Article snippet: Speaking at an event hosted by Muslims — a faith Omar embraces — Omar said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was formed after 9/11 and that “some people did something” on that fateful day and that all Muslims were facing ill-treatment as a result. CAIR was, in fact, established in 1994, according to its website. And as Breitbart News has noted: Omar’s remarks were criticized on social media: “Ilhan Omar mentions 9/11 and does not consider it a terrorist attack on the USA by terrorists, instead she refers to it as “Some people did something”, then she goes on to justify the establishment of a terrorist organization (CAIR) on US soil,” Imam Mohamad Tawhidi tweeted. Omar responded to the criticism with this tweet: “The people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” President George W. Bush. Was Bush downplaying the terrorist attack? What if he was a Muslim?” On her Twitter account, the freshman member of Congress states that she is a “mom, refugee and intersectional feminist.” Follow Penny Starr on Twitter Link to the full article to read more