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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Facing censure in the House of Representatives over her antisemitism and thinly veiled support for Hamas, the Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) is fighting back using a strategy that Islamic spokesmen in the West have frequently favored over the years: she’s lying. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to anyone: in the book that those spokesmen and Tlaib consider to be holy, lying to infidels is specifically allowed for when one is cornered. And if anyone is cornered right now, it’s Rashida Tlaib.
CNN reported that “The House voted Tuesday to advance a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib after a Democratic effort to block the measure failed, setting up an expected vote on final passage of the resolution Wednesday.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), who on Monday reintroduced into the House a resolution to censure her flamethrowing far-Left colleague, wrote on X that it was for Tlaib’s “antisemitism, spreading Pro-Hamas propaganda, and inciting an illegal occupation in the Capitol complex.” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia) also introduced a resolution to censure Tlaib.
In a statement on the censure resolutions, Tlaib insisted: “I have repeatedly denounced the horrific targeting and killing of civilians by Hamas and the Israeli government, and have mourned the Israeli and Palestinian lives lost.” It is important to note that this is not actually a denunciation of Hamas, which Tlaib has never denounced, but only of “the horrific targeting and killing of civilians” by both “Hamas and the Israeli government,” as if the two were equivalent when one deliberately targets civilians and puts them in harm’s way and the other takes extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties.
So even Tlaib’s criticism of Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 is watered down by her absurd moral equivalence of Hamas with the Israeli government. Beyond that, however, where exactly were these instances of Tlaib repeatedly denouncing Hamas for murdering Israeli civilians? On Oct. 8, the day after Hamas murdered over 1,400 Israeli civilians in one of the bloodiest, most savage jihad massacres of modern times, Tlaib led off her statement with the same moral equivalence: “I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day.” Then she launched into a series of thinly veiled indictments of Israel: “I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.” About Hamas’ targeting of civilians she said absolutely nothing, and, in fact, didn’t even mention the jihad terror group at all.
That’s all. Tlaib didn’t post on X between Oct. 6 and Oct. 13. If she was busy repeatedly denouncing Hamas’ murder of Israeli civilians, it made no headlines and isn’t even on her own website.
So what is Tlaib doing claiming now that she has repeatedly denounced Hamas’ targeting of civilians? It’s simple: she is lying. And that lying is firmly within the bounds of what is acceptable behavior according to the Qur’an on which she was sworn in. The Islamic holy book says: “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security.” (3:28)
The fourteenth-century Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir, author of a magisterial and still influential commentary on the Qur’an, explains that the phrase “unless you are guarding yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” Abu Ad-Darda was a companion of Muhammad.
In the same vein, the twentieth-century Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician Syed Abul Ala Maududi wrote this about Qur’an 3:28: “This means that is lawful for a believer, helpless in the grip of the enemies of Islam and in imminent danger of severe wrong and persecution, to keep his faith concealed and to behave in such a way as to create the impression that he is on the same side as his enemies.”
Might Tlaib consider herself in the grip of the enemies of Islam and in imminent danger of severe wrong, and so considers it permissible for her to claim she opposes Hamas when in fact she favors it? Certainly. And her Democrat colleagues, since they have been propagandized into thinking that such a line of inquiry is “Islamophobic” on its face, and want to keep the Israel-hating hard Left happy, will fall into line behind her.
TruthLaser says
The choreography of Tlaib with Omar supporting her in a protective stance suggest Tlaib is the victim. Perhaps a victim of rape whose baby was zapped in a microwave like a gremlin or an Israeli.
Michael says
Robert,
Stop.
cohenite says
What a stupid comment. This is a typical truthful article. Don’t stop Robert.
dani says
stay in mommy’s basement, useful idiot
Sword of The Spirit says
Michael, STOP !
Onzeur Trante says
Thank gawd that only three of the banshees were present in Congress yesterday. Even more disgraceful than their histrionic ravings, is the fact that they were allowed to carry on their hateful screeching until their allotted time was up.
They should have been hauled out of chambers by security within minutes of starting to speak. They are not the victims, Americans are the victims of their anti American rage.
TaterSalad says
Exclusive:
A new poll shows 2/3 of Americans oppose a ceasefire against Hamas. Americans want Hamas eliminated from the earth.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/11/08/exclusive-rasmussen-poll-shows-two-thirds-of-americans-oppose-ceasefire-against-hamas/
RS says
Hamas is another example of the leaders being very rich while the people live in poverty. Time to cut the funding to this kind of regime that uses money for war and to attacks peaceful people, or uses women and children as human shields, and tunnels under Gaza to attack Israel. In the meantime, Iran keeps enriching uranium for more nuclear weapons. All leaders need to look at the consequences, including the UN.
VOWG says
Do any followers of Islam not lie.
Snuffy Carter says
only after they are dead.
Brett Brubaker says
Truthlaser, while you have 22 ups and 1 down at the moment of typing, there is a bigger audience you are writing to….
What the Muslims did a month ago, while of significantly greater discussed to me, your comments are sickening.
She lies because Muslims lie. The cheat, steal, kill all in the name of Allah. They cut off female babies sexual organs. Biblically they come from the line of Hagar, Abraham’s maid servant whom he had sex with. If you want to understand your enemy (I am making that critical assumption) as SunTzu instructs, then read and study the Koran.
Stop making comments that reduce you to the same stature as Tlaib, Omar and AOC.
ndanielson says
Americans need to send her packing to her promised land.
It isn’t her that she belongs.
Beez says
She must first serve a life sentence in prison for treason, conspiracy, sedition, espionage, etc.
Johnniethejew says
Hey Beez. An accidental drowning in a vat of hot pig fat would be best 🤣
Angel Jacob says
All of the evil squad needs to go.
Mo de Profit says
They smile in our faces and lie, it’s their culture.
They smile at their children and tell them that death is paradise, it’s their culture.
They turn wonderful neighbourhoods into shite holes, it’s their culture.
As I walk past them I say Taqiya loud enough to be heard without shouting in their faces, it’s my culture to let them know that we know what they are doing.
THX 1138 says
You can blame their nihilist religion and primitive culture all you want, and you would be right to do that, but ultimately Muslims would not be invading America and the West except for the fact that the West is collapsing from an intellectual, philosophical cancer of self-doubt, self-hatred, and suicidal altruism and self-sacrifice.
How did the Muslim barbarians get through the gates? They were invited in to destroy the West by the governments of the West. All in the name of suicidal altruism and self-sacrifice.
Self-preservation rests on self-confidence and self-esteem and those virtues depend upon the virtue of rational selfishness, not altruism and self-sacrifice.
“America’s inner contradiction was the altruist-collectivist ethics. Altruism is incompatible with freedom, with capitalism and with individual rights. One cannot combine the pursuit of happiness with the moral status of a sacrificial animal….
From her start, America was torn by the clash of her political system with the altruist morality. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. Today, the conflict has reached its ultimate climax; the choice is clear-cut: either a new morality of rational self-interest, with its consequences of freedom, justice, progress and man’s happiness on earth—or the primordial morality of altruism, with its consequences of slavery, brute force, stagnant terror and sacrificial furnaces.” – Ayn Rand
Intrepid says
In addition to the classic Jew hater in Congress being censured perhaps we should have our very own classic America hater censured on this site.
What a welcome development that would be.
DKen says
Rand was an atheist and wrong about this point. America has become a moral wasteland since removing the Bible from the daily life of the “Proetariat” masses.
Self protection need not be suicidal nor stupidly ignorant.
internalexile says
Shiite holes, perhaps?
Hector Gomez says
Every evil member of the squad needs to go and be sent to jail for treason against America.
Annie45 says
On the day after the historically sadistic massacre of Israelis by Hamas – and as
reiterated in this article – Trashida Tlaib called for “lifting the blockade, ending
the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the
suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance”. That’s a
whopper of a lie.
The Israelis pulled out of Palestinian Gaza 17 years ago – even uprooting Jewish
families there and pulling them back to Israel. It’s been under the control of the
Palestinians and their elected officials, Hamas, ever since. And they are still
insisting that the Jews occupy and abuse them. The Palestinians want to kill
Jews because of Islam – not because of Israeli mistreatment of them.
In a sane world, the ugly, screeching and tale-telling Trashida should be
cutting a comic figure for all to lampoon. Instead she is a clarion call to
those across the world rampaging to support Palestinians – and threatening,
assaulting and doxing others with the Star of David while doing it. The dead
American Jewish man – smashed in the face with a megaphone by a pro-
Palestinian protestor – is testament to that.
The red paint on the White House gates from pro-Palestinian protestors is
for Islam. The Palestinian flag Trashida has planted by her office in the United
States Congress is for Islam. For barbaric Islam to dominate – not just Israel –
but America and the rest of the world.
THX 1138 says
Who made it possible for corrupt Ilhan Omar and her corrupt family to invade America?
The suicidal Christian altruism of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. All of the major American Christian churches are receiving millions upon millions upon millions of tax-payer dollars to aid and abet the destruction of America through illegal and unvetted immigration. All in the name of Christian “compassion”, charity, altruism, and self-sacrifice.
We have met the enemy; the enemy is us.
“After fleeing my home country of Somalia I lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for four years before seeking hope and opportunity in the United States, and it was thanks to the support of LIRS that I and my family found a home in the United States,” the Democratic lawmaker said.
Omar is just one of the lawmakers, religious leaders and former refugees who stressed the importance of restoring the United States’ long-standing commitment to resettling refugees Thursday on a virtual panel hosted by LIRS, one of nine agencies contracted with the U.S. government to do resettlement work.”
Intrepid says
Oh, this tired-ass post again, from our rezidentura America hater, whining about Christian “compassion”, charity, altruism, and self-sacrifice.
Great job moron, insulting Americas Christians and then expecting us to agree with you.
K.F. Smith says
Like a broken record, every day with the same narrow minded, dopey rant.
If it were me, I would have long ago gotten tired of the negative responses, and moved to another site. But I don’t hate myself.
Robert Hagedorn says
Yes,, all that triggered emotion gets tiresome after a while and it casts the emoter in a bad light.
DKen says
Fake Christian organizations.
David Ray says
The evil, ugly bitch should be mailed to the Gaza strip along with Omar, Bush & Pressley. seeing how their all so in love with it.
(AOC should be loaded in a catapult & flung towards Cuba.)
Steven Brizel says
Tlaib is an odious anti Semite and Hamas sleeper cell who was appropriately censured but too many Democrats voted against her censure and she should be removed from any snd all committee especially any that deal with national security
THX 1138 says
While there’s still time.
The Muslims in America (I refuse to call them Muslim-Americans) are fervently focused on winning local, city, state, and federal elections to conquer and destroy America from within.
What winning seats in the best universities in America is to Asian-Americans, winning elections is to the Muslims.
Intrepid says
So what are you going to do about it besides posting your negative garbage all the time. You are a great one for “let’s you and him fight”.
Snuffy Carter says
Tlaib and the other psycho Hamas lovers in Congress should be expelled from Congress, not just censured – and then charge them all with felony hate crimes for publicly supporting the genocide of Jews.
Daniel R says
The problem is not really with the obnoxious scumbag Rashida. The problem is with the system that allowed this repugnant anti-American, antisemite to hold a position in Congress. The problem is that this scumbag has enough representation in her district to become elected. The problem is the system that has allowed so far millions of toxic, aggressive, anti-American, antisemitic, uneducated and un-educatable, unemployable muslims to immigrate to the country. The problem is a system that doesn’t call things by their name and that allows the barbarians at the gate to flood every city legally or illegally.
Beez says
The problem behind those problems is BHO. Why is he not called to account?
Onzeur Trante says
OK, THX is a persona non grata most of the time here, but I think he did make a few valid points in his post above. The Christian charities do provide support to all “refugees” without discriminating between those who are legal and those who are not. The country is flooded with illegals thanks to the self-loathing Left and its policies that cannot tolerate a prosperous America pursuing life, liberty and happiness. In order to hide behind their self-loathing and hatred for the country, they impose their phony, self-sacrificing altruism on everyone else. The West is collapsing and the enemy is us because we allow it to happen.
TRex says
This is what we get when administration after administration either spends billions or imports millions to get everyone to like us. We are the world’s sugar daddy and they take all they can get from the fools pulling the levers of power. When will someone at the top finally admit they hate us and put an end to this nonsense we call foreign aid?
World@70 says
“The House of Representatives voted to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday night, despite her emotionally defending herself,”
Reported From ABC.
The vote was pushed up a day because some Reps had received death threats. Will this shut her up????
Snuffy Carter says
what does censure actually do to Tlaib? – does she now have to pay for her own coffee at the cafeteria?? that’s why she should have been expelled from Congress – if the Republicans had any guts.
TRex says
this is the “circus” part of “bread and circuses”.
notebeat says
Not one person in that top photo is a true American in any sense of the word. They are her to destroy our country and freedom in the world. The civil war truly has begun.
Mandy123 says
We all know that voting block was established when Obama brought them to the US and placed them all up in the region. And no one tells the Muslims there is an over-population problem on earth that was drilled into my head in the US when I was of child-bearing age. Where Obama placed these Muslim is so they can populate and spred north into Canada and south into the US. What is most disgusting to me is how Muslim males treat women in subservient ways with little freedoms UNLESS they need them to do their dirty work as they did with Talib and the other women the Muslims allowed to be vocal and run for office.
Wallace says
Will no other representative stand up and call out their outright lies???
Snuffy Carter says
go back to U.S. circa 1800’s to find those representatives.
Ed Snider says
The least that we expect of our fellow citizens, let alone our elected representatives, is that they subscribe to the social compact.. Muslims like Tlaib believe that when honesty is a hindrance to achieving their aims,it can and must be discarded without moral penalty.No country can survive with a population that includes large numbers of citizens like Tlaib. Certainly there is no place for them in our house. of reps. There are many good reasons why there are no successful Islamic nations on planet earth. Contempt for the truth is one of them.
Snuffy Carter says
the founding fathers warned us of this problem of having an immoral, dishonest population when they said “this Constitution will only work in a nation that has moral, God fearing citizens.” (and they meant the God of the Bible; not a phony god such as Allah).
hardchoices says
Everything Spencer said is true..but what he doesn’t say is even more true; lying in the service of tribal loyalty is common as dirt. Everyone does it. It’s a very human attribute.
Chuck says
According to sharia, in certain situations, deception/lying – also known as ‘taqiyya’, based on Quranic terminology, – is not only permitted but sometimes obligatory. According to the authoritative Arabic text, Al-Taqiyya Fi Al-Islam: “Taqiyya [deception] is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it.It should be emphasized that while lying is a cause for shame in the West, taqiyya isn’t in Islam. To Muslims, taqiyya – lying (to infidels) to advance and protect Islam – is both a virtue and a duty there is shame, however, in being caught.
This is the type of “lying” the Rashida Tlaib is demonstrating
TRex says
So having been caught, she stands in Congress in front of the whole world to demonstrate her commitment to the religion of peace In effect, she said the quiet part out loud and now has to deny she ever said it. Do I have that right?
Sword of The Spirit says
I am not familiar with the benefit. What does censure accomplish?
Chuck says
It relies on the target’s sense of shame or their constituents’ subsequent disapproval, without which it has little practical effect when done on members of Congress and no practical effect when done on the president
Snuffy Carter says
that’s why Tlaib should have been expelled from Congress for supporting the genocide of Jews if the Republicans really wanted to punish her.
David Elstrom says
Talib gave her colleagues another thumb in the eye when she lied to their faces that her pro-terrorist rhetoric wasn’t a synonym for Jew-killing. But I particularly loved the weepy presentation about her First Amendment rights. She had those when she cheered genocidal terrorists and lamented the collateral damage among their civilian cheerleaders. Her censure was about the fact that her free speech was an embarrassment to the institution of Congress. Just think about the disgusting level of filth one must attain to receive opprobrium from Democrats!
Racklefratz says
So why does anyone pay any attention to anything this worthless anti-America idiot says? The reality is that there’s no place in our country for people who want us all dead, yet we allow them in, and then elect them to high political office. What could possibly go wrong? /sarc
Instead of giving losers like this a platform from which to spew their venomous rhetoric, they need to be told to go pound sand.
JEFFERY says
Hamas would kill her in a heartbeat.
Walter Sieruk says
That stealth jihadist, Muslim politician , Rashida Taib is very anti-Jewish and likewise very anti- Israel, as seen in those anti- Israel foreign policies she always keeps on pushing for.. she even admires and supports that murderous jihad entity ,Hamas,
Therefore, Taib is, in essence, un-American. As former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech the former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Vicki says
Captured Islamist terrorist on Oct 7, this is how the terrorists use the hospitals: “I have ambulances, I can go with whichever one I want”
Nov.8.23
https://www.n12.co.il/news-military/6361323ddea5a810/Article-6c3bb59bcdbab81027.htm
RS says
Tlaib uses Taqiyya very well. Islam prides itself on being able to deceive their enemies.
Kimberly says
Give or take a decade, Mohammad came along and started teaching people that all descendants of Abraham are illegitimate heirs to the promised land. Ishmael was the first born and therefore HE and his descendants are the true people of God. Ishmael was the child of a slave called Hagar and Abraham was never married to Hagar. This is the root of the hatred. It took a couple thousand years for someone to come along and just announce that all the Hebrew teachings are incorrect, but there ya have it. Who is right? I’ve always been told to just the fruit. Muslims are taught from the CRADLE that descendants of Isaac are the enemy.
Deb Hill says
We can’t censor are way out of this. What is the best way to find out who people are and what they believe is to allow them to reveal themselves, and that’s exactly what they’re doing, no matter how abhorrent. Many of us knew that the majority of Democrat’s, and our so called institutions of higher learning are antisemitic, and racists, but they have the MSM covering and spinning for them. The MSM are trying to cover for them and in turn are showing their own antisemitism. Our biggest problem is when people tell you who they are we tend to not believe them, or excuse them. My advice is to believe them.
John Blackman says
when you invite the cancer of islam into your country you sign your own death warrant . america is dead in the water all thanks to your elected representatives . as the muslims often quote , ” they love death more than jews love life ” the west needs to oblige them . but I’m not going to hold my breath as the old well worn fiction that islam is a religion of peace and the solution is the fiction of a 2 state solution constantly promulgated by the feckless democrats and republicans . america has been betrayed by its own govt.
TRex says
Diplomacy and political solutions are a fool’s errand when dealing with people who just want you dead. The question at hand is how much murder and mayhem will be tolerated before you realize there is one, and only one, appropriate response?
William Carson says
She was fairly elected by her constituents because she represents their values and beliefs. So really she isnt the problem, but the symptom.
Andrew Blackadder says
This ”Member” of Congress has a palestine Flag outside her Office Door, alongside a Rainbow Queer Flag but no American Flag and that alone should tell everybody who and what she is regarding her stance on America, plus a Rainbow Flag with the Flag of a country that never existed and whose people would throw these Queers off the rooftop tells me she is one sick ”woman”…
Walter Sieruk says
The former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
This should mean that there’s should be no room or place for Rashida Tlaib in the United States Congress. For that matter there should be no room of place for Tlaib in America , she should be expelled from the US
Rick says
Rashida is HAMAS. From what I have observed, the OVERWHELMING majority of Muslims WORLD-WIDE want non-Muslims dead, or in subservience to them. Prove me wrong. Their “religious” texts demand that. Prove me wrong. You attack me because I am not a Muslim? I’ll attack you because you are. You say that Zuhdi Jasser and maybe 10 other high-profie American Muslims condemn the October 7 attacks. Where the HELL are the voices of the MANY celebrity Muslims in this Country in condemnation of the same? THEY ARE SILENT. BRAVO! to the former Muslims that have escaped that depravity & REJECTED the “strike the necks” verses from the “HOLY” Koran )(Muhammad 47:4). Muslims are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths world-wide “in the name of Islam”. Prove me wrong. Muslims want the State of Israel to cease to exist (meaning that they will kill all Israelites). PROVE ME WRONG. Yasser Arafat walked away from a 2-state resolution. Prove me wrong. After 9-11, celebrations took place across the middle-east by Muslims, distributing “sweets” to revel in American deaths. Prove me wrong. Hamas revealed themselves as COWARDS, and less than animals, with the brutality of their attacks on Israeli CIVILIANS on October 7 . Hamas uses their countrymen & women & children as HUMAN SHIELDS, by tunneling under & firing from hospitals, schools, and mosques. PROVE ME WRONG. Every member of HAMAS, and EVERY one of their supporters must die a slow, excruciating death – because this MUST NOT HAPPEN EVER AGAIN. Note – Americans – They are now among us. Arm yourself, & don’t be another victim of Islam. I am not a fan of Islam. Seems like a rant because there’s just too much to point out. Islam – it is JUST TOO MUCH for humanity.
WHERE is the voice of the mythical “MODERATE MUSLIMS”?