(Daily Caller) The anti-Islamophobia bill passed in the House Tuesday was introduced by a representative with a history of anti-Semitic comments and has the potential to chill free speech, critics told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“This legislation is a nightmare for Muslims and non-Muslims alike — for all Americans,” M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told the DCNF. The bill, he argued in an article for the Center for Security Policy, creates a space in U.S. bureaucracy which exists exclusively to attack our allies with charges of anti-Muslim bigotry when they criticize Islamist regimes.
The House passed Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Combating International Islamophobia Act late Tuesday after a public feud between Omar and Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who made a joke about Omar being a terrorist. The bill creates an office within the State Department to combat global Islamophobia.
