because that's what I write about when I'm not on TV.
I decided, I said, you know, I don't want her interview.
I'm going to her district.
And I went to her district, and I spoke to the people, and I was going back and forth, back and forth, spending time there.
And even sometimes on Twitter, I would say, I'm going to be in this place from this time to come and meet me, journalists and others.
So I had all this research about this district way before anything else.
And then, six months ago, I decided to move there.
And I started thinking that if I run, I would be the best, the only candidate that could beat her.
Because of my background, I'm immune to her brand of identity politics.
So I can push straight for the important issues and important discussions.
And I'm not a shy person at all.
And I could say, you are one, two, three.
Why did you meet Turkish President Erdogan before you were elected?
What promises did you give him?
Why you refused to acknowledge the Turkish ethnic cleansing against the Armenians?
Why were you outraged because President Trump decided to take justice to Qasem Soleimani.
Why are you close to the Muslim Brotherhood?
How much money have you been getting from care through or through care from Qatar and from the godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood?
I could do what no other candidates could.
Basically, because if you tell her this, Ah, you're a white supremacist.
I mean, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib, let me talk about each one because they have similar tactics but on different issues.
Sure.
Like Ilhan Omar, when she keeps feeding or tweeting or saying the same narrative over and over and over that I represent every Muslim In the country.
First, she's supposed to represent the Fifth District.
She's supposed to serve the Fifth District and she's done zero.
Nada.
Nothing.
So when she goes and tells all the Muslims that the Americans hate us, the white people hate us, and they are so anti-Islamist, and that the Islamophobe, the term that was invented by Kerr.
So- We've talked about this a bunch on the show, but can you explain why the term specifically Islamophobe was invented and why it's such a confusing term?
But even after 9-11, like 9-12, I've never felt threatened because I was a Muslim.
I'm an American regardless of all these.
I don't use this and the problem is or I'm forced to use a Muslim former refugee immigrants just to the identity politics that she uses.
And I stated it once on Twitter that was picked up by everybody because she said, I am a hijab, which is that is not the right hijab that she claims to.
And I've spoken to several American Somalis, that this is not the Muslim hijab.
I mean, she wears the hijab based on the people that she's meeting.
She's meeting Muslims, she would cover, but hijab as in hijab, you cannot show your chest, you cannot show your hands.
So what are some of the other tactics that they use besides the just general, they wanna cause chaos all the time and seem to always, everything they say seems to be designed to deepen that divide.
I mean, all these handouts, and like, free this and free this, and everybody's gonna have a free house, and it's gonna have a free... I mean, this is ridiculous.
We are not in China, and even in China, They don't do that.
I mean, supportive of the BDS, what do you expect?
If you're an American, and if you are worried about what's happening in that region in general, you want to be close and you want to defend your closest allies, which at this point is Israel.
Now more countries are coming, like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt.
Who's going to counter Iran's influence in the region?
Nobody.
And I cannot understand why someone like Bernie that does not care about our allies.
I mean, imagine him being a president.
What's going to happen?
Oh my God, we'll have Iranian influence all over the place.
Forget about something called peace.
in the Middle East, and we'll have wars in the Middle East between our ex-allies and our new allies.
Before that, I am planning, and I will represent every, every voter in this district, and not even a voter, every resident of the 5th District, because I am running to represent them.
I'm planning to introduce Minneapolis and the 5th District to D.C., not bring D.C.
Yeah, can you talk a little bit about some of the other scandals related to her?
Because there's a lot of weird stuff out there and for the last two years it was only these very, I don't want to say very far right, it was seemingly far right outlets.
I don't even want to say that.
There were outlets on the right that are ignored by mainstream that were saying there was this weird thing with her and her brother and passports and this whole thing.
Can you kind of get me up to speed on what we know?
So he came, but as a British citizen, he cannot live here.
So basically, they got married, and to give him, well, it's not like for any other reasons.
I mean, it's committing an immigration fraud, and that's how he got his citizenship.
She brought him to cure him.
And basically she used to say, according to her friends and to the people that went on the record, saying that he's been around the wrong crowd in England.
So it's better for him to come here and be around us.
Okay, so putting aside the part about the gay brother and the curing, which is bad enough in and of itself, especially by her own progressive ideals, where she's supposed to be for gay people, but that's not criminal in and of itself.
Marrying your brother for the purposes of getting immigration status is immigration fraud.
So for someone that was a journalist under a dictatorship, does that, or came from a country that was a dictatorship, when you see the way our media behaves right now.
Especially when it comes to radical Muslims and to the Muslim Brotherhood and to the people behind the Muslim Brotherhood.
They know.
If you hear or if you read that I committed suicide, I'm not suicidal, I'm very happy, so look for them!
Because definitely I'm not.
We've seen suicides here and there lately, and the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group and the first thing would be my priority when I get elected in November that I will make sure the Muslim Brotherhood would be designated as a terrorist group such as several countries, Egypt, that's where the Muslim Brotherhood was formed.
Egypt consider it and other countries in the region consider it a terrorist group and we should We should.
I'm not trying to scare people, but we shouldn't be afraid of calling things with their real names.
What do you think about putting Ilhan specifically aside, just a first-generation immigrant that comes to America that sort of has the gall to then just try to undermine everything?
Yeah, and I sent her a message from CPAC when I spoke that, you know what, some people are going to do something that will make you a one-term congressman.
You gave what I thought was a pretty incredible speech, and one of the things you really focused on actually was what's happening to the Christians in the Middle East, which is sort of a forgotten piece of the whole thing.
I guess, can you talk a little bit about just generally her obsession with Israel, but then more just what's happening with the Christians in the Middle East and everything else?
And that company is employing more than 10,000 people from our district.
Because of her hatred or her obsession with Israel, she is willing to lose the jobs, I mean, to make the people of her district lose the jobs.
I mean, what does it take?
10 jobs?
10,000 jobs?
She does not care.
She wants to satisfy her hatred to the Jews, to the Americans that support Israel, and to Israel itself.
One mistake she did, if you remember when she and Rashida were invited by Muftah, which is a terrorist group, to visit Gaza.
And thank God, the Israelis decided that this is not the good idea because Rashida Tlaib, in the name of the government, she would go to Gaza to bash Israel and bash Jews.
The best was, you remember when Tlaib tweeted the thing about being the first Palestinian in Congress, and then Justin Amash, who's the libertarian in Michigan, said, oh, well, actually, my father's from Palestinian descent, I just don't make a big deal about it.
Although, I do feel for the Palestinian people, because I truly believe that they are held hostages between Hamas, the terrorist group, between the corruption of the Palestinian authorities and the corruption of Fatah.
It's time for them and they've tried, but they've tried, especially in Gaza where Hamas rules everything.
You know what they do? Hamas, they would bring the truck in the middle of a residential area
to launch missiles and leave a minute later. When Israel countered the attack.
Who would die?
Of course, of course them.
The Palestinian people are sick and tired of this.
They deserve and they want to live in prosperity and that's what the new plan that President Trump And of course it was rejected by the Palestinian Authority and everybody else.
And this would work, especially now, more than ever, that Arab countries and Muslim countries are Ready to normalize the relations and ties with Israel.
Do you see that as like a mind-blowing thing that you've got all these Arab countries now that are starting to have different bilateral relations with Israel and yet we have American Congress people who are further, who are more against it than Arab countries who've technically been at war with Israel?
Well, Rashida could feel free to move to Gaza and fight there.
And Ilhan could feel free to go to Qatar maybe, or Turkey with the Godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Just don't spread your toxic rhetoric between us, because nobody's going to Nobody's gonna stand this, and especially the consequences of what they are doing.
And small businesses in our district are suffering a lot.
And we need to give the freedom or the choice of being employed, of being a business owner, The district could use a lot and it's beautiful.
I fell in love with it from day one that I arrived in Minneapolis.
It's such a beautiful place, beautiful people and it could, I mean, Minneapolis should be just like L.A., a metropolitan area that all tourists from all over the world would want to come and see.
It has all the ingredients.
We need to build more of the infrastructure of this city.
And it will be on the map, like Florida, New York, D.C., L.A.
It should be on the tourism map.
Maybe not now with the coronavirus and stuff.
Which, by the way, all the far left is criticizing the government and the administration, President Bush, for not doing anything.
Excuse me!
I mean, asking for $2.6 billion, I'm not sure if it's $2.5 or $2.6, to support the research
and to enhance all the medical research and medicine.
That's not good?
Why not good?
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I mean... Well, the orange man did it, so... Yeah.
I mean, a long time ago, the Democratic Party used to be a decent party, because it's all about two parties.
I'm willing, and that's what I'm going to do for my district, to build a new coalition, to reach not to the other aisle, to the last aisle on this planet, if that's what it takes to provide the services that my constituents do.