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Duluth, Minnesota, a place that most liberals agreed was too white, finally made history when the otherwise boring 87% white city elected its first Muslim lesbian councilwoman.
Azrin Awal, a Bangladeshi immigrant, moved to Duluth to attend the University of Minnesota, got a degree in gender and sexuality studies, co-founded the local NAACP chapter (despite not being black) was part of the Muslim Students Association and decided to run for public office because Duluth was Islamophobic and needed to fundamentally change to suit her tastes.
And that’s after only being there for 5 years.
But they were busy years in which the Bangladeshi immigrant claimed that she was a victim of Islamophobia because she had been called a ‘terrorist’ and had a hijab snatched from her head.
Also she came out as ‘queer’ and her pronouns are either “She/They” or “She/Them/Theirs”. She took part in ‘drag shows’ and discussions about ‘Islamophobia’, telling students that “Islam means peace”, but not telling them what happens to ‘queer’ people under Islamic Sharia law.
But that’s probably because despite the list of pronouns, Awal is married to a white guy.
Much like her neighboring role model: Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Awal got a job working at the DEI office at the UM Duluth which she still holds to help ‘queer’ students. A year before her marriage, Awal told her college that she was working “on self-actualizing her identities as Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman.”
The ‘queer’ part apparently still needs more ‘actualizing’. Or will around election time.
The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute listed her as ‘Queer’ and so did election materials and pitches. Even while married to a former fellow white male classmate at UM Duluth, a waste engineer working for a state government agency, her official City Council bio states that “Azrin identifies as a Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman dedicated to equity and social justice.”
Much like men who identify as women, Arzin is a married woman who identifies as ‘Queer’.
It was always implausible that a Muslim Students Association member, an Islamist group with roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, was going to have an openly lesbian member.
But the pronouns came in handy when building her woke credentials for public office, Awal also claimed that she understood homelessness because had been homeless when she had to sleep on other people’s couches for a few months in between finding housing.
And with the promise of being the first Muslim woman, the first Asian woman, and the first ‘queer’ woman on the Duluth City Council, Awal was endorsed by the DSA and local lefties. And she campaigned on accusing Duluth of suffering from “Xenophobia and Islamophobia”.
“I’m getting a lot of pushback,” Awal complained during her campaign. “But I’m also opening people’s minds and forcing people to reevaluate what equity means.”
At a council meeting in February, Awal demonstrated her definition of ‘equity’ by praising a call from an anti-American activist to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from council meetings.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation,” Awal claimed.
Azrin Awal did not discuss the superior level of freedom to be obtained in her native Bangladesh, which recently underwent a brutal Islamist coup against the minority Hindu population, and where homosexuality is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Awal has claimed that her family in Bangladesh were “spiritual leaders, they were freedom fighters”. While she didn’t go into any details, her father Mohammed Awal came to America in 1991. A year earlier, Bangladeshis had overthrown the Islamist regime of General Hussain Mohammed Ershad. It is unknown what side of the conflict Awal’s family was on, but the description of them as “spiritual leaders” raises the possibility that they were Islamists.
When advocating against Israel’s battle with Hamas, Awal claimed that the issue was ‘deeply personal to her, citing her ancestors who fought oppression in Bangladesh.’
Awal and her family lived in the formerly bucolic Maple Grove suburb of Minneapolis which was targeted for refugee resettlement by Lutheran Social Services among other ‘resettlers’, and now has a sizable Muslim population. Some are worried that Duluth may go the same way.
After the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Azrin Awal took to denouncing Israel and drafted a ‘ceasefire’ resolution falsely accusing Israel of “genocide”, citing fake Hamas propaganda numbers and calling for an end to military aid to Israel, which the Duluth council rejected by a margin of 5-4.
She falsely claimed that Israel is an “apartheid state” and Hamas-run Gaza an “open-air prison”.
In response to Oct 7, she posted a video by an affiliate of Minneapolis pro-terror group member who claimed that Israel controls the media. Awal later joined with the Marxist and Islamist-led ‘Uncommitted’ movement to protest Biden’s failure to completely withdraw support from Israel in order to enable a Hamas victory.
Azrin Awal promoted and took part in an event featuring Mariam El-Khatib of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) who had promoted Hamas propaganda and justified the stabbings of two Rabbis along with a mother and her two-year-old daughter. AMP has been accused of having ties to Hamas. While claiming to want ‘peace’, Awal was promoting Hamas sympathizers.
Terrorist sympathizers who described a stabbed 2-year-old girl as an “extremist”.
When Awal claims that “our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation”, the real question may be how the Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant defines ‘freedom’.
America is free enough that even Muslim immigrants who hate this country can get elected to higher office across Minnesota and everywhere else ‘refugees’ from terror states were ‘settled’.
But it’s never free enough until it can be entirely destroyed and replaced with something else.
Those who want to destroy America can wear the costumes of social justice over their hijabs, can pretend to be woke and even use pronouns, but underneath it all, they hate us.
And they hate America.
another snivelling muslim , when will america remove them from the country . while they remain they will continue to whiteant the u.s. and blead its resources and its philanthropy and all the while depriving its veterans who went to war against the so called war on terror . only to import them after the smoke settled en masse . once commonly known as treason for which the representatives of the electorate should go to jail for failure of duty of care . tolerance the death of the republic . time to plant the boot of justice to the seat of learning .
time for a new DOGE . Dept Of Govt. Eviction .
Bangladesh was a Hindu area before the Muslim conquests, the Muslims in Bangladesh are mainly descendants of Hindus forced to convert to Islam.
indeed, that’s true in one form or another of most Muslims in the region
descendants of Hindus, Buddhists and other non-genocidal religions
Ohh, those darn Mughals. If only they could have wiped out the Hindus there wouldn’t be all this confusion> Instead they stopped at only 200 to 250 million in India.
One of my Australian friends lived in Bangladesh for awhile and liked it there. All the photos I saw of his time there were him with chicks so I’m guessing he wasn’t hanging out with moslems.
Ya gotta just admit, that’s weird. It’s even weird for a leftist, especially a leftist who professes to be Muslim who openly violates the laws of Islam. I’m surprised some Muslim hasn’t taken violent actions against her for her heresy. She seems to need a mission, so I think she should be deported from this terrible Islamophobic nation, so she can make it her mission to explain to her true countrymen, in Bangladesh, how wrong they’ve been, and why Islam needs to be “trans”formed. Now, that would be interesting to watch. Don’t you think?
This story is really weird: “Azrin identifies as a Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman dedicated to equity and social justice.” How “woke” is that? This tale reads like a parody in The Onion.
What is a Muslim lesbian?
A Muslim woman who licks flying carpets?
Wokeness has long since become a parody of itself.
Like that scene from the “Yellow Submarine” cartoon in which the vacuum creature ends up vacuuming itself into nothingness.
Presumably they knew the whole thing was a scam because she ended up marrying a man from her school.
But it fooled a lot of wokes.
minisoder is a LOST state of leftard IMBECILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They all know the game. They get the element of Taqiyya in her version and her use of the lies to insert herself into power.
Which presumably means she would not need to keep a parachute handy if she went back to Bangladesh, because they would know that her claims were aimed at masking her jihad.
😃 “Duluth — with water 💦 on the brain.” 😃
THIS story brings back memories of thAT old chestnut. ~
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This was way before the PC era.
It was funny as Hell.
Look it up! You’ll love it. ~
Hey America, it’s the new and improved elected female Muslim. Step aside Ilhan, it’s Azrin Awal from
Bangladesh. After all she’s sorta white. But she does dress in her halloween Muslim garb. And she checks the most important boxes. Queer, Hates Israel, Jews, Hates America and white people. Except she is married to a white guy.
Let’s hope she doesn’t run for Congress. A Duluth City Council seat should be ‘queer’ enough. There go da neighborhood.
What the hell is so wrong with Minnesota and Michigan that it is producing these Muslim freaks.
Thanks Barack and your Muslim relocation program, you P.O.S.
That’s the plan.
Islamists are running for local councils, school boards, etc and then state legislatures and marching upward.
I don’t think there are enough Muslims to screw up every town in the country. Eventually white Christians will catch on to the grift. It happened last November.
Lutheran Social Services is white Christians. Hey, but don’t let that stop ya, your leader, Matin Luther, was one hell of a rabid antisemite in spite of being white and Christian.
Is that supposed to make me lose my faith? Like I have said over and over again, I have nothing to do with LSS. I’m not in Church for the politics. So go pound sand.
I must say, you stick to your little Objectivist shibboleths like flies on sh*t. But keep living 500 years in the past. It’s what you do best. Hey, that religious tyranny is right around the corner.
Actually there are some blacks at LSS but that would destroy your pathetic narrative.
I have some good news for you. Because of the end of USAID contributions to LSS, Catholic Charities and the IFCJ are way down. So they can’t take what few $$$s you actually have and give it away. Not that you would ever help anyone, Scrooge.
Go Trump Go. You must be miserable at all of the winning. But don’t worry, You can vote for Governor Gavin Hairgel when he runs for president next time.
Freedom, at least in the Bible, means freedom to do good, freedom to practice righteousness, freedom to love one’s neighbor as one’s self, freedom from the domination of sin in one’s life, freedom to live for God.
The freedom of the secular, humanist, leftist, Luciferian globalists means freedom to to do whatever is right in one’s own eyes – to be a law unto one’s own self, freedom to express any and every kind of unrestrained evil (and irrationally justify it), freedom to hate God and his people. It is abject rebellion and irrevocably destructive.
“Let us burst their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us” (Psalm 2:3).
Let her go back to Bangladesh, or better yet Iran if she feels so oppressed in Duluth. Or her Hamas comrades can throw her a “rooftop party”.
When this woman (I assume) said:
“But I’m also opening people’s minds and forcing people to reevaluate what equity means.”
I was wondering why she used the word “forcing” in lieu of teaching, but I guess forcing is the proper Islamic form.
Or maybe “extreme teaching”?
Everything Islam teaches is by force.
I imagine her life expectancy was just lowered by that revelation.
It certainly would be back home in her Bangladesh.
“First Muslim Queer Immigrant Councilwoman”
Homosexuality is illegal under Bangladeshi law and this person says the US oppressed her.
That’s part of the joke. But then again how would Somalia treat Ilhan Omar cheating on her husband with a non-Muslim?
We need fewer Omars, not more. MN no longer famous for it’s 10,000 lakes, famous instead for the likes of THIS. What a shame.
“First Muslim Queer Immigrant Councilwoman Says America Isn’t Free”
If that’s true, it’s only because of all of the Democrats and Socialists living here that want to “Fundamentally Change America…”
I was born here and during my day, we didn’t have all of these nutjobs that we have today…
Minnesotans, like Norwegians were known for being incredibly naive and one dimensional in taking other peoples word for things.. A serious flaw.
When you are dumb enough to vote for a muslim candidate, sexually deviant, grotesque-loving and liar (of course!) into the bargain, don’t complain about the results. You richly deserve them!
She identifies as “queer”. I identify as Miss Universe. Can I have my crown please? These people are delusional and dangerous. Notice that this “queer” city council thing still wears her hijab.
And married to a man. So the ‘queerness’ is mostly posturing.
On the contrary, America is IN FACT FREE. It is FREE to be FREE of LGBT “Queer” immigrants like her and bring “moral sanctity and sanity” back to America!
Throw IT OFF a building HEAD FIRST!!!!!!!!
how does a woman participate in a drag show ?
some things even a hardened journalist doens’t want the answers to
I guess she could be like the principal boy in a pantomime?
Well, she is right about one thing. Gaza is an open air prison. Hamas is the oppressor of Gazans. Why can’t they leave? Why don’t Arab nations allow Gazans into their countries?
The answer is simple. Contrary to the popular slogan and bumper sticker, Gazans cannot coexist with other people. They not only hate Jews. They hate life. They hate peace.
Why else would a population continue to raise their children to hate their neighbors instead of trying to live in peace? They also hate civilization. They are the epitome of misery loves company. Since they can’t live in peace and be constructive in any way, they want everyone else to live in misery too. Just look at Minnesota and other places.
islam is tiresome.
I do not celebrate it. My Mother’s ELCA church did. (FOOLS)
Multi Week islam joy classes.
islam is not a religion. It is a political belief..
Christians would be jailed for what islam does to young girls….
islam = FILTH
So, deport her back to Bangladesh. She obviously doesn’t appreciate being here.
No, America wasn’t free. It was paid for with the blood of soldiers and other patriots in the Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII and other wars when they fought for our country, our sovereignty, our way of life, etc. and after the revolution was won, they fought for our Constitution and our God given freedoms it enshrines. If this woman does not believe this it is because she is an interloper who lied when she gave her Oath of Allegiance to become a US citizen.
Yeah, the Revolutionary War was a close call.
I think apples and oranges Tim, verb noun?
Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities, and all the other Christian and Jewish organizations will be the death of America.
As always, you are a completely ignorant idiot. A dumb a** know nothing wedded to a dead philosophy
Put a Sock in it Camel Kisser we went through four years of Biden the Blunder for Go Pound Sand and where you live there plenty of Sand to Pound
Hey, I’ve got a novel idea. Since we’re so horrible why doesn’t she just haul her ass back to Bangladesh? Win for her. Win for us.
There seems to be activity that is based on some hypothetical Homestead Identity Act. Places in America society can be grabbed by simply driving stakes into the heartland supporting claims of identity, but no constructive development is necessary. The taxpayers ante up under imaginary line items.
Just as in my country, England, until we start to restrict our votes to patriotic white Christian men, nothing will ever change for the better.
There are too many women in positions of authority and that is the result of weak men, they are to blame for most if not all of the mess we are in.
Bernie the communist carper, maybe could help her find the silver lining like he did for waiting long hours in ques for essential everyday items.. There are so many good Hebrew words for things, I can’t think of anything not highly pejorative for someone trying to be as idiotic as he was. Insulting people’s intelligence=schmuck.
Otherwise present her with a monstrous bill for the privilege of living in the US and give her a shirt with the slogan “Oppressed in Duluth” and send her back to Arabia where a career in house maid/slave can be offered/forced on her.
What the hell happened to Minnesota? It used to be a nice, safe, mostly white and Scandinavian area?
Dear Mr. Greenfield,
As a Duluthian, I am surprised that you failed to cover Councilor Awal’s advocacy for arranged marriage. I do not fault you for missing this article – it seems Awal has done her utmost to scrub the internet from linking to her articles published in the Bulldog, her undergraduate student newspaper.
In late October 2023, Councilor Awal was one of the primary organizers of a fundraiser which took in over $50,000 for a Hamas-linked Palestinian NGO operating in Gaza. One can only wonder how much of Councilor Awal’s Federally-funded DEI salary went on to fund the murder of the Bibas babies.
If you would like to speak more about Councilor Awal and how far the antisemitic rabbit hole in Duluth goes, and its ongoing ties to local anti-Americanism, please feel free to reach me via email at your convenience.