News: Rep. Bowman Urges House Leadership to Remove Lauren Boebert of Committee Assignments for Vile Islamophobic Remarks

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) issued the following statement calling on House leadership to remove Rep. Lauren Boebert of her Committee assignments following her vile Islamophobic remarks directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar.

“The cultural climate under Trump laid the foundation for and created a dangerous precedent that has emboldened members of the Trump Party to launch blatantly Islamophobic and xenophobic attacks on Congresswoman Omar and others simply because of who they pray to and what they look like,” said Congressman Jamaal Bowman (NY-16). “The fact is that Congresswoman Omar is a Black, immigrant and visibly Muslim woman with power—and this is too much to handle for people who refuse to live in a society that celebrates diversity and abhors white supremacy. The question that we as leaders are called to answer is whether we will tolerate this kind of vile behavior and learn from history in order to protect our future. I, for one, will work to root out Islamophobia and discrimination of any kind, and implore my colleagues to join me in saying enough is enough. I’m urging House leadership to hold Lauren Boebert accountable by removing her from her committee assignments, advancing a resolution of condemnation, and taking all other appropriate measures to ensure our message that Islamophobia, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia will not stand is loud and clear.” 

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