NBC News
April 12, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., finds herself embroiled in another controversy after a comment she made about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Muslim civil rights.
Speaking last month at an event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles chapter, Omar mistakenly said the organization was founded in response to the terrorist attacks, adding “because they recognized that some people did something” — a phrasing that some in conservative media have interpreted as a too-flippant reference to the attack.