Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace says sheâs terrified of radical islam, but mehdi hassan accuses her of targeting muslim americans
NANCY MACE:
As a woman, I will tell you, I am terrified of radical Islam. Iâve seen what theyâve done in foreign countries when a woman shows her hair, being stoned to death, being put to death.
Thatâs not the kind of ideology that I want to see grow in the United States.
Days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we had the mayor of New York City give his pen that he signed the remembrance order over to a guy that defended a member of al-Qaeda.
To see animal sacrifices being approved by a local city council in Michigan, the words âAllahu Akbarâ being screamed, âDeath to Americaâ screamed on the streets of America that kind of thing is going on and itâs growing, and weâve got to put a stop to it.
MEHDI HASSAN:
Itâs interesting you didnât play the clip from Ted Cruz at the RNC where he names Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, and people in the crowd shout, âKill them, shoot them.â They actually shout out death threats.
Thatâs how dangerous this rhetoric has become from the Republican Party, from people like Ted Cruz and Nancy Mace.
We saw an attack on a mosque in San Diego in May of this year. Three Muslim worshippers were killed in California by two neo-Nazis who were spouting the kind of stuff that Ted Cruz and Nancy Mace spout.
Itâs very, very dangerous to say stuff like this in this sweeping, bigoted way. You wouldnât say that Jews should be banned from public office.
Lots of people are afraid of radical Islam. Iâm afraid of radical Islam. I donât want to be killed by a Muslim terrorist, like anyone else.
But thatâs not what she said. Sheâs spent the last few weeks attacking Muslims in general. She has said that no Muslim American should hold public office in this country. Theyâre all Trojan horses. That includes Republicans.
Dr. Oz is Donald Trumpâs head of Medicaid and Medicare at HHS. Should he not be allowed to hold public office? Is Dr. Oz a Trojan horse because heâs Muslim?
She said that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. Thatâs not true. The IRA, the Tamil Tigers, Jewish settlers on the West Bank, and Christian domestic terrorists are all examples that challenge that claim.
And the worst of all is that, back in June, the congresswoman tweeted, âI stand with Dasher.â
Dasher Kilpatrick is a woman in Texas who went into a grocery store, stopped two Muslim American women doing their shopping, and started shouting at them, telling them to get out of the country. They donât belong here. They should go back to their Islamic country. Theyâre not welcome in Christian America.
Nancy Mace tweeted, âI stand with Dasher,â which makes her a racist bigot.
This is not about radical Islam. This is about eradicating all Muslim Americans from public life.