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Cindy Axne is the only Democrat in Iowa’s Congressional delegation, and she may not hold that distinction much longer; in 2020, she was reelected with only 48.9% of the vote, down from 49.3% in 2018. If November 2022 turns out to be the red wave that nearly everyone is expecting, and given how sharply her values diverge from those most Iowans, Cindy Axne will be back in West Des Moines looking for work. It couldn’t come a moment too soon. Axne, who has mocked her Christian constituents, recently put on that most visible sign of the oppression of women, a hijab, to visit an Islamic center in Des Moines. The Left has a favorite religion, and it certainly isn’t Christianity.
Breitbart reported Wednesday that Axne, “last September, was caught on a recording during an appearance with a far-left activist group from New York, Markers For Democracy, where she discussed her party’s response to the coronavirus pandemic when she made vulgar comments about her constituents of the Christian faith.” Iowa is 77% Christian.
Axne sounded as if she would be much more at home on the Left Coast than in flyover country when she said: “So now all the schools are back wanting to put mask mandates in, and all of the anti-vaxxer crazies are out there with their – it’s a hot mess. I’ll be honest, Christian right, everything under the guise while they hold a cross for God or whatever. They use it like a weapon, and it’s painful to watch because they’ve weaponized religion, they’ve weaponized politics.”
Axne, who says she is a Roman Catholic, doesn’t have a similarly dim view of Muslims, however, despite the fact that some Muslims have shown themselves to be unrivalled masters of weaponizing religion. On Monday, Axne posted this on Facebook: “I visited the Islamic and Cultural Center Bosniak of Des Moines for an Iftar meal and to meet with members of es-Selam Mosque. I left with my arms full of delicious leftovers and a deep sense of pride in the diversity that makes Iowa such a rich community. Thank you for the warm welcome and I look forward to my next visit!”
There’s that word again: diversity. The Left loves it, of course, and demands that we celebrate it at every opportunity, and yet Leftists make it clear that the diversity that they so prize, and so energetically push upon the rest of us, doesn’t include the largest racial group in the country, or the largest religion. Axne’s open contempt for those who “hold a cross for God” and warm embrace of Des Moines-area Muslims is of a piece with the general contempt that the Left has for what has been the dominant culture. The pulling-down of statues of American heroes, including even Thomas Jefferson, is another manifestation of the same impulse.
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mortimer says
Cindy Axne cannot see her self-refuting argument: Christians in politics = bad, but Muslims in politics = good.
The misogynistic Islamic scarf is a POLITICAL STATEMENT about Muslim women: “KEEPA-YOU-HANDS-OFF.”
The Islamic scarf is the ultimate expression of misogyny and patriarchy in the world today, since it declares that women are the absolute property of an Islamic patriarch and that he has complete control of ‘his’ veiled women.
Women who wear the Islamic scarf are suffering from the Islamic Stockholm syndrome … a condition in which terrorized, subjugated women identify with the ideology of their persecutor in order to achieve a better outcome than torture and execution.
Unwittingly, the simplistic Cindy Axne is endorsing one of the worst misogynistic systems in the world.
Don Davenport says
I find it amusing that everyone assumes the Demrats will be swept out of office in the “midterms”. The same election system that stole 2020 will be in place. I predict even more shenanigans will occur that will make 2020 look like the 2nd “most secure election in American history”.
somehistory says
Ah, so she pretends to be Christian…saying she’s Catholic…while bashing Christians.
That reminds me of what Jesus Christ said about the “evil slave” that beats up on his fellow slaves. The “evil” guy gets “thrown into the darkness outside.”
Wondering what she thinks about the latest from “pope” who calls himself “Francis”…it’s a letter to journalists.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-wrote-a-letter-accusing-journalists-who-speculate-that-he-quietly-supports-putin-of-having-a-sexual-fetish-for-feces-report-says/ar-AAWhEtf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=
“Pope Francis wrote a letter accusing journalists who speculate that he quietly supports Putin of having a sexual fetish for feces, report says”
And, evidently, this isn’t the first time he has used that charge against them.
mortimer says
There are many formerly Roman Catholic politicians who PRETEND to be observant for ELECTORAL PURPOSES ONLY … they privately have no use for their former faith even to the extent of attending at Christmas or Easter.
This is not just hypocrisy, but a charade.
Such libtarded politicians privately seek for the reduction of religious influence in society (and its eventual elimination), the destruction of the traditional family and the destruction of a religion-based culture that has been the common, unifying influence in the US and European countries.
The globalist-leftist obsession with Islam is merely a Trojan horse which helps in the program of destroying Christian cultural influence. Islam is admirably helpful at attacking cultural Christianity and so the Leftist-Globalists have adopted Islam as the only ‘PROTECTED’ religion.
GreekEmpress says
Most likely she is a cafeteria Catholic like Biden and Pelosi
somehistory says
Does that mean going for the ‘bread and wine’ and nothing more?
GreekEmpress says
Pretty much, somehistory.
And wishing you and all on JW here a Blessed Easter.
Christos Anesti!
somehistory says
thank you, GreekEmpress . and you too. What a “promise” we have in the Resurrection of Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
mortimer says
Cindy Axne is unaware that Islam is a political ideology … as demonstrated from a statistical counting of Islamic texts of a political nature. More than half of Islam’s primary source texts are POLITICAL rather than religious, so Islam is a highly POLITICAL RELIGION.
Total % political text in primary texts (The Islamic Trilogy) …
-51% of Trilogy is political.
-hadiths 37% devoted to the kafir problem=political
-Koran 64% devoted to the kafir problem=political
-Sira 81% devoted to the kafir problem=political
-51% of all words in Islam devoted to the kafir problem=548,190 words in Trilogy are political
Cindy Axne is a zero in knowledge about Islam, and yet, preposterously, she presents herself as an authority on religion.
PRCS says
“And then there’s the hijab, which Axne happily donned while she was in the mosque. A simple gesture of respect and courtesy? Sure. But there are women around the world, and inside the United States as well, who have been threatened, brutalized, and even killed for not wearing the hijab, which is based on the idea that it is the woman’s responsibility to ensure that men are not tempted, and the woman’s fault if men are tempted anyway.”
But respect for others is not hijab’s chief purpose, The non-verbal expression of Islamic supremacism is.
https://legacy.quran.com/33/59
Sahih International
O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
By Muslim men.
I doubt Cindy Axne knows that.
Of course, here in dar al harb, such assaults by us “filthy unbelievers” against Muslim women, against anyone, violate the secular, manmade law.
We are not obligated to play along with Islamic law. Indeed, hijab’s primary purpose should be roundly and loudly denounced as a hateful, discriminatory belief that is utterly out of place here.
Pray Hard says
Diversity is our stench.
GreekEmpress says
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Wellington says
She knows so little and yet I am quite certain she thinks she knows a great deal.
These are exactly the kind of people who should never be in charge of anything, most especially the fate of a nation.
The descent continues. Exponentially.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington.
Cindy Axne remains, in her own mind, in the age of “infinite wisdom”.
Normal people, as they mature, quickly reject this concept.
They realize that the more that they learn about a subject, the more they understand their own gaps in knowledge.
gravenimage says
Leftist Iowa Congresswoman Mocks Christians for Having ‘Weaponized Religion,’ Dons Hijab to Visit Mosque
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Axne is an idiot.
She is also a fan of allowing in hordes of unvetted Muslim Afghans–but I repeat myself…
tgusa says
Here in my area there are a lot of churches and they are all full on Sunday. Every Sunday I dig in with my weapons and prepare for Sunday services to end. You never know when those congregants are going to storm my location.
“weaponized politics”
How so Cindy dear? There is a lot of weaponized politics coming from the left and most of their “weaponized political issues” have nothing to do with politics and really shouldn’t be a part of governing at all. Politicians have no business in your pants, in your kitchen or bathroom, between you and your doctor, all over your paycheck, and on and on.
I want to apologize to the worthy American women because today, in my mind, women in politics start out with two strikes against them and its difficult for me to vote for one. Its just risky business, a gamble, in my opinion. Wishy washy with too my unknowns and I don’t like unknowns.
Kenneth J Johnson says
To don a veil for the Cathlic Mass is respectful, as it is not mandatoryl
To don a Marmaluk to participae in a Jewish observance is respectful as it is not mandatory.
To don a hjijab solely for the purpose of entering a Mosque is Mandatory., therefore it is an act of submissioon. (e.g,.Islam equals submission) Has she no self respect. KEN