The New York Post has a very inflammatory response to Rep. Ilhan Omar's 9/11 comments

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Four words from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have generated a complete frenzy.

At a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) last month, Omar said the organization "was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." Some conservative critics quickly zeroed in on the "some people did something" phrase, painting it as her description of 9/11 as a whole and questioning whether Omar was "an American first."

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.