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Someone made fun of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza City), and she and her leftist friends and colleagues are enraged. Now, rage is their default mode, so this was no surprise, but the whole incident provided an illuminating glimpse into how leftists try to arouse and exploit rage for their own purposes, and really don’t have much of anything they can use to motivate their cadres if they aren’t angry about something.
It all started when Abraham Aiyash, a Democrat (of course) who is currently the majority leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, posted on X a political cartoon lampooning Tlaib. The cartoon, which was the work of Henry Payne of the Detroit News, first appeared not in the News, but in National Review. It depicts Tlaib sitting at her desk looking over at the smoking ruin of her pager and thinking: “Odd. My pager just exploded.”
Aiyash was, of course, furious. He wrote: “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.” Nolan Finley, the Detroit News’ editorial page editor, moved quickly to distance the paper from Payne’s heinous crime, responding: “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.” Later, he tried to distance the News even more from Payne: “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.”
That wasn’t enough for the rage mob, which called on the News to fire Payne forthwith. As of this writing on Saturday afternoon, Payne is still listed as the News’ “auto columnist,” and described as “the Detroit News auto critic, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, and radio host.”
That could, however, change any minute, for the fury at Payne has only grown. On Friday, defeated 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.” The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, 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?”
The outrage traveled around the world. Tlaib herself denounced the cartoon, and that was newsworthy enough for Pakistan’s Express Tribune to pick up on Sunday: “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 Express Tribune noted that Tlaib “said the cartoon would incite further hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities.”
What 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 Tlaib was ready to take up the victim role, responding to Hammoud: “Thank you, Mayor @AHammoudMI, for speaking up. Our community is already in so much pain right now.” Then she added the fanciful bit that got quoted as far away as Pakistan: “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.”
This is 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 this 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. And why not? It works.
Perfection. Must have hit close to home for it to be so “hurtful”.
Rashida bawls 😭
AOC balls ~ 🍒🥒
Ted Walz 🥹
Rashida bawls 😭
🥒AOC balls 🍒
Bathroom stalls 🚻
° Ted Walz 🥹 ~~
Catchy lyrics, too!
What makes the charge of “Islamophobia” all the more absurd is the cartoon was in response to Tlaib’s reaction to the IDF’s Hezbollah pager operation. As you would have guessed, she tweeted “disgraceful”, as if a perfectly legal antiterrorism operation was somehow worse than the terrorism Hezbollah has committed for decades against Israelis.
Stop letting it work. Tell her to go pound sand, and give a middle finger to the suburban wine moms as well.
Seeing the unhinged outrage from the “squad” and their ilk to a cartoon means that they’re paying attention and its effective. The louder they kvetch only means it more effective than you previously thought. So, KEEP IT UP!
That said, they seem ok with doing similar things to conservative folk under the premise that its alright for me to do it to thee, but thee not allowed to do it to me.
From the liver to the knee. Now those terrorists will never pee.
Serious question tho’. …….Is Rashida a proper pious muslima, or is she sporting a clitoris?
Israeli children skipping rope sing: “From the liver to the knee. Now those terrorists will never pee.” – Good one Noah – perfect !
Let’s hire a Jewish fact-checker to answer that question definitively.
” On Friday, defeated Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Fire Alarm) wrote: “Anti-Arab bigotry & Islamophobia must not be allowed to be normalized.”
“But Jew Hatred and Israel hatred is just fine with my palestinian peeps” ,Bowman continued.
The terrorist hag should be traded for hostages in Gaza..
Question is: would Hamas be interested?
Of course not. Nobody wants that skank.
Those pagers 📟📟 ran on Libyan-ion🪫batteries.👌
From the liver to the knee…
These low-lifes are actually upset over a victory. It removes all doubt concerning whose side they’re on.
My guess if Trump had been successfully assassinated, they’d have tweeted their enthusiastic approval. (A good chance they’d delete the posts afterwards, bewildered that they didn’t get full cover from the press.)
Trump was set-up the way his supporters were set-up on Jan 6th – by leftist America-haters in positions of power. (Proof is on many levels, but the DC Jan 6th communications all being deleted, and Crooks entire social history being “lost” removes all doubt.)
It’s so perfect! Finally.
She is mad that Mossad snubed her.
Apparently the pager didn’t work.
Ms. Tlaïb getting the support of Pakistan proof enough that she has absolutely nothing to do with muslim terrorism… right?
i urge tlaib to quit paying the trigger man. she should quit her belly aching and do something. stop paying her taxes and move on. tlaib has paid for her own islamaphobia. the cartoon only represents her own self destructive behavior. the artist merely points out the obvious. tlaib may have a more fulfilling life in africa where the christians are being exterminated by islam. further africa does not suffer from the excess technology needed to detonate a pager, cellphone, radios remotely. get yourself a african mud hut and be happy exterminating christians. please. america is trying to kill muslim terrorists abroad. never mind, most of us will not survive the coming nuclear war kamala has planned with the un.
I saw the cartoon; I thought it was hilarious. Islamists are such childish bullies. They want to do whatever they want including terrorize others without repercussions. But like bullies, when someone pushes back they whine and scream like they are the victims. They need stop acting like petulant little kids and grow up
Muslims and the god they follow have no sense of humor. However, God has a sense of humor …. he created Mel Brooks et al.
Liberal Democrats don’t think on their own they depend upon the M.S. Media bottom feeders too much
My first thought upon hearing about the pagers was Spy Vs Spy from Mad magazine.
She is so terrified of Mossad that she won’t touch her dildo.
“Is that a pager exploding in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”
This nasty woman acts like part of her brain is missing. Maybe the hippocampus or the amygdala. It’s something, but I’d hesitate to put my finger on it. She certainly doesn’t see that it was very, very bad that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing over 1,200 people (brutally), and kidnapping about two hundred people to serve as hostages.
One day all the poor little Democrats are going to yell “racist” once too often, just like that little boy who cried “wolf” once too often.
“……recognize the different standard Arab and Muslim politicians are held by.”
Yes, They’re coddled instead of condemned as they should be.
And Ragheada Tlaib deserves to be bitch slapped to death. I wish somebody would do it. Even without he love of jihad terrorism, she’s so physically repulsive the world would be much better off without her.