'Most inappropriate,' Pennsylvania State Representative Summer Lee said.
A first-year member of the Pennsylvania House has been slammed as a"racist Islamaphobe" after she delivered a controversial prayer describing Jesus as"our only hope" and praising President Donald Trump before the swearing in of the chamber's first Muslim woman.
Shortly after the incident unfolded, Lee took to Twitter to rail against Borowicz's actions, writing:"We're swearing in the 1st Black Muslim woman to the PA General Assembly. To honor the occasion [House Speaker Mike Turzai] invites the most inappropriate, racist, islamophobe to ramble a 'prayer' thanking Trump, Jesus, and Israel."
— Summer Lee March 25, 2019Since delivering her prayer, Borowicz has faced calls to be censured from both Johnson-Harrell and CAIR. “On this significant day, when Pennsylvanians of all backgrounds could celebrate the swearing-in of the Commonwealth’s first female Muslim House member—thus expanding the tradition of religious freedom so important to the history of this Commonwealth—Republican Rep. Stephanie Borowicz chose instead to deliver a thinly-veiled attack on the Islamic faith of Rep.
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