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A woman who has blamed America for 9/11 and was photographed at a rally displaying a Hamas-associated headband has now won the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 12.Aber Kawas has publicly attributed the September 11 attacks to America's "system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia," describing them as "a terror attack that a couple of people did." She has also been documented at pro-Palestine events with Hamas-linked symbols.This is what the normalization of extremism looks like: open sympathy for a government-designated foreign terrorist organization, minimization of the worst attack on American soil in modern history, and the steady entry of such rhetoric into positions of public power.New Yorkers - all Americans - should be alarmed. When candidates with records like this are celebrated rather than scrutinized, it signals a political culture willing to launder anti-American ideology into mainstream institutions.