{"id":1540934,"date":"2022-07-06T08:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540934"},"modified":"2022-07-06T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:42","slug":"stop-using-our-faith-as-your-punchline-bette-midler-gets-thrashed-again-this-time-for-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-using-our-faith-as-your-punchline-bette-midler-gets-thrashed-again-this-time-for-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Using Our Faith As Your Punchline\u2019: Bette Midler Gets Thrashed Again, This Time For Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-using-our-faith-as-your-punchline-bette-midler-gets-thrashed-again-this-time-for-islamophobia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Singer Bette Midler landed in hot water \u2014 for the second time in two days \u2014 when her attempt to insult the United States Supreme Court backfired in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Midler has been decrying the Court\u2019s 6-3 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-is-getting-her-nails-done-as-an-act-of-reclamation-after-dobbs-decision\/\">decision<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> \u2014 which included a 5-4 decision <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/five-reasons-to-celebrate-the-overturning-of-roe\/\">overturning<\/a> landmark abortion cases\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> \u2014 since it was handed down in late June, and Tuesday was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet that prompted the backlash was a group photo of the court members, with all but the three liberal justices \u2014 Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and the since-retired Stephen Breyer \u2014 edited to look as though they were part of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group known for oppressing women.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rfW8ql7J1p\">pic.twitter.com\/rfW8ql7J1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bettemidler (@BetteMidler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1544409932883181569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Midler was not the only one to draw that comparison \u2014 singer Barbra Streisand referred to the Court as \u201cthe American Taliban\u201d after the decision was handed down, and singer Patti LuPone asked, \u201cWhat is the difference between the Taliban and the Christian Right? I\u2019ll now add the Supreme Court. America is on her knees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But shortly after the \u201cHocus Pocus\u201d star fired off her tweet, critics came for her, asking why she couldn\u2019t complain about the Court without dragging Muslims into the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. Bette Midler is on a roll this week. From transphobic to Islamophobic,\u201d Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marclamonthill\/status\/1544501375815630848\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Author Laila Lalami <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LailaLalami\/status\/1544473865945878528\">added<\/a>, \u201cCan\u2019t you people ever fight extremism without being Islamophobic? Muslims aren\u2019t your rhetorical tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour friendly local Muslim &#038; lawyer AGAIN reminding you that Islam permits abortion for a variety of reasons &#038; keeps that healthcare decision between a woman &#038; her loved ones &#038; doctor,\u201d Qasim Rashid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QasimRashid\/status\/1544473097180528640\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cStop using our faith as your punchline. Call this for what it is\u2014100% \u2018Christian\u2019 nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Christian Nationalism. This is homegrown. No need to denigrate Islam and Muslims for this extremism. Stop making us the pinata and bogeyman please. Also, traditionally, Sharia allows for abortion up to the first 4 months and makes exceptions for the woman\u2019s health,\u201d author Wajahat Ali <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1544469888521101314\">objected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBette Midler was like \u2018well I did transphobia yesterday, so maybe I\u2019ll go with racism today,&#8217;\u201d one Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenny2x4\/status\/1544466808081551364\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan y\u2019all find a way to critique Christian nationalism without being islamophobic?\u201d another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Danez_Smif\/status\/1544450257697865728\">added<\/a>. \u201cBette, it\u2019s tired. If you can\u2019t find a way to be \u2018liberal\u2019 without throwing minorities under the bus, you are doing it very wrong. Give it a rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Midler was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas\/\">labeled a TERF<\/a> (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) on Monday for calling on women to push back against being erased by woke terms like \u201cbirthing person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Bette Midler landed in hot water \u2014 for the second time in two days \u2014 when her attempt to insult the United States Supreme Court backfired in spectacular fashion. Midler has been decrying the Court\u2019s 6-3 decision in\u00a0Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u2014 which included a 5-4 decision overturning landmark abortion cases\u00a0Roe v. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1541165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}