Screenshot from Twitter. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said during her March 23 speech at the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Los Angeles banquet that she didn’t care about the people demonstrating against her.
As the Journal’s Ryan Torok reported, more than 400 people showed up in front of the Hilton Hotel in Woodland Hills to protest Omar’s appearance there, carrying signs that read “stop normalizing anti-Semitism” and “reject Ilhan’s bigotry,” among others.
Omar said that the people protesting her have complained of “an Islam that lessens and isolates its women. And today they gather outside to protest a Muslim woman who is in Congress.”
“The irony in that is very entertaining to me,” Omar said.
She later added, “I don’t think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room can care less about what they have to say.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) mocks the "very fascinating" pro-Israel demonstrators who were protesting her yesterday: "But I don't think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room could care less about what they have to say" pic.twitter.com/k9ZkluGJmW
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 24, 2019
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