Posted on 01/31/2024 2:43:31 AM PST by Libloather
Two women have accused an aide to Vice President Kamala Harris of barring them from entering a campaign event because they were wearing hijabs.
A video that has amassed 1.8million views on X appears to show two women being blocked from entering a campaign event in Las Vegas over the weekend.
The video, posted Tuesday morning by an account called Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation, was filmed by a woman who can be heard but not seen.
She and another woman, who is briefly shown to be wearing a hijab - headscarf worn by some Muslim women - confront a young man who is staffing the event about not being let in despite having an invitation.
The women question the staff, who the Las Vegas Review-Journal report are from both the state and county Democratic Party, about why they are being denied entrance before beginning to make the claim that it is because of their hijabs.
A spokesman for the Democrat party said the women were banned for disrupting previous events.
When the staff don't directly respond to their questions, the pair chide them with labels like 'racist' and 'Islamophobic.'
'Is it because of our scarves?' asked one of the women after being told they would not be allowed in.
The local outlet reported that an aide with the Biden-Harris re-elect campaign said the two women were part of a group of people who were not allowed in the event because of previous disruptions they had caused.
As passersby continue to file into the event, the women tell them: 'They're (the campaign staff) disinviting us because we have hijabs on our heads.'
The women then attempt to use identity politics to shame the staffers, calling out the young man for apparently being part of the LGBT community and another black female...
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Wear a terrorist's uniform, get treated like a terrorist.
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