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(50,905 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:21 PM Aug 26

MAGA Candidate Torches the Quran in Deranged Flamethrower Ad

Source: Daily Beast

A far-right MAGA congressional hopeful has posted an unhinged campaign ad in which she sets fire to the Quran with a flamethrower.

Valentina Gomez, a Republican running for Texas’ 31st District in 2026, shared the extreme video on social media as part of her vow to “end Islam” in the Lone Star State, which has a Muslim population of roughly 1 percent. Gomez has a history of creating violent stunts and using hateful rhetoric, but she also hopes to make it onto the national stage via a district that voted 61 percent for Trump in 2024.

“Your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all,” Gomez said before torching a copy of the holy book. “America is a Christian nation, so those terrorist Muslims can f--- off to any of the 57 Muslim nations. There is only one true God, and that is the God of Israel.”. Gomez’s campaign ad dripped with violent rhetoric and hatred, and ended with a message declaring that she is “powered by Jesus Christ.”

The Republican was swiftly condemned after uploading the Quran-burning stunt online.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-candidate-valentina-gomez-flamethrowers-the-quran-in-deranged-campaign-ad/

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Bettie

(18,781 posts)
2. Sounds like she seriously needs some
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:07 PM
Aug 26

help with her mental health.

Because that is, in a word: unhinged.

moonshinegnomie

(3,593 posts)
4. she ran for office in missouri and got steamrolled
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:49 PM
Aug 26

she finished 6th and got less than 10% of the vote

shes trying to appeal to the ultra far right but i dont thing she has any actual chance in hell of winning in the district shes running in



slightlv

(6,524 posts)
8. That's because Islam is one of the three religions of the middle eastern monotheistic god.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 10:41 PM
Aug 26

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ALL are "people of the Book." Each has its own slant or interpretation, no doubt... but the people and most of the events are all the same.

HeartsCanHope

(1,294 posts)
14. Jesus is considered an important prophet by Islam if I remember my World Religion class from College correctly.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 12:12 AM
Aug 27

I think he is even called the Messiah in the Quran.

BaronChocula

(3,250 posts)
9. What inspires a Latina immigrant from Colombia
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 10:57 PM
Aug 26

to run as a white supremacist?
There is actually a social media personality (I can't recall his name) who talks about Latino trumpers and their failed attempts to be near whiteness. Except the whiteness they want to be near is the ugly kind. Sad.

aggiesal

(10,289 posts)
12. The God of Israel is also the God of Islam ...
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 11:41 PM
Aug 26

If you don't know religious history, Abraham has 2 sons, Isaac & Ishmael

Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam.

Ishmael is regarded as a prophet within Islam and the ancestor of the Ishmaelite.

All the religions from the Middle-East go through Abraham, the same GOD.

LudwigPastorius

(13,346 posts)
13. Yes, all 3 religions worship the God of Abraham.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 11:58 PM
Aug 26

...and boy is she pissing Him off. (and almost 2 billion Muslims)

Aristus

(70,733 posts)
15. Did she screech:
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 12:13 AM
Aug 27

I’M A GOD WARRIOR!!!”?

That seems to be popular with the performatively crazy Jesus whack jobs.

not fooled

(6,451 posts)
16. Coach D has a great take on this idiocy
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:20 AM
Aug 27
THE MORE MAGA DOESN’T ACCEPT HER, THE MORE VILE HER STUNTS GET!

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