The Palestinian US Congress woman cried, Rashid Tlaib, in a House hearing, spoke with FBI security officials after reading a threatening death message.
She read the letter during a session of the subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties entitled "Facing White supremacists: the federal response".
The letter, received from an unknown person, praised the terrorist attack against the Al-Nour mosque in New Zealand, and the sender wished to be in the United States.
"The attack on the mosque is a wonderful beginning. We hope and pray that the attack will continue in the United States. The only good Muslim is the dead Muslim," the letter said.
"I am a mother, and I want to go home to my children and why am I threatened with death for my faith?" Said Taleb. "The security official asks people to launch such threats and classify them as domestic terrorism.
Palestinian Rachida Taleb threatened with death and influential moments from within the US Congress
