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And so the pearl clutching commences. [IsraelTimes] Colombian-American influencer Valentina Gomez, who came in 6th last time she ran for office, uses flamethrower against Islamic holy book, winning praise from Trump confidante
A far-right US congressional candidate in Texas set fire to a copy of the Koran, in an advertisement posted to X on Tuesday in which she vowed to "stop Islam once and for all."
"Your daughters will be raped, and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all," says the pro-Trump influencer, Valentina Gomez, in the ad. She is dressed in camo pants and a campaign T-shirt bearing the silhouette of a rifle.
Then, she uses a flamethrower to burn a copy of Islam’s holy book.
"We’re done turning the other cheek," Gomez says, inverting one of Jesus’s parables. "Remember, David didn’t pray for Goliath — he killed them (sic). America is a Christian nation."
"Those terrorist Moslems can fuck off to any of the 57 Moslem nations. There is only one true god, and that is the God of Israel," she declares, as a song by Kanye West — self-proclaimed "Nazi" rapper — plays in the background.
The campaign spot ends with a campaign logo in which the ’i" in "Valentina" is shown as a bullet, above the slogan: "Powered by Jesus Christ."
Gomez, 26, hails from Colombia and immigrated to the US as a child with her family. In a tweet earlier this week, she described herself as armed, unvaccinated, "without pronouns," and "100% America first."
An avid supporter of US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
, Gomez is challenging fellow Republican Rep. John Carter to represent Texas’s 31st Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.
Her Koran-burning ad was denounced on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League.
"This campaign ad from GOP candidate Valentina Gomez is fueled by hate and anti-Moslem bigotry. Burning a sacred religious text like the Koran can incite violence and put people in danger. This needs to be condemned by all good people of conscience," the antisemitism watchdog said in a statement.
Close Trump confidante Laura Loomer praised the ad, calling it "the type of energy I want to see all GOP members of Congress have."
The US Constitution’s First Amendment protects inflammatory speech, including burning religious texts or other items of symbolic meaning.
On Monday, US President Trump ordered the US attorney general to prosecute, "to the fullest extent possible," any acts of "American Flag desecration," though his executive order noted that flag-burning itself is protected.
Several far-right figures in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
have made a practice of burning copies of the Koran, which — like drawing cartoons of the prophet Muhammed — frequently draws threats and acts of violence in response. In 2015, a failed terrorist attack by Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-inspired button men targeted a "Draw Muhammad" contest, also in Texas.
FAR-RIGHT INFLUENCER PREVIOUSLY BURNED LGBT BOOKS
The Koran-burning stunt is not Gomez’s first incendiary advertisement.
In 2024, she sought the Republican nomination to be Missouri’s secretary of state, finishing in sixth place.
In that campaign, she released an ad in which she used a flamethrower to destroy books aimed at LGBTQ teens, declaring: "These books come from a Missouri public library; when I’m in office they will burn." She has also called transgender people "faggots."
Last December, Gomez posted a video pretending to execute an undocumented Democrat, calling for "public executions for any illegal that rapes or kills an American," and adding: "They don’t deserve deportation; they deserve to be ended."
She has pledged to "never take a dollar from AIPAC," but said in a recent interview that she supports Israel because it is fighting Moslems.
In the same interview, Gomez praised the anti-Islam policies of China, which has detained more than a million of its Uighur minority citizens in "re-education" camps and subjected them to forced labor and sterilization, according to a report by Trump’s first administration, which accused Beijing of genocide.
Gomez also said, in a tweet directed at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
, that Moslems should be "abolished."
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