Virtue-signalling.

Here's Nancy Pelosi caught on mic telling a speaker: "Tell them you're a muslim, tell them you're a muslim":

www(dot)breitbart(dot)com/video/2017/01/31/nancy-pelosi-caught-on-hot-mic-to-dem-rep-carson-tell-them-youre-a-muslim/

You know she's doing an imaginary fist-pump right after he complies.