(Bismarck Tribune) A prominent North Dakota state senator drew a rebuke from U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and a Muslim civil rights group Monday for sharing a debunked photo on Facebook alleging Omar is a terrorist.
Sen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, who is the interim president pro tempore of the Senate, shared the photo claimed to be of Omar “at a Al’ Qaida training camp in Somalia.”
The Associated Press in August fact-checked the photo circulating on social media, finding it was taken at a military training camp in Mogadishu in 1978, four years before Omar was born.
Omar in a Twitter post called it “pure propaganda designed to stir up hate and violence coming from a GOP state rep.”
