LONDON – For the second time this week, people around the world expressed shock at President Donald Trump inflaming racial tensions after his supporters responded to his attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somali-born Muslim, with frenzied chants of “Send her back! Send her back!”
The jarring scene, which followed Trump falsely claiming Omar had praised al-Qaeda, inspired the hashtag #IStandWithIlhanOmar on social media and was trending in the United States on Thursday, along with many other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada and Egypt.
Politicians in Europe took to Twitter and warned that the display at the North Carolina political rally had veered into dangerous territory.
“This is what fascism looks like. We must fight it at home and abroad,” tweeted Jess Phillips, a Labour party lawmaker in the United Kingdom.
“Jesus, what next?” asked British politician Emily Thornberry, while David Lammy said the footage was “chilling,” adding that “Fascism spreads like wildfire. Especially when it comes from the President of the United States of America.”
Ireland’s foreign minister, Simon Coveney, shared a video Trump speaking and the crowd chanting, also calling it “chilling” and adding: “fueling hatred based on race is not acceptable in political discourse… history tells us where this leads!”
On Thursday morning, Democratic support for Omar continued to roll in, as Trump’s targeting of the congresswoman entered its fifth day.
Earlier in the week, Trump sent out a series of racist tweets targeting Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Omar – telling them to “go back” and fix “the crime infested places from which they came.”
On Twitter,Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., linked Trump’s specific…
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