J.D. Vance has been in the news lately for misgendering California senator Alex Padilla as “José Padilla”. Let’s check in with José Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir. Wokipedia says that he is due to be released from prison in 2026:
He followed the teachings of the Religion of Peace:
As a 14-year-old juvenile, he was convicted of aggravated assault and manslaughter after a gang member, whom he had kicked in the head, died. After serving his last jail sentence, Padilla converted to Islam after his marriage to a Muslim woman and moved to the Middle East. One of his early religious instructors was an Islamic teacher who professed a nonviolent philosophy and Padilla appeared at the time to be faithful to his mentor’s teachings. While living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Padilla attended the Masjid Al-Iman mosque, as did Adham Amin Hassoun, “for most of the 1990s and [they] were reportedly friends.”
Who is Adham Amin Hassoun? Wikipedia:
Hassoun, a Lebanese-born Palestinian who first moved to the United States in the late 1980s, was first arrested in 2002 for overstaying his visa.