Omar and Tlaib conspicuously quiet on 25th anniversary of 9/11?

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Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib apparently made no 9/11 remembrance posts on their X accounts for Friday’s historic 25th anniversary.
The silence drew attention because both congresswomen have previously marked the anniversary publicly.
Omar’s history with 9/11 remains politically charged because of her infamous 2019 reference to the attacks as “some people did something,” which Tlaib vigorously defended.

America marked a quarter-century since the September 11 terrorist attacks Friday with solemn ceremonies, seven moments of silence and tributes to the nearly 3,000 people murdered that day.

But Twitchy noticed something missing from the X feeds of two of Congress’ most prominent progressive Democrats: Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

As of Sunday, neither appeared to have posted a public 9/11 remembrance on X for the 25th anniversary.

That’s noteworthy because this isn’t unfamiliar territory for either congresswoman.

Omar created a national firestorm in 2019 while speaking to a Council on American-Islamic Relations gathering about discrimination against Muslims after the attacks.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something,” Omar said, before discussing the loss of civil liberties experienced by Muslim Americans.

The phrase became a national controversy, although fuller accounts of the speech noted that Omar’s larger argument concerned the treatment of Muslims after the terrorist attacks.

Tlaib immediately came to her defense.

“My sister Ilhan Omar, what she was talking about, was uplifting people by supporting their civil liberties and civil rights,” Tlaib told MSNBC.

Tlaib accused critics of taking Omar’s words out of context.

This wasn’t an ordinary September 11.

For the first time, the National September 11 Memorial added a seventh moment of silence honoring those who have subsequently died from illnesses and injuries connected to the attacks. With a third of the country now too young to remember 9/11 personally, organizers also placed special emphasis on teaching a new generation what happened that morning.

Yet two members of Congress whose previous words about September 11 generated a national political debate apparently had nothing to say publicly on X this time around.

MY QUICK TAKE

Twenty-five years.

Of all the anniversaries to let pass without a word, that’s a strange one.

And when one of your most famous sentences in Congress contains the words “some people did something,” people are probably going to notice the silence.