06.26.2019 - By The Intercept
For Islamophobes, Mohamad Tawhidi is something very close to a godsend. A Shia Muslimcleric, raised in Australia and educated in Iran, Tawhidi presents himself as an Islamic reformer who embraces and amplifies far-right warnings that immigration by his fellow Muslims poses an existential threat to Western civilization. “He’s a hero,” the former New York Assembly MemberDov Hikind said last month, introducing Tawhidi to an audience of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.