“I’m a Muslim, I’m an immigrant, and I happen to come from Africa.“, declared this congresswoman from the left of the Democratic Party, during a speech in the hemicycle of Congress, before the vote that expelled her from the Foreign Relations Committee.
“Someone is surprised that they are attacking me? Is anyone surprised that somehow I am considered unworthy to speak about foreign policy American?”, he questioned before the republican critics.
Kevin McCarthy in his campaign to be elected as speaker of the House of Representatives had promised expel Democratic congressmen from parliamentary committees.
According to the manager, Democrats set precedents when they held a majority of House seatsexpelling from some committees the controversial Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, whom they accused of inciting violence against their political rivals.
Why are they accusing Ilhan Omar?
Ilhan Omar, one of two Muslim women in Congressin suggested that Republican support for Israel was fueled by financial donations from a pro-Israel lobby group and then he apologized in 2019 for his statements.
Five years earlier, prior to his entry into Congress, had said that Israel had “hypnotized the world” and called for people to open their eyes to the “evil deeds” of the US ally.
The congresswoman from Minnesota (north) later assured that he did not know at the time that his comments fell within anti-Semitic stereotypes.
According to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Ilhan Omar’s comments have already been the subject of disciplinary proceedings. his expulsion “It’s a political revenge”he claimed.
Source: Ambito
