Rep. Ilhan Omar blasts GOP over poster linking her with the 9/11 attacks

[Takket]

You have to be fucking kidding me......... she's supposed to beg forgiveness as an "anti-semite" for questioning the influence of an Israeli lobbying group on the GOP, yet they are perfectly fine with this anti-Muslim display.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/politics/west-virginia-ilhan-omar-poster/index.html

CNN)An anti-Muslim poster associating US Rep. Ilhan Omar with the September 11 attacks appeared Friday at a Republican-sponsored public gathering at the West Virginia statehouse, creating a firestorm of controversy that apparently led one official to resign.
The poster, featuring pictures of Omar and the terror attacks in a fashion of an Internet meme, was displayed behind a table during WVGOP Day at the Capitol, an event in which the West Virginia Republican Party had invited the public to the Capitol's upper rotunda.
The state GOP denounced the sign, saying that an exhibitor had put it up without its knowledge and that it demanded its removal.
Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who became one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress last year, branded it as "the GOP's anti-Muslim display."

[icymist]

1. Another low for the GOP.

Link to tweet

[progree]

4. This sweet 😁 lady explains why she doesn't explain why she put up the display (video)

It's only 51 seconds

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Nothing like a little GOP racism

[progree]

3. And then there's "Assassinate Ilhan Omar" in a gas station

The Brian Raines tweet with the photo of the men's room stall "Assassinate Ilhan Omar"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMxkkuFDWj/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Sorry I don't know how to make this appear here "live" other than fighting with Imgur or tinypic or somesuch

Federal authorities are looking into reports that a hateful message targeting U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar was scrawled onto a bathroom stall at a Twin Cities gas station. The message, written in black marker in the men's room, read: "Assassinate Ilhan Omar."

It came to the attention of customer Brian Raines, who had stopped by his local Holiday gas station in Rogers on Feb. 22. Raines, a father of two children and a U.S. Navy veteran, said he asked the manager why he hadn't covered up the message. Raines said the manager seemed annoyed by the question, rolled his eyes, and responded that he was waiting for the corporate office to send out a painter.

"I said, 'You didn't think about covering it up yourself?' " Raines recalled. "You don't need a painter to come out on a Saturday to do the right thing."

Raines said he walked back to his truck, still bothered by what he experienced. So he pulled up a picture he took of the message and posted it to his Instagram page, predicting — correctly — he would be trolled by people accusing him of making it up.

More: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/03/02/fbi-investigating-graffiti-targeting-ilhan-omar

[ProudLib72]

5. That poster should have been taken down and ripped to shreds

And the person who put it up should have been arrested. It's pure hate speech.

[moondust]

6. White bigot responsible?

Two can play that game. Just photoshop in the white bigot of your choice.

"Never Forget"