Last week, the radicalized wife of a former computer science professor who was deported to Turkey after serving time in federal prison joined demonstrators at Columbia University in Manhattan, receiving a shout-out from her husband. The professor had pled guilty to supporting terrorists.
Without providing a name, the confirmed that a lady connected to a convicted supporter of terrorism was present.
During a news briefing on Wednesday morning, Assistant Commissioner Rebecca Weiner mentioned that last week, there was a woman who had been found guilty of providing material support to terrorists on campus. “And while there isn’t any proof of any criminal misconduct on her part, if I were the parent of a Columbia student, I wouldn’t want that person to be influencing my child in any way.
Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, who acknowledged planning to support the terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad in 2006, posted a picture of his wife at Columbia’s West Lawn encampment on Twitter on Friday.