Earlier this week, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, insisted that she and other Republicans are "against hate," a claim that was immediately countered by The Recount, a video journalism-focused media company that produced a striking supercut of Greene's own words.
In the video tweeted by The Recount, Greene says she’s “heard a lot of conversation from my colleagues across the aisle about Islamophobia in America, which we … are completely against hate of any kind against anyone.”
But the video then cuts to footage of Greene's prior Islamophobic remarks, including her suggestion that there is an ongoing "Islamic invasion" of the United States government and her claim that "Democrats are controlled now by the Jihad squad.”
You can watch the video below.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: We're against Islamophobia\n\nAlso Marjorie Taylor Greene:pic.twitter.com/ZUFZvVOXTv— The Recount (@The Recount) 1639511912
The video soon went viral. Many concurred with its assessment and criticized Greene for her blatant hypocrisy and called for her constituents to vote her out of Congress.
@RepMTG \n\nIf it looks like a duck, walks like a duck & "Q"uacks like a duck, it's a duck...\n\nYou can "say" you're not Islamophobic or racist, but you cancel your statement with your own words.\n\nImagine that Parents: Teaching your kids to hate when they are young, so it continueshttps://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Will Burt (@Will Burt) 1639663948
This vile excuse of a human needs to be removed.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Char2021 (@Char2021) 1639592331
One day (hopefully soon) karma will catch up with this... "person"?https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Nietzsche's Navel (@Nietzsche's Navel) 1639622542
Clearly @RepMTG IS A PERSON FILLED WITH HATRED.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Ye too (@Ye too) 1639626059
What a horrible hypocritehttps://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Chaeyoung \ucc44\uc601 Park \ud83d\udc3b\ud83d\udc99\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Chaeyoung \ucc44\uc601 Park \ud83d\udc3b\ud83d\udc99\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1639644862
Marjorie Taylor Greene = Islamophobia, Hate, Racism\nAgain - the GOP reveals themselves by using their OWN words.\n\nJust another reason we gotta get out the vote in the 2022 midterms to suppress the Republican party.\n\n#wtpBLUE #wtpEARTHhttps://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Jaime (@Jaime) 1639594807
Marjorie Taylor Greene a hypocrite? You don't say! She's also completely lacking in self-awareness, which is another trait of the American right.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— Sekihara "thinking is sexy" Tae (@Sekihara "thinking is sexy" Tae) 1639604849
Hey @RepMTG, doesn't your hypocrisy bother you at least a little, or are you up for telling bullshit lies each and every day?https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— The Paul Guy (@The Paul Guy) 1639589285
She suffers of amnesia... Thank God for Social Media. Here is is... What a hypocrite!https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1470845682370154496\u00a0\u2026— orgullosa venezolana (@orgullosa venezolana) 1639592748
Greene's hateful rhetoric has taken center stage in recent weeks after she said people should "never apologize to Islamic terrorist sympathizers, communists, or those who fund murder with our tax dollars," in an attack against Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat.
Greene said Omar and "the Jihad Squad are all three and are undeserving of an apology."
Democrats want us censored, shut down, and imprisoned.\n\nNever apologize to Islamic terrorist sympathizers, communists, or those who fund murder with our tax dollars.\n\n@IlhanMN and the Jihad Squad are all three and are undeserving of an apology.https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1464584933666664448\u00a0\u2026— Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1638020317
Greene issued her remarks in response to the controversy swirling around Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who, along with Greene, is one of the more high-profile members of a Republican caucus that has continued to push back against COVID-19 restrictions and traffick conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 general election.
Boebert sparked outrage and was accused of expressing anti-Muslim sentiment after she branded Omar a member of the "Jihad Squad."
The use of the term "Jihad Squad" has proven controversial.
Omar is one of three Muslim members of Congress, the others being Democrats André Carson (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan).
She is also one of the members of "The Squad," a group of six Democratic members of the House that was initially composed of Omar, Tlaib, and their fellow Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts).
The phrase "Jihad Squad" first emerged in 2019 when the Illinois Republican County Chairman's Association included it in an image posted to their social media accounts that depicted the four women holding guns and standing defiantly.
The image has been included as evidence of the "process of radicalization," according to the political scientists Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram, who in their book Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politicsnoted the image appeared to "anticipate being called out for racism" with a caption that read:
"Political Jihad Is Their Game: If you don't agree with their socialist ideology, you're racist."
Omar later issued a response calling Boebert a "deprived person who shamefully defecates & defiles the House of Representatives."
