‘VERY CONFIDENT’: NANCY PELOSI TO ACT AGAINST REPUBLICAN FOR ISLAMOPHOBIC REMARKS. SAYS ILHAN OMAR

Mon 06 December 2021:

Representative Ilhan Omar expressed confidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will take “decisive action” against Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert in the coming days for remarks about Omar that have been deemed Islamophobic.

Rep. @Ilhan Omar on punishing Congresswoman Boebert: “I had a conversation with Speaker [Pelosi] and I’m very confident that she will take a decisive action next week.” https://t.co/nsk7v59el7 pic.twitter.com/KgqxeCfXr4

— The Hill (@thehill) December 5, 2021

Omar’s comments on Sunday were the latest in chain of events that was set in motion more than a week ago when a video posted to Facebook showed Boebert speaking at an event and describing an interaction with Omar – an interaction Omar, a Somali-born American Muslim, maintains never happened.

CNN’s @jaketapper on death threats following Islamophobic remarks from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO): “How many threats like that have you received?”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): “Too many to count. And there is a general fear that I have, my staff has and the community at large has.” pic.twitter.com/bMqcHXLacB

— The Recount (@therecount) December 5, 2021

In the video, Boebert claimed that a Capitol Police officer approached her with “fret on his face” shortly before she stepped on board a House lift and the doors closed.

“I look to my left and there she is – Ilhan Omar. And I said, ‘Well, she doesn’t have a backpack. We should be fine,’” Boebert says with a laugh.

Boebert’s remark about Omar not wearing a backpack seemed to imply that she wasn’t carrying a bomb.

The video drew a lot of attention.

BOEBERT APOLOGIZES FOR TERRORIST COMMENT: Democratic leaders are calling for action against Rep. Lauren Boebert after video of her anti-Muslim remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar surfaced – #TheView panel questions if bigotry is being normalized in Congress. https://t.co/GsHUDaVspU pic.twitter.com/149m0SstwN

— The View (@TheView) November 29, 2021

Boebert, a first-term lawmaker who has pledged to defy Washington’s gun laws, apologized for her remarks. However, a phone call between the two women turned sour when Boebert showed no remorse.

Democrats later demanded that Boebert’s committee assignments be taken away because of her anti-Muslim bigotry.

“I have had a conversation with the speaker, and I’m very confident that she will take decisive action next week,” Omar told CNN’s State of the Union programme.

After being called a member of the “Jihad Squad” by another congresswoman, Rep. Ilhan Omar shared an explicit and racist death threat left for her via voicemail. pic.twitter.com/fX6RleopPO

— AJ+ (@ajplus) December 4, 2021

“When I first got to Congress, I was worried that I wasn’t going to be allowed to be sworn in because there was a ban on the hijab. She promised me that she would take care of it. She fulfilled that promise. She’s made another promise to me that she will take care of this. And I believe her.”

There was no immediate comment from Pelosi or Boebert.

Last week, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Boebert, saying she had apologized to Omar publicly and personally.

Pelosi is expected to take action, but Omar did not specify what that action might be.

Hardline conservatives Boebert, Gosar, and Greene are all vocal supporters of former President Donald Trump.

(with agency)

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