If US Senators are openly Islamophobic, what hope is there? | Representative Ilhan Omar
Senator Kennedy’s remarks were just the tip of the iceberg. It is incumbent upon all of us to call out hate speech when we see it
On Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy told the only Muslim American witness during a committee hearing to “hide [her] head in a bag”.
The intended purpose of Tuesday’s historic Senate judiciary committee hearing was to bring attention to the rise in hate against Muslim, Jewish, and Palestinian Americans. The rise of antisemitism has sparked many hearings in Congress. In contrast, this was the first hearing since 7 October that addressed hate targeting Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian Americans. Fighting bigotry requires us to condemn it wherever we see it. For far too long, hate speech made against Arab, Muslim and Palestinian Americans goes ignored.
Ilhan Omar is an American politician serving as the US representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district
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