Media publications desperately attempted to milk emotions from their viewing audiences by shining a spotlight on the daughter of Mohamed Sabry Soliman and her potential deportation, but the spin has backfired in a big way. Soliman launched an attack against pro-Israel protesters, attempting to light them on fire with Molotov cocktails while yelling “Free Palestine!”
As a result, Habiba Soliman, the suspect’s daughter, could now be deported, along with the other members of her family. Headlines from mainstream media publications have been highlighting how she once had a dream of studying medicine here and helping people, but that is now shattered by the prospect of deportation.
The Soliman family hails from Egypt, though they traveled to America from Kuwait. Habiba is a recent high school graduate, but the horrific actions of her 45-year-old father, who is now being charged with a federal hate crime and 16 counts of attempted murder, have upended her dreams.
A report from USA Today stated that Habiba’s “life had been headed in a positive direction before the attack,” which was three days after her graduation. And the timing was not a coincidence. The elder Soliman stated in a federal affidavit that he had plotted the attack for a year, waiting until after his daughter’s graduation before he carried it out.
In an attempt to paint the U.S. government and immigration officials in a negative light, the publication said that the terrorist’s daughter wrote about her hope of doing big things in America.
“Coming to the USA has fundamentally changed me,” she stated in an application for a Colorado Springs Gazette “Best and Brightest” scholarship. “I learned to adapt to new things even if it was hard. I learned to work under pressure and improve rapidly in a very short amount of time. Most importantly, I came to appreciate that family is the unchanging support.”
She won the scholarship and even had a profile written about her in the newspaper. And this is the part where the article starts to paint the current administration as the bad guys in this situation.
“Instead, the White House said on X on Tuesday that Mohamed Soliman’s wife and five children ‘could be deported by tonight.’ FBI and police officials said Monday the family has cooperated with investigators,” the report said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that the family is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Noem got on her X account and wrote, “This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” she added.
The media has been neglecting to cover news about the individuals who became victims of Soliman’s hate, but are plastering a sob story about his daughter everywhere in an attempt to attack the Trump administration.
It’s not going quite the way they hoped it would.
Peter J. Hasson shared a highly relevant post from the late comedic legend Norm Macdonald that expresses how many on social media feel about the story of Habiba Soliman:
The conservative Claremont Institute’s Jeremy Carl responded to the story by saying, “You may think you hate journalists enough, but you don’t.”
Another user on X wrote, “How about a profile on the victims? Instead of sympathy for the terrorist family?” A user also pointed out that if Habiba Soliman had joined a medical school, that spot would have been taken away from an actual citizen of the country.
