American actress Selma Blair deletes a post in which she insulted Muslims and called for their deportation

American actress Selma Blair (Getty/French)

American actress Selma Blair deleted a comment she wrote on Instagram, in which she attacked Islam and Muslims and described them as “terrorists,” after she was subjected to harsh criticism.

Salma's deleted comment came on a video clip of a Syrian Jewish refugee named Abraham Hamra, in which he criticized US Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush, for being the only two members of Congress who voted against a measure that would prevent anyone who participated in the "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack on October 7. October 2023 of immigration to the United States.

Abraham described MP Rashida as a “liar and anti-Semite,” claiming that “the Jews fell victim to the Arabs, not the other way around.”

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In her deleted comment, Salma thanked the owner of the video and commented, “Thank you very much. Deport all these idiots who support terrorists. Islam has destroyed Islamic countries, and then they come here and destroy minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. We hope they meet their fate.” ".

Salma faced violent reactions on social media platforms, as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned her comment and called on her, in a post on the “X” platform yesterday, Saturday, February 10, 2024, to apologize to Muslims and engage in dialogue with the American Muslim community.

The council quoted Muslim rights lawyer Edward Ahmed Mitchell as saying, “Based on the ignorant and hate-filled statements made by Ms. Blair, we doubt that she has had any positive interactions with her Muslim colleagues in Hollywood or any members of the American Muslim community.”

Our @EdAhmedMitchell: “Based on the hateful and ignorant remarks that Ms. Blair made, we doubt that she has ever engaged in any meaningful interactions with her Muslim colleagues in Hollywood or other members of the American Muslim community." #SelmaBlairhttps://t.co/WTsnEe3mal

— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) February 10, 2024

CAIR added in a statement, “We encourage Ms. Blair to apologise, and we also call on her to engage in dialogue with our community. We also call on Hollywood studios and agencies to stop punishing artists who express their support for Palestinian human rights, while ignoring hateful comments.” For artists who support the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

For her part, American journalist and film critic Carolyn Hinds said, “Selma Blair reveals herself as an angry, anti-Islamic racist... Well. Suddenly, I wonder why I, as a journalist and film critic with multiple sclerosis, did not receive any responses to my requests to conduct Interviews with her and the director of her documentary about living with MS.

Selma Blair revealing herself to be a raging Islamaphobic bigot…well.

Suddenly, I'm wondering about the reason why I, a journalist and film critic with MS, never got any replies to my requests for interviews with her and the director of her documentary about living with MS.

- Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis (@CarrieCnh12) February 9, 2024

Who is Selma Blair?

American actress Selma Blair was born on June 23, 1972 in Southfield, Michigan, USA. She is the youngest of 4 daughters to a mother who works as a judge and a father who is a lawyer.

Her parents divorced when she was 23 years old, and she later changed her last name from Peytons to Blair. Blair comes from a Jewish family on her father's side, while her mother was of Scottish origins.

Blair was raised Jewish, before she officially converted to Judaism when she was in the second grade of primary school, and called herself "Bat-Shiva."

She participated in several famous works; Such as: “Strong Island Boys” in 1997, “Cruel Intentions” in 1999, which won the MTV Classic Movie Award, and “Legally Blonde.”

In 2004, she participated in the movie "Hellboy", where she played a magnetic and depressed superhero, which was her last prominent role before her multiple sclerosis became more severe.

In 2011, she gave birth to her son, Arthur, and after his birth, she and his father, designer Jason Blake, separated.

Selma Blair published her memoirs and provided shocking information about her past, as she indicated that she drank alcohol when she was 7 years old, and later became addicted to it until she quit it in 2016.

She also revealed that she was raped during college, after she drank alcohol excessively, and she disclosed that she was sexually assaulted during her teenage years by one of the administrators of Cranbrook Boarding School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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In October 2018, Selma Blair revealed that she had multiple sclerosis on her Instagram account, and began working actively with the Multiple Sclerosis Society of America and the American Association for People with Disabilities.

Blair documented her journey with the disease, treatment, and challenges she faced in a 2021 documentary.

In one scene, Blair lies in bed before a round of initial chemotherapy, which she was prescribed as part of a treatment known as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, a high-risk procedure aimed at rebuilding the immune system.

Source: Al Jazeera + American press + social networking sites