'This is going to be the country of the many,' the Minnesota Democrat told an event organized by Black Lives Matter.
Rep. Ilhan Omar has described Islamophobia and anti-Semitism as “two sides of the same coin of bigotry," adding that President Donald Trump and his allies are to blame for a political climate that had allowed both to prosper.
She says she had received an increase in death threats since video emerged in which she spoke of a rise in Islamophobia following the 9/11 attacks in New York. Trump tweeted a video of her words next to images of the terrorist attack. “The occupant of the White House...and his allies are doing everything that they can to distance themselves and misinform the public from the monsters that they created that is terrorizing the Jewish community and the Muslim community,” she said, NBC News reported.
“This is not going to be the country of the xenophobics. This is not going to be the country of white people. This is not going to be the country of the few. This is going to be the country of the many.”
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