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Muslim immigrant running to unseat Ilhan Omar, speaks

out from Israel: 'We are not like her'
Dalia al-Aqidi says 'Squad' Dems, BLM have 'no clue' what they're supporting by calling for 'free Palestine'
By Elizabeth Heckman Fox News

Published October 31, 2023 4:00pm EDT

Muslim immigrant running to unseat Democrat Ilhan Omar

Muslim immigrant and congressional candidate Dalia Al-Aqidi (R) calls out ‘The Squad’ for their statements on the war in Israel and shares her concerns
with border security

A Muslim immigrant and Minnesota Republican congressional candidate joined " Fox &
Friends " to call out far-left Democrats for their failure to stand with Israel against Hamas
terrorists.

"I'm telling you, Hamas is a terrorist group and whoever supports these terrorists don't
belong to the United States of America, the land of the free," said Dalia al-Aqidi, who is
running to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar D-Minn., whom she called the "No. 1 antisemitic
,

lawmaker in the United States."

"When they call for a free Palestine and call ‘from the river to the sea,’ this is a call for a
genocide. Black Lives Matter and all these far-left progressives have no clue what they're
chanting about."

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Al-Aqidi, speaking from Israel, said she traveled there three days ago to "show my support
and solidarity with the Jewish people," declaring that the people of Minneapolis – where
Omar was raised – support Israel.

"We are not like her (Omar). We support the Jewish people and we are fighting the same
fight," she told host Ainsley Earhardt, explaining that Omar's district has become "ground
zero for antisemitism" under her leadership.

In this April 20, 2021, file photo Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at
the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

During her time in Israel, al-Aqidi said she has seen firsthand the atrocities of Hamas
terrorists

"I've seen the houses, the burnt houses. You can smell it. It's a place of destruction. And
whoever says that Hamas, that these people are freedom fighters. No, freedom fighters
don't do that."

Al-Aqidi said the reports were accurate about the atrocities committed by Hamas against
women, children and the elderly.

"Freedom fighters don't hunt kids, don't hurt women and the elderly from house to house
and room to room. I've seen it. I bear witness to what happened in the kibbutz. So that's
why I'm here to say, no, this is not fake news."

"These people with a Islamist radical Islamist ideology, they don't care about their lives,
what they care about is death," she said.

The Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel launched the war. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Al-Aqidi, a native of Iraq, said she's concerned that terror cells could already be in the
United States due to the rise in border crossings under the Biden administration.

"We have no idea who's coming through our borders. We have no idea about the ideology
that some of these people have. … We don't know how many," she said.

"I'm so disappointed in the Biden administration for this policy and I hope it will change
this next year. … Any respectable country around the world should be in charge of its
borders."

Al-Aqidi said opposing Hamas is not "islamophobic" or hostile to Muslims, but against
"radical Islamist ideology."

Omar and other left-wing "Squad" members have drawn criticism from some Democrats in
recent weeks as they have repeatedly demanded that President Biden call for a ceasefire
in Gaza.

"How is it that we have a president who is talking about releasing hostages, who is talking
about getting American citizens out of Israel, but could not get himself to say, I want to
save and work to save the hundreds, thousands of Americans stuck in Gaza. What is
wrong with you?" Omar said in an Oct. 20 press conference, after claiming Israel had
dropped more bombs on Gaza in the last 10 days than the U.S. did across an entire year in
Afghanistan.

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Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

Elizabeth Heckman is a digital production assistant with Fox News.

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