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Top Democrats Blast Trump for Inciting Hate, Violence Against Muslim Rep.

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04/15/19
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The top Democrat in the U.S. Congress ordered a safety review for a Muslim lawmaker and her family Sunday after accusing President Donald Trump of putting her in danger by tweeting a video of her spliced with footage of the 9/11 attacks.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took time out from an official trip to issue a statement urging Trump to remove the clip featuring Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

“Following the president’s tweet, I spoke with the sergeant-at-arms to ensure that Capitol Police are conducting a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff,” she said.

“The president’s words weigh a ton, and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger. President Trump must take down his disrespectful and dangerous video.”

Pelosi’s statement came amid mounting pressure and harsh criticism from many in the more progressive wing of the party, who had blasted her for failing to condemn Trump’s tweet and unequivocally defend Omar by name in the days following it.

AOC on NY Post/Ilhan Omar front page: “We are getting to the level where this is an incitement of violence against progressive women of color and if they can’t figure out how to get it back to policy, we need to call it out for what it is because this is not normal.” pic.twitter.com/Zxad5H4I8n

— Jason Donner (@jason_donner) April 11, 2019


‘It Has to Stop’ 

Omar has been at the center of an escalating controversy after a clip emerged of her describing the 9/11 attacks in passing as “some people did something.”

On Friday, Trump tweeted a video that juxtaposed the snippet – which Omar’s fellow Democrats say was taken out of context – with images of the hijacked planes used in the attacks crashing into the World Trade Center’s twin towers that once dominated New York’s skyline. Menacing music accompanies Omar’s words.

The clip, which had been viewed more than 9.4 million times as of Sunday afternoon, ends with the words: “SEPTEMBER 11 2001 WE REMEMBER.”

Omar said in a statement posted on Twitter Sunday that many of the increased threats she had received were “directly referencing or replying to the President’s video.”

“Violent crimes and other acts of hate by right-wing extremists and white nationalists are on the rise in this country and around the world,” she said. “We can no longer ignore that they are being encouraged by the occupant of the highest office in the land.”

“We are all Americans. This is endangering lives. It has to stop.”

‘There is no room for that hate in this House!’ — These West Virginia delegates fiercely denounced a hate group that displayed an Islamophobic poster of Rep. Ilhan Omar in the House of Delegates pic.twitter.com/8p9ZKnJUVR

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 15, 2019

Prominent Democrats including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Kamala Harris and Omar’s fellow first-time Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were quick to rush to Omar’s defense, accusing the president and other Republicans of deliberately de-contextualizing her remarks and endangering her life.

Sarah Sanders, however, defended Trump, telling ABC television’s “This Week” that “the president is wishing no ill will and certainly not violence towards anyone.”

But, she added: “It’s absolutely abhorrent the comments she continues to make and has made and (Democrats) look the other way.

“I find her comments to be absolutely disgraceful and unbefitting of a member of Congress and I think that it’s a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments, and the big question is why aren’t Democrats doing it as well?”

Trump’s tweet was not the first time Republicans have appeared to try to associate Omar – one of the two first Muslim women ever elected to Congress – with the 9/11 attacks.

In March, Republican representatives in the West Virginia state legislature displayed a poster in the capital building with Omar’s face juxtaposed next to images of the attack, bearing the text “Never forget – you said. I am the proof you have forgotten.”


‘Unwavering Love for America’ 

The latest controversy arose after Omar delivered a 20-minute address to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) shortly after the New Zealand mosque attacks in March.

“For far too long, we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” she said.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11,” she added, “because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

The civil rights group was in fact founded in 1994 but grew significantly after 2001.

The speech did not initially receive significant attention until the snippet in question was highlighted weeks later by controversial Australian personality Mohammad Tawhidi who refers to himself as the “Imam of Peace.”

Omar mounted a trenchant fightback, tweeting Saturday: “No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America.

“I stand undeterred to continue fighting for equal opportunity in our pursuit of happiness for all Americans.”


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