By CAIR
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today sent a formal letter to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives urging opposition to Representative Nancy Mace’s resolution to censure Representative Ilhan Omar. A vote on the resolution is expected to take place sometime later today.
In its letter, CAIR makes clear that the resolution is “not rooted in fact, but in bad faith.” The organization noted that Rep. Omar has repeatedly condemned the assassination of Charlie Kirk, describing it as “mortifying” and offering sympathy for his family. At no point did she celebrate, justify, or mock his death.
Instead, CAIR warned, Rep. Mace’s resolution represents a dangerous precedent of punishing lawmakers for words they never said while ignoring openly racist, Islamophobic, and genocidal rhetoric from other members of Congress.
“This censure resolution is not about accountability; it is about partisan cancel culture,” said CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw, who authored the letter. “Members of Congress should not try to silence their ideological opponents or strip committee assignments because they hold different views. That undermines the principles of free debate and distracts from real accountability for actual hate speech in Congress.”
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