By Orla Dwyer, TheJournal.ie

US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has been making allegations about Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar over the past few days. …

CLAIM 5: Omar minimised 9/11 and said ‘some people did something’.

Omar minimised the September 11th attacks on our homeland, saying ‘some people did something’.

Trump said this at a rally in North Carolina earlier this week, along with many other claims about Omar.

The allegation is based on part of a speech made by Omar in March of this year at a CAIR-LA banquet.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a non-profit Muslim civil rights group.

“It doesn’t matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about, but when Islam is mentioned, we are only talking about terrorists, and if you say something you are sent to the principal’s office,” Omar said in the speech.

“Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognised that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

CAIR was actually founded in 1994, but was expanded after 9/11. In April, Trump tweeted a clip of this statement and added footage from 9/11.

Omar responded to the criticism by referencing a quote from former President George W. Bush saying: “The people — and the people who...

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