US House of Representatives votes to approve a Democratic proposal for a State Department office to address anti-Muslim bias across the world
US House Representative Ilhan Omar called for House leaders to take action” over Republican Lauren Boebert ’s using of anti-Muslim language.
The bill that was passed on Tuesday, authored by Representative Ilhan Omar, would create a special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Muslim bias and include state-sponsored anti-Muslim violence in the department's annual human rights reports. The office would monitor and combat "acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur in foreign countries" by noting instances of violence and harassment against Muslim people and community institutions.
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