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   From: muslim.lies.matter@nbc.com   
      
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   President Trump on Friday tweeted a video attacking Rep. Ilhan   
   Omar (D-Minn.) for the way she phrased a reference to 9/11. By   
   Saturday, dozens of lawmakers and public figures denounced the   
   tweet, which used video of the twin towers falling. And by   
   Sunday evening, Omar had responded as well. The Democrat said in   
   a statement late Sunday that threats against her life have   
   spiked, and she explicitly blamed Trump’s tweet for the surge.   
      
   “Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced   
   an increase in direct threats on my life — many directly   
   referencing or replying to the President’s video,” Omar said in   
   the statement, which noted that she now receives death threats   
   daily that often reference her faith.   
      
   Omar’s warning, which came hours after House Speaker Nancy   
   Pelosi (D-Calif.) revealed she has asked the U.S. Capitol Police   
   to increase protection for Omar, adds new urgency to the demands   
   for calmer rhetoric from her critics, who have repeatedly   
   charged her with anti-Semitism and now with downplaying the 2001   
   terrorist attacks.   
      
   Democrats slam Trump for his attacks on Rep. Omar   
    1:18   
   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other prominent   
   Democrats criticized President Trump for using 9/11 imagery to   
   attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). (Reuters)   
      
   But her detractors on the right have shown little appetite for   
   backing off. On ABC’s “This Week,” White House press secretary   
   Sarah Sanders disputed on Sunday that Trump’s words might   
   endanger Omar and promised that he would continue “calling out   
   the congresswoman.”   
      
   “Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, and certainly   
   not violence toward anyone,” said Sanders, who called Trump’s   
   criticism of Omar a “good thing.” She added: “The president is   
   absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her,   
   not only one time, but history of anti-Semitic comments. The   
   question is why aren’t Democrats doing the same thing?”   
      
   The central controversy   
   The latest political firestorm around Omar centers on a speech   
   she gave to a Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet on   
   March 23. As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reported, her   
   talk drew little attention until a controversial Australian   
   figure tweeted a clip of her using the phrase “some people did   
   something” when describing the 9/11 attacks.   
      
   [ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments have been all over the news. In   
   Minnesota, they’re causing pain and confusion.]   
      
   Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) then helped the video go viral by   
   retweeting it last week, calling Omar’s statement   
   “Unbelievable.” The uproar led one Fox News host to question   
   whether the congresswoman, a former Somali refugee, was “an   
   American first”; the New York Post on Thursday published a   
   widely derided cover with a photo of a hijacked plane slamming   
   into the World Trade Center alongside Omar’s quote.   
      
   Trump escalated that rhetoric further with his Friday tweet,   
   which declared “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” over 43 seconds of Omar’s   
   comments interspersed with footage from Lower Manhattan during   
   the attacks.   
      
   ‘Some people did something:’ Rep. Omar’s remarks in context   
    4:17   
   The remarks of the freshman member of Congress during an address   
   to a Muslim rights organization spawned controversy, but it was   
   just a snippet. (Video: Meg Kelly, Atthar Mirza/Photo: Atthar   
   Mirza/The Washington Post)   
      
   Omar and her defenders have insisted that her quote, which came   
   amid a longer speech decrying Islamophobia, was taken wholly out   
   of context. They’ve noted that Omar was among the 213 co-   
   sponsors of a bill to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation   
   Fund and suggested that the vitriol against her is actually   
   rooted in prejudice against her religion.   
      
   Real-life threats   
   Democrats also argue that Trump’s tweet, the New York Post’s   
   cover and similar messages can inspire real-world violence,   
   citing a man who was charged earlier this month with threatening   
   Omar by promising to “put a bullet in her ... skull.”   
      
   “@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent   
   is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a   
   member of Congress,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)   
   tweeted shortly after Trump’s missive.   
      
      
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