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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6085106" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/rasha-alawieh-deportation-026038[/URL]<h3>Deported Brown University professor had photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says</h3>“On Thursday, a CBP officer interrogated Alawieh about her views of and potential ties to Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and religious group that has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. for more than two decades.Asked about the photos and videos of Nasrallah and other leaders connected to Hezbollah, Alawieh said she’s apolitical and had the images because those leaders are revered by many Shia Muslims.“So I have a lot of Whatsapp groups with families and friends who send them. So I am a Shia Muslim and he is a religious figure. He has a lot of teachings and he is highly regarded in the Shia community,” Alawieh said, according to the transcript filed in court Monday.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6085106, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/rasha-alawieh-deportation-026038[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Deported Brown University professor had photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says[/SIZE][/HEADING] “On Thursday, a CBP officer interrogated Alawieh about her views of and potential ties to Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and religious group that has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. for more than two decades. Asked about the photos and videos of Nasrallah and other leaders connected to Hezbollah, Alawieh said she’s apolitical and had the images because those leaders are revered by many Shia Muslims. “So I have a lot of Whatsapp groups with families and friends who send them. So I am a Shia Muslim and he is a religious figure. He has a lot of teachings and he is highly regarded in the Shia community,” Alawieh said, according to the transcript filed in court Monday.” [/QUOTE]

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