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{"id":24759,"date":"2019-04-13T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hadalsame.com\/?p=24759"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:56:31","slug":"president-trump-targets-rep-ilhan-omar-with-a-video-of-twin-towers-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hadalsame.com\/2019\/04\/13\/president-trump-targets-rep-ilhan-omar-with-a-video-of-twin-towers-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump targets Rep. Ilhan Omar with a video of Twin Towers burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Friday tweeted a video attacking <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>(Washington, DC) 13 April 2019<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for the way she phrased a reference to 9\/11, adding fuel to a controversy that has swelled in Republican political circles this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WE WILL NEVER FORGET! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VxrGFRFeJM\">pic.twitter.com\/VxrGFRFeJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1116817144006750209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Post editors know what she actually said, and in what context, and they know that this is wrong&#8211;journalistically, and morally. It&#8217;s intentional racism and Islamophobia, and at any other paper, you&#8217;d get a flood of resignations from your staff for it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sKmg43AhSN\">https:\/\/t.co\/sKmg43AhSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espiers\/status\/1116324863961178112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe video showed snippets of comments Omar made last month at a banquet for a Muslim civil rights organization interspersed with footage of the twin towers burning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWE WILL NEVER FORGET!\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1116817144006750209\">Trump tweeted<\/a>, along with the video.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the New York Post had helped set the tone by publishing a front page that showed her comments over a similar image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\"><\/div>\n<p>The remarks in question came in March, as Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, spoke about Islamophobia at an event held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil liberties group. The white-supremacist shooting that left 50 Muslim worshipers dead at two mosques in New Zealand had occurred the week before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I\u2019m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,\u201d she said, in the middle of a roughly 20-minute long speech. \u201cCAIR 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\u2019t just say that today someone is looking at me strange and that I am trying to make myself look pleasant. You have to say that this person is looking at me strange, I am not comfortable with it, and I am going to talk to them and ask them why. Because that is the right you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speech had drawn a protest outside at the time and even news coverage from conservative-leaning outlets such as the Washington Times, which noted that she told fellow Muslims to \u201craise hell,\u201d and \u201cmake people uncomfortable,\u201d as they sought to defend their rights.<\/p>\n<p>But this week conservatives began to fixate on a different portion of the speech, after CAIR posted a video on Tuesday: the four words she used to refer to 9\/11, as \u201csome people did something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7INpvY0J0RI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The comments were the focus of harsh broadsides from people like Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.), Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Donald Trump Jr., and \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d host Brian Kilmeade, who questioned whether Omar, a Somali refuge, was \u201can American first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And after the New York Post put it on such an incendiary cover, some liberals began to speak up against it, saying they felt it was an incitement to violence against Omar, who has been the target of threats and overt Islamophobia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch an ungenerous interpretation of her remarks is only possible if one is inclined to believe that Omar sympathizes more with terrorists than her murdered countrymen,\u201d Zak Cheney-Rice at <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/04\/ilhan-omar-islamophobic-backlash.html\">New York magazine wrote.<\/a> \u201cThat she spoke them in the course of decrying Islamophobia makes it especially disconcerting that her political opponents would decontextualize them to fan the flames \u2014 she receives regular death threats on the basis of her faith, including from one New York man who threatened recently to \u2018put a bullet in her .\u2009.\u2009. skull.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called for more Democrats to speak out to defend her this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of Congress have a duty to respond to the President\u2019s explicit attack today,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aoc\/status\/1116848329776934912\">Ocasio-Cortez tweeted<\/a>. <a href=\"mailto:\u201c@IlhanMN\u2019s\">\u201c@IlhanMN\u2019s<\/a> life is in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tweeted that Omar is \u201ca leader with strength and courage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe won\u2019t back down to Trump\u2019s racism and hate, and neither will we,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long wielded 9\/11 as a political weapon. 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