Ilhan Omar defended by Democrats after Trump uses 9/11 video in attack

Source: The Guardian




Sanders decries ‘disgusting and dangerous’ attacks
Buttigieg: ‘Threats against Omar make clear what is at stake’

Martin Pengelly in New York and agencies
@MartinPengelly

Sat 13 Apr 2019 07.24 EDT




Democrats including leading candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination have fiercely condemned Donald Trump and other Republicans’ growing efforts to smear the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and urged other party leaders to do the same.


Attacks labeling one of two Muslim women in Congress as unpatriotic are “dangerous” and risk “inciting violence”, prominent Democrats said on Friday.

Just last week, a Trump supporter in upstate New York was charged with threatening to kill Omar. Trump escalated attacks on Omar on Friday, tweeting “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” with a video that was edited to suggest Omar was dismissive of the September 11 attacks.

The video pulls a snippet of a speech last month to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which Omar discussed the problem of Islamophobia, describing “the discomfort of being a second-class citizen” as a Muslim in America. After the September 11 attacks, she said, advocates “recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties”.


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In his own tweets Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, ........................

Other candidates also posted messages of support for Omar and disapproval of the president. Former San Antonio mayor and Hud secretary Julián Castro said he was “grateful for [Omar’s] courage and leadership and I stand with her - and with others targeted by the President’s anti-Muslim rhetoric”. The former congressman Beto O’Rourke said: “We are stronger than this president’s hatred and Islamophobia. Do not let him drive us apart or make us afraid.”...................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/ilhan-omar-democrats-trump-attacks-sanders-warren

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She will get hurt--or worse and Repugs will still be silent. Something has to give!! We can not have a sitting Pres. of the US inciting violence.




"The president is inciting violence against a congresswoman – and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.”
Elizabeth Warren

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Omar ‘will not back down to Trump’s racism and hate’, said Bernie Sanders.






Ilhan Omar: man arrested after he made death threat – then left contact detailshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/06/ilhan-omar-death-threat-man-arrested-contact-details



Patrick Carlineo Jr called Minnesota congresswoman a terrorist
Caller then ‘spelled his name’ and gave information to staffer

Associated Press in Washington

Sat 6 Apr 2019 08.16 EDT


Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, was allegedly threatened with being shot by Patrick Carlineo Jr.
Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress, was allegedly threatened with being shot by Patrick Carlineo Jr. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

A western New York man has been charged with threatening to kill US representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.


Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that Patrick Carlineo Jr was arrested after placing a threatening call to Omar’s office in Washington DC last month.

The FBI said in a criminal complaint Carlineo called Omar a “terrorist” and threatened to shoot her. The bureau also said Carlineo sounded angry during the call but “spelled his name correctly and provided contact information” to a staffer.

Carlineo told the FBI he is a patriot, “loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in our government”, the complaint says.

Authorities did not say when Carlineo was arrested. Carlineo’s attorney declined to comment.

Omar met with backlash for remarks she made earlier this year about Israel, including comments that American supporters of Israel are pushing people to have “allegiance to a foreign country”..........................................


Also see:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142302501#post4

Trump tweets video edited to suggest Omar dismissive of 9/11