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Representative Greg Murphy, a North Carolina Republican, received backlash after he invoked the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in a since-deleted Twitter response to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar's condolences over the death of a Capitol Police officer after the Friday attack targeting the U.S. Capitol.
Omar, who is Muslim and represents Minnesota, has routinely faced Islamophobic and racist attacks since she became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress back in 2018. Memes and baseless conspiracy theories have circulated widely within right-wing circles falsely connecting her to Islamist terrorist groups and suggesting that she was somehow associated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer's family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife," Omar tweeted on Friday after the attack.
On Saturday, Murphy responded to her post, writing: "Would have been worse @Ilhan if they had been flying planes into the buildings also." Although the tweet has since been deleted, local media in North Carolina published screenshots on Sunday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-greg-murphy-slammed-for-invoking-9-11-while-tagging-ilhan-omar-in-deleted-tweet/ar-BB1fiyjJ?li=BBnb7Kz
Nothing like a little good old fashioned Republican racism.
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,930 posts)away. Jones often voted with the Democrats even though he was Republican.
Murphy is a hardcore Trump ass kisser.
AZ8theist
(5,515 posts)My rep here in AZ is Andy Biggs, chairman of the House Fascist Caucus. A leader of the TREASONOUS INSURRECTION.
If he had his way, he would like nothing more than to become a slave-holding NAZI.
And I'm NOT EXAGERATING.