US Rep. Lauren Boebert owes US Rep. Ilhan Omar an apology
People who can’t debate real issues because they lack the intelligence to do so instead turn to racist hatred and name-calling to demonize others with whom they disagree. That’s the case with Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert who made a vicious personal attack against Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. But Boebert’s anti-Arab and anti-Muslim slam was not just against Omar, it is against every Arab, ever Muslim and even every Christian from the Middle East, an ugly stereotype Boebert used to distract from her inability to address real challenges facing America
By Ray Hanania
There is no doubt that America is a polarized nation, with the two sides of the political spectrum now so far apart they cannot even see each other.
Some argue this all began when Donald Trump entered the race for president, eventually winning the election despite his history of thin-skinned pettiness and name-calling.
But I think it began long before that, when the Republican Newt Gingrich was the speaker of the House and led a drive to “religionize” American politics by embracing Christianity. In reality, he set a new standard in political polarization, although you cannot just blame him for that — you also have to blame President Bill Clinton, whose personal conduct in office had no bounds of shame.
Before we could even sort out all of the hate-driven personal politics at the end of the Gingrich and Clinton years, the US found itself diving head-first into demonization and fearmongering when a radical Osama bin Laden “upped the ante” in terms of anti-Americanism and launched his Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands of civilians.
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The racist pettiness from @laurenboebert against @IlhanMN @Ilhan distracts from real issues. Boebert should apologize & address issues not blather racist hate. Boebert’s attack against Omar is an attack against every #Arab and Every #Muslim @ArabNews https://www.arabnews.com/node/1979166
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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