This is just one of a great many articles that all fall into the same fallacy, or attempt to pull off the same rhetorical trick: they characterize any and all criticism of Islam and opposition to Sharia as a “racist” attack on Muslims that places them in physical danger. They do this despite the fact that Islam is not a race, and that there are Muslims, and Islamic jihadis, of all races. Note also that Parkes “worries” that her burqa-wearing “grandma” or her hijab-wearing “mom and aunts” could get attacked. Neither she nor the article’s author, Mariel Padilla, adduce any examples of hijab- or burqa-wearing Muslim women actually being attacked, because such attacks are vanishingly rare.
Note also that Padilla quotes Corey Saylor of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claiming that there have been 8,683 claims of discrimination and bias against Muslims. He doesn’t say how many of those claims have actually been substantiated. Nor does he even mention violent attacks against innocent Muslims, as there haven’t been any and shouldn’t be any, but meanwhile there has been a steady stream of violent jihad attacks against innocent non-Muslims, including four in the first two weeks of March alone.
Above all, this article totally ignores the fact that Sharia is not benign, but is political, supremacist, expansionist and violent. Pretend that this isn’t true, and then it’s easy to portray Greg Dolezal and other anti-Sharia lawmakers as “racist.”
The leftist political and media establishment plays this game any and every time any opposition to Sharia arises. But once Sharia is actually imposed, leftists will find that their solicitude and admiration for Islam will not be reciprocated.
“Her colleague released an Islamophobic campaign ad. Now this Georgia lawmaker is running against him.” By Mariel Padilla, The 19th, March 23, 2026:
Nabilah Parkes was inside the state Senate chamber in Georgia when she first saw the video. Her Republican colleague, state Sen. Greg Dolezal, had just released a 30-second ad, reportedly made using AI, as part of his campaign for lieutenant governor that depicted Muslims terrorizing White Georgia residents and ended with the message: “Keep Georgia sharia free.” Shariah is the body of Islamic religious law.
The caption for the campaign ad, posted on social media earlier this month, said: “London has fallen. Europe is under siege. In America, the invaders who would rather pillage our generosity than assimilate are roaming Minnesota, New York, and LA. As Lt. Governor, I will fight the enemy before they’re within the gates and keep Georgia safe and Sharia free.”
Parkes, a Democratic state senator at the time, said she immediately turned around, went over to Dolezal’s desk and asked him, “What is this?”
“He refused to look at me and just looked down as if he was in shame,” Parkes said. “It was such a hateful, racist, Islamophobic video that he even came to my desk the next day and said, ‘Feel free to take a shot at me’ — as if he wanted me to even the score.”
Parkes took the shot and decided to run against him. If she wins, she would be Georgia’s first Muslim lieutenant governor.
“This type of hate, this type of Islamophobia, this type of racism has no place in the state legislature, no place in Georgia politics, no place in general,” Parkes said….
Corey Saylor, the research and advocacy director at CAIR, said they received 8,683 claims of discrimination and bias — the highest number since the organization started tracking in 1997. After the Israel-Hamas conflict began in October 2023, Saylor said Muslim Americans saw a surge in Islamophobia that has remained at an all-time high….
Islamophobia is not new, but Saylor said it feels like it’s “on steroids” with an energy he’s never seen before. And it feels different than the fallout from the 9/11 attacks, he added….
Parkes said she’s especially concerned about Muslim women in her community who often wear head coverings that make them a more visible target for Islamophobic vitriol. Parkes said her grandma wears a burka and her mom and aunts wear hijabs, so she worries about what will happen if they are attacked without anyone to defend them….
somehistory says
Seriously doubting he was feeling ‘shame.’ More likely, she’s as ugly to him as she is to those who recognize the evil she and her ilk plan.
And likely he had other things on his mind than her ranting about ‘racism, phobia, etc.’
That disgusting air of superiority all muzzies carry….she’s no different….is evident in the lies and presenting herself as the one to defeat him so they can bring in their lawless creed.
Hoping he wins big.
Winston 101 says
somehistory,
I think Ms. Parkes is a contender for a “Juicey” award. I’m seriously doubting any of.what she claimed happened – ever happened.
The only source I can find is Parkes saying it happened. No confirmation from anyone else, including Dolezal. In this day and age it seems like something Parkes would want to have on video. Gee, if we only had an easy way to make a video at hand . . .
As Hilary once clearly described, this seems like a case of circular confirmation.
The Democrat makes a statement.
The Dem’s “presstitutes” repeat what the Dem says .
and then for confirmation they refer to each others “reporting”.
somehistory says
thank you, Winston. I believe you are right. she has no proof of the confrontation. and we all know how muzzies rely on the lies they like to tell.
Wellington says
Islam creep, this time in Georgia. My God, Muslims who could have never created America are intent on imposing their wretched viewpoints about existence again and again. What parasites.
carpediadem says
If Americans don’t run, Muslims will.
Americans keep talking about defending their country.
They need to do it not just talk about it!
Run for office. get into the bureaucracy!
Sir Wm says
Faith based nonsense regarding Muslims… more likely Christians would be discriminated against and attacked than any other Religion! Jesus said they “Hate me” and IF you follow me… they will hate you!
somehistory says
Yes, Sir.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good! Let her get humiliated in the elections
Billy says
Another Muslim Deceiver for Allah where the Muslim Community Comes First against all Non-Muslims using Muslim deceit, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:54; 8:30; 9:5, 29, 111; 98:6-7, etc.). Allah expects all Muslim believers to war against all non-Muslims until the Unbelievers convert to Islam or face Muslim violence. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Thinker1 says
Moslem is not a race, any more than insanity is. Although they strongly share some attributes.
Westman says
“Parkes said she’s especially concerned about Muslim women in her community who often wear head coverings that make them a more visible target for Islamophobic vitriol.”
Oh, please, get an honest life. When we see women controlled by Islam, we feel sadness for them, not vitriol. Picking on women is Islam’s cache, not ours. (Quran 4:34) What Islam is allowed to do to “captive” infidel women is abominable. Europe already has a problem with Islamists unloading their vitriol on infidel women and the UK has its problems with Islamic rape gangs.
Frankly, if Nabilah Parkes, who seems like a good person, runs on Islamic matters instead of real state issues, she will likely lose. The very article referenced here said, “Islamophobia is not new, but Saylor said it feels like it’s ‘on steroids’ with an energy he’s never seen before. And it feels different than the fallout from the 9/11 attacks, he added….”
Apparently Georgians are beginning to negatively respond to Islam due to the periodic warring and demonstrations against Israel and Islamic attacks in the national news. Georgia was a Bible Belt state. Is that still true?
40 rounds says
Their so called attacks or bias is often total nonsense like selling pork products in the grocery store or their women having facial recognition photos on their driver’s license. Get the hell out of my country!
mark c says
Isn’t there a quranic restriction on muslim women from going out without a man accompanying them?
mark c says
Isn’t there a quranic restriction on muslim women from going out without a man accompanying them? Seems phoney to be worried about her female relatives being potential victims
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Send her to a majority Muslim country to disabuse her of her ignorance about the way Islam treats women as chattel.
Billy says
Muslims play the victim card while Muslims are terrorizing, violating, discriminating, and segregating against Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia. Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
tgusa says
Exactly what race constitutes islam? They have hitched their wagon to the lefts everything is racist bullshit.
Robert says
And they’ll throw their lefty pals under the bus when no longer needed.
OLD GUY says
The only thing she should run is a rail out of town.