Rep. Ilhan Omar has come below hearth for deriding a video displaying passengers singing Christian songs aboard a aircraft – and questioning what would possibly occur if her Muslim household additionally held a “prayer session” on a flight.
The Minnesota Democrat shared the video by which two individuals are seen singing the non secular songs within the aisle on an EasyJet flight, the Day by day Dot reported.
“I feel my household and I ought to have a prayer session subsequent time I'm on a aircraft. How do you assume it should finish?” the Muslim “Squad” member wrote.
The video – captioned “Worshipping Jesus 30,000 toes within the air” — was shot and posted on Instagram on April 9 by Jack Jensz Jr., who based a bunch known as Kingdom Realm Ministries, in accordance with TMZ.
“#Jesus is taking on this Flight,” he wrote.
A number of Republicans ripped Omar for expressing anti-Christian sentiment, in accordance with Fox Information.
“Why do you hate Christians, Ilhan? If the liberty of faith we get pleasure from right here in America disturbs you, be happy to pack your baggage and head again to Somalia, Sudan, or wherever you’re from. Take your brother with you,” tweeted Georgia congressional candidate Vernon Jones.
GOP Florida congressional candidate Jose Castillo mentioned that “in America, Muslims can & do pray in public.”
He added in a tweet that if Omar “needs a rustic the place Christians aren’t allowed to do the identical [Omar] ought to return to her personal nation,” apparently referring to Somalia, the place the naturalized US citizen was born.
Cicely Davis, who's searching for to defeat Omar in Minnesota’s fifth Congressional District, additionally slammed her on Twitter by noting that “Qatar – a rustic you’re very acquainted with – performs Islamic prayers on the intercom earlier than takeoff on their planes.”
She added: “They've a chosen prayer space & coordinates for Mecca are posted on the screens. It’s no drawback. The problem is you hate Christians & Jews & plenty of Muslims.”
In line with TMZ, Jensz Jr. and Kingdom Realm Ministries have apparently been touring all through Europe to help refugees leaving Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
The Put up has reached out to Omar for remark.
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