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U.S. Officially Cancels Plan to Give ‘Women of Courage’ Award to Egyptian Who Celebrated 9/11, Death of Israelis

Mar. 8, 2013 2:05pm Tiffany Gabbay

Samira Ibrahim, the Egyptian activist who was deferred from receiving the U.S. State Department’s “Women of Courage Award,” has now been refused the honor outright after it was discovered that she had been disseminating a steady stream of anti-U.S. and anti-Semitic content on her Twitter account.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland made the announcement during a press conference Friday afternoon, explaining that the Department “will not present” Ibrahim with the award.

“Upon further review the Department has decided not to present her with the award,” Nuland said. “Our understanding is that she plans to return home…We never presented it. We decided that we will not present it.”

Ibrahim’s past tweets included celebratory comments relating to the death of five Israeli tourists in a 2012 suicide bombing in Bulgaria.

“An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea,” she tweeted directly following the attack. “Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”

Ibrahim’s vitriol is not reserved strictly for Jews, however. The Egyptian activist even holds the very country that was slated to honor her with an award in equal contempt. Following the riots that set siege to the United States embassy in Cairo on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, Ibrahim said that every year should mark America’s destruction.

“Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.”

Doubling down on her racist diatribes, in August 2012, Ibrahim referred to Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al Saud family as “dirtier than the Jews” and not long after, admiringly quoted Hitler.

“I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler,” Ibrahim tweeted.

On March 6, Ibrahim attempted to diffuse potential backlash over her controversial comments by claiming that her Twitter account had been “stolen” (despite the fact that her vitriolic tweets spanned the course of several years), but she sang a different tune Thursday, stating emphatically that she “refused to apologize” for her anti-Semitic remarks.

“I refused to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America on the previous statements hostile to Zionism under pressure from the American government, so the prize was withdrawn,” she posted.

What is perhaps most disturbing is the fact that the award ceremony would likely have gone ahead as scheduled with Ibrahim a recipient of the prestigious honorific if a select few news outlets had not exposed the activist’s true colors. This begs the question: Did the administration know of Ibrahim’s world-view beforehand, or does it simply not bother vetting those it decides to honor?

According to Nuland, “award-recipients are nominated first by embassies around the world and then they are reviewed here in Washington.”

She added that Ibrahim is a prolific user of Twitter with tens of thousands of posts to her credit, and that the Department is “doing forensics internally on how we didn’t catch it [tweets] the first time.”

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AUsername
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:28pm
just don’t allow the dangerous creatures in the country simple as that.

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- pavepaws
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:12pm
  Couldn’t sneak that one thru, Barry?
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:15pm
  No matter who’s running the State Dept. it’s still screwed up. First Benghazi and now this.
  
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- Ari Ben TZion
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:17am
  Samira Ibrahim grew up in a country where the majority of women that are in childbearing age have had the genitals mutilated.
  
  It is very likely that Ms Ibrahim had her genitals mutilated as a young girl.
  
  She was treated as an animal by the wonderful, necrophile culture called Islam – now she simply behaves as one.
  
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PeachyinGA
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:28pm
That’s ok sweetheart. Barry and Michelle will make it up to you by giving you a FREE personal tour of the White House at their next Iftar dinner party.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:03pm
  JERK…what about her anti-American statements? Not a problem for you?
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:03pm
  Why actually look into the background of anyone being presented an award? These guys are the gang that couldnt shoot straight. Of course, she’ll be awarded in private for her hatred of America. It’s a liberal resume enhancement.
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:04pm
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  I still can’t believe the Goat at her Virginity Test said he did not know her……..
  
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- Locked
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Ah, The_Jerk. If it insults Jews, it must be good. Pavlovian response at its finest.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:42pm
  Locked- I know it’s ridiculous. The Jerk needs to get a hold of himself.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:12pm
  @DLV
  
  I agree. Years ago when I first read some of his comments, I could see eye-to-eye on some of them. They struck me more as legitimate concerns about some of the brutality that Israeli has participated in. These days? It’s not even anti-Israel; it’s simply that anything Jewish is bad. And sometimes even things not related to Jews at all!
  
  Reminds me of my grandmother (R.I.P.), who in her final years was a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket upstairs. Hearing her go on about “the Italians,” “the Negroes,” and “the Jews” was disturbing and uncomfortable… but at least she had the excuse that her mind was going in her twilight years. Reading the same comments from otherwise mentally sound individuals gives me the chills.
  
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- jorskippy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Not a problem for the White House. If there had not been an outrage, she would have gotten the award. No ones being vetted anymore…. I mean, look at Obama… still paying attorneys to keep his college papers sealed…. nuff said
  
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- annelouisegelinas
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Hey the president got a nobel peace prize so I gather anyone can get any prize no matter what they think. It’s a wonderful world of nut cases from the white house down. The bad guy gets the prize the good guy gets arrested or bullied. Who knew the tables would turn. Now every story will end with the crook getting the money, the innocent getting killed, and everybody on the left will be saying oh and ah at the end. God help us all.
  
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- ssz65
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 6:58pm
  @ ANNELOUISEGELINAS and “let him who has ears to hear, hear” —Right becomes wrong; wrong becomes right—prophesied in the Bible as a sign of the times. He knew. He is still in control. He is coming soon. :-)
  
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CWPrequired
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:27pm
Who let you out of your hut woman.

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Zipit
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm
Who was the freakin State Dept. moron that wanted to give her a “Women of Courage”, award in the first place? Dollars to falafel’s say it was Hillary an Huma Abedin Weiner!!!

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:50pm
  ZIPIT…like John Kerry and Moochelle didn’t know anything about this radical muslim’s past statements.
  This was a typical liberal/Obama move. Throw it out there…see the reaction. If there’s no heat, run with it. If there’s heat, you misspoke, you ignore that you ever said it, you meant something else, you’ll look into it further and then never deal with it again…ad nauseum.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:30pm
  They’re all in on it!
  
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OutOfEverything
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm
The new Obama Girl.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:19pm
  You’ve got it! She’s even helping him with his lefty talking points these days. With a quick edit or two…
  
  This:
  “I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler,” Ibrahim tweeted.
  
  Becomes this:
  “I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Republicans having a hand in it. Obama”, Ibrahim tweeted.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm
The progs are finding that the internet they used to fool the masses twice is now a tool used against them. The new media in new Amerika is the antidote to the progressive pustules currently infecting the white house. I nominate BHO and his entire worthless POS Marxist regime for the Darwin award.

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- Your_Senile
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:39pm
  What you must know
  
  If President Obama had a Muslim Daughter – she would look just like Samira. Oh, you say they have two….
  
  Allahu Akbar !!
  
  it is so
  
  Your Senile
  
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babs4242
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:23pm
Does this administration vet nothing? I have to be thoroughly checked out to get a concealed carry permit, but this trollop does not even have her twitter feed checked? C’mon!
The administration does whatever it likes- it is like a spoiled, petulant only child. And punishment for its missteps is puny, and only IF we figure it out on our own.

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dustbunnieskill
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:23pm
This must be a big disappointment for Obama, would have been right in there with his Peace Prize..What a frigging joke

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:23pm
They postponed it. They will give it to her when they think all this has died down.

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- PeachyinGA
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:21pm
  Yep. It has already been moved to a date when a pre-arranged distraction has been planned. “News Dump Fridays” are always handy for sneaking stuff past America’s happy hour.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:30pm
  @PeachyinGA
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:21pm
  
  Yep. It has already been moved to a date when a pre-arranged distraction has been planned. “News Dump Fridays” are always handy for sneaking stuff past America’s happy hour.
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  Yup! He’ll be in the Middle East in a couple weeks, look for it to be received in a private ceremony between him and kerry’s spokesperson on the steps of the al alqsa mosque. The only way for the great peacemaker to sign a peace doeal between the islamists and Israel will be in {al quc} Jerusalem. If it’s signed be alert for the sound of a trumpet because all Christendom will know the meaning of the entire thing!
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:22pm
She is just another muslim savage pretending that islam is a religion of peace. What she really wants is the same all muslims want, that is the total destruction of America. Amazing, yet not surprising, that the Obamas and John Kerry see her as some kind of hero. I see her as an enemy.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:22pm
As transparent as this admin is, I have NO doubt that she still received her recognition…

Behind CLOSED doors…It IS the DC way…

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Gonzo
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:21pm
Don’t worry honey, Obama will make it you to you in foreign aid.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:40pm
  make it up to you
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:21pm
So finally the first right move by our vaunted State Department in the last four years (at least). Looks like the Dems are starting to take a long hard look at their blooming prospects in 2014. Anyway, I’m voting for the other guys, so don’t blame me.

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gyro
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:21pm
What a bummer for Obama
wait a second
Thinking
I bet she gets a letter from him not signed by a machine

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Cavallo
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:20pm
Don’t know why they would cancel it. She espouses all the words that Obama believes.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:19pm
Wow! I am impressed that the administration and State Dept actually listened to it’s public. They all too often shove their desires down our throats instead.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:19pm
  RJ its too good to be true,i bet they are seathing but are throwing us a few morsels until they a can finally clamp down on us and we already have an idea how thats gonna go down.:)
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  She just passed the last test to work at the State Dept and/or the DHS. : (
  
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huey6367
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:18pm
How did Obama let this happen?

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- gauge
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:14pm
  How id he let it happen?/
  The POS (NM)POTUS wanted it to happen!!!
  
  What is perhaps most disturbing is the fact that the award ceremony would likely have gone ahead as scheduled with Ibrahim a recipient of the prestigious honorific if a select few news outlets had not exposed the activist’s true colors. This begs the question: Did the administration know of Ibrahim’s world-view beforehand, or does it simply not bother vetting those it decides to honor?
  
  Of course they did!
  And boy is someone PI$$ED off in the White House now.
  
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Scarlettsgone
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:18pm
Representative Republic forgotten that it is representative and employed by tax paying citizens, why was this woman up for such an award, especially the U.S. State Department’s “Women of Courage Award” is vetting a dead art?

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BlackCrow
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:16pm
Only if they clap her in irons and give her a one way trip to Gitmo. But they won’t even do that with bin Laudin’s son-in-law.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:15pm
She is ONE of 10 Egyptians NOT getting a medal. This is a SHAM. Ain’t buying it. Nope.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:14pm
Will there be pie and kabobs at the ceremony? How about Doritos? Cheetos? Snack foods? Carrot sticks? Low fat dip? Will there be stonings? How about someone’s hand being cut off for reaching into the Cheetos bowl? Will that FAT KID from Massachusetts be invited? How about the skinny kid? How much pie will they serve? Will there be any halal food? How about goats? is there going to be a “goat” petting zoo or will the old men have to have their own rooms? Will they all BOW to MECCA and pray before the pie? I can’t wait for the commemorative coin from the Franklin Mint on this one. Will it say, “Allahu Akbar” and “FU-USA” on it? Lovely. Can’t wait.

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- Zipit
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:45pm
  Lizzy! It’s 2:42 here on the east coast! I’m not sure where you are, but it’s Friday and you have my blessing and permission to begin cocktail hour, IMMEDIATELY!!! I’ll join you!
  
  “So let it be written, so let it be done”
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:23pm
  I’LL drink to that ,ameretto sour here i come…………….cheers:)
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 2:35pm
  @shorelineliz
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:14pm
  
  Will there be pie and kabobs at the ceremony? How about Doritos? Cheetos? Snack foods? Carrot sticks? Low fat dip? Will there be stonings? How about someone’s hand being cut off for reaching into the Cheetos bowl? Will that FAT KID from Massachusetts be invited? How about the skinny kid? How much pie will they serve? Will there be any halal food? How about goats? is there going to be a “goat” petting zoo or will the old men have to have their own rooms? Will they all BOW to MECCA and pray before the pie? I can’t wait for the commemorative coin from the Franklin Mint on this one. Will it say, “Allahu Akbar” and “FU-USA” on it? Lovely. Can’t wait
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  I’m sure somewhere in the works is an Executive Order to rename the Franklin mint as the farrakhan mint once the economic collapse is complete. Whatever they serve I’ll bet it won’t include “Pigs-in-A-Blanket, wrapped in bacon or Polish Sausage!
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:14pm
She sounds like a candidate for the drone program – at least according to the White Paper Sen Paul referenced during his fillubuster…….

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- Shasta.Red.Banks
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:55pm
  In the OBlamo administration she is probably more of a candidate for the state dept. or hhs
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 1:04pm
  If expressing your political opinions is grounds for being killed by americans -then osama was right- and he was indeed a freedom fighter.Kudos for her that she did not buckle to the zionist US media/politicians and their gulls.She’s revolutionary democratic activist and anti zionist.That’s her right. Good for her.
  
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copatriots
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:13pm
Why not go ahead with the award? Because the State Dept got caught applauding their protegee’? Surprised they’re not putting her on the staff.

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wkw58
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:12pm
Outed. Dismissed. Goodbye you worthless POS. Shame on this administration for offering the award in the first place.

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billo
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:12pm
Are the people responsible for her being chosen to receive the award still employed? Were the salaries paid for by the taxpayers? Where did the prize money come from? What about the supervisors and committee people…are THEY still employed?

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