Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) slammed Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) over “anti-Muslim” remarks she made in a viral video and denied the veracity of an incident Boebert said took place at the Capitol.
“Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation,” Omar said on Twitter on Thursday evening.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.<br><br>Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation. <a href="https://t.co/S1APT7RbqW">https://t.co/S1APT7RbqW</a></p>— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1464037767005057024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
In the video, shared by a Twitter account called PatriotTakes, Boebert recounted an incident she said took place with Omar.
“So the other night on the House floor was not my first jihad squad moment. So I was getting into an elevator with one of my staffers. And he and I are – we’re leaving the Capitol. We’re going back to my office and we get in the elevator, and I see a Capitol Police officer running hurriedly to the elevator,” Boebert said in the video.
“I see fret all over his face, and he’s reaching… The door’s shutting, like I can’t – I can’t open it – like, what’s happening? I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar. I said, ‘Well she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine,’” she said as the audience in the video could be heard laughing.
Omar fired back on Twitter after the video went viral.
“Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout,” Omar said on Twitter.
The Hill has reached out to Omar’s and Boebert’s offices for comment.
The comments also drew fire from CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who called Bobert’s remarks “pure anti-Muslim bigotry.”
“This is pure anti-Muslim bigotry and as such is completely contrary to what the USA is supposed to stand for. That this is tolerated in American politics and the House GOP is an indictment against anyone who is silent about it,” Tapper tweeted on Thursday.
Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 26, 2021
Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation. https://t.co/S1APT7RbqW
It is not the first time that Boebert has made controversial remarks about the progressive Democrat. Earlier this month, Boebert defended her colleague Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) before he was ultimately censured by the House for tweeting a video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in an animated video.
During her speech on the House floor, she pivoted away from Gosar at one point to talk about Omar in addition to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)
“The Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds,” Boebert said at the time, referring to Omar. “This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.”
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Original Article: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/583174-omar-calls-out-boebert-over-anti-muslim-remarks-denies-capitol-incident-took
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What goes around comes around. Omar is on record for disparaging Jewish people.
“The Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds,” Boebert said at the time, referring to Omar. “This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.”
Nothing that Rep. Boebert said in the above quote is untrue, what is Rep. Omar so upset about?!
but omar can make anti American comments all day long!!!
omar can make anti Semitic comments all day long….although American Jews will still vote for her because she has a “D” after her name on the ballot sheet.
omar, like all progressive democrats, wants to bring America to its knees.
Omar would best remembeer people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones Omar is a criminal She lied to get reelected, used false ballot by ballot stuffing, Married her brother which is against any law on earth and disgusting as wll, Now she is married to #3, has diverted campaign money into current husbands bank accounts which is also illegal This disgusting creature thinks Boebart isguilty I don’t think so Omar should be removed from congress She is a contaniment
The containment, even hell doesn’t want it.
Karma!
Correction: contaminate
HEY ! Omar does the TRUTH hurt. U better Remember the Gutter TRASH U Spew. U are nothing more than a Radical Racist , Terrorist Sympathyriser , Bigot , Fraud and a THUG !
She’s another worthless black muslim racist who hates Lauren Boebert because she’s a white Christian. If this stinking Omar is so worried about muslims why is she stone cold silent about those muslims who are slaves in commie China???
Omar should not be in congress period! She is anti Semitic, anti American, anti Christian! She can make her anti Semitic comments daily, and nothing is done. Piglosi won’t censure her for anything, but let a Republican day one word against Muslims all hell breaks loose! Piglosi needs to be booted, along with the “ commie squad”, who have NO place in OUR government!
Every terrorist especially Muslims need to be executed in America to send the message to these warmongering War Pigs that real American will not tolerate these anti American Savages threatening the lives of Americans in our own country, how do you spell a politician protecting these terrorists need to be charged with domestic terrorism along with our fake anti-American FBI who supports this terrorism & rigged election throughout our country