Rep. Ilhan Omar responded with silence to a reporter asking her if she condemned the Saturday attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington, by an anti-fascist.
“Will you condemn the antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?” the Rebel reporter Keean Bexte asked Omar as she left a Monday press conference with fellow Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
“It’s easy to condemn terrorism. Will you condemn it?” Bexte asked when Omar doesn’t respond. “Antifa firebombed a facility in Tacoma over the weekend — it’s an ICE facility — will you condemn them for that?”
Omar continued to ignore Bexte as he questioned whether Omar thought it was “laudable” to bomb an ICE facility if they are indeed concentration camps, as some have claimed.
Willem Van Spronsen, 69, was shot and killed outside Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, on Saturday, after he hurled Molotov cocktails at the building and cars. One of Spronsen’s friends described him as an “anarchist” and “anti-fascist,” according to the Seattle Times.
In response to President Trump’s accusation that she has sympathy for al Qaeda, Omar said Monday, “I do not expect every time there is a white supremacist who attacks or there is a white man who kills in a school or in a movie theater or in a mosque or in a synagogue, I don’t expect my white community members to respond on whether they love that person or not. And so I think it is beyond time, it’s beyond time to ask Muslims to condemn terrorists.”
?#Democrat Ilhan #Omar‘s silence on the ICE Facility #terrorist attack will promote more of these attacks.
Democrat Ilhan #Omar Repeatedly Refuses to Condemn The Terrorist Attack on #ICE FacilityReporter: “Will you condemn the #ANTIFA attack”?
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— occupycorruptDC (@occupycorruptDC) July 16, 2019
