Ocasio-Cortez Calls NY Post’s Brutal Cover ‘Hateful,’ Defends Omar After ‘Some People Did Something’ On 9/11 Comment

Great response!

"It’s a reference to a comment by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who said last month in a speech before the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet in California that the September 11 massacre was not a terrorist attack, but instead dismissed it as “some people did something.”

The Post’s accompanying editorial was brutal:

How pathetic: A member of Congress can’t acknowledge what happened on one of the most horrific days in US history.

In a March 23 speech, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) complained of “the discomfort of being a second-class citizen” before claiming the Council on American-Islamic Relations “was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and [Muslims] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

Some people did something? Wow. What a way to describe the heinous surprise attack on America that claimed 3,000 lives.

The paper went on: “Omar upped the obscure-the-facts ante Wednesday, declaring criticism of her ‘some people did something’ line to be ‘incitement,’ on the grounds that she has received death threats. Huh? She’d rightly be outraged if anyone minimized those threats as merely ‘some words from some people.’ Omar’s cavalier brushing off of the murder of thousands of innocents on 9/11 should shock all Americans, Muslims included.”...

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