Chants of “Death to America” broke
out at an Al Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan recently, as can be heard in
a social
media video. An activist named Tarek Bazzi spoke to the crowd, inciting it
by repeating Malcolm X’s claim that America is “one of the rottenest countries
that has ever existed on this Earth.
A local Imam named Usama
Abdhulagani also spoke, telling the gathering that “Israel is ISIS, they are
Nazis, they are fascists.” As if averring that Israelis are Nazis isn’t insane
enough, they are also ISIS, too?
The
Daily Caller, which has been following
the story, noted that it contacted Michigan Democrats to ask if they condemned
the chant, with a number of them replying in the affirmative. However, despite
repeated requests for a statement of condemnation, The Daily Caller said
that others, including Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Haley Stevens, Sen. Debbie
Stabenow, Sen. Gary Peters, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to share their
stance on the matter, while Gov. Whitmer did not respond to a request for
comment.
If “Death to America” isn’t hate
speech, what would be? Is it not verbal “violence?” It certainly could be seen
as inciting violence. And multiple Democrat state representatives—and
the governor—declined to condemn it?!
If the Democrat Party keeps moving in
the same direction and with the same speed that it has in the past several
years-- and the country’s demographics keep changing apace-- by 2032 or 2036, Democratic
candidates themselves may be chanting “Death to America” on the campaign
trail.
Whether even that would be enough to
rouse a sleeping—and ever-changing—populace to throw them out is, as they say,
problematic.
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