{"id":1989390,"date":"2023-08-03T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-lobbies-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-called-for-murder-of-israeli-tourists\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:09:17","slug":"democratic-senator-lobbies-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-called-for-murder-of-israeli-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-lobbies-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-called-for-murder-of-israeli-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senator urges Egypt to release cleric who incited violence against Israeli tourists."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-senator-lobbies-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-called-for-murder-of-israeli-tourists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Senator Cardin Urges Release of Muslim Cleric Who Advocated Violence Against Israeli Tourists<\/h2>\n<p>Senator Ben Cardin (D., Md.) has \u2063made a bold request to the Egyptian government, \u2064calling for the release of a Muslim \u2062cleric who previously called for the murder of Israeli tourists. Interestingly, the\u2064 imprisoned religious leader&#8217;s daughter-in-law\u2062 happens to work on the senator&#8217;s staff. <\/p>\n<p>This request from Cardin aligns with\u2063 similar calls from other Democratic lawmakers, urging Egypt to release Salah Soltan, an elderly Muslim Brotherhood senior leader and U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-biden-immigration-orders-seek-to-reverse-trumps-policies-streamline-naturalization-process\/\" title=\"New Biden Immigration Orders Seek To Reverse Trump\u2019s Policies, Streamline Naturalization Process\">green card holder<\/a>. It is worth noting that Soltan&#8217;s son, Mohamed, has been actively lobbying and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-to-resume-funding-candidates-but-only-those-who-certified-bidens-win\/\" title=\"Facebook to Resume Funding Candidates, but Only Those Who Certified Biden's Win\">making political donations<\/a> to Democratic causes, \u2063including Cardin&#8217;s campaign. Mohamed\u2064 is married to Habiba Shebita, a\u2062 legislative\u2062 aide to Cardin.<\/p>\n<p>Soltan, who was imprisoned in 2013 as\u200d part of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi&#8217;s crackdown on the\u2062 Muslim Brotherhood, has \u200ba history of making anti-Semitic statements and advocating violence. He has called for the \u2062murder of all Israeli tourists, propagated the false\u2064 claim that Jews use Christian\u2062 blood to make bread, and even suggested &#8220;obliterating America&#8221; in a \u2064holy war.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Soltan&#8217;s troubling past, Cardin, \u200bwho also serves as the special representative\u2064 for anti-Semitism to\u200d the Organization for Security and \u200cCooperation in Europe,\u200c recently claimed that Soltan has \u200cexperienced a change of heart. Cardin urged el-Sisi to grant Soltan a presidential pardon so that he can be reunited with his family in\u200c the United States. This plea was based \u2062on a letter written by Soltan, in which he apologized for \u200dhis previous anti-Semitic\u200c positions and disavowed them.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Soltan acknowledged that his\u2063 defense of Palestinians was fueled by anger that turned\u200b into hate. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeff-shell-out-as-nbcuniversal-ceo-after-probe-into-inappropriate-relationship\/\" title=\"NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell steps down following investigation into inappropriate relationship.\">expressed deep regret<\/a> for engaging in discriminatory, hateful, and violent rhetoric. Soltan also\u200d highlighted the irony of being imprisoned by fellow Muslims while receiving support from Jewish \u200chuman rights lawyers and Christian politicians such as Senator Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) and the\u2063 late Senator John McCain\u2063 (R., \u2063Ariz.).<\/p>\n<p>It is\u200d important to \u2064note that this \u200bletter represents \u200ba \u2063significant departure from Soltan&#8217;s long history of virulent anti-Semitism and calls for violence against Jews. In the past, he issued a fatwa ordering \u2064the \u200cdeath of Israel&#8217;s ambassador and Israeli tourists \u200din \u200bEgypt. He also perpetuated the anti-Semitic trope of\u2064 &#8220;blood libel,&#8221; falsely claiming that Jews use the blood of Christians to make bread during Passover.<\/p>\n<p>Soltan&#8217;s\u2063 children have been\u200d actively\u2062 involved in donating\u200b to Democratic\u200c lawmakers and advocating for \u2063their father&#8217;s release. Habiba Shebita, Soltan&#8217;s daughter-in-law, has been working as a legislative\u2062 aide to Cardin \u200dsince October. Senator \u2062Chris Coons\u200d (D., Del.) even added an amendment to \u2062a\u2062 State Department \u200cappropriations bill, requiring consideration of Soltan&#8217;s case as a condition for\u200d foreign aid to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic senators on\u200d the Foreign Relations Committee have expressed concern about Soltan&#8217;s health struggles in prison and have \u200bcalled for his release\u2062 and \u200dimmediate access \u200dto medical care. These concerns were shared on Twitter and coincided with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-lobbies-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-called-for-murder-of-israeli-tourists\/\" title=\"Democrat Senator urges Egypt to release cleric who incited violence against Israeli tourists.\">significant campaign \u200cdonations made<\/a> by Soltan&#8217;s son, Mohamed, to Democratic politicians, including President Joe Biden and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.).<\/p>\n<p>Senator Cardin has not yet responded to requests for comment on this matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.) is urging Egypt to free a Muslim cleric who incited violence against Israeli tourists. Coincidentally, the senator&#8217;s staff includes the daughter-in-law of the imprisoned religious leader, who recently apologized for his history of anti-Semitic remarks and calls for harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1989391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}