The Omar-led bill would establish an office within the State Department, and led by a presidential appointee to monitor and report Islamophobia worldwide. “Until everyone is free to practice their religion, no one is,” Omar said on the House floor.
Rep. Michale McCaul, R- Texas., said he supports the bill “in spirit” but added the bill was “too vague and too subjective” and that Islamophobia isn’t defined in the legislation.
Omar faced more incendiary comments from Rep. Scott Perry, R- Penn., who referred to her as an anti-Semite and implied she had connections to terrorist organizations.
“Let’s face it: Aside from the attempts to placate an anti-Semitic member of this chamber, all that’s really happening here is that House Democrats are deflecting from the real issue confronting the House of Representatives, and that is that the maker of this bill has no business sitting on House committees has no business in this chamber,” Perry said, adding American taxpayers “shouldn’t be forced to pay terrorist organizations that the maker of this bill is affiliated with.”
Perry’s comments were later stricken from the record and he was barred from speaking on the floor for the rest of the night.
Read the article by Ben Scheffer in International Business Times.
[Also refer to Rep. Scott Perry alleged that Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Muslim, is affiliated with terrorist groups during House debate on her bill to combat Islamophobia.]
