The reality is that virtually all those in Congress, Democrat and Republican, with a handful of exceptions, are so terrified of charges of “Islamophobia” that they don’t dare do anything realistic about the jihad threat, or look too deeply into the national security implications of mass migration. What Tlaib means by “Islamophobia” here is opposition to her hard-Left, pro-jihad agenda. If she can stigmatize her opponents as suffering from a pathology, she doesn’t have to go to the trouble of engaging their arguments intellectually.
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she was ‘naive’ for not understanding ‘how bipartisan Islamophobia is in Congress,'” by Bryan Metzger, Business Insider, March 3, 2022:
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan says that Islamophobia in Congress is a bipartisan affair, suggesting that in addition to Republicans, some of her Democratic colleagues hold bigoted views about Muslims.
In a profile in The New York Times, Tlaib reflected on her time in Congress so far and particularly on how her identity as both a Muslim woman and a Palestinian has shaped her experiences in ways she hadn’t anticipated. She described encountering both subtle and blatant bigotry when she and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar first arrived in Congress in 2019.
“I guess I was naive,” Tlaib told the Times, “in not understanding how bipartisan Islamophobia is in Congress.”…
“I think there’s a tremendous amount of fear,” Tlaib told the Times….
“I feel like no one wants to see me as anyone but Palestinian,” Tlaib told the Times. “I’m a mother, I’m a woman, I have gone through a lot being the daughter of two immigrants in the United States. I’m also the big sister of 13 younger siblings. I’m also a neighbor in a predominantly Black city.”
Both Tlaib and Omar have been targeted with Islamophobic remarks from their colleagues during their time in Congress. Last year, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado joked that Omar was a suicide bomber, prompting calls to remove her from her committee assignments. The House later passed Omar’s bill to establish an envoy to combat Islamophobia at the State Department, but not before Republicans mocked her bill during committee hearings….
somehistory says
Oh, poor bay bees. She and i elmi, alias i. omar, should just go someplace and hide away, keep a low profile and hope no one ever notices them again for their heavy mozlumness.
““I think there’s a tremendous amount of fear,” she said….(as if, as a woman, she is capable of *thinking.* her male counterparts in ilsam would say not)
And that’s the way mozlums like it. They want the rest of us to tremble with fear of them and their terrorism if they don’t get everything the way they demand it to be.
demanding to wear a head covering in Congress. demanding to be allowed to say whatever they wish and not be called out for it….or else…
demanding that there be a special rep for islam so they can intimidate people all over the earth into silence about the evils and dangers in islam….coming from the mozlums who adhere to it.
Meeting with members of hamas, the mb, turkey’s er snake a wan, raising money and meeting with the members of c.a.i rats org…the unindicted (due to “bo”) co-conspirators in the ‘holyland foundation trial’ for funding terror. And no one is supposed to notice…except, these mozlums make such a big deal of being mozlum for the sole purpose of having people notice…
Boot them out. They have both committed fraud to get “elected” to be “reps” for everyone, but only rep for themselves and fellow mozlums. Threats and whining from foul mouths.
Boot them, or not. True Justice is coming soon.
GreekEmpress says
“I was naive in not understanding how bipartisan Islamophobia is in Congress”
Says one of the biggest anti-semites in Congress.
The hypocrisy never ceases to amaze.
somehistory says
What she really means is that some democrats and some republicans actually know a few things about mozlums and it’s all unsavory stuff.
James Lincoln says
Robert Spencer, in his introduction to the feature article states:
“If she can stigmatize her opponents as suffering from a pathology, she doesn’t have to go to the trouble of engaging their arguments intellectually.”
100% spot on.
somehistory says
True. she can’t do the intellectually engaging thingy, because she is deficient in that area.
And mozlums learn early to whine and complain and lie to get a step up…such as a camel poking its nose in and if the owner objects, , spitting begins. That’s why she used such foul language to Mr. Trump.
Infidel says
If only people all over the West reacted to muslims after 9/11 in the exact same way we are reacting to Russians today – not just the Kremlin establishment from Putin on downwards, but average Russian citizens and expats: in that case, neither Rashida nor her jihadist sister Ilhan would ever have gotten anywhere even close to where they right now are
Deano says
Voters in Michigan were naive in not realizing what an ignorant anti-semite Talib is. Of course, there is an entire community in Michigan who suffer from the same sickness!! It’s called Islamism!!
OLD GUY says
If you don’t agree with islam you are a bigot. Ok I’am a bigot. Ok Rep. Tlaib who do you represent, muslims/islamic members of your district or all Americans and the Constitution of the United States. When you took your oath of office on the Qur’an you answered that question for us. You represent Islam and the foreign leaders of Islam who want jihad against America. That makes you a traitor who should be locked up and executed. But since our government won’t prosecute you the voters should. Have a nice day.