By Emina Melonic
April 14th, 2019
Ilhan Omar’s recent speech at the Council on American-Islamic Relations has received a lot of attention and not without reason. Snippets of the speech have been posted all over social media, most notably on Twitter. The part of her speech that has caused the most righteous anger and incredulity is where the freshman congresswoman from Minnesota described the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.”
Naturally, many people have reacted with indignation that Omar, an elected member of Congress, would speak so flippantly about one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Her comments also prompted President Trump to post a video of the 9/11 attack in New York with the words “We Will Never Forget.”..........To Read More.....
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