This is her response to to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris and California.

Via Politico:

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the first Jewish congresswoman from Florida, said Monday she hopes to counter some of the hate-filled rhetoric in recent months by inviting a Muslim-American constituent to this year’s State of the Union address.

There’s an added political bonus for the Weston congresswoman, who also is chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. The statement she makes by having Dr. Mohsin Jaffer attend President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech is a contrast with the message of hostility Democrats and Muslim-Americans see emanating from many Republican presidential candidates.

x”The rhetoric and vitriol that has been targeted at this community has been absolutely outrageous and unacceptable. And as a member of a minority religion myself, one that has faced persecution throughout our existence, to me the idea that we would stand idly by and ignore that and not stand up and use our voices to stand up for our brothers and sisters in the Muslim-American community was just unacceptable,” Wasserman Schultz said at a news conference in Weston.

“While everybody has a right to express their opinion in the United States of America, the rest of us that are thinking correctly and who believe in the values that America stands for have the right to drown them out. No better way to drown out hate than buy making sure that we all lock arms and stand up as leaders in our country and push back and say, ‘Enough is enough. We will not accept that type of rhetoric. We will not accept that people in America will be treated that way based on who they are,” she said.