Immigration Commission Member Found to Be Pro Jihad Resigns
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine meets with Muslim American Society President Dr. Esam Omesh in May. The discovery of Omesh’s online pro jihad videos prompted his resignation from Virginia’s Immigration Commission today.
RICHMOND, Va.- A member of the state’s Commission of Immigration resigned Thursday, a few hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about online videos showing the appointee condemning Israel and advocating “the jihad way.”
Kaine learned of the videos from a caller to his live monthly radio program and accepted the resignation of Dr. Esam S. Omesh about three hours later.
“Dr. Omesh is a respected physician and community leader, yet I have been made aware of certain statements he has made which concern me,” Kaine said in a news release announcing the resignation.
The governor said Omesh resigned because he did not want the controversy to distract from the work of the 20-member commission appointed to study the effects of immigration and federal immigration policies on Virginia.
Omesh, who is president of the Muslim American Society and chief of the division of general surgery at INOVA Alexandria Hospital, is shown in a video on YouTube denouncing an invasion of Lebanon by the “Israeli war machine” during an Aug. 12, 2006, rally in Washington.
He also accuses Israel of genocide and massacres against Palestinians and says on the video that the “Israeli agenda” controls Congress.
In a separate, undated video, Omesh tells a crowd of Washington-area Muslims, “…you have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land.” The video was credited to Investigative Project, a Washington-based organization that investigates radical Islamic organizations.
Omesh did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mahdi Bray, a spokesman for the MAS, said Omeish was not available.
Omesh was among 10 appointments Kaine made on Aug. 2 to the panel created this year. The commission met in Richmond for the first time Tuesday.
(AP)
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Sounds like a good case of “Busted!” to me. I bet he isn’t available.. Good riddance to him.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pmYou think they’d do a cursory background check. For instance, in Cal., state appointees fill out a form and it asks to disclose any potentially embarassing/controversial actions or publications you may have made…
September 27th, 2007 at 1:54 pmThis is the one that got caught….how many more ragheads like this schmuck are lurking in committees and in government positions? Tim Kaine needs to be booted!
September 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pmWhoever Kaine’s talk show guest is, who called in about it needs to be decorated for his/her vigilance!!!
This is old news. This prick has been written about extensively at Jihadwatch. And today the irhabi resigned.
So, while the erstwhile governor of Virginia knows nothing about the jihadi threat in his own state, there are many Virginians that do. Those hell-raisers are the ones that queered this goat-fucker’s nomination.
Fuck him and all like him. It’s only a matter of time before this prick is in a jail cell in Guantanamo.
September 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pmGosh youd wonder why they appointed him in the first place.
September 27th, 2007 at 2:26 pmTim Kaine is a f*cking dunce…
September 27th, 2007 at 2:30 pmIs everybody on crack?
Why not appoint Confederates to the US government…
Nazis to Roosevelts government…
Why doesn’t Congress just FEDEX the Constitution to Bin Laden/Ahmadinejahd/Assad/Kim and asking to crap and piss on it? Tell him to re-write why don’t we?
WHY IS THIS KIND OF TREASONOUS STUFF NOT REPORTED OR UNDERREPORTED???
September 27th, 2007 at 2:47 pmI think I heard he was going to replace him with “another muslim”, for that job… whatever happened to the “separation of church and state” piss we hear liberal bureaucrats & elected officials scream about? He seems to be going out of his way to appoint a muslim.
September 27th, 2007 at 2:48 pmIf he were actively seeking to put a conservative christian in that post would the MSM and the ACLU be ripping him a new one? Funny how separation of church and state only applies to conservative christian beliefs not liberal or as I call it liberal/secular christian beliefs and other religions.
@ Dan …
A bullet costs less 
September 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pmThe appointment alone boggles the mind!!!
Did somebody spike the water supplies with acid? Crack?
I hope Pelosi goes on another ‘fact finding tour’ to Syria, and it gets hijacked by Christian fundamentalists and it crashes into Mecca… oh yeah, our Christian fundamentalists don’t do jihad…
September 27th, 2007 at 3:04 pmBirdddog:
If there’s another 9-11…that might happen.
September 27th, 2007 at 3:09 pmCall me crazy, call me a racist bigot psycho pig. Call me anything you like, because no matter what you call me, it won’t be the first time.
NO. MUSLIMS. IN. GOVERNMENT. POSITIONS!
September 27th, 2007 at 3:42 pmWTF??? Why would THIS GUY be doing studies on how immigration affects our country, which would then be used to influence policy? How in the hell did THIS GUY get that appointment? It’s complete madness. I get it…we must not have learned anything from 9-11…or it’s the pendulum swinging the other way.
Kevin M. I’m not afraid to say it either…this is a Judeo Christian society, Muslims are in the minority here. The #1 enemy to our society is radical Islam. Unless we can learn to ask the right questions and separate the wheat from the chaff, you’re right–NO MUSLIMS.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pmI’m tempted to say that ALL Muslims condone the usual menu of jihad and that we should just give them all a one-way ticket to their heaven. Then I stop and wonder if there are any exceptions to the rule. If there are, they’re sure being awful quiet about it. Are there ANY Muslims out there who would condemn jihad WITHOUT us having to force them into it first?!
September 27th, 2007 at 4:44 pmYou all are wondering how this happened to begin with, why was the guy ever even appointed? Hell, he was appointed by a liberal dhimmicrat, he was hoping to slide one by us for Christ’s sake! No this won’t be reported because that is against the agenda of the liberal MSM, they WANT that type of person making decisions. That is why the conservatives, the patriots have to remain vigilant!
What you should be asking is how soon can we replace as many liberal dhimmis with true patriots and conservatives.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:52 am