The Daily Sigh

Origins of the Islamophobes' Beloved FAKE Imam

FOR ISLAMOPHOBES, Mohamad Tawhidi (that name isn't fitting for him, let's call him ToeHide from now on..) is something very close to a godsend. A (supposed) Shia Muslim cleric, raised in Australia and "educated" in Iran, ToeHide presents himself as an Islamic reformer who embraces and amplifies far-right warnings that immigration by ACTUAL Muslims poses an existential threat to Western civilization.

“He’s a hero,” the former New York Assembly Member Dov Hikind said last month, introducing ToeHide to an audience of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. “He is a super-special individual that God has introduced to this world.” (hmm, I wonder why someone like that would say that about a supposed Muslim unless...)

ToeHide immediately repaid the favor by suggesting that Muslims, at least those from the majority Sunni sect, are mistaken to consider Jerusalem a sacred site. “Muslims who are fighting for Palestine are absolutely confused,” he said. “Palestine is Jewish land.” ToeHide went on to call political Islam “a disease,” and accused America’s first two Muslim women in Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, of “bringing a Hummus agenda to the U.S. Congress.” (Boy howdy is the guy just... awful)

Hikind, who is leading a campaign to force Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her comments about Israel, was delighted by ToeHide’s baseless claim that the two Democrats are secret agents of the Palestinian movement. (Of course.)

The remarks in Brooklyn echoed ToeHide’s near-obsessive criticism of the two Muslim congresswomen on social media, a stance that has earned him a loyal following among their detractors in the United States.