Hyderabad, Aug. 28 -- Republican candidate Valentina Gomez, who is contesting for the 31st Congressional district seat in Texas, has sparked widespread shock after she posted a video on social media where she is seen torching a copy of the holy Quran and saying that Islam must be stopped "once and for all."

"Your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all," she is heard saying in the now-deleted video.

She claims that America is a Christian nation, and so "those terrorist Muslims can f*** off to any of the 57 Muslim nations."

Later, informing that she does not regret her actions, she posted on X stating that "I stand by my actions & I will never bend a knee to the book that is responsible for ...