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The welcome news came from Secretary of State Marco Rubio: anti-white racist and antisemite Ebrahim Rasool is no longer welcome in this country after serving as the ambassador to the U.S. from South Africa.
Rasool has claimed that South Africa was under attack because “we are the historical antidote to supremacism.” Yet South Africa, under the rule of the ANC, has become a state where anti-white policies are openly embraced. It has replaced the white supremacism of the apartheid years with the black supremacism of Mandela, Bishop Tutu, and Cyril Ramaphosa. Is black supremacism really the “antidote” to white supremacism?
Or is it merely the obverse of the medal?
South Africa has also drawn close to America’s most implacable enemies, China, Iran, and Russia. Perhaps, by its expulsion of Ambassador Rasool, the Trump administration will be delivering a warning to the government in Pretoria, not to move away from the West and into the grasp of Russia, China, and Iran, whose only interest is to exploit South Africa’s mineral resources.
Ebrahim Rasool’s defense of black racism in South Africa, by its new law allowing land owned by white farmers to be expropriated by the state for little or no compensation, is intolerable. And so is his accusation that Trump is promoting a “white supremacist agenda.” Rasool, a Muslim, has also displayed a deep anti-Israel animus. He was one of those in South African who urged his government to bring charges of “genocide” against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
More on his want of sympathy for Israel and his support for Hamas can be found here.
…Addressing his mosque in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town, Rasool explained: “I believe that I go [to Washington] as a representative of a moral superpower in a world that has lost its moral anchors.”
But an administration set adrift seems preferable to Rasool’s waters. The ambassador has a long history of involvement with international Islamism, including the designated terrorist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
In 2004, following Israel’s assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Rasool, then serving as finance minister in South Africa’s Western Cape, described the Hamas founder as “one of the greatest inspirations.” He prayed that Palestinians, according to writer and broadcaster Joel Pollak, will “stand up to these enemies and never succumb, that they fight and they fight under a flag of Islam.”
Allegedly, Rasool further called on his audience to “face the enemies—they are all over the world.”…
Who are those “enemies” that are all over the world, threatening to undermine Muslims? Let me guess….”the Jews”?
Following the assassination of Haniyeh in July 2024, Rasool’s mosque in Cape Town held prayers for the terror leader. The imam declared the “garden of Islam will be watered by the blood of the martyrs,” and, MEMRI notes, he prayed: “May Allah liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestine in its entirety from the filth of the Jews.”…
Rasool’s World For All Foundation is a close partner, meanwhile, of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, the key clerical body for the international Muslim Brotherhood. Rasool’s joint events with the Islamist body featured leading Islamist extremists from all the world. These conferences were planned with the assistance of SAFA’s IIIT, as well as figures such as Ibrahim El-Zayat, one of the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the West, described by German security services official Hartwig Möller as the “spider in the web of Islamist organizations.”…
Today, Ambassador Rasool is a regular contributor to Al-Qalam, a prominent South African Muslim newspaper. The outlet is Islamist, and runs editorials accusing the South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), of collaborating with South African Jews to create a “DA Zionist coalition” that is building a “Zionist new world order,” developing a “little Israel” in Cape Town, and working to pave the way for Israeli colonization of the Western Cape, and a secret Jewish secession plan from South Africa.
Had enough? If you’ve perused that entire article, of course you have. My god, that was a lot to take in about Ebrahim Rasool. You now have all the evidence you need to prove that Ebrahim Rasool has for decades been an unswerving supporter of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Muslim Brotherhood, and has been involved in promoting all three groups at the highest level. The wonder is not that the American government has now declared Ebrahim Rasool Persona Non Grata, but that it has taken so long.
