WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 30: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) listens as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) speaks during a news conference about Islamophobia on Capitol Hill on November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. A video of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) circulated on social media last week of the conservative lawmaker making anti-Muslim remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
  • The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), identified by the Justice Department as an “entity” of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, along with other Islamist organizations is trying to revive the Combating International Islamophobia Act.
  • Critics of the bill, introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), claim that the bill disables criticism of Islamist activities both abroad and in the United States.
  • Both CAIR officials and Rep. Omar have a long history of antisemitic bigotry. 
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