First lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will honor 10 women Friday by presenting them the International Women of Courage Award. However, one of the women, Samira Ibrahim, has a history of using Twitter as a forum to air anti-Semitic and anti-American views, the Weekly Standard reports:
On Twitter, Ibrahim is quite blunt regarding her views. On July 18 of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed a suicide bombing attack, Ibrahim jubilantly tweeted: "An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news." [...]
Ibrahim holds other repellent views as well. As a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, pulling down the American flag and raising the flag of Al Qaeda, Ibrahim wrote on twitter: "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning." Possibly fearing the consequences of her tweet, she deleted it a couple of hours later, but not before a screen shot was saved by an Egyptian activist.
Just today, apparently after having been warned that her vicious tweets might cause her trouble during her visit to the U.S., she has written on twitter: "My account has been previously stolen and any tweet on racism and hatred is not me." However, in the past she never made any mention of her account being "stolen." The record of her anti-Semitic tweets is still available online.
Ibrahim is known for being one of seven women subjected to forced virginity tests by the Egyptian military in 2011; she was named last year as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.