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August 28, 2025 | 11:46 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A right-wing US Congress campaigner successful Texas, Valentina Gomez, has burned a transcript of the Quran. The burning video was uploaded connected X connected Tuesday, August 26, 2025. She swore to eradicate Islam forever.
"Your daughters volition beryllium raped, and your sons volition beryllium beheaded, unless we eradicate Islam forever," said the pro-Trump influencer Valentina Gomez during her campaign. She was wearing camouflage pants and a run t-shirt depicting a silhouette of a rifle. As reported by Times of Israel, Gomez utilized a flamethrower to pain the Islamic beatified book.
In the provocative recording, she falsely claimed that "America is simply a Christian country." Gomez besides referred to the Muslim assemblage arsenic "terrorists," instructing them to spell to 1 of the 57 Muslim countries. "There is lone 1 existent God, and that is the God of Israel," she said arsenic cited by TRT.
Born successful Colombia, Gomez is simply a person who has ne'er been elected. She has a past of utilizing unpleasant tactics and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims, achromatic people, and immigrants successful an effort to summation popularity and participate the governmental arena.
The run advertisement ended with a run logo featuring the 'i' successful the connection "Valentina" shaped similar a bullet, supra the slogan "Supported by Jesus Christ."
Valentina Gomez, 26, primitively from Colombia, immigrated to the US with her household astatine a young age. In a tweet earlier this week, she described herself arsenic armed, unvaccinated, and 100 percent prioritizing America.
As a loyal protagonist of US President Donald Trump, Gomez challenged chap Republican Party Representative John Carter to correspond Texas's 31st Congressional District successful the US House of Representatives.
Laura Loomer, a adjacent person of Trump, praised the ad. Loomer referred to it arsenic the benignant of vigor I privation to spot from each Republican Party members of Congress.
Last December, Gomez uploaded a video pretending to execute an amerciable immigrant. She called for nationalist execution for anyone who raped oregon killed American citizens. "They don't merit deportation; they merit to beryllium exterminated," Gomez said.
In the aforesaid interview, Gomez praised China's anti-Islam policy, which has detained implicit a cardinal Uighur number successful re-education camps. According to the Trump administration's first-hand report, China has implemented forced labour and sterilization of the Uighur community.
Gomez's Actions Spark Outrage
Gomez's enactment of burning the Quran has sparked outrage. Many societal media users noted that Gomez, who claimed to emotion Jesus and his parent Mary, did not amusement respect for some spiritual figures mentioned dozens of times, straight oregon indirectly, successful the Islamic beatified book.
"Jesus is mentioned positively 25 times and Mary 36 times successful the Quran. Compare that with Talmud. @ValentinaForUSA wherefore don't you respect Jesus and Mary for the involvement of Zionists by burning the Quran?" wrote a societal media idiosyncratic quoted from TRT.
"In the Quran, Jesus is mentioned 25 times; his mother, Mary, is mentioned adjacent much often than successful the New Testament, 34 times. An full section is named aft her; Surah 19 is wholly dedicated to her and tells the communicative of the miraculous commencement of Jesus. She burned it, a foolish and unfortunate girl," different netizen said.
Richard Grenell, US President Donald Trump's peculiar envoy for peculiar missions, besides criticized Gomez for undermining the First Amendment of the US Constitution. "Stop underestimating the First Amendment established by our predecessors. The US Constitution guarantees spiritual freedom. You don't recognize our state well," helium wrote connected X.
Social media users suspected she was utilizing religion to boost her caller governmental ambitions. "Get retired of my state; we person nary spot for intolerant and hate-filled radical who bash not judge successful basal quality rights specified arsenic the FIRST AMENDMENT, which guarantees spiritual freedom. Why don't you survey its basics earlier moving for office?" said a idiosyncratic to Gomez arsenic quoted from TRT.
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