A video of Christians singing worship songs aboard an airplane amassed more than 32 million views after Representative Ilhan Omar questioned if Muslims would receive the same treatment.
The video shows a man playing guitar and walking through the plane’s aisle while singing a Christian worship song on a crowded plane. Meanwhile, some passengers joined in, while others sat in silence. The video quickly divided the internet.
Omar, one of three Muslims currently serving in Congress, weighed in on the video, attempting to draw a comparison to the way Muslims would be treated if they disrupted a flight to worship.
“I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?” the Minnesota Democrat wrote.
Her tweet quickly drew the ire of a number of conservatives pundits and GOP candidates.
“Why do you hate Christians, Ilhan?” tweeted Vernon Jones, a Trump-backed House candidate in Georgia. “If the freedom of religion we enjoy here in America disturbs you, feel free to pack your bags and head back to Somalia, Sudan, or wherever you’re from.”
Steven Crowder, a conservative political commentator, tweeted: “What’s worse: a mass shooting or singing on a plane? Ilhan Omar only felt a need to comment on one of these.”
Crowder was apparently referring to the three mass shootings that occurred in South Carolina and Pennsylvania over the Easter weekend.
And Jose Castillo, a GOP candidate for Congress in Florida, wrote: “In America, Muslims can & do pray in public. If she wants a country where Christians aren’t allowed to do the same @IlhanMN should go back to her own country.”
Omar responded to the critics in a tweet quoting journalist Ernest Owens, who wrote “A point was made.”
“And the original snowflakes had a complete and glorious meltdown,” Omar wrote, alongside a nail polish emoji.
Others, meanwhile, posted other videos that show Muslims praying on airplanes, noting that in parts of the world where Islam is a predominant religion, it’s more common to see Muslims worshiping on planes.
“Depending on the circumstances. Live and let live,” wrote @CarlGustavEmil.
Others, however, defended Omar, arguing that her point that Muslims would face scrutiny for worshiping on a plane carries some validity.
“Ilhan Omar isn’t criticizing Christians. She’s pointing out the hypocrisy. A Muslim could never dream to get up at 30,000 feet to recite verses of the Holy Quran—let alone openly express their faith,” wrote Twitter user @mansoortshams.
Author Cliff Schecter wrote: “Don’t care what ya think of Ilhan Omar’s politics, she makes an undeniable point. Don’t think any of us need prayer foisted on us while in a flying metal tube 30K feet in the sky w/out a parachute to escape & regain sanity.”
Others wrote that regardless of the religious aspect, the experience could be annoying for some passengers.
“It doesn’t matter if its religious or not, they are disturbing several passengers, this is an invasion of other people’s space,” wrote Youtube creator Peter Jordan.
Omar, one of the progressive lawmakers who make up the “Squad,” has long been a target of Republican criticism. She took office in 2019 and has previously faced attacks based on her religion.
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Ilhan needs to be executed or she will spread!
reallytickedoff has got it right! Send that towel head to hell!
Well my only comment is go ahead and worship with your family on the plane next time you fly. The only reason people would question her would be to ask is that your brother or your husband or….are they one and the same?
Another example of where NextGenNews is not a real journalist site. I’ll explain…
Notice, the flight attendants didn’t stop this. Anyone who has flown in the time of Biden-mandates knows that flight attendants can’t restrain themselves when it comes to control. So way didn’t they jump into action?
Next, where are the masks? We’ve all seen the videos of flight attendants throwing people off planes and near-waterboarding toddlers into wearing face diapers. Why is this plane exempt from masks mandates?
It all can be simply answered by doing a little bit of research. You know, double checking the sources and actually doing investigated research.
It’s a Chartered flight returning from helping the Ukrainian Refugees at the Ukrainian border.
Well, that one sentence says a lot. So, just like Russian collusion, we have yet another example of fake news! Plus it says a lot about the socialist refugee guess she doesn’t do much volunteering outside of marrying her brother for citizenship.
Read the truth here:https://protestia.com/2022/04/18/christian-leader-who-led-viral-worship-on-plane-responds-to-backlash/
But I do have a question; what would happen if these Christian were flying on Saudi Airlines between Qatar and Pakistan. Daniel Pearl knows.
NGN, pushing their Leftist agenda as always; why make an issue of this when the Towel-heads get to do the same? Send this ungrateful bitch back to the $hit-hole she escaped!
If a pssenger or passengers objected, they would only have had to tell a flight attendant, and the guitarist would have been asked to stop, even if the song was muslim or country, the same request would get the same airline response. Although i doubt the guitarist would have had to be duck taped to be stopped. This did not require ant attention from politcians or media. Enough already.
How would that end? Let’s see. Last time those prayer groups ended up in the middle of the Trade Center, The Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The difference being we were rejoicing in the Resurrection and they were rejoicing in the murder of the “infidels”. Get a life Ilhan.
This woman, is just so angry about being here in the United States,
How she thinks she represents all religions
And all people equally, is appalling
She cannot do it, and must be voted out of office, to help her Muslims back in her own country, she so loves, and tweets whenever she cares and tries to put down our democracies here in the states,
Please get her out of office ,
Satan has a place for her to pray to mohammad or whoever the muslins are worshiping today. Spongebob is more religious than moehammy