Momodou Taal had a simple plan. Come to America on a student visa to destroy it from within.
In one post, he wrote, “The end of the US empire in our lifetime in sha Allah.” Months later, he celebrated receiving his student visa, writing, “Student Visa issued. We going to America baby! Alhamdulillah!” Shortly thereafter, he tweeted, “My hatred of the US empire knows no bound. Wallahi.”
“When the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend,” he posted in July. “My hatred for US imperialism and the global system it reproduces knows no bounds,” he wrote one month prior. “At this point; any movement, nation, people who are working to decrease the impact and effects of US imperialism on the world has my support.”
While leading an anti-Israel campus demonstration last year, Taal called on his fellow student protesters to take their “cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.”
Taal made a similar statement hours after the October 7 attacks, writing, “The dialect demands: That wherever you have oppression, you will find those who [are] fighting against it. Glory to the resistance!”
Despite a vigorous defense by the media and the rest of the Left, Taal chose to take his cue from Hamas by running away. And, unlike the Islamic terror group, he didn’t get to take any hostages with him.
On X, Taal whose interests are “Political Economy, Race & Capitalism, Pan Africanism”, tweeted that he’s gone.
“Today I took the decision to leave the United States,” Taal tweeted. “We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.”
But fearing detention, Taal took his cue from Hamas and boldly, boldly ran away. It’s one thing to cheer Islamic terrorism in Gaza and another thing to be detained by ICE.And so the big hero is gone.
Taal continues to be mourned by the New York Times which headlined its story, “Cornell Student Facing Deportation Felt Drawn to Protest”.
The case against Taal is so black and white that there’s a recording of him saying “We take our cue from the armed resistance in Palestine. We are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine.”
But the media will go on supporting America’s enemies, including the most open ones, like Taal anyway.
