Council on American-Islamic Relations

Muslim Lawmaker Comes Under Fire in House Debate on ‘Islamophobia’

WASHINGTON — A House effort to pass a bill to combat anti-Muslim bigotry became enmeshed in charges of exactly that prejudice when a right-wing Republican from Pennsylvania accused the bill’s co-sponsor, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, of antisemitism and harboring terrorist sympathies. Representative Scott Perry, the incoming leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, assailed […]