”a Few people did something,” said Omar in the current filmsnutten which is a clipping from an approximately 20-minute long speech she gave before the amerikanskislamska the organization Cair, in march. She refers to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, which she wrongly says led to that Cair was founded as it is seven years older than that.
the offhand comment about the terrorist attacks belong to a line of reasoning that muslims in the US felt that their civil rights curtailed after 2001. Century message was an encouragement to reclaim the constitutional rights including the freedom of religion.
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Omar writes in his comment that the increased number of death threats have been handled by the Washington police and the FBI. At the side of the mention of Trumps fredagstweet she says also that the president encourages violent hate crimes from the right-wing extremists.
”Violent rhetoric and hate speech has no place in our society, even less from the country’s commander in chief. We are all americans. This is in danger of life. It must come to an end.”, writes Omar.
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