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As George Orwell might say, Rashida Tlaib is double-plus untouchable: she is not only a woman but a Muslim Arab. That means that anyone who dares to cross the line prohibiting criticism of anyone who is in one or more of the left’s protected victim groups gets an automatic reaction. That’s right: charges of racism, sexism, and “Islamophobia,” plus demands for his firing and public humiliation. The leftist attack dogs, however, went easy this week on political cartoonist Henry Payne: all he got were the racism and “Islamophobia” charges.
As of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, Payne is still listed as the Detroit News’ “auto columnist,” and described as “the Detroit News auto critic, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, and radio host.” He produced the cartoon making fun of Tlaib, however, not for the Detroit News, but for National Review, as the News’ editorial page editor, Nolan Finley, was anxious to remind the world. Right after noon on Friday, Finley wrote, “This cartoon did not run on a Detroit News platform. It was in the National Review. It was distributed by a syndicate that we aren’t associated with.”
That was apparently insufficient groveling, so Finley weighed in again just under two hours later, writing, “The editorial cartoon depicting Rep. Rashida Tlaib was distributed by @AndrewsMcMeelSyndicate. The @DetroitNews was not involved in its production or distribution and chose not to run it. The cartoonist works for The News in a different role, as an auto critic.”
What had Finley so nervous was actually rather innocuous as political cartoons go. Payne’s drawing depicts Tlaib sitting at her desk looking over at the smoking ruin of her pager and thinking: “Odd. My pager just exploded.”
Abraham Aiyash, a Democrat (what did you think?) who is currently the majority leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, was enraged and apparently unaware that Payne had not produced the cartoon for the Detroit News. Aiyash wrote, “Shame on the @detroitnewsfor allowing this racist, xenophobic vile cartoon on their platform. Pay attention to who condemns this. And then recognize the different standard Arab and Muslim politicians are held by.”
Shame on the @detroitnews for allowing this racist, xenophobic vile cartoon on their platform.
Pay attention to who condemns this. And then recognize the different standard Arab and Muslim politicians are held by. pic.twitter.com/nkDKon1mJH
— Abraham Aiyash (@AbrahamAiyash) September 20, 2024
Others, recognizing where the cartoon had actually run, demanded the usual groveling apologies. Failed Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Fire Alarm) wrote, “Anti-Arab bigotry & Islamophobia must not be allowed to be normalized. Henry Payne and the National Review should apologize immediately to @RashidaTlaib for this offensive comic.” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud also posted the cartoon on X and commented, “Absolutely disgusting. Anti-Arab bigotry & Islamophobia have become normalized in our media. The National Review ran this dangerous cartoon of @RashidaTlaib. This garbage was created by Henry Payne with the @detroitnews. At what point will people call this out?”
Tlaib was grateful, responding to Hammoud, “Thank you, Mayor @AHammoudMI, for speaking up. Our community is already in so much pain right now.” Then she resorted to the left’s oft-used weapon of equating speech it dislikes with violence: “This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism.”
The outrage traveled around the world. Pakistan’s Express Tribunereported Sunday that “US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has condemned a political cartoon published by the National Review that portrays her with an exploding pager, calling it racist and Islamophobic.” The Pakistani paper took care to point out that Tlaib “said the cartoon would incite further hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities.”
Ironically, around the same time, the FBI’s hate crime statistics came out, showing that there is hardly any hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities. All over the country, we are seeing Jewish students and supporters of Israel denounced, menaced, and physically attacked. There have not been such attacks against Muslims; nor should there be.
Nonetheless, the leftist establishment has gotten into the habit of referring to “antisemitism and Islamophobia” as if they were equivalent, and in the brouhaha over the Tlaib cartoon, we see how charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” are weaponized against those who oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women.
There is nothing “racist” or “Islamophobic” about Henry Payne’s cartoon. It doesn’t mention Tlaib’s race or her religion. It merely makes fun of her for her unapologetic and open support of the jihad against Israel, which allies her with jihad terror groups including Hizballah. For Tlaib and others like her, however, charging “racism” and “Islamophobia” is the all-purpose response to any criticism, no matter how mild that criticism may be. And why not? It always works.
When the terrorists do their thing, we are told they do not represent all of their ilk. When any one of them is criticized as an individual, we are told that unfairly represents a criticism of all of them. Submission to this privilege must be rejected as garbage.
I agree and I dare to cross the line, she is an ugly liberal Democrat both inside and out and a towel-head to boot. They don’t come any worse in my opinion.
Cartoons about Jews aren’t well received, either. If antisemitic tropes are disallowed, then so should be Islamophobic tropes. People can’t play both sides.
Bravo Sierra, Leah.
Jews don’t represent a violent and dangerous ideology that threatens civilization. Jews also endure passionate hatred from those who love lies and murder.
Meanwhile, Tlaib represents a violent and dangerous ideology that threatens civilization. And she passionately hates those who take note of her malicious hatred.
Equating the two positions is a suicidal denial of reality.
Note: This does not mean cartoons should be censored.
But we are censored. I am censored. This site is censored.
Meanwhile Tlaib is free to spew her vile and disgusting bigotry – and accuse us of racism and bigotry. ..
Tlaib is a Nasty piece of work. And comparing a cartoon mocking her support of murderers to cartoons accusing Jews of blood libels …
Well I guess I’ll just stop there.
G-d love ya’
I think it is time to get another subscription to NATIONAL REVIEW.
Sadly, the last time I had picked one up on a news stand and perused its contents, they seemed to moved away from some of the incisive Right content.
Ben Garrison dose a pretty good job going after the Globalists
Gee what a lazy cartoonist!
Rashida Talib is so easy to mock! ~
The fact we have a jihadist supporting piece of trash, and others, in our congress is evil. She’s worthless as you know what on a bull.
lol … there’s something about that cartoon, it made me laugh again, even though I’d seen it before 🙂
I do not understand why normal people are afraid of criticism. The cartoon was amusing. Do politicians really believe that normal people will turn against them for having a sense of humor?
This is the type of response received from neurotic media types that have to hurry to an extra appointment with their shrink. They are obviously running low on valium as well.
The current population has been brought up to have their feeling hurt when someone does not agree with them.
Dictators do not like being made fun of. They think it will endanger their control.
Once could also make the obvious observation “If the shoe fits . . . ”
The bilious hag is proof emotion trumps logic with whatever group saw that low-life and thought “we need to bring this seething bitch into America. It’ll help us atone for the sin of being white”.
Rash looks a lot better in the cartoon than she does in the photo with the article.
Anything would be an improvement on that ugly face.
Can we call a spade a spade?
Trashida Tlaib is a terrorist. She may not have the guts to pick up an AK 47 but her mindless support for Hamas and mindless hatred for Israel makes her what she is and always has been.
She is a terrorist. The sad thing is that she is actually in Congress. And who put her there? Our first terrorist supporting President…..Barack Obama. He is the P.O.S. who imported the Muslims who are rapidly gaining control of Michigan and Minnesota.
Your satanic homosexual approved ELCA Lutheran fake church is a “terrorist” mosque in the making…
Your use of the word “terrorist” applies as you see fit… aye?
Since… Your terrorist mosque worships the fake god allah of satanic islam…
More than likely receiving federal funds for housing satanic worshiping immigrant muslims too… just like the satanic catholic fake church does…
Sumsrent, you are truly a horse’s a$$. And do you know what comes out of a horse’s a$$? In a word……..horse sh*t.
Yesterday you gave me this long involved list of what Muslims are involved in. So what are you going to do to put an end to this long list. My guess is nothing. You are the king of doing nothing. You are a fraud. You are the king of espousing your usual horse sh*t.
If you had any solutions other than whining about my church, folks might take you a little more seriously. But you won’t. And they don’t. Whining about the ELCA simply makes you look like the consummate jerk you are, and that makes you a terrorist in your own right.
With your endless blather about “satanic homosexual approved ELCA Lutheran fake church is a “terrorist” mosque, satanic worshiping immigrant muslims, terrorist mosque worships the fake god allah of satanic islam,” says you will always be a bitter, childish, jealous jihad supporting terrorist.
Please keep it up.
So every time there is an article about Trashida Tlaib I will post my comment. And there is nothing you can do about it. So GFY, loser. You are aren’t a Christian in any sense of the word. You are simply a small minded end times grifter.
I am the one who gets upvotes. All you get is rejection except when you enlist your sycophant nutbag friends. No one is buying your little man soyboy message.
You say… “So GFY, loser. You are aren’t a Christian…”
Does your satanic homosexual approved ELCA Lutheran fake church/mosque, terrorist camp in the making, teach you to speak that way?
You’re such a sucker Intrepid… I play you much better than you play that collector Bass Guitar you are so famously rich for possessing… LOL…
Oh my !!! Your life is based on upvotes ??? <<< You're a joke !!!
The only person who is not a Christian here is you. You don’t know how. You are a low rent fraud. And you deserve every insult I send your way. So GFY jerk-off. I’ll say it whenever you comment to me. And there is nothing you can do about it. In fact that may be the only way I will respond because everything else you say is repetitive and predictable. Well you never were the sharpest tool in the shed, were you. You never were the brightest bulb on the tree. You will always several sandwiches short of a picnic.
You seem to think insulting a bass guitar makes you a tough guy. It doesn’t. It makes you a small minded jealous little toad. So I will keep playing it and there is nothing you can do about it. It seems there a lot of things you can do nothing about.
My life is based on a lot of things, including getting many more upvotes than you, of which I am enormously proud. I hope you are proud of your downvotes, loser, and your ability to insult everyone who disagrees with you. Go sit on your Beema-bob-a-looma toilet and take a big a$$ crap.
I’m the tough guy ??? <<< How funny…
"Intrepid"… the big fearless, brave and courageous man…
Intrepid… who got so scared he took the Covid Vaccine… <<< Lol…
Intrepid… the one who said he was going to run me off FPM… <<<Lol, How's that working for you ???
Show us how to be the "Tough guy"… be the example…
From what I see… you're stuttering… rushing your comments, like in the past… even your insults are getting repetitive and disorganized…
You must be a Word Salad writer for Kamaltoe…
PS…
1) The ELCA fake church is satanic
2) The catholic fake church is satanic
3) Islam is satanic
4) Your ex-wife was smart for leaving your narcissistic life
I always get a laugh when you start making up stuff about me and my life, especially since you know nothing about me. I guess you have a lot of sh*t to get off your sunken chest.
I can’t help it that you have no life. ……….That you are fraudulent end times grifter. ……..That you post repetitive tiresome garbage about me. You are a jealous little weakling and you have no idea what’s coming for you.
No one is coming to save you. And that includes Jesus and God. You think he is impressed with a small time freak like you? You will answer for your daily sins and lies. You will answer for your false pride and arrogance, when you actually have that Beema sit-down with Yeshua. I guess pride is not a sin anymore in your small world. You show us that each day.
I don’t have to show you anything. I wouldn’t waste my time on a total fraud like you. I know who I am. You have no idea what you are. You make the same lists everyday. And it’s the same idiotic list over and over again. You are as predictable as what dogs leave on the sidewalk. Are you running out of material?
So as I said before….GFY. I’m not impressed. I’m glad you are such a loser that have to spend time trying to tear me down.
The seething bitch isn’t a fan of America either, but as that’s now required to join the DNC, that’s not surprising (although she’s morbidly enthusiastic in showing it).
When jug-eared Barry flew in all those Syrian “refugees” (at the cost of $67,000 a head) he only had one rule: Christian Syrians need not apply.
Indeed pay attention to who condemns it and the standards to which muslim congress critters are held.
In the first case you have terrorist sympathisers (at the very least) and genocidists, and in the second case traitors to the country who are allowed to get away with behaviour that absolutely no one else would be able to.
It gets worse.
These days conservatives do even need to worry if they could “get away with bad behavior”
Good behavior as was displayed by Daniel Penny via his courage & resolve in the subway. His reward for having to step in to do what cops wouldn’t do, got him charged.
(Playdoh Bragg saw the skin color of both, and that was all he weighed. Merit is never a factor.)
Fake outrage is a tool of Muslims. It would expose the truth for them to admit their Holy Quran demands they hate and despise all non-Muslims, just because they reject Islam. So, they grab at anything even remotely connected to Muslims and falsely show outrage.
Remember, lies are a virtue in Islam.
They hate non-muslims who do not pay a tax to not be muslim. They like the money enough more to not murder.
I declined to join an org that described itself as “against anti Semitism and Islamophobia’ like the two were equivalently valid and just two nice neighbors fighting a common enemy, rather than Jews facing muslim hate among other haters.
Phobic originally meant fear and specifically undue fear. If you have fear of terrorists….. that is sensible.
” ” ” Dittoes ” ” “
Well said Cat.
When the religion-of-peace had murdered Christian missionaries, the press ranked it as “religious animosity on both sides”.
Even Bush used to sheepishly treat Arafat as morally the same.
Oct 7th gives Israel the moral right & requirement to miserably destroy Hamas, Hezbollah, any & all Iranian mullahs, and tell backstabbing weasels in the Sleepy administration to eat shit & mind their own business.
I bet she, and others in this article, were bummed that the punk kid missed, and the ambush assassin was caught!
These people are “the enemy within” and millions are screaming, “from the river to the sea” with their JewPhobia!
I would imagine that Tlaib has thought much about inspiring hatred and violence.
Wonder if she still has her clitoris?
But who would use it, you’d have to put a bag over her head before you could even approach the witch.
Tlaib is a walking cartoon – no artist needed.
What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims? – Norm McDonald
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
It’s called a victim-bully. If they pump themselves up with righteous indignation and claim victim status, they can justify any type of atrocities, as seen clearly on October 7th.
It’s interesting to me how the victim bullies like to call their victims Nazis. After the fall of Hitler’s regime, a large contingent of his Nazis fled to the Middle East and promoted a political doctrine that urged the melding of Nazi and Muslim beliefs. Today that doctrine is known as Islamism.
Meanwhile, following the death of Mao in China, his successor Deng Xio Ping looked around a decimated China with 50+ million dead from Mao’s cultural Revolution and its economy in tatters. He decided to implement the Nazi economic program within China, infusing Communism with a liberal dose of Nazi fascism. That system remains to this day, and Chinese political belief is a melding of Communism and Fascism.
Seems like there’s an awful lot of Nazism going on in Socialism/Communism and Islamism today. Sometimes, when it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it turns out to be a duck. Check your pager lately, Talib?
Where is Ilhan Omar, blown up by pager maybe?
The B—H was WHELPED from a SWINE (pig).
ooh … that’s low Bob,
… insulting swine
Dares? The purpose of the Media, which includes cartoonists, is to watch and investigate public figures, and, if necessary, mock them publicly, and mercilessly, for senseless decisions they make in office. If media is receiving chaff and flares for their effort, it means they are over the target.
I will be happy to buy her a new pager as long as she goes back to Palestine and takes Omar with her. Hell ill even buy their plane ticket and give them a ride to the airport
Old but relevant: You know when you’re over the target when the flak starts.
“Our community is already in so much pain right now”…………. Oh boo-hoo that’s so sad. I imagine that the countries all over the world that are continually experiencing, the murder, the destruction and the hate that your community has inflicted on the world for the last 1400 years are in greater pain. I’m sure that the carnage from the 46,000 muslim terrorist attacks from one end of the planet to the other since 9/11 has caused a lot more than pain. But “your people” are beset by a few nasty memes, cartoons and words and have their feelings hurt. Give me a break! …………
They have no business in our country, let alone in our government.
They do not hold American ideals or sensibilities.
Jihadis must be deported even if they’re just taking money to help the terrorists.
They must go.
That’s funny. The cartoon seems to accurately reflect the Talib filth’s stated allegiances.
Even as the corrupt charlatan Garland was implying talking about anti-Semitism and implying that “Islamophobia” was an equal problem, the prosecutions he cited were exclusively for anti-Semitic activities, leading me to conclude that his reference to “Islamophobia” was simply regime propaganda.
Is it “haram” to call Tlaib a PIG? Asking for a friend.
This is taking Alinsky’s rules for radicals and spitting it back at them.
One of the rules is ridicule
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
Keep it up! It works!