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| Ilhan Omar Says Attacks On Her And Rashida Tlaib Are ‘Designed To Silence' Muslim Voices |
| 2019-05-19 |
| [Huffpoo] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said President Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians and pundits’ attacks on her and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are meant to "silence" Muslims. "I tell my sister Rashida Tlaib that her and I have the strength to endure any of the mischaracterization or efforts to distort and vilify and mischaracterize our message," Omar said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. "mischaracterize"...like when her speech is taped and played verbatim. What a repellant hateful lying imbecile She added that such attacks were "designed to silence, sideline and almost eliminate [the] voice of Muslims from the public discourse." Omar and Tlaib, who made history in November as the nation’s first Muslim women elected to Congress, have come under repeated attacks from the president, right-leaning pundits and lawmakers since they took office earlier this year. Omar in particular, who is black, first faced significant controversy for questioning the U.S. relationship with Israel, which some painted as anti-Semitic. Last month, Trump tweeted out a misleading video splicing together comments Omar made with footage of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying: "WE WILL NEVER FORGET." Despite Omar saying she received more death threats after the tweet, Trump continued his assault, saying people should look at her "anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 Why do we HAVE Muslim voices? |
| Posted by: SR-71 2019-05-19 21:45 |
| #17 Projection |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-05-19 16:35 |
| #16 Silence moslem voices? Not all of them, just YOU 2 clowns. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2019-05-19 14:37 |
| #15 She legally married her brother. Under Sharia she should be put to death. Just extending/saying |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-05-19 14:31 |
| #14 Ilhan should get her wish--a fully Islamic society, where Moslem men would most definitely silence her voice. Well, I don't REALLY want that. But that would be poetic justice. |
| Posted by: Tom 2019-05-19 14:21 |
| #13 They're free to blather all the nonsense they want and I am free to judge them accordingly. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-05-19 14:02 |
| #12 "Ilhan Omar Says Attacks On Her And Rashida Tlaib Are ‘Designed To There. I fixed it. |
| Posted by: Ulusomp Glainter5497 2019-05-19 13:04 |
| #11 Playbook sez play the victim card. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-05-19 12:58 |
| #10 And in some places, quoting the Holy Crayon is considered hate speech. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-05-19 12:00 |
| #9 "anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements." Yeah - Muslim voices. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-05-19 11:01 |
| #8 They sure have the passive / aggressive thingy down pat, like most broads do. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-05-19 09:52 |
| #7 ^^ No, both! Islam is a pestilence, Muslims are the carriers. |
| Posted by: Beldar Squank1638 2019-05-19 09:49 |
| #6 Not Muslim voices... just anti-American voices. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-05-19 08:55 |
| #5 Silence Muslim voices? I think not; if there is such an attempt, it's because these two are morons. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-05-19 08:48 |
| #4 some of us want their voices silenced too |
| Posted by: chris 2019-05-19 08:18 |
| #3 Ilhan Omar Says Attacks On Her And Rashida Tlaib Are ‘Designed To Silence' Muslim Fixed that. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-05-19 08:17 |
| #2 "WE WILL NEVER FORGET." It wasn't just somebody, doing something, on someday. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-05-19 07:32 |
| #1 Well...YEAH. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-05-19 01:43 |