The House has passed a bill, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar, that would establish an office within the State Department to monitor and report Islamophobia worldwide
Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks to reporters in the wake of anti-Islamic comments made by Rep. Lauren Boebert who likened Omar to a bomb-carrying terrorist, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. The House has taken the first formal response to Republican Rep. Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks by passing a bill to tackle Islamophobia worldwide. | J.
The legislative push comes as progressives were already calling for Rep. Lauren Boebert to be removed from her committee assignments after she suggested recently that Omar was potentially a suicide bomber. The House bill was voted out of the Foreign Affairs Committee last week as pressure was building on GOP leaders to condemn Boebert’s remarks.
House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have called on Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to take punitive actions against Boebert and others for their rhetoric.
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