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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News Host Jeanine Pirro Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar for Wearing Hijab
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar-806293/Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar for Wearing Hijab
She (wrongly) claims the congresswomans head covering is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution
By Peter Wade
Fox Newss Jeanine Pirro is trying to use Islamophobia to make Americans fear Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). In the opening segment of her show Saturday night, the fear-mongering former judge tried to connect Omars hijab to sharia law, which she said is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution.
Omar has recently been under attack for making anti-Israel remarks, which many have conflated with anti-Semitism. She also apologized for a tweet that evoked an anti-Semitic trope. But Fox News and other conservative media have been all too happy to misconstrue her remarks to paint Omar as anti-American because she does not unequivocally support the Israeli state. And theyve been using anti-Muslim stereotypes to do it.
Pirro told her audience: This is not who your party is. Your party is not anti-Israel, she is. Think about this. She is not getting this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party. So if its not rooted in the party, where is she getting it from? Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran, 33:59, tells women to cover so they wont molested. Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution?
Link to tweet
This type of Islamophobia is not new, but it has ramped up ever since 9/11. As NBC News reported, anti-sharia law legislation has been introduced in 43 states in the U.S. just since 2010, despite the fact that none of these places are at risk of sharia law being implemented. And sharia law is not what many Americans have been led to believe it is. As law professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes wrote in the Washington Post, Sharia is not a book of statutes or judicial precedent imposed by a government, and its not a set of regulations adjudicated in court. Rather, it is a body of Koran-based guidance that points Muslims toward living an Islamic life.
But, sadly, the facts dont matter on Fox News. All this drummed-up fear of sharia law is nothing but a statement to Muslims: you are not welcome here.
Which is exactly Pirros point: to her and the viewers of Fox News, Islam is antithetical to America. And therefore, according to Pirros logic, Rep. Omar is antithetical to America. Its disgusting and, frankly, Pirros view is the one that is against the Constitution, whose First Amendment protects the right of Americans to worship freely.
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Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar for Wearing Hijab (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2019
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)1. trumpie Islamaphobia
I don't give faux news any clicks. Thank you for doing it for me, if it serves a purpose.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. Pirro is simply a
Noise Bot.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. when she says " think about this" and "think about it" , 2 quotes from above, she's saying
Don't think about this bc i already have and it's horrible. That's her audience
mwooldri
(10,291 posts)4. Fox News-Entertainment.
Rep. Omar's clothing choices are protected under the 1st amendment.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)5. Let me know when Jeanine is caught wearing a cross necklace or
any other religious symbol.