Milano made headlines regarding a confrontation with her own critics. While discussing how #TimesUp is moving the conversation further on a panel at Politicon, a Los Angeles political event, she was confronted by Laura Loomer, a far-right reporter and conspiracy theorist who has been long entangled with Project Veritas.
“My question is for you, Alyssa Milano. You are friends with Linda Sarsour, and both of you ladies have positioned yourselves as speakers and representatives of the #MeToo movement,” Loomer asked Milano, referring to one of the cofounders of the wildly successful Women’s March who is also a Muslim rights activist. “I want to ask you right now to disavow Linda Sarsour because she is a supporter of Sharia law. And under Sharia law, women are oppressed, women are forced to wear a hijab,” Loomer probed. “My question is, will you please disavow her because she is advocating for Sharia law?” “She’s not,” Milano responded at the time. “She’s not. But thank you so much for your question.” “I don't even want to give that moment a second breath,” Milano tells The Advocate. “Just the fact that Laura Loomer is being considered a journalist to me means that she’s been given enough airtime.” But Loomer was on the hunt for more. After security escorted the increasingly disruptive reporter out, she took to the internet to call Milano a "liar and fraud." However, Milano is disavowing Sarsour. “Any time that there is any bigotry or anti-Semitism in that respect, it needs to be called out and addressed. I’m disappointed in the leadership of the Women’s March that they haven’t done it adequately,” Milano says now, referring to leaders of the Women’s March who've refused to denounce Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic, homophobic, and transphobic statements." Women's March cochair Tamika Mallory sat in the audience while Farrakhan gave a hateful speech in March in which he said, "The powerful Jews are my enemy," She also received a shout-out from him and posted about the event on social media. Sources: - www.advocate.com/women/2018/10/30/metoo-activist-alyssa-milano-wont-be-stopped - twitter.com/SavingAmerica4U/status/1057841752042889221 Note: - Included in the advocate.com article are the usual liberal excuses to whitewash virulently anti-Semitic Linda Sarsour and "Women's March" which have intentionally been excluded from the summary above.
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