Minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar has been the victim of criticism. The attacks reached a new level of escalation this week in reaction to distorted takes on marchs comments at a recent event hosted by the council on americanislamic relations. Here are representative omars actual comments. Cair was founded after 9 11, because they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. Sno many on the right cut down that phrase some people did something and used that snippet to asail the congresswoman, even questioning her loyalty to the United States. Some people did something, like an unprovoked attack killing people in the pentagon, thousands at the pentagon, the flight 93 as well as the World Trade Center. Really . You have to wonder if shes an american first. Wow. New york post piled on with this inflammatory cover on thursday. Then last night fox news superfan donald trump took things to a shocking new low. Tweeting out a graphic video of the twin towers burning interspersed with that single snippet of the congresswomans speech. We wont show you that video because it is so inflammatory it falls into a category where most news organizations wouldnt even play it on tv. Yet it was released through the preferred Public Information tool of the president of the United States. Making it akin to an official public statement. Many are calling trumps tweet and that video an incitement to violence against the congresswoman, particularly is in it comes one week after a selfdeclared trump supporter was charged with threatening to kill representative omar. Joining me now is former state Department Senior adviser and former white house director. A journalist and author of the view from fly over country. Theres so much you can unpack here. The out of context statements and hysteria surrounding what congresswoman omar said one period but the president of the United States putting out this video which we can show. We have standards. We cant show it on television. I come from Staten Island and we lost a lot on 9 11. We lost half of our local fire department. Of the top five, top ten zip codes that lost people on 9 11, Staten Island had five of those. I almost lost my father that day. He was to be at a luncheon that day. I lost the ability to selfdefine what it means to be a muslim woman in America Today and that is an indelible part of the post9 11 history and memory of the United States, in particular for new yorkers. Those images are extremely triggering, and when Rupert Murdoch put those towers falling next to ilhan omars image that new yorkers will see, he knew what he was doing. He was triggering these reactions of fear. Republicans often talk about triggering the libs and how much snowflakes we are. That was a use of words and language to trig are conservative and antimuslim sentiment. The irony is the same people who use those words for their own political gains will argue that you have to be very careful about how you use other words for ilhan omar and also then vote against on a policy forum, the things that would generally benefit the victims of 9 11, the patriot act they voted for that. They will use these words entirely to their advantage while denigrating an entire population in america. We just spoke last week about the ways in which people give themselves license to talk about ilhan omar, who came from a country in which she was a refugee, is a citizen, is a congresswoman and the way people just feel free to speak about her and question her allegiance to the United States and claim she must have allegiance to a foreign entity. Im interested to get your thoughts. We did speak about it before. Look what happened in the space of a week. Look what happened in the space of a few weeks. In West Virginia there was a poster in the State Capitol linking ilhan omar to 9 11. We got upset. Within a few weeks the president of the United States has now made tweets. Her life is at risk. Lets be clear here. Donald trump the president of the United States, the republican party, members of Congress Like dan crenshaw, Rupert Murdoch in the form of fox news and new york post, they have all put a target on her back wittingly or unwittingly, god forbid they will get her killed. There was a man arrested last week a trump supporter who said he would put a bullet in her skull. In february a man had a kill list. This is very real. Very real threat. He tweeted and we need to take it seriously. I have to deal with the substance. Donald trump and republicans are claiming ilhan omar trivialized 9 11. You know who did trivialize 9 11 donald trump to brag about the fact that his building was now the tallest building in lower manhattan. Donald trump said that israel is your country. When he said last weekend to a group of u. S. Jews that Benjamin Netanyahu is your prime minister. This is not just incitement. To violence or racism this is bad faith from the farright. To make sure no one on social media attempts to say what he just said was made up, i want to play the back up for what you just heard him talk about what donald trump has done. Lets play donald trump on 9 11. Okay. On 9 11. Remember the u. S. Was not attacked by american muslims, they were attacked by mainly saudis. Donald trump loves that country. Here he is on 9 11 doing an interview bragging about his buildings. You have one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district, 40 wall street. Did you ever damage or whats happened down there . It was an amazing phone call. 40 wall street actually was the second tallest building in Downtown Manhattan and it was actually before the World Trade Center was the tallest and then when they built the World Train Center became known as the second tallest and now the tallest. Theres more. Lets play the way donald trump has spoken about muslims, about this Broad Community over a billion people and generalized about them. Heres donald trump, a bit of a montage. The Muslim Community is not helping us. The Muslim Community is not reporting whats going on. Muslims have to work with us. They have to work with us. They know whats going on. We have to look at the muslims and we have to do something. We can stand by and be the stupid people while our country is destroyed. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Im going to let all my panel say but i first want to get you to respond. When american muslims hear their president speaking that way, what is the response, what is the reaction, what is the level of fear that creates . Joy, its less than a month since 50 muslims were gunned down, miscancered by a White Nationalist in new zealand. Words matter. The constant demonization, delegitimatization, the constant obsession with muslims is leading to deaths, is leading to attacks, is leading to harassment. As i watched that i kept thinking in my head imagine if he said jews, jews. We would be rightly up in arms. This is crazy. This man is out of control. Yet he gets away with it year after year. Its getting worse. You have the most visible muslim woman in congress. Not just a muslim woman in congress. With the head scarf. This bothers a lot of people. He knows what he is doing when he attacks her in this outrageous way and it fills communities with fear. Its concerning to say the very least. My podcast i do, i worry about her. I do. Because the targeting for somebody who wears the hijab or the head scarf is more easy to do. I cant imagine how it feels inside the community to hear that. Women who wear the head scarf are visibly muslim and others who dont are not. We deal with this as a community how do you raise your children. It has forced muslims to reckon what it means to be a part of American Society and, in fact, has had muslims stand up for other peoples civil liberty rights. Many people unfortunately have been forced to be advocates when they prefer to live their daytoday lives. This is what it means to be muslim in america versus what donald trump identifies muslim. Hell make friendship with saudis and governments overseas that are killing muslims every single day in their own countries rather than embracing the fact that many people like myself are trying to advance American National security. This works, obviously, at some level among trumps base but i want to go to the broader issue of the other side, the Democratic Party. Because you had some criticism of the strength of the response on the democratic side in defense of this young woman who is very vulnerable. Shes a woman. Shes a member of congress. Shes very visible. Shes a target. Theres been some theres been a lot of tweets responding to this. You had mayor Pete Buttigieg talk about living overseas, risking his life, struggling against terrorism and talking about that. Saying the tweet made america smaller. You had Elizabeth Warren talking about inciting violence against a sitting congresswoman. Theres been some criticism that some of the responses by democrats have not been forceful enough. Aoc a fellow freshman member said members of congress have a duty to respond. Omars life is in danger. For my colleagues to be silent is to be complicit. Some responses havent even included her name. What do you make of this . Its not enough to criticize Donald Trumps mean tweets and bigoted tweets. We have to go back to the fundamental truth of the full context of the statement that she was making for which shes now being attacked. The point she was making is you have some folks who are muslim who do something and then everybody gets blamed. Thats a fundamentally important point that people need to be not only explaining and defending but admitting thats true. Imagine for a minute that a Congress Person had tried to make the very reasonable point that we ought not judge all christians by the fact that people who call themselves christians have bombed or burned 200 abortion clinics or Family Planning centers in the past 25 years in u. S. And canada combined or people who claim they are christian assassinated and murdered abortion providers and Family Planning doctors. If somebody made the point dont judge all of us by the acts of some and a democratic president tweeted out they are minimizing abortion killings we would be horrifying because it isnt right to judge an entire community by the acts of a handful. Were talking about 19 muslims who were involved in 9 11. Mostly saudis. There were. At that time 1. 5 billion muslims on planet earth. Walking, talking definition of sampling error. I expect the Democratic Party to stand up and not only condemn the president which is easy politics but to actually talk about the truth of what the representative was discussing. She was talking about the unjustifiable scapegoating of an entire group of people, 1. 5 billion strong across the planet. Thats unconscionable and anybody who wants to be president ought to talk about. Adding to that this works with a lot of donald trump basl weapon. What we need to be doing as well as the other panelists are saying which is stand up for ilhan omar. Stand up for muslims who are being targeted and discriminated against. The goal is inciting violence. Everything that ilhan omar was complaining about in that speech has borne out in reality. She said all muslims are being discriminated against because of a few. Then shes discriminated. She said muslims are being treated as a terrorist. She says now that shes in harms way and that is a prophecy we dont want fulfilled. Thats not something we want to have happen to prove muslims are in danger. Its the obligation of everyone in congress to stand up for her and the obligation of every american to stand up for her in this case, whether you like her or not because this is completely inappropriate. This is very dangerous and it needs to be stopped. Is there a way to work away from this kind of phobia, tim . I dont know what else to call it. Is that for me . Yeah. Im sorry. Okay. You know, i think it requires people of conscience and politicians of conscience and media tucking heads and pun departments to speak clearly and forcefully. The point about not agreeing with the representative to do that is an important one. You dont have to like her politics. You dont have to be a demonstrate or a liberal or progressive. You have to be somebody who believes in any kind of remotely democratic republic and a process whereby we can have rational conversations about Public Policy without blaming and scapegoating entire communities for the actions of a few. If you cant do that you have no right making policy in this country. You worked in the state department. Around the world weve been talking for years about incitement, about what it does. It doesnt just impact the communities here. It impacts muslim communities around the world. Our diplomats and military folks have a far better nuance to know what it means to be muslim in this world. They are on the front lines. Lets not forget that ilhan omar is not muslim. Shes a black woman. Shes a refugee. She represents all these marginalized communities in the United States and brings that to bear when shes forceful. Thats threatening to many people. Thats what we need to be reacting to as americans. Which overseas its not an issue. White nationalism and extremism donald talks about that. Which we now know is the greatest threat facing americans. Thats the challenge when people put 9 11 in their mouths. It ignores the threat were dealing which is rightwing terror. Thank you very much. Well have much more on this. Tune in tomorrow because one of the other congresswoman who has been relentlessly targeted by the right, Rashida Tlaib will be here tomorrow. Coming up donald trump finally has his so, we reimagined the rs ne. It has a unique guard between the blades. Thats designed to reduce irritation during the shave. Because we believe all men deserve a razor just for them. The best a man can get. Gillette. 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