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Related: About this forum2020 Dems stand by Omar as she's hammered for 9/11 comments
Several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have come to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as she was blasted for comments about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Muslim civil rights at a recent conference.
While speaking last month at an event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles, Omar discussed how Muslim Americans had their constitutional rights and freedoms infringed upon following the 9/11 attacks, making a comment that some saw as minimizing the terrorist act.
"CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties," she said, incorrectly stating the organization's history. The group was actually founded in 1994, although it became much more active following the terror attacks.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)but I wish they would meet in Washington this week and sign a declaration or something condemning him pinning that on his personal twitter feed for all to see for so long and especially for retweeting it on the official @POTUS account for the President of the United States. That is a permanent stain on the country for that to be there even if it is buried. Disgusting...
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,128 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
tulipsandroses
(5,132 posts)Democrats must be willing stand up and fight just as hard for Liberalism. I so agree with that statement. They are threatened by everything that she represents. She is a Muslim. She is a woman. She is black. She is a refugee. She is an immigrant. They want to "put her in her place."
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided