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Tlaib: “Islamophobia” is “still very present on both sides of the aisle”

Mar 18, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“I don’t understand why some others can say similar, probably things that could be said to be anti-Semitic that are not being held to the same standard.”

Who? Anyway, if they aren’t being held to the same standard, they should be. Meanwhile, Tlaib’s claims about “Islamophobia” growing in the U.S. are part of the large-scale effort right now to shut down all opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression, as such opposition is routinely defamed with this label.

“Islamophobia ‘very present on both sides of the aisle,’ Tlaib says,” by Connor O’Brien, Politico, March 17, 2019:

Islamophobia “is still very present on both sides of the aisle” on Capitol Hill, Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Sunday.

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Tlaib criticized prejudice against Muslims in the wake of a mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people.

Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, referenced fellow Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who she said has “become very much a target,” with both lawmakers receiving death threats.

“I have seen the letters and have seen the various posts from not only Democrats — from Republicans, but also Democrats, that, when we target or disagree, we need to be very careful, in that it’s not feeding into the Islamophobia that is growing in our country,” Tlaib said….

Host Jake Tapper pressed Tlaib on recent comments she made that Islamophobia was prevalent both among Democrats and Republicans.

“This is what I saw, is this double standard,” Tlaib explained.

“I pause and think to myself, is it because she’s a black American and she’s Muslim?” she said.

“And so that’s where I pause and say to myself, is there an issue here? And I guess our mere presence there, the fact that now there’s not only one, but now three Muslim Americans serving in Congress, that our mere presence is going to be able to possibly break down any of these kinds of racialized, you know, opinions, these — this kind of Islamophobia that I do feel like is still very present on both sides of the aisle,” Tlaib said.

“I don’t understand why some others can say similar, probably things that could be said to be anti-Semitic that are not being held to the same standard,” Tlaib added. “That’s what I’m saying.”…

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  1. George DeCarlo says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:11 am

    All the violence demanded by Islam, all the Islamic law demanded by Islam to be imposed upon the entire world and Islam KILLING GAYS AND HAVING SUCH LAWS.IN OFFICIAL ISLAMIC NATIONS along with other acts of violence against Gays, yes I fear and reject Islam as a religion and of having any credence as a voice of God.

    • Jule Bacal says

      Mar 19, 2019 at 11:01 pm

      Maybe what she means is that many more on left and right are starting find out WHAT ISLAM REALLY IS. It’s only a beginning but non-muslims are reading the Qur’an/hadiths, Spencers history and more, are Shocked and then realizing it is not a dusty old book but both Shia and Sunni of all stripes agree it is For Today and tomorrow til Dooms day. They are Serious. People here did not believe anyone could actually take this stuff seriously but low and behold, they DO.

  2. Jayme says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:17 am

    People need to be very careful with how much they buy into what Tlaib is selling and not just talking about the right the left needs to be careful as well as you start to give in to there demands you become the next Syria or North Korea.

    • Victoria says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:14 am

      I didn’t hear a peep from Tlieb about the 129 Christians slaughtered in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists. Nor did any of the leftist democrats question her about that. However neither did any of the cowardly Republicans ask her. Everyone on both sides seems to be held captive by three genuine bullies. Is either side out there protecting the Republic from creeping domination from two sides–Muslim domination and Sharia law or socialist rule and One World Order. Wake up America, it isn’t ‘gotcha’ any more it’s war.

      • mortimer says

        Mar 18, 2019 at 11:13 am

        Yes, Victoria, Christians are being killed by Muslims every day of the year around the world. It is underreported. In Nigeria, over 1,000 Christians are killed by Muslims every year.

        The bias of the globalist media is slanted for the purpose of whitewashing Islam as a political ideology.

        Muslims are the real killers in this psychodrama. They kill because Islam requires them to hate the dirty kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ (cf ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’).

  3. Jay says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:19 am

    Rep Tlaib is under investigation for campaign fraud and using an illegal address to establish residency.
    There is a petition, currently in the system, to have her recalled. With that in mind, how can anything she says be credible?? Also, Ocasio is under investigation for using campaign funds fraudulently and
    using false resident addresses and Omar has problems with her residency and citizenship being
    investigated. All three are dangerous and should be removed pending the outcome of their respective
    investigations! They should not be treated any differently than others who break the law in USA!!
    Hopefully justice will prevail! God bless and save the USA!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • abad says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      I agree, all three women should be removed from Congress.

      The pose a very real threat to our nation’s freedoms.

  4. James Lincoln says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:38 am

    Consider this: Omar and Tlaib represents just 2 of the 435 voting members of the US House of Representatives.

    Consistent with Islam in general, their national influence is magnified manyfold.

    Just imagine if the percentage of Muslims in the US Congress reached, say, 10%.

    The results would be too awful to contemplate.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 1:51 pm

      James Lincoln

      This is true. Just consider how many innocent women in pj’s could have been murdered in MN if there were more cops from the ‘moslim community.’

      More moslims in government is what tliab and omar are working towards. They salivate at the idea.

    • Joe says

      Mar 19, 2019 at 7:25 am

      You have to ask yourself, “Why?” The content of their words clearly show that they are stupid. Who is giving them the megaphone? In this case, “Islamphobia” is as noxious as the white hoods of the KKK. We have free speech in America, and she swore to protect it. She has broken her oath. That is where the focus should be, but it is not.

  5. Niemoller says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 9:54 am

    These awful vermin politicasters spend all their time generating their own weather storms and spending our tax dollars cleaning up the damage. They never do any of the things they are paid to do.

  6. Terry Gain says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Fearing a violent, supremacist, totalitarian ideology with a doctrine and 1400 year history of conquest is not a phobia. It is perfectly rational. She is gaslighting.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 10:37 am

      Yes. Precisely.

    • elee says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 11:41 am

      Absolutely right. They take the innocent Greek word for fear and impose some 20th century diagnostic criterion requiring the fear be “irrational.” Ask anyone who has lived around Muslims whether his or her fear is irrational.

      • Jule Bacal says

        Mar 20, 2019 at 2:42 am

        Right! Fear in Greek is phobia. Isn’t that the GOAL of islam? To strike fear and terror into people. It also tells muslims to Fear Allah. So Muslims have an Allahphobia and that is not considered bad.

  7. Kilauea says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 10:06 am

    We’re not afraid of Islam. We’re disgusted and revolted by it.

    • Jule Bacal says

      Mar 20, 2019 at 2:48 am

      But I am afraid of how many otherwise reasonable people fall for their line and let them in Congress and make them ‘legit’. It does cause me fear at how Sheeplike Americans actually are. what Happened?
      OK–let me tell the funny that just came to me. Islam tell muslims to Fear Allah so they all have Allahphobia.

  8. Westman says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 11:06 am

    “I don’t understand why some others can say similar, probably things that could be said to be anti-Semitic that are not being held to the same standard,” Tlaib added. “That’s what I’m saying.”…

    What Tlaib does not understand is that members of congress are held to a high standard because they REPRESENT many people. Yes, we have congress members who spout all kinds of ill-informed rhetoric and yet remain with little respect from peers, as the tolerated laughing stock of congress.

    Tlaib, Omar, and AOC will determine their respect, within congress, and the public, by what they say and do. If they insist on their current direction, they will be news fodder and little else. Perhaps Tlaib could take a moment to realize the media is waiting, salivating, for a gotcha moment to fill the newshole.

    It’s not a double standard, Congresswoman Tlaib, it’s your, “hour upon the stage”. Are you an excellent, or, a poor player?

  9. PRCS says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 11:28 am

    Yes, the moronic notion that Islamophobia is a real thing exists on “both sides of the aisle”.

  10. elee says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 11:35 am

    A Congressional delegate who believes in the values of this country and its institutions must fear Islam. It’s in the oath they take to preserve and uphold the Constitution and laws of the land.

  11. Niftikhar Arsalift says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 11:44 am

    Some kind of squat spider is how that photograph makes her look.

  12. dan christensen says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    Cats meows, Tlaib islamophobes to attract attention of the bipeds.

  13. Kesselman says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    In my dictionary, “Islamophobia” is an honorably platitude owned by those seeing Islam as a deadly threat to Western civilization. An alternative label could be that of “Islamnausea.” Frankly speaking, I am a self-described Islamophobe.

  14. eduardo odraude says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    I’m not an Islamophobe. I’m legitimately concerned that Islam does not permit freedom of speech or freedom of religion. See, for example: http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com

    What does Tlaib say about Palestinians handing out sweets to celebrate the murder of an Israeli? Does she rejoice too?

  15. somehistory says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    This ugly moslim is one of the tools elected by the group that also got aoc elected.

    If one reads over what she said, it is so absolutely stupid…even if she had a valid claim to make about the things being said.

    She claims, “.. some others can say similar, probably things ..” (omar is an “other.”)
    *********************
    “similar, probably..” Implying that other people are saying things against the Jews and Israel just as her fellow moslim has been saying…”probably.”

    She hasn’t actually **heard** anyone saying anything for sure…just that they might have said…”probably.”

    “when we target or disagree, we need to be very careful, in that it’s not feeding into the Islamophobia that is growing in our country,”
    **************************************************

    “When we ***target***….just whom is she “targeting”? And she wants to be sure that when she “targets” …it doesn’t make people dislike her…to have that dreaded “phobia.”
    She is afraid that people are “growing” in knowledge of islam and its threats.

    “This is what I saw, is this double standard,”

    “I pause and think to myself, is it because she’s a black American and she’s Muslim?”
    *****************************************************

    Now, if what she is really doing is “think”ing…and there is much doubt about that, she is trying to make it a **racial** issue…since omar is brown. She wants to get the Blacks in Congress to swarm to the side of the moslims…which they have done in their dem caucus…and she wants Blacks in the public square to also jump to her side due to **race**. To heck with the facts.

    “And so that’s where I pause and say to myself, is there an issue here? And I guess our mere presence there, the fact that now there’s not only one, but now three Muslim Americans serving in Congress, that our mere presence is going to be able to possibly break down any of these kinds of racialized, you know, opinions, ”
    ***********************************************

    This prejudiced moslim began her speech to the meeting of ciar members by yelling out: “The moslims are HERE!” She received loud applause. She wants their “presence” to be an issue. She wants people to worry and to be in fear of what is coming. She’s happy that things are going in the direction they are.

    And this line…while making no sense grammatically, gets her true point across:

    “to be able to possibly break down any of these kinds of racialized, you know, opinions, ”
    ***************************************************************

    She is trying to give the idea that any who don’t like the fact moslims are in Congress are “radicals.”
    “radicalized”…as opposed to omar and her speeches against Israel…which hamas and cair and the mb and hezbollah and Iran and Turkey, also make… which would have been considered “radical’ some years ago.

    She is evil. and she and omar are ****supposed to be held to a higher standard of conduct**** by virtue of the fact they are now Public Servants. She “thinks” about the “public” part…how she can browbeat the public into thinking her way… but considers that she is a “servant” only of islam.

    Truley disgusting…inside and out. Double ugly. Evil. While it’s free speech to write it…she’s working for satan.

  16. somehistory says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    Sorry for my typos.

  17. Wellington says

    Mar 18, 2019 at 4:31 pm

    The word “Islamophobia” is one of the single most annoying words of all time. It is rooted in pity for a religion that deserves no pity whatsoever since it is the worst religion ever instituted by man.

    Anyone who uses this word seriously should never be taken seriously. Indeed, they should be treated with the greatest of skepticism, if not actually despised.

    • beyondculturewars says

      Mar 18, 2019 at 8:59 pm

      Islamophobia also criminalizes any rational criticism of islam and sharia law.

      To rationally say you don’t want to be subject to sharia law is NOT nor ever shall be a crime.

  18. sidney penny says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 12:44 am

    Who?

    Rashida Tlaib is not going to tell you,Mr Spencer

  19. CHRIS says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 12:47 pm

    Tell that nasty sharia loven muslim she can burn in hell !

  20. manalive says

    Mar 19, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    JihadWatch commentators, we need to greatly step up opposition to the use of “Islamophobia”. It is actually “ISLAMAWARENESS”, and we need to use that term again and again everywhere.

  21. SweetOlBob says

    Mar 20, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    There is no such thing as “islamophobia” ! Stop using the term !
    The term was invented by a filthy muslim who wanted to appear as a victim when ever the truth was told about his filthy cult. To be guilty of being “islamophobic” you must tell the truth about muslim and islamic deeds and dirty practices that sicken normal people.
    When you speak that truth, they cry you are being an “islamophobe”.
    So never, never, speak of the things that filthy muslims do, such as …………………….
    Mutilating women ….. islamophobe ! Killing your disrespectful children …. islamophobe !
    Murdering homosexuals …. islamophobe ! Burning people to death in cages or in their churches …. islamophobe ! Having sex with animals …. islamophobe ! Raping any woman that is not a muslim …. islamophobe ! Raping young boys …. islamophobe !
    Forcing young women into sexual slavery …. islamophobe !
    And so forth about anything murderous, filthy, and sickening !

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