Her false statements are in accord with the jihadi playbook.
Facing censure in the House of Representatives over her antisemitism and thinly veiled support for Hamas, the Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) is fighting back using a strategy that Islamic spokesmen in the West have frequently favored over the years: she’s lying. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to anyone: in the book that those spokesmen and Tlaib consider to be holy, lying to infidels is specifically allowed for when one is cornered. And if anyone is cornered right now, it’s Rashida Tlaib.
CNN reported that “The House voted Tuesday to advance a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib after a Democratic effort to block the measure failed, setting up an expected vote on final passage of the resolution Wednesday.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), who on Monday reintroduced into the House a resolution to censure her flamethrowing far-Left colleague, wrote on X that it was for Tlaib’s “antisemitism, spreading Pro-Hamas propaganda, and inciting an illegal occupation in the Capitol complex.” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia) also introduced a resolution to censure Tlaib.
In a statement on the censure resolutions, Tlaib insisted: “I have repeatedly denounced the horrific targeting and killing of civilians by Hamas and the Israeli government, and have mourned the Israeli and Palestinian lives lost.” It is important to note that this is not actually a denunciation of Hamas, which Tlaib has never denounced, but only of “the horrific targeting and killing of civilians” by both “Hamas and the Israeli government,” as if the two were equivalent when one deliberately targets civilians and puts them in harm’s way and the other takes extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties.
So even Tlaib’s criticism of Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 is watered down by her absurd moral equivalence of Hamas with the Israeli government. Beyond that, however, where exactly were these instances of Tlaib repeatedly denouncing Hamas for murdering Israeli civilians? On Oct. 8, the day after Hamas murdered over 1,400 Israeli civilians in one of the bloodiest, most savage jihad massacres of modern times, Tlaib led off her statement with the same moral equivalence: “I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day.” Then she launched into a series of thinly veiled indictments of Israel: “I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.” About Hamas’ targeting of civilians she said absolutely nothing, and, in fact, didn’t even mention the jihad terror group at all.
That’s all. Tlaib didn’t post on X between Oct. 6 and Oct. 13. If she was busy repeatedly denouncing Hamas’ murder of Israeli civilians, it made no headlines and isn’t even on her own website.
So what is Tlaib doing claiming now that she has repeatedly denounced Hamas’ targeting of civilians? It’s simple: she is lying. And that lying is firmly within the bounds of what is acceptable behavior according to the Qur’an on which she was sworn in. The Islamic holy book says: “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security.” (3:28)
The fourteenth-century Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir, author of a magisterial and still influential commentary on the Qur’an, explains that the phrase “unless you are guarding yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” Abu Ad-Darda was a companion of Muhammad.
In the same vein, the twentieth-century Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician Syed Abul Ala Maududi wrote this about Qur’an 3:28: “This means that is lawful for a believer, helpless in the grip of the enemies of Islam and in imminent danger of severe wrong and persecution, to keep his faith concealed and to behave in such a way as to create the impression that he is on the same side as his enemies.”
Might Tlaib consider herself in the grip of the enemies of Islam and in imminent danger of severe wrong, and so considers it permissible for her to claim she opposes Hamas when in fact she favors it? Certainly. And her Democrat colleagues, since they have been propagandized into thinking that such a line of inquiry is “Islamophobic” on its face, and want to keep the Israel-hating hard Left happy, will fall into line behind her.
Troybeam says
Thinly veiled support for Hamas is a load of BS. Tlaib openly supports Hamas….the flag, the scarf and public comments. Now she will do the cry baby act and say she is being picked on, Tlaib and her counterparts in Islam have no place in our government. Have wondered what information she feeds the enemy under the table. Islam in government that is not Muslim is meant as a foot in the door to set up to conquer a nation remember that when its time to vote, just because they were born or shipped in as refugees does not mean they will believe in protecting the Constitution, Bill of Right and everything American. Remember Islamic Caliphate….world order.
deze MN bee says
Wearers of a hijab and of a Palestinian rag, sworn into Congress on their own bespoke terms.
O my America, my New Lost Land.
John Smith says
Having such people as Rashid Tlaib in government is the equivalent of having had Nazi sympathisers in our governments during WW11. She is the classic example of the enemy within, no doubt about that.
somehistory says
No doubt, John, Not a reasonable doubt, not a shadow of one. In a court of law, she would be found guilty as charged, and the jury would have delivered a verdict in record time.
somehistory says
r. tlaib is an ugly, lying snake. She knows it and we know it. God knows it.
cori bush attempted to defend her fellow snake with similar lies about what tlaib had, or had not, done.
Mike Pompeo says there are “aoc and tlaib” in the State Department.
Some people in the know, say that i elmi, alias i omar is worse that tlaib.
Snakes come in all sizes and some have very poisonous venom in their glands….and on their fangs
These liars are venomous with their lies, and poisonous with their speech. We can recognize them by their rattles and their hissing.
PRCS says
God knows she’s ugly? Not a very compassionate god, eh?
Keith O says
Tlaib is one of those prime examples of the saying that “beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone”.
somehistory says
Yes, she is and for one, I’m tired of seeing her photos. She’s a symbol of how evil can make one ugly.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
I’m also tired of seeing her photo, but United States citizens need to be constantly reminded of how evil she is.
somehistory says
You are right about that, James. I think there is a woman challenging her in the upcoming election. Perhaps there are more who disapprove of her than support her. Perhaps *right* will win out.
PRCS says
somehistory seems to have forgotten that–according to her religious beliefs–Rashida Tlaib is one of God’s children: created in His image. Hard to imagine that God thinks His child is ugly.
David M says
How ironic it is the fat & ugly Muslim women who feel the need to cover themselves so they don’t get ravaged by men!
PRCS says
“How ironic it is the fat & ugly Muslim women who feel the need to cover themselves so they don’t get ravaged by men!”
By Muslim men in nations governed by Islamic law.
In the event they’re ravaged in the U.S., who they gonna call? An Imam?
sarc/off
Walter Sieruk says
That stealth jihadist, Muslim politician , Rashida Taib is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for.. she even admires and supports that murderous jihad entity ,Hamas,
Therefore, Taib is, in essence, un-American. As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech the former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Keith O says
Any one of our political masters lying is nothing new, however this particular mudslima seems to have taken the concept to a whole new level.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if politicians’ had to take random polygraph tests to prove they were honest.
somehistory says
Yes, and if they are caught lying…like she has been, like fauchi , bo and biden have been, they should lose their job and be forbidden from holding any office…even in big business….everywhere.
If we lie to them, or the LE, we can be charged and go to jail. If more than one lie, off to prison to serve a year for each one.
PRCS says
The public will simply not comprehend Islam’s overt animosity to Jews/Judaism until journalist and plliticians are publicly exposed to the root cause: its texts.
A better course of action, IMO, is for Jews to conduct a sit in demonstration in front of Tlaib, Omar, and Carson’s congressional offices and recite those specific Qur’an suras and hadith passages that make the reason clear at a sit down–in front of Tlaib, Omar, and Carson’s congressional offices.
Maybe start with this:
“The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allaah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
Make it loud. Get attention. Make sure so-called journalists witness the event. Make Muslims either defend that crap or reject it
Keith O says
We can live in hope.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
Great idea.
But muslims would likely state that the words were “taken out of context”, etc., blah blah blah.
And tee-up the always ready islamophobe moniker.
PRCS says
True.
But, we must get on dfense.
somehistory says
The atheist, ps, seems to believe that he knows more about my “religious beliefs” than I do.
That’s arrogance. Just like mozlums exhibit. Tsk, tsk.