A muslim congressman in the UNITED states has received an increasing number of death threats since president Donald Trump in a video on Twitter on Friday accused her to tone down the attack against the UNITED states 11. september 2001.
It tells the congressman Ilhan Omar on Sunday.
– Since the president’s tweet on Friday night I have seen an increase in the number of direct threats on the life – many directly refer to the president’s video or comment on it, write Ilhan Omar on Twitter.
Violent crimes and other hate crimes committed by right-wing extremists and white nationalists are taken from strength to strength in this country and around the world, she continues.
– We can no longer ignore the fact that they are being encouraged by the person who sits in the country’s top post, she writes, with reference to president Trump.
Friday sent Donald Trump a tweet with a video of Ilhan Omar, who is holding a speech about the treatment of muslims after the attack 11. september 2001. The video switches between images of omar’s talk and pictures, from when the planes hit the World Trade Centers twin towers and the u.s. department of defense, the Pentagon.
the Video is accompanied by the words “We will never forget” from Donald Trump.
the President of the House of Representatives, democrat Nancy Pelosi, said earlier on Sunday that she has initiated security measures to protect Ilhan Omar, her family and her employees.
the President’s words weigh very heavily, and his hate and inflammatory rhetoric creates a real danger, ” said Pelosi in a statement.
– President Trump is going to have to remove his disrespectful and dangerous video.
the 37-year-old Ilhan Omar from Minnesota came to the UNITED states as a somali refugee at the age of eight. Last year she was one of the first two muslim women ever elected into the u.s. congress.
She has previously stated that it was the president Trumps “frygtpolitik”, which motivated her to stand up.
