Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party released a Facebook posting depicting the four House minority freshman Democrats in a movie-type poster as “The Jihad Squad” last week before taking it down over the weekend.

​The meme ​released Friday by the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association includes a mockup of the lawmakers known as “the Squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.

​”Political jihad is their game,” the posting said. “If you don’t agree with their socialist ideology, you’re racist.”

In a sendup of a 2013 “Gangster Squad” movie poster, it shows Omar with pursed lips brandishing a shotgun, a smiling Pressley aiming a pistol, Ocasio-Cortez wearing a slinky red dress that’s aflame at the bottom and Tlaib screaming.

​The poster also includes the logo of the state GOP organization.​

​Mark Shaw, the Lake County GOP chairman who leads the group, said in a Facebook post that the “image was not authorized by me.”

​”​I condemn this unauthorized posting and it has been deleted. I am sorry if anyone who saw the image was offended by the contents​,” he added.

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He called it an “unfortunate distraction” from the policies espoused by the quartet of congresswomen, including the “Green New Deal,” elimination of private health insurance and backing of open borders.

The four women — all of whom are US citizens — have been in President Trump’s cross hairs since last Sunday, when he tweeted that they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

At Trump’s campaign rally in Greenville, NC, last Wednesday, the crowd began chanting “Send her back!” about Omar, who is the only one of the four born outside the US.

She was born in Somalia and came to the US with her parents when she was 12.

Illinois GOP chairman Tim Schneider condemned “evoking race or religion as the basic for political disagreement.”

​”​The recent social media post coming from the IRCCA does not reflect my values or the Illinois Republican Party’s values. Bigoted rhetoric greatly distracts from legitimate and important policy debates and further divides our nation​,” he said in a statement issued Sunday. ​