Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) penned a joint CNN op-ed on Tuesday that criticized President Donald Trump’s moves to hinder the government’s attempt to fight domestic terrorism by white nationalists.
Omar and Schakowsky, who are Muslim and Jewish, respectively, urged both religious communities to come together to fight the rise of white nationalism.
“Addressing this hate should not be a partisan issue in the United States,” they wrote. “Yet the current administration has manifestly failed to address its rise.”
Besides President Donald Trump’s “very fine people” comment about the Charlottesville white supremacists, the congresswomen pointed to the Trump administration’s policies which they said “undermine the fight against domestic terrorism.”
“Last year, President Trump ended grants from the Department of Homeland Security designed to help fight white supremacist violence,” Omar and Schakowsky wrote. “And just weeks before the Poway attack, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security disbanded a group of intelligence analysts focused on domestic terrorism.”
If white people do it it’s not illegal.
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/14/wisconsin-gop-in-financial-trouble/
Good for these two Dem reps. I love that one is Jewish and the other Muslim, one Black and the other White.
My family lost a close elderly relative in the Tree of Life Pittsburgh attack. Trump has uncorked the genie of racism and its close relative, anti-Semitism with his support for white nationalists and unlimited guns. Vicious race and religion based violence was, is, and will continue to be the result. We hold Trump and his Republican enablers directly responsible for the death of our cousin.
Its no coincidence that the worst attack on Jews in American history going all the way back to the settlement of North America by Europeans took place during Trump’s presidency.
Queue 4-CHAN, FOX, and all the other propaganda machines to talk about the rising targeting of “Christian values”.
THIS!
Trump and the GOP’s support for white nationalism and stochastic terrorism must be called out! Again and again!