{"id":1172656,"date":"2021-12-30T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172656"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:04:25","slug":"ilhan-omar-islamophobia-bill-passed-by-house-critics-blast-it-for-restricting-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-islamophobia-bill-passed-by-house-critics-blast-it-for-restricting-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar \u2018Islamophobia\u2019 Bill Passed By House. Critics Blast It For Restricting Free Speech."},"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\">28<\/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%2Filhan-omar-islamophobia-bill-passed-by-house-critics-blast-it-for-restricting-free-speech%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=1172656&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>On December 14, the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/hr5665\/BILLS-117hr5665rfs.xml\">titled<\/a> the \u201cCombating International Islamophobia Act,\u201d which would \u201cestablish within the Department of State an Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia,\u201d and establish the \u201cmonitoring and combating acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur in foreign countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some critics alleged that a clear definition of what constitutes \u201cIslamophobia\u201d was missing from the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/world\/us-house-passes-bill-to-combat-islamophobia-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-ilhan-omar-introduced-legislation-10216391.html\">FirstPost<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>Republican Michael McCaul of Texas said he supports the \u201cspirit and intent\u201d of the bill. But he raised concerns that it could empower executive branch officials to crack down on protected speech because the word \u201cIslamophobia\u201d isn\u2019t defined in the legislation. \u201cIt\u2019s so vague and subjective that it could be used against legitimate speech for partisan purposes,\u201d McCaul was quoted as saying on the House floor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dalia al-Aqidi, a Muslim scholar and senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/rep-omars-bill-stifles-free-speech-scholar_719782.html\">stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Given the fact that even in the bill there is no clear definition of what Islamophobia is, if you look at it, it is really a noble bill that you can pretend to defend all Muslims around the world. But when you look at it, you don\u2019t know what Islamophobia is; you don\u2019t know what you are being accused of. Let\u2019s say, criticizing Hamas, or calling it a terrorist organization. Does it fall under their \u201cIslamophobia?\u201d What about Hezbollah? What about Iran? What about Turkey? What about the people that are oppressed by these Islamist governments such as Iran and Turkey and other areas? So that\u2019s the problem; it\u2019s silencing every voice regardless of where that voice is coming from. It\u2019s very dangerous; it\u2019s an abuse of the freedom of speech and freedom of religion in the United States and in the West in general.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Look, if you do your research or your viewers do their research, who welcomed this bill? The extremists. The governments of extreme ideology. These are the governments that would take advantage of this bill and take advantage of the laws of the United states of America to oppress their own people.&nbsp;Have we heard Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib \u2026 condemning the jihadists? Have we heard them condemning any suicide bombings?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among the descriptions of \u201cthe nature and extent of acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur during the preceding year\u201d in the bill were included:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(A) acts of physical violence against, or harassment of, Muslim people, and acts of violence against, or vandalism of, Muslim community institutions, including schools, mosques, and cemeteries;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(B) instances of propaganda in government and nongovernment media that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(C) the actions, if any, taken by the government of the country to respond to such violence and attacks or to eliminate such propaganda or incitement;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(D) the actions taken by such government to enact and enforce laws relating to the protection of the right to religious freedom of Muslim people;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(E) the efforts of such government to promote anti-bias and tolerance education.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 14, the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) titled the \u201cCombating International Islamophobia Act,\u201d which would \u201cestablish within the Department of State an Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia,\u201d and establish the \u201cmonitoring and combating acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur in foreign countries.\u201d Some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}