Ilhan Omar Rips Lauren Boebert For Telling 'Made Up' Anti-Muslim Story For Clout

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for sharing a “made up” exchange in which Boebert claimed to have made a vile, anti-Muslim joke while the two women shared an elevator at work.

While campaigning in Colorado over the Thanksgiving break, Boebert boasted that she was recently in a Capitol elevator with a staffer when a concerned Capitol police officer rushed over, according to right-wing extremism monitoring site Patriot Takes.

“I look to my left and there she is. Ilhan Omar,” Boebert said in a clip posted by the group. “I say, well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine.”

She then claimed that she also looked over to Omar and said, “Oh look, the Jihad squad decided to show up for work today.”

Omar is one of the first two Muslim women in Congress.

According to Omar, the entire story was fiction.

“Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up,” she tweeted. “Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.

Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.

Anti-Muslim bigotry isn’t funny & shouldn’t be normalized. Congress can’t be a place where hateful and dangerous Muslims tropes get no condemnation. https://t.co/S1APT7RbqW — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 26, 2021

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said Boebert’s comments were shameful, deeply offensive and dangerous.

“Yet another blatant display of Islamophobia targeting Omar,” she tweeted. “These comments are personally hurtful, legitimately endanger her & the broader Muslim community. Rhetoric like this must be denounced & anyone spewing it held to account.”

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., tagged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a tweet and called for action.

“We can’t ignore this hate and fear mongering. It just SHOULD NOT be allowed for a member of the U.S. Congress to believe or share such abhorrent ideology,” she wrote.

Boebert sparked uproar last week when she called Omar a member of the “Jihad squad” while speaking on the House floor. She has since repeated this anti-Muslim bigotry about other members of the so-called Squad, a group of progressive House Democrats of color including Omar.

BootyOptions on November 26th, 2021 at 12:40 UTC »

This is really something special. Republicans used to think this stuff and try to hide it pre trump. Now post trump not only do they not hide it, they spice it up to be MORE offensive to gain approval.

What's next, she makes up a story about meeting the Lakers?

"Yeah Lebron came over to the White House, I called him a stupid N word" *walks around collecting high fives*

d_l_suzuki on November 26th, 2021 at 07:00 UTC »

Boebert has a remarkable combination of confidence and stunning ignorance. Now a lot of people can come across as an idiot on occasion, perhaps, even frequently. But, they usually have some nich area of competence, or at very least some humility. Boebert has none of that. She's like the 4 year old who's coming home from the dentist; high as a kite and free associating in the back seat. The difference is that kid will sleep it off and someday, grow up. Boebert will not. She has hit her peak maturity and this is it. She will never grasp that she is amazingly and monumentally stupid, and Consequently, her ability to draw attention is actually due to the natural curiosity found in the spectacle of a disaster. We are interested in her, like a rubber necker watching a car accident. It is both sad and horrifying, yet it's hard to look away.

paulfromatlanta on November 26th, 2021 at 06:26 UTC »

Boebert claimed to have made a vile, anti-Muslim joke

Well, that part, I believe.