The Enemy Within: Leftist, Jew-Hating Teacher Marries Gaza Islamist In Order to Give Him American Citizenship

The Enemy Within: Leftist, Jew-Hating Teacher Marries Gaza Islamist In Order to Give Him American Citizenship

A radical teacher has sparked an uproar after deciding to marry a radical Muslim living in Gaza to help him become an American citizen.

As The New York Post reported on Saturday, Laura Pinho announced via a June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called “Challenging Zionism In Our Schools” that she had married Salem Abu Amra.

Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, said marrying Abu Amra was one way to “equalize the playing field.”

“I have power as an American citizen. I have a passport that I was just born with, and how can I live in this world if I don’t make every effort to equalize the playing field on whatever way that I can,” she boasted in the webinar.

Pinho has said that she first met her husband through mutual friends on Facebook and that she had donated money to him.

The Post obtained records showing that Pinho and Abu Amra were married on April 5 in Utah. The state allows marriages to be conducted via Zoom.

A month before their marriage, Pinho organized a GoFundMe for Abu Amra. She claimed he was the primary caregiver for a family of five.

The Department of Homeland Security has said it’s unclear whether Abu Amra has entered the United States. The Post notes that he once posted an image on Facebook honoring an Islamic Jihad terrorist.

More disturbingly, Pinho has a 5-year-old child with her former partner, Derek J. Reid, 51, an improv coach who also lives at her home.

Reid provided details to the Post on how their relationship fell apart:

Reid told The Post that he and Pinho were domestic partners and never officially married, and that they’re currently separated and the two sleep in different rooms at the same address. He said he had no knowledge of her marriage to Abu Amra.

He said their relationship dissolved partially over Israel — she left the church the two used to attend together over its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“She’s been radicalized — I don’t know anything about that… the crowd she runs with… I’m worried for her,” Reid said.