Jailed Egyptian American Aya Hijazi who Trump boasted he freed from a Cairo prison is slammed for ‘ungratefulness’ to the country that rescued her after she lavished praise on Hamas and branded it ‘morally abhorrent’ to condemn them

An Egyptian-American woman released from captivity in a Cairo prison by former President Donald Trump in 2017 has expressed unapologetic support for the terrorist organization Hamas on social media.

Aya Hijazi, who supported his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the 2020 elections despite being released by Trump, has refused to condemn Hamas, calling it “morally reprehensible.”

In 2014, Hijazi, 36, a native of Virginia, was arrested in Egypt and charged with child trafficking, along with her husband Mohamed Hassanien, also a US citizen, and other members of her charity organization Belady.

They were accused of recruiting young people to join the Muslim Brotherhood. In a series of social media posts, Hijazi has recently railed against the West and what has been dubbed ‘White Colonial Men’.

The group was found innocent of all charges and returned to the US two days after their acquittal. Upon her return, Hijazi was Trump’s guest at the White House, where the then-president repeatedly bragged to her that he had managed to get her out of Egypt, where his predecessor, President Barack Obama, had failed.

“I do not condemn HAMAS and never will. I do not condemn the Palestinians who have exhausted all peaceful means in the world to end their occupation and save their lives, Hijazi wrote on November 7 on X.

“I condemn anyone who asks the world to condemn HAMAS,” Hjiazi wrote on her now-deleted X-page.

‘You are morally repugnant if you use inverse standards. One for the whites and one for everyone else. And your standards of occupation, land theft, siege and mass murder do not apply to me,” she continued. Fox news.

Despite supporting Biden in 2020, Hijazi has since also turned his back on him following Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel on October 7. Initially, Hijazi threw her support behind socialist candidate Bernie Sanders in the 2020 cycle.

The Virginia native called the aging Democrat “Genocide Joe” and stated that she would never vote for him again in the future thanks to his support for Israel’s retaliation against Hamas.

Speaking to Fox News, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, denounced Hijazi’s lack of gratitude towards the US after her freedom.

“There is no amount of ingratitude in the world that can defeat Hijazi’s ingratitude to her country that came to her aid. Hijazi’s venom in her

‘The irony is that, if the thought of this West – life, liberty and equality – had not spread throughout the world, Hijazi would probably have been locked up in her father’s house, married shortly after puberty, and then are locked up in her husband’s house. , bearing a dozen children and running the household.”

Hussain also noted that Hijazi was treated like royalty when she was greeted by Trump at the White House after being released from Egypt.

The Republican front-runner bragged to the media at the time: ‘Have you seen Aya? I have asked the government to release her. You know Obama worked on it for three years and got a zippo, zero.”

“If it had not been for this Western thought, Hijazi would probably have been illiterate and her voice would never have been heard outside her family quarters. It was her American citizenship that caused the leader of the free world to throw America’s weight behind her freedom and then receive her as royalty in the Oval Office,” he continued.

Meanwhile, the author of The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death, Cynthia Farahat, said that Hijazi is a known supporter of the Brotherhood and that Hamas is the Palestinian wing of the movement.

“This is why she will always be by their side, even when they engage in heinous crimes against humanity, such as their barbaric terror attack on Israel,” Farahat said.

At the time of her arrest, officials in Egypt said Hijazi and her group of children were trying to join the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hijazi has said she felt Trump’s attempts to free her in 2017 had more to do with his personality than her struggle.

In 2017, Hijazi was acquitted on Sunday by a Cairo court, along with seven others who had worked with street children.

Accusations against her came from Belady, a non-governmental organization she founded that promotes a better life for street children. Online records show Belady has offices directly across the street from the White House.

Hijazi grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, and is a graduate of George Mason University.

After being released, Hijazi was flown on a military plane, escorted by a senior White House official, to Joint Base Andrews, the US military airport on the outskirts of DC.

She was then greeted at the White House by Trump, Ivanka and Jared Kushner. Also present was Hijazi’s brother, Basel.

Human rights groups have denounced Egyptian authorities for what they say were leveling “fake” charges against Hijazi and the other five defendants.

The Obama administration, which made it a policy not to host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the White House, had failed to gain Egypt’s cooperation in liberating the group.

During his first few months in office, however, Trump warmly embraced el-Sisi at the White House.

“It’s been a roller coaster of emotions these past few days,” Basel Hijazi told the Post in a 2017 interview. “We’re crying with relief that we got them out.”

“We are very grateful that President Trump has personally addressed this issue. Working closely with the Trump Administration was very important to my family at this critical time. It allowed us to be reunited as a family. We are so grateful,” Basel said.