"It is not just an attack on me, but on millions of American Muslims across this country."
Rep. Ilhan Omar played an anonymous death threat she received on her voicemail, urging the House Republicans to condemn anti-Muslim hate...
Rep. Ilhan Omar played an anonymous death threat she received on her voicemail, urging the House Republicans to condemn anti-Muslim hate...
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00:00We see you Muslim son of a b****.
00:04We know what you're up to.
00:06You're all about taking over the country.
00:08Don't worry, there's plenty
00:10that will love the opportunity
00:14to take you off the face of this f****** earth.
00:17Let me read you what the voicemail says.
00:32You are effing Muslim piece of s***.
00:37You are jihadist.
00:40We know what you are.
00:42You are effing traitor
00:44and you will not live any longer.
00:47When a sitting member of Congress
00:49calls a colleague member of the jihad squad
00:53and falsifies a story to suggest
00:58that I will blow up the capital.
01:01It is not just attack on me
01:04but on millions of American Muslims
01:07across this country.
01:09We of course know
01:11that this isn't the first incident.
01:14In May,
01:16she said my colleagues and I
01:18are politicians
01:20with suicide belts
01:22strapped to their bodies.
01:24She asked
01:26if Congresswomen and I
01:28should register
01:30as foreign agents
01:32invoking a hateful
01:34dual loyalty trope.
01:38And today we learned
01:40that she had
01:42fabricated a similar story
01:44about riding an elevator with me
01:47calling me and Rashida
01:49evil and dark hearted.
01:51I wish I could say
01:53the Congresswoman was an outlier
01:55but I cannot.
02:03Condemning this
02:05should not be a partisan issue.
02:09This is about our basic humanity
02:12and fundamental rights
02:14of religious freedom
02:15enshrined in our constitution.
02:18Yet while some members
02:20of the Republican Party
02:21have condemned this,
02:23to date,
02:24the Republican Party leadership
02:26has done nothing
02:28to hold their members accountable.
02:31We cannot pretend
02:32that this hate speech
02:34from leading politicians
02:36doesn't have real consequences.
02:38The truth is
02:40that anti-Muslim hate
02:42is on the rise
02:43both here at home
02:44and around the world.
02:46I myself have reported
02:48hundreds of threats
02:50on my life
02:51often triggered
02:52by Republican attacks
02:54on my faith.
02:56And this week,
02:58once again,
03:00we saw another increase.
03:02It is time for the Republican Party
03:04to actually do something
03:06to confront
03:08anti-Muslim hatred
03:10in its ranks
03:11and hold
03:12those who perpetuate it
03:14accountable.