Omar Seeks Action Over Far-Right Congresswoman’s Islamophobic Remarks

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DENVER (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota named Friday for Dwelling leaders to take “appropriate action” from Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert for making use of anti-Muslim language in describing a latest come upon she had with Omar at the U.S. Capitol.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders demanded Boebert retract her feedback.

In accordance to a video clip posted by a Twitter account named PatriotTakes, Boebert designed the remarks this vacation break. In it, she states she and a staffer ended up using a Capitol elevator when she observed an alarmed Capitol law enforcement officer managing toward them. She said she turned to her remaining and noticed Omar standing beside them.

”“Well, she does not have a backpack. We need to be fantastic,” Boebert recalled indicating, drawing laughs from her viewers. “And I said, ‘Oh seem, the jihad squad made the decision to clearly show up for operate right now.’”

Omar publicly urged Pelosi and GOP Home Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to self-control Boebert.

“Saying I am a suicide bomber is no laughing issue,” Omar tweeted. “ @GOPLeader and @SpeakerPelosi have to have to take appropriate motion, normalizing this bigotry not only endangers my life but the life of all Muslims. Anti-Muslim bigotry has no location in Congress.”

Boebert has develop into a partisan lightning rod in the course of her first time period in Congress, insisting on her right to convey a gun on to the flooring of the Household, voting to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory and retaining a fiery existence on social media in which she insists Biden and Democrats are foremost the nation to socialism.

Pelosi and other top rated Household Democrats referred to as on Boebert in a assertion later Friday to “fully retract these responses and refrain from creating identical kinds likely ahead.” They also demanded that Republican leaders “to address this precedence with the Congresswoman and to lastly take authentic action to confront racism.”

Omar stated Thursday that Boebert had fabricated the story.

“Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this full story is designed up,” Omar tweeted. “Sad she thinks bigotry receives her clout.”

Boebert tweeted previously Friday that “I apologize to any individual in the Muslim local community I offended with my comment about Rep. Omar. I have reached out to her business office to talk with her directly. There are plenty of policy differences to target on devoid of this unnecessary distraction.”

I apologize to anyone in the Muslim neighborhood I offended with my remark about Rep. Omar. I have achieved out to her office environment to talk with her instantly. There are loads of policy dissimilarities to target on with no this unwanted distraction.

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) November 26, 2021

The offices of McCarthy did not quickly answer to email and telephone requests for comment late Friday. Phone phone calls and emails seeking remark from Boebert and Omar also weren’t immediately returned.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned Boebert’s remarks in a assertion urging McCarthy and other Republican leaders to repudiate Boebert’s remarks.

It explained Boebert’s allusion to a backpack is an “Islamophobic smear that all Muslims are terrorists,” as nicely as her use of the expression “jihad squad.”

Omar and Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib occasionally refer to by themselves as “the squad.”