Posted on 04/11/2019 4:29:15 PM PDT by SJackson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents New York City in Congress, rushed to the defense of her fellow freshman Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday over her comments trivializing the 9/11 terror attacks.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted criticism at The Post for its coverage of Omar’s remarks — which included how “some people did something” on 9/11 — but offered no similar rebuke of her close pal.
“I’m not going to quote the NY Post’s horrifying, hateful cover,” AOC wrote. “Here’s 1 fact: @IlhanMN is a cosponsor of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. She‘s done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won’t even support healthcare for 1st responders – yet are happy to weaponize her faith.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet made no mention at all of the comments Omar made in a speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“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,” Omar, one of two Muslim women in Congress, told the organization.
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan also supported Omar when she was asked during an appearance on MSNBC if Omar should have rethought her words.Enlarge Image
“They do this all the time to us, especially women of color … they take our words out of context because they’re afraid because we speak truth, we speak truth to power,” Tlaib said of her fellow Muslim in Congress.
“She was talking about uplifting people by supporting their civil liberties and civil rights,” Tlaib added. As a refugee herself, “she sees what terrorism can do, she sees what violence can do to a whole country, to a whole people.”
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Not just terrorism, but the kind that Omar secretly supports.
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Only women of color are criticized when minimizing terror? The death of thousands of Americans that day and after, only women of color would be called out for characterizing those deaths as something hahppened.
Shame on every Democrat unwilling to criticize that characterzation.
Non-Sequitur
She‘s done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won’t even support healthcare for 1st responders – yet are happy to weaponize her faith.”
What GOP elected officials have attacked her murderous Islamic faith?
Leftists and muslims hate you and both want you dead, my fellow American. Act and prepare accordingly.
JoMa
As long as it has a little “D” next to it’s name, the stupid will vote for her
The CAIR was founded after 911 statement struck me as a bold faced lie. I knew it was much older and just looked it up.
1994
That hateful organization has been deceitfully doing its business long before its brothers hijacked planes and flew them into our buildings.
AOC supports a political system that has killed over 100 million of their own citizens. Like they say....birds of a feather....
The taqqiya is very strong here....
cookoo together?
I pointed that out on a couple threads yesterday. Actually I think it was 1993. After the first attempt to bring down the Trade Center. Which didn’t excite the nation much. But clearly the founders and funders of CAIR presumed other acts would be forthcoming. Took them 8 years, but they brought the Towers down, and CAIR was well prepared to whine.
The US is the safest and most accepting nation in the world for minorities, of any type. Hate-filled people like AOC are delusional, misinformed, and stand in the way of true progress.
None I can think of. The President at the time of 9/11 bent over backwards not to blame the ideology of the Religion of Peace for anything.
It was ISLAMIC TERRORISM, NY Post.
Do not fiddle f*ck around with this terrorist pig bitch in our government.
DeBlasio, Cuomo, Clinton, Schumer.......crickets. Disgusting
Has any reporter asked tahlib about her impeach the mf’er comments about Trump now that the Mueller report states there was no collusion. Is anyone asking her if she wished to apologize to the president?
She’s your left in a nut-shell!
Crazy disturbed people in the dems
And unfortunately have power.
Just sick!
A fine set of matching nostrils.
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