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Campaign calls for Twitter to suspend Trump for ‘inciting hatred’ against Ilhan Omar

Fréa Lockley by Fréa Lockley
15 April 2019
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Calls are growing to suspend Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Because on 12 April, he pinned a vile video-led tweet of progressive congresswoman Ilhan Omar. And she’s since seen a rise in death threats, and needs extra security.

“Inciting hate and violence”

Trump’s tweet (still up at the time of writing) intercut images of Omar with video footage of 9/11. He used Omar’s words entirely out of context and also implied that she’d downplayed the gravity of those attacks. Over 90,000 people retweeted Trump’s tweet, and over 250,000 ‘liked’ it.

Fortunately, Al Jazeera has put the record straight:

Trump tweeted an edited video implying that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar downplayed the 9/11 attacks.

This is what she actually said: pic.twitter.com/mMzKTTeThR

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 15, 2019

Since Trump’s tweet, Omar said she’d received:

an increase in direct threats on my life – many directly referencing or replying to the president’s video.

As she also explained:

Violent rhetoric and all forms of hate speech have no place in our society, much less from our country’s Commander in Chief. We are all Americans. This is endangering lives. It has to stop.

Ban Trump from Twitter

Support is now growing for Omar. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of human rights group Global Exchange and peace group CODEPINK, issued a direct call to “suspend Trump’s account for inciting hate and violence”:

Tell Twitter to suspend Trump’s account for inciting hate and violence against Rep. @IlhanMN & the Muslim American community.

Tell @jack: Remove the video & suspend @realdonaldtrump from @Twitter

R/T & take further action here:https://t.co/g4CuPpwrum

— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) April 14, 2019

Over 150 “progressive groups and individuals” have also signed a letter of solidarity. And support is growing for Omar across social media:

We joined more than 150 other progressive groups and individuals to sign a solidarity letter in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar as she continues to be subjected to vile, Islamophobic attacks.

Add your name in support of Ilhan here: https://t.co/nnxbEVUyHx #StandWithIlhan https://t.co/VWjbxxrnXY

— CODEPINK (@codepink) April 15, 2019

“A strong black, female, immigrant, visibly Muslim woman”

Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first ever Muslim women elected to congress. Omar’s already stood firm to challenge the ongoing human-rights abuses in occupied Palestine. In doing so, and by refusing to pledge allegiance to Israel, she’s faced vicious smears calling her antisemitic (including from Trump).

Many people feel Trump’s latest attack on Omar is dangerously Islamophobic. As Benjamin pointed out:

Rep. @IlhanMN represents everything white nationalists want America to fear & hate: a strong black, female, immigrant, visibly Muslim woman.

Trump's incitement against her is disgusting & dangerous#IStandWithIlhan pic.twitter.com/TSKj1jwEki

— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) April 13, 2019

Dalia Mogahed, director of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) also offered powerful support for Omar:

“Ilhan’s real crime for those attacking her is that she’s an unapologetic Black Muslim woman who acts and speaks like she’s equal.” #IstandwithIlhan

My segment this morning on MSNBC @amjoyshow https://t.co/Inu6Xmv3JF

— Dalia Mogahed (@DMogahed) April 15, 2019

Democratic house speaker Nancy Pelosi also demanded Trump remove the tweet. And her statement acknowledged the need for increased security for Omar:

following the President’s tweet, I spoke with the Sergeant-at-Arms to ensure that Capitol Police are conducting a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff.

But many people, including Tlaib, pointed to a “lack of support” from some Democrats:

They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse. However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us. https://t.co/7T1OlwS1YG

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 13, 2019

Others, meanwhile, noted that this isn’t a new pattern of behaviour from Trump:

Trump's history of inciting violence against Muslims started well before his recent attacks on Rep Ilhan Omar – he has been stoking hate versus Muslims for years and Trump's fans have answered by plotting to kill Muslims. My new @thedailybeast article: https://t.co/fecyKktUZ8

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) April 15, 2019

Omar also raised another vital point:

Violent crimes and other acts of hate by right-wing extremists and white nationalists are on the rise in this country… We can no longer ignore that they are being encouraged by the occupant of the highest office in the land.

So as thousands of people come together to stand in solidarity with Omar, one thing’s clear: Trump’s words and actions must not go unchallenged. He is clearly inciting hatred, and he shouldn’t be anywhere near Twitter – let alone ‘leading’ a country.

Featured image via Leopaltik1242/Wikimedia

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