Mo Brooks is absolutely correct
"Muslims more so than most people have great animosity towards Israel and the Jewish faith. As you have more and more Muslims in the US, as they gain greater and greater influence in elections…you’re going to see more people like @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib." –@RepMoBrooks pic.twitter.com/Rov2Uufp3B
— Waleed Shahid ? (@_waleedshahid) August 24, 2019
Here is an OpEd from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, also a refugee from Somalia.
I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for everything.
Most Americans are familiar with the classic Western flavors of anti-Semitism: the Christian, European, white-supremacist and Communist types. But little attention has been paid to the special case of Muslim anti-Semitism. That is a pity because today it is anti-Semitism’s most zealous, most potent and most underestimated form.
I never heard the term “anti-Semitism” until I moved to the Netherlands in my 20s. But I had firsthand familiarity with its Muslim variety. As a child in Somalia, I was a passive consumer of anti-Semitism. Things would break, conflicts would arise, shortages would occur—and adults would blame it all on the Jews.
When I was a little girl, my mom often lost her temper with my brother, with the grocer or with a neighbor. She would scream or curse under her breath “Yahud!” followed by a description of the hostility, ignominy or despicable behavior of the subject of her wrath. It wasn’t just my mother; grown-ups around me exclaimed “Yahud!” the way Americans use the F-word. I was made to understand that Jews—Yahud—were all bad. No one took any trouble to build a rational framework around the idea—hardly necessary, since there were no Jews around. But it set the necessary foundation for the next phase of my development.
At 15 I became an Islamist by joining the Muslim Brotherhood. I began attending religious and civil-society events, where I received an education in the depth and breadth of Jewish villainy. This was done in two ways.
The first was theological. We were taught that the Jews betrayed our prophet Muhammad. Through Quranic verses (such as 7:166, 2:65 and 5:60), we learned that Allah had eternally condemned them, that they were not human but descendants of pigs and monkeys, that we should aspire to kill them wherever we found them. We were taught to pray: “Dear God, please destroy the Jews, the Zionists, the state of Israel. Amen.”
We were taught that the Jews occupied the Holy Land of Palestine. We were shown pictures of mutilated bodies, dead children, wailing widows and weeping orphans. Standing over them in military uniform were Israeli soldiers with large guns. We were told their killing of Palestinians was wanton, unprovoked and an expression of their hatred for Muslims.
The theological and the political stories were woven together, as in the Hamas charter: “The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The Stones and trees will say, “O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill me.” ’ . . . There is no solution for the Palestine question except through Jihad.”
That combination of narratives is the essence of Muslim anti-Semitism.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali overcame this mentality. She gives us insite into how Omar was raised and the persepctive she brings to Congress.
It’s clear that Rashida Tlaib has a similar persepctive from her closeness to the anti-Zionist Palestinian movment, and the fact that she palls around with Hamas and Hezbullah supporters.
The fact is, Muslim Antisemitism is driving the resurgence of Antisemitism in Europe. The majority of attacks on Jews, Jewish businesses, and Synagogues come from Muslims, often claiming to be in support of Palestine.
The same thing happened in Miami, New York, California, and other places in the United States just a few weeks ago, when Palestinian supoprters harassed and attacked Jews on American streets and the Democrats took a long time to respond and when they did, bullshitted with a condemntaion of “Antisemitism and Islamophobia” like it was even handed.
What Brooks said is 100% correct. We have seen it in Europe. We have seen it in American cities.
There is no reason to assume it won’t be like that across America in the future.
The only reason he’s catching flack for it is that he accurately diagnosed the problem.
