{"id":402675,"date":"2019-04-08T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/threats-targeting-rep-ilhan-omar-prompt-warnings-of-normalized-hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T07:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:19:35","slug":"threats-targeting-rep-ilhan-omar-prompt-warnings-of-normalized-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/threats-targeting-rep-ilhan-omar-prompt-warnings-of-normalized-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats Targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar Prompt Warnings of &#8220;Normalized Hate Speech&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Advocacy groups, progressives, and politicians are warning about the dangers of \u201cnormalized hate speech\u201d and Islamophobia after the latest round of threats targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2018\/11\/07\/refugee-muslim-women-trump-wouldnt-have-let-win-house-seats\">one of the first<\/a><span> Muslim congresswomen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political environment, led by an Islamophobe in the White House, has normalized hate speech and emboldened bigots in their actions,\u201d Afaf Nasher, executive director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY),<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/cair_ny_welcomes_arrest_of_man_threatening_to_kill_rep_ilhan_omar_decries_increased_islamophobic_environment\">said<\/a><span> <\/span>Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rising threat of Islamophobia and white supremacy must be taken seriously,\u201d he added. CAIR is the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-712069947\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-1370537596\">\n<aside class=\" callout inline-callout callout--subscribe callout--dark\" id=\"truth-376471445\">\n<h2>Uncompromised, uncompromising news<\/h2>\n<p>Get reliable, independent news and commentary delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nasher expressed relief that law enforcement tracked down Patrick Carlineo, of Addison, New York, who was arrested and charged on Friday with threatening to assault and murder Omar, a Democrat who represents Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call to Omar\u2019s office last month, the 55-year-old allegedly told one of her staffers: \u201cDo you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she\u2019s an (expletive) terrorist. I\u2019ll put a bullet in her (expletive) skull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While being questioned by the FBI after the incident, \u201cCarlineo told the agents he is a patriot, that he loves President Trump, and hates radical Muslims in government,\u201d the<span> <\/span><em>Elmira Star Gazette<\/em><span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stargazette.com\/story\/news\/public-safety\/2019\/04\/05\/steuben-county-man-charged-threatening-kill-congresswoman\/3377625002\/\">reported<\/a><span> <\/span>Friday, citing the<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonswaine\/status\/1114527083731066880\">complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News of Carlineo\u2019s arrest came after<span> <\/span><em>The Blast <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/congresswoman-ilhan-omar-bomb-threat-target-search-warrant\/\">reported<\/a><span> <\/span>Wednesday that, according to court records, Omar was the target of an unrelated bomb threat in mid-March when she was the featured speaker for a CAIR event at a Los Angeles hotel.<\/p>\n<p>A female caller, who dialed from a blocked number, reportedly left a voicemail saying: \u201cWhat would you do if I told you your hotel was going to be bombed. That is exactly what\u2019s going to happen if you allow the likes of Ilhan Omar into your hotel. She is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/threats-targeting-rep-ilhan-omar-prompt-warnings-of-normalized-hate-speech\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy groups, progressives, and politicians are warning about the dangers of \u201cnormalized hate speech\u201d and Islamophobia after the latest round of threats targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee and one of the first Muslim congresswomen. \u201cThe political environment, led by an Islamophobe in the White House, has normalized hate speech and emboldened bigots in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}