Rashida Tlaib: Ilhan Omar is ‘an easier target’ because she is black and Muslim

By Zach Halaschak

Published March 17, 2019 3:30pm ET

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Rashida Tlaib: Ilhan Omar is ‘an easier target’ because she is black and Muslim — In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listens to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., says the anger in Congress and elsewhere over controversial remarks made about Israel by fellow freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar,D-Minn., is due to her religion and race.

“Because she’s Muslim and because she’s black, she’s an easier target for them to attack and target,” Tlaib said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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