LONDON: A far-right Republican congressional candidate in Texas has caused widespread outrage after releasing a campaign video in which she set fire to the Quran and vowed to “stop Islam once and for all.”
Valentina Gomez, a self-styled MAGA influencer running for Texas’s 31st District seat in 2026, appears in the video warning: “Your daughters will be raped, and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all.”
Wearing camouflage pants and a campaign T-shirt emblazoned with the silhouette of a rifle, she uses a flamethrower to burn a copy of Islam’s holy book.
“America is a Christian nation, so those terrorist Muslims can f*** off to any of the 57 Muslim nations. There is only one true God, and that is the God of Israel,” she proclaims, with a song by rapper Kanye West playing in the background.
The video concludes with Gomez saying she is “powered by Jesus Christ,” alongside a campaign logo featuring a bullet as the “i” in “Valentina.”
