A civil rights official in California is publicly cheering at the severe cancer diagnosis of former President Joe Biden — and hopes President Donald Trump is next.
According to Chuck Ross of the conservative Washington Free Beacon, Zahra Billoo, who heads up the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and sits on the California Civil Liberties Program, proclaimed on Facebook "that Biden’s cancer diagnosis was 'God’s wrath' for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Billoo added that she's praying Biden’s cancer will be 'as aggressive' as Israel's military actions against Hamas."
"There is no amount of cancer treatment that can protect President Joe Biden from the prayers of the oppressed and ultimately God's wrath," wrote Billoo. When another user wrote, "Trump first," she replied, "His time will come too."
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Billoo was appointed to the Civil Liberties Program by former Gov. Jerry Brown; the report speculates that her rants could "put pressure" on Gov. Gavin Newsom.
"A spokesman for the California Library, which oversees the panel, says it has not met since last year due to lack of funding, but that Billoo still serves on the board."
CAIR has long advised the federal and state governments on matters of civil liberties and preventing hate crimes against Muslim Americans. However, the group has come under fire in recent years for its more outspoken positions in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, the report noted: "Last year, Billoo mourned the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying that 'his martyrdom is not in vain.' In December 2023, CAIR director Nihad Awad said he was 'happy to see' Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israeli civilians were slaughtered."
In the wake of Biden's diagnosis of metastatic stage four prostate cancer, a number of Republicans have issued their condolences to his family, although some far-right pundits and lawmakers have pushed conspiracy theories.