Ilhan Omar Suggests Sharia Punishment for Critic Who Accuses Her of Muslim Adultery

Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested on Twitter Wednesday that a critic should face Sharia punishment for seeming to accuse her of adultery.

Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and practicing Muslim, had earlier commented on news that President Donald Trump had warned the next two weeks of the coronavirus outbreak would be “very painful” for Americans. . .

Subhanallah! https://t.co/MysfOONOw4

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 1, 2020

One Twitter user replied by invoking the Quran’s prohibition against “fornication/adultery.”

Omar took notice, and fired back with a reference to the Muslim holy book’s stance against accusing a woman of unchastity without sufficient evidence. According to Omar, Muslims are commanded to reject such “testimony” and to flog the offender “with eighty stripes” for being “disobedient to Allaah.”

“And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever. They indeed are the Faasiqoon (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allaah)”

[al-Noor 24:4].

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 1, 2020