NEW DELHI: In a fresh display of Islamophobia and racist rhetoric, Valentina Gomez, a Trump loyalist and Republican Congressional candidate from Texas, sparked outrage after posting a video of herself burning a copy of the Holy Quran with a flamethrower.
In the widely circulated video, Valentina Gomez, who is contesting the 2026 elections from Texas’s 31st Congressional District, declared: “There is only one true God and that is the God of Israel.”
While throwing flames on the holy book, the Texas candidate for the Grand Old Party (GOP) vowed to eliminate Islam not only from Texas, but also from the entire United States of America.
Born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1999, Gomez migrated to the US in 2009 with her family. A former swimmer who represented Colombia internationally, she studied at Central Connecticut State University before earning an MBA in 2020 from the AB Freeman School of Business at the Tulane University.
The extremely hateful campaign ad follows a series of controversial statements and actions by Valentina Gomez, who previously called for public executions of immigrants accused of violent crimes.
In December 2024, she staged a mock shooting of a dummy representing immigrants in New York, demanding that offenders be hanged.