House passes Ilhan Omar’s legislation to combat Islamophobia

The House voted 219-212 Tuesday to walk Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s authorities to make a peculiar envoy to combat Islamophobia, a week aft progressives introduced a abstracted solution to portion Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of her committee assignments pursuing her anti-Muslim comments calling the Minnesota Democrat a terrorist.

The measure would code the rise successful incidents of Islamophobia worldwide and inactive needs to walk the Senate earlier it could spell to President Joe Biden’s table to beryllium signed into law.

The authorities was antecedently sitting successful the House Foreign Affairs Committee for months but was voted retired of committee past week arsenic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced expanding unit from members of her ain enactment to instrumentality aggressive enactment against Boebert for her racist remarks.

Debate for the authorities was interrupted Tuesday nighttime pursuing objections made by Democrats against GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who insulted Omar during his remarks. Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor, who was serving arsenic seat of the session, ruled that Perry’s remark “impugns the patriotism oregon loyalty of the subordinate of the House” and ruled his remarks “not successful order.” Debate continued soon aft Castor’s ruling.

The Biden medication said successful a connection it supported this legislation.

“Religious state is simply a cardinal quality right. This state is enshrined successful the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is besides portion of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Our country’s committedness to defending state of religion and content goes backmost centuries, and the Administration powerfully believes that radical of each faiths and backgrounds should beryllium treated with adjacent dignity and respect astir the world,” the connection said.

The ballot connected the measure successful the House comes aft progressive Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced a resolution, cosigned by different progressives, that would portion the Colorado Republican of her committee assignments if passed.

Last week, Pelosi dodged erstwhile she was asked if she supported that solution and repeated her telephone for GOP enactment to punish members of their conference.

The telephone to person Boebert removed from her committee assignments for her arguable comments is not made successful isolation. Threatening unit is the crushed wherefore Democrats stripped Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona of their committee assignments earlier this twelvemonth aft incendiary comments oregon actions they made.

Omar said past week she was “very confident” Pelosi would instrumentality “decisive action” against Boebert implicit the Colorado Republican’s anti-Muslim remarks.

“I’ve had a speech with the talker and I’m precise assured that she volition instrumentality decisive enactment adjacent week,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper connected “State of the Union.