“Americans rather save weak, oppressed Muslim women abroad and at home; oppress strong Muslim women I. “
Since Reb. Ilhan Omar got on the public stage. She has attracted lots of attention, criticism, attacks and admirations. Media, pundits and politicians scrutinized every move and every word she uttered. Last week at a news conference, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar held her smartphone and played a voice mail containing a threat on her life. The death threat came from an unknown man after Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic remarks.
Boebert is not the first politician to try making a name for herself in a racialized political world — a world crowded with Islamophobic, racist, anti-vax, anti-history, Trumpster sore losers.
