Representative Nancy Mace has accused Ilhan Omar of inciting violence<\/p>\n
US Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace has said she will introduce a resolution to remove Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar from her House committee assignments over remarks the latter made following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.\u00a0\u00a0
\nKirk, a conservative activist and founder of the organization Turning Point USA, was killed during a public event in Utah last week. His death has provoked widespread reactions across the political spectrum. \u00a0
\nOmar, who was born in Somalia and became a US citizen in 2000, criticized Republican lawmakers who blamed the left for Kirk\u2019s death. Speaking last week to commentator Mehdi Hasan, she accused them of fostering hostility toward political opponents and said: \u201cThese people are full of s**t.\u201d \u00a0
\nShe singled out Mace and US President Donald Trump, saying, \u201cYou have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country \u2026 and you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me.\u201d \u00a0
\nHowever, she also called the video of Kirk\u2019s shooting \u201creally mortifying\u201d and said her thoughts were with his wife and children. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Mace, a representative from South Carolina, announced the resolution on X on Monday, saying the measure would censure Omar and seek her removal from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House Budget Committee. \u00a0
\n\u201cShe is inciting violence against conservatives in the wake of Charlie Kirk\u2019s political assassination,\u201d Mace said in a video standing outside Omar\u2019s office. \u201cWe have been villainized and dehumanized far too long. You can take your Sharia-loving, anti-American self back to Somalia.\u201d \u00a0
\nMace, in earlier posts, had blamed Democrats for fostering a climate of political violence, saying, \u201cIf you have a different opinion from the left, they want to kill you.\u201d \u00a0
\nProsecutors said on Tuesday that Kirk\u2019s alleged assassin had embraced left-wing and pro-LGBTQ ideology over the past year. \u00a0
\nOmar has rejected claims of inciting violence. Her office said she was among the first to condemn the killing and that her remarks had been misrepresented. A spokesperson noted that she had \u201cexplicitly expressed her sympathies and prayers\u201d to Kirk\u2019s family, condemned his assassination, and had \u201croutinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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