Some people aren't not be fans of free speech in America.
A Muslim civil rights organization called on Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign an executive order cracking down on hate speech by elected officials after a faux movie poster labeling four Democratic congresswomen “The Jihad Squad” was posted on the Facebook page of a statewide Republican organization.
“It’s not about one meme that brings us here today,” Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday at a news conferences at CAIR-Chicago’s Loop headquarters. “It’s about a culture that exists within the Republican Party, unfortunately, and really that exists in the political fabric in America today. And it is problematic and poisonous.”
The post to the Facebook page of the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association, which went up Friday night and was later removed, showed four Democratic congresswomen who’ve been dubbed “the squad” with a tagline that read: “Political jihad is their game. If you don’t agree with their socialist ideology, you’re racist.”
Two of the women, U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, are shown wielding guns. The other two images are of U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Monday, July 22, 2019
Muslim civil rights group calls on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to crack down on political hate speech after GOP ‘Jihad Squad’ Facebook post
The Chicago Tribune reports:
