Ilhan Omar compares US to Hamas and Taliban, says all commit ‘unthinkable atrocities’

By Carly Roman

Published June 8, 2021 6:52pm ET

Ilhan Omar compares US to Hamas and Taliban, says all commit ‘unthinkable atrocities’ — Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks to the chamber Thursday, March 7, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as the House was preparing to vote on a resolution to speak out against, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "anti-Semitism, anti-Islamophobia, anti-white supremacy and all the forms that it takes," an action sparked by remarks from Omar. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Rep. Ilhan Omar says the United States, along with Hamas, the Taliban, and others, has committed “unspeakable atrocities,” in her latest critique of the U.S.

The Minnesota Democrat, who says the U.S. has yet to achieve social justice, compared the nation to the two groups designated as “foreign terrorist organizations” by the U.S. Department of State.