Rep. Ilhan Omar's recent comments regarding 9/11 at a Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet have caused an uproar amongst her detractors, and their response has caused a similar uproar amongst her supporters. Omar's comments have mostly been heard in short excerpts, but her complete remarks are available here on YouTube. Below is a transcription of the remarks surrounding her mention of 9/11 and the video queued up to the excerpt is embedded below as well.
"It doesn't matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about but when Islam is mentioned we are only talking about terrorists and if you say something you are sent to the principal's office. So to me I say, raise hell, make people uncomfortable because here's the truth, here's the truth: 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. 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. So you can't just say that today someone is looking at me strange, that I am going to try to make myself look pleasant. You have to say this person is looking at me strange I am not comfortable with it I am going to go talk to them and ask them why, because that is a right you have."
Rep. Omar has a history of making remarks regarding the US that rub her detractors the wrong way. In 2017, Omar wrote that "our nation was founded by genocide and we maintain global power through neocolonialism," as The Script reported earlier on Thursday.
