'Witchcraft': Far-right Republicans unleash hate on 'satanic' Sikh prayer at RNC
Republicans are hurling racist and bigoted insults at a Sikh speaker who offered a prayer to former president Donald Trump on the opening night of the Republican National Convention, the Guardian reports.
Harmeet Dhillon, a pro-Trump Republican party official and civil rights lawyer, took to the stage Monday to bless Trump with a Sikh prayer of peace. While her speech was met with applause that night, prominent Trump supporters reacted with hate laced with Christian nationalism on X.
White nationalist Nick Fuentes was among the first to deride Dhillon, calling the prayer “total blasphemy,” during his live stream of the event that night according to the Guardian.
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“Oh, f--- off. What a joke,” Fuentes said.
Former GOP Senate candidate Laura Witzke took a similar line in post on X Tuesday, adding a dash of racism.
“How about you get deported instead, you pagan blasphemer,” Witzke wrote. “God saves our president and the RNC mocks him with this witchcraft.”
Far-right internet persona and white nationalist Stew Peters shared a video of Dhillon’s speech on X, saying that the conference opening was “was complete with satanic chants and multiple prayers to FALSE GODS.”
One X user used a screenshot of Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom villain Mola Ram holding a flaming human heart to “welcome” Dhillon to the conference.
Dhillon first came to prominence after pushing back on the racial profile of Sikh and has more recently become a staple of the Maga movement. Her law firm has received more than $10 million from GOP campaigns, according to the Guardian, and has helped fight some of the former presidents' legal battles, including representing Trump before the Supreme Court in January after he was stricken from ballots in Colorado and Maine.
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