Antagonistic Muslim member of ‘woke’ Virginia school board who slammed the Battle of Iwo Jima as ‘evil,’ previously complained that a ‘moment of silence on 9/11 causes harm to Muslims’

The anti-America Abrar Omeish, a member of the same Virginia school board that came under fire for withholding information about students’ scholarships, has caused a major backlash by saying that the Battle of Iwo Jima, an important US victory against Japan in World War II, was ‘evil and should not have happened.’ In other words, too many of the Japanese enemy (18,000) were killed by U.S. troops (who ‘only’ lost 7,000) there.

Daily Mail (h/t Nita) Just a few days ago was Japanese Day of Remembrance,’ Omeish said Thursday, during a discussion with other board members. ‘Something for us to certainly reflect on… the days when, you know, Iwo Jima unfortunately happened and set a record for really what, I hate to say, human evil is capable of.’ 

Here’s video of the above quoted (mis?)statement from Ms. Omeish. pic.twitter.com/D05eJfuVAH

— Fairfax County Parents Association (@FFXParentsAssoc) February 24, 2023

The five-week Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945 between the Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan for control of airfields on the tiny island about 660 miles south of Tokyo. In what’s widely considered the bloodiest fighting of World War II, about 7,000 Marines died and 20,000 were wounded while killing all but 216 of the 18,000 Japanese soldiers stationed there.

The comments were made Thursday by Fairfax County board member Abrar Omeish, 28, in reference to the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.  The holiday occurs on the same calendar day as the first US landings on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.

Lasting more than a month from February 19 to March 26 of 1945, the battle for the island of Iwo Jima is one of the most famous in the history of the Marine Corps. Nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines from the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions died trying to wrest control of the island from Japan‘s Imperial Army of Japan.

The remarks almost instantly drew backlash. Already inciting outrage, the remarks serve are not the first time the 28-year-old board member has come under scrutiny. Elected into office in 2019 at just 24, the Muslim official also has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, and has candidly said that the district’s admissions policy has an anti-Asian bias. 

Omeish’s father (below) is also a member of the Board of Directors of a Fairfax mosque where three of the 9/11 hijackers had prayed before carrying out the heinous attacks. 

The mosque had also employed an American Muslim citizen working working with Al-Qaeda. That man, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by a US government drone strike, ordered by President Barack Obama, in 2011.  

Notably, three future September 11 attacks hijackers separately attended al-Awlaki’s sermons in Fairfax in the 1990s and early 2001 before carrying out the terror attacks.

Despite hiring al-Awlaki himself, Omeish’s father was appointed to serve on the Virginia Commission on Immigration in 2016 by State Senator Tim Kaine, but resigned after a video from a 2020 rally showed him calling for support of the ‘jihad way’ as a solution to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.

When asked to explain her Iwo Jima comments amid the backlash by the Washington Free Beacon, Omeish seemed to backtrack on that reasoning that saw her decry the Battle of Iwo Jima – often shortened to simply Iwo Jima – as an example of human evil. ‘There is no reason to warp what was said and reading more into it merely reflects biases forced in by the listener,’ Omeish told the conservative news outlet in an emailed statement over the weekend. Omeish, however, did not offer any explanation as to why she characterized Iwo Jima as ‘evil.’

In May of 2021, a series of anti-Israel social media posts made by Omeish came to light, in which she labeled Israel an ‘apartheid’ state that ‘kills Palestinians.’

Also in 2021, Omeish delivered a scathing keynote address before a graduation ceremony for Justice High School in Falls Church, where she warned graduating – mostly minority – class that they are about to step into a “capitalist world filled with racism, White supremacy and extreme versions of individualism.” 

“We struggle with human greed, racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, White supremacy, growing wealth gaps, disease, climate crisis, extreme poverty amid luxury and waste right next door. And the list goes on,” Omeish said, pointing out that the school is on land stolen from the Manahoac people, a Native American tribe.   

Former Wall Street Journal columnist, Asra Nomani (below), also a Muslim, harshly condemned Omeish’s speech on “Fox & Friends” calling it “depressing.”

“It was indicative of this radicalization that is happening within school boards and school districts and schools across the country, from principals to teachers to political operatives like Omeish.”

Nomani said she knows Omeish “very well.” and was not surprised that she gave that “anti-America speech, the script of which was written years ago,” Nomani said.