{"id":402935,"date":"2019-04-12T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-dem-congresswoman-claims-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-over-9-11-comment-is-racist\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T00:00:19","slug":"prison-planet-com-dem-congresswoman-claims-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-over-9-11-comment-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-dem-congresswoman-claims-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-over-9-11-comment-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Dem Congresswoman Claims Criticism of Ilhan Omar Over 9\/11 Comment is \u201cRacist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Rashida Tlaib says Omar \u2018speaks the truth\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>April 11, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/110419omar2a.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib claimed that critcism of Ilham Omar\u2019s characterization of 9\/11 as \u201csome people did something\u201d was racist and that Omar was speaking the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During an interview on MSNBC, Tlaib immediately began ranting about identity politics, claiming Omar was \u201ctaken out of context\u201d because she was a \u2018woman of color\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, the context was clear; Omar clearly minimized 9\/11 by referring to the 9\/11 hijackers as \u201csome people (who) did something\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib defends Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s 9\/11 comments: \u201cshe does speak truth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib suggests that those who are criticizing Omar are racist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/of0rgKeCWg\">pic.twitter.com\/of0rgKeCWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1116368705946996737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is just (a) pure racist act by many of those hateful acts by those because she does speak truth,\u201d claimed Tlaib, adding that she was \u201coutraged\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the only outrage here is that a lawmaker would defend someone who attempted to downplay the biggest terror attack on U.S. soil in history.<\/p>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/04\/11\/ilhan-olmar-accuses-dan-crenshaw-of-incitement-for-criticizing-her-over-9-11-comments\/\">reported earlier<\/a>, Omar attempted to play the victim after the controversy by claiming that criticism of her was incitement to violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBSCRIBE<\/strong> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>Follow on Twitter: <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @PrisonPlanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Thursday, April 11, 2019  at  12:40 pm<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/dem-congresswoman-claims-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-over-9-11-comment-is-racist.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/dem-congresswoman-claims-criticism-of-ilhan-omar-over-9-11-comment-is-racist.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashida Tlaib says Omar \u2018speaks the truth\u2019 Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comApril 11, 2019 Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib claimed that critcism of Ilham Omar\u2019s characterization of 9\/11 as \u201csome people did something\u201d was racist and that Omar was speaking the truth. During an interview on MSNBC, Tlaib immediately began ranting about identity politics, claiming Omar was \u201ctaken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}