{"id":1538454,"date":"2022-07-04T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538454"},"modified":"2022-07-04T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:50:10","slug":"rep-omar-booed-during-somali-music-festival-appearance-in-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-omar-booed-during-somali-music-festival-appearance-in-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Omar Booed During Somali Music Festival Appearance in Home State"},"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\">22<\/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%2Frep-omar-booed-during-somali-music-festival-appearance-in-home-state%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=1538454&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>Video footage surfaced online that appeared to show a crowd of people at a Somali cultural event in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-minneapolis\">Minneapolis<\/a> booing \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ilhan-omar\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-Minn.) over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Omar, who came to the United States as a Somali refugee, made an appearance at a concert featuring Somali singer Suldaan Seeraar at the city\u2019s Target Center. As soon as she arrived on stage, the boos began, according to footage <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeftismForU\/status\/1543546901424914432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some yelled at her, \u201cGet out!\u201d and \u201cget the [expletive] out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor to welcome you to our incredible city,\u201d the Democratic congresswoman said in a Twitter post alongside a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1543721417027493888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">14-second clip<\/a>. The clip ended moments after the audience started to boo loudly.<\/p>\n<p>Longer videos suggested that the crowd booed her for about a minute after she and her husband came onto the stage.\u00a0\u201cOK, OK, OK, OK, OK, we don\u2019t have all night,\u201d Omar said at one point as the crowd kept booing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what prompted the response, and neither Omar nor her office has issued a public comment about the matter. The Epoch Times has contacted Omar\u2019s office several times for comment about the boos.<\/p>\n<p>Some people suggested that it\u2019s because of Omar\u2019s support for Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion nationwide, support for LGBT causes, and other left-wing causes. Omar is currently the\u00a0whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Following last month\u2019s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Omar said she would fight to codify it into law. She\u2019s also publicly backed proposals to expand the Supreme Court and end the Senate filibuster to pass abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn almost half of this country, states are ready to ban abortion,\u201d Omar said during a protest following the decision. \u201cOutright ban abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And several weeks ago, amid dismal polls,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage surfaced online that appeared to show a crowd of people at a Somali cultural event in Minneapolis booing \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over the weekend. Omar, who came to the United States as a Somali refugee, made an appearance at a concert featuring Somali singer Suldaan Seeraar at the city\u2019s Target [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1538454","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\/1538454","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538454\/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=1538454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}