(IPT) It might seem natural for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles chapter to invite U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to speak at Saturday evening’s fundraising dinner.
CAIR is predominantly a conservative Sunni-run political organization, and Omar, D-Minn., is one of two Muslim women recently elected to Congress. She chooses to wear a hijab, conforming with conservative Islamic ideology.
But she also has endured a series of controversies over anti-Semitic comments which she claims are simple statements criticizing Israel. Israel “hypnotized the world” to hide its “evil deeds,” she wrote in 2012. American support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins, baby,” she wrote last month. And as a congresswoman, she feels pressured “to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country.”
