Ilhan Omar’s ‘Anti-American’ 9/11 Comments Come Back To Haunt Her As Republicans Slam Her Promotion As ‘Absurd’

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “anti-American” remarks about the 9/11 terrorist attacks have just come back to haunt her as Fox News host Pete Hegseth is blasting her recent promotion to Vice Chair of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on Africa and global human rights issues as “absurd.”

Omar’s Past Comments Come Back To Haunt Her

In the wake of Omar being promoted to this position, comments resurfaced that she made in 2019 during the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

She said at the time that the council “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,” according to Daily Mail.

After Omar was promoted, Hegseth fired back by saying, “The idea that Ilhan Omar is even on the foreign affairs, foreign relations committee, is absurd.”

In her 2019 remarks, Omar had also said that Muslims in the U.S. became “second-class citizens” and had lost some civil liberties after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

“Now she’s a vice chair of a subcommittee … This is the modern-day Democrat Party, anti-Americanism writ large,” Hegseth added.

Omar Lashes Out At Republicans

This comes days after Omar accused the Republican Party of trying to scapegoat her in an attempt to distract from calls to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committees following controversial comments from the Republican congresswoman’s past resurfacing.

“Sadly, this is the Republican playbook. We saw it with Donald Trump,” Omar said. “Anytime they are faced with consequences for their actions to undermine our democracy, they blame Muslims, they blame immigrants, they blame black people, they blame women.”

“I just happen to embody all of these identities and I want to make sure that we are clear on this,” she added.

“This is not about me and it should not be about me,” Omar continued. “This is about a member of the Republican caucus who has repeatedly incited violence and Republicans can’t just wave a magic wand and attack the black congresswoman.”

Greene was eventually removed from her committees after she was accused of spreading hateful conspiracy theories by Democrats.

This piece was written by James Samson on February 16, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.