{"id":1119929,"date":"2021-12-14T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119929"},"modified":"2021-12-14T23:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:58:41","slug":"house-passes-anti-islamophobia-bill-after-boebert-suggested-ilhan-omar-is-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-anti-islamophobia-bill-after-boebert-suggested-ilhan-omar-is-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Anti-Islamophobia Bill After Boebert Suggested Ilhan Omar Is A Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-passes-anti-islamophobia-bill-after-boebert-suggested-ilhan-omar-is-a-terrorist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House late Tuesday passed an anti-Islamophobia bill weeks after Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert implied that her Muslim Democratic colleague was a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was led by Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the target of Boebert\u2019s remarks, and it would create a special envoy to monitor and fight Islamophobia domestically and internationally. It passed 219-212 along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a country that was founded on religious liberty, our leadership on international religious freedom depends on recognizing that Islamophobia is global in scope and we must lead the global effort to address it,\u201d Omar said.<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans also flatly condemned Islamophobia and all forms of religious bigotry, many objected to the bill brought Tuesday because it did not explicitly define \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats voted down an amendment to exclude legitimate criticism of what counts as Islamophobia,\u201d said Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Chabot. \u201cIs it Islamophobic to criticize those who call for the destruction of Israel? What about the Taliban\u2019s repression of women or those who deny the Holocaust?\u201d he later added.<\/p>\n<p>A push for some type of congressional action came after Boebert <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patriottakes\/status\/1463903881553920004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joked<\/a> in late November that Omar was not a threat when the two shared an elevator because she was not wearing a backpack, implying that she could have been a suicide bomber. These remarks were widely condemned, but after Boebert <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/26\/lauren-boebert-apologizes-muslim-community-ilhan-omar-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized<\/a>, a conversation between her and Omar quickly disintegrated into each <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/hung-up-on-me-lauren-boebert-releases-video-detailing-phone-call-ilhan-omar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanding<\/a> a public apology from the other.<\/p>\n<p>About a week later MSNBC unearthed another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremyslevin\/status\/1468400325434302466?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> where Boebert called Omar a \u201cterrorist,\u201d renewing calls for a congressional response.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert\u2019s comments also led to a fresh round of Republican infighting, most notably between South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, who \u201c100%\u201d condemned Boebert\u2019s comments, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Boebert ally who called Mace \u201ctrash in the GOP conference\u201d for speaking out in the first place. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/30\/republican-house-infighting-lauren-boebert-nancy-mace-marjorie-taylor-green-ilhan-omar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Attacks Grow Among House Republicans Amid Fight Between Reps Boebert, Omar)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7328827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7328827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks with a reporter as she leaves the Capitol Building. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The preferred response, however, varied among members. A group of Omar\u2019s House allies led by Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley introduced a resolution Wednesday to formally censure Boebert and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/ayanna-pressley-lauren-boebert-illhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strip her of her two committees,<\/a> though Democratic leadership neither explicitly endorse the effort nor taken it off the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a conversation with [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] and I\u2019m very confident that she will take decisive action next week,\u201d Omar&nbsp;said earlier in December. \u201cAs you know, when I first got to Congress, I was worried that, you know, I wasn\u2019t going to be allowed to be sworn in because there was a ban on the hijab. She promised me that she\u2019d take care of it. She fulfilled that promise. She made another promise to me that she will take care of this, and I believe her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had leadership endorsed the measure to strip Boebert of her committees, she would have likely been the third House Republican to lose seats this year, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/05\/11-republicans-voted-strip-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greene<\/a> and Arizona Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/17\/house-censures-paul-gosar-strips-committee-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Gosar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House late Tuesday passed an anti-Islamophobia bill weeks after Colorado Republican Rep. 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