We should be fine.” Omar said the story was “ made up” and called on both Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “ take appropriate action.”Īfter sending a tweet on Friday in which she apologized “to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Rep.
Their silence sends one very clear message to the American people: complicity.”īoebert sparked the latest round of condemnation after a video surfaced in which she told an audience that while on a Capitol elevator with Omar, she remarked to a police officer: “Well, she doesn’t have a backpack. “This vile behavior has become endemic within the Republican Conference and its leadership has failed to respond with any level of accountability. Omar - comments that are not just offensive but dangerous,” Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark said in a statement. Boebert has made repeated and targeted Islamophobic comments against Rep. The comments from the three Muslim lawmakers were echoed by members of the Massachusetts delegation. The remarks escalated from there, with former Iowa representative Steve King tweeting, “there might be four pounds of C-4 under that would wipe out half of Congress,” on the day she was sworn in. When she first ran, Omar said, she was told to “take off hijab if wanted to have the chance of winning” her election. A failure to act risks placing the Muslim community in the crosshairs of violence and prejudice, they said.įlanked by Indiana Representative André Carson and Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib, Omar at times became emotional as she recounted her experiences as a Muslim woman in public office. The appeals to condemn the “vile behavior” came on the heels of a months-long attack on Omar by Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, whose rhetoric warrants immediate action, the three Muslim representatives in the House said at a press conference Tuesday. House Democrats are calling on Republican leaders to condemn Islamophobia within their ranks after a series of incendiary comments aimed at Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the few Muslim lawmakers in Congress.
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