Study finds teenage girls face dating violence

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will not give up his tweets on the democratic republic Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women to sit in Congress.
In fact, he spoke at an event in Minnesota, Omar's state of origin, in the middle of a heated dispute over his remarks about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Omar, an American of Somali origin, says it's more than a rhetorical argument and that lives, including his own, are at stake. Trump says national security is at stake and Omar is "ungrateful".
A look at the latest rhetorical battle between the couple who speaks more about race and whether leaders and their words should be blamed for the violence.
___
Replicas
Omar says she is facing a growing number of death threats since Trump aired a video claiming she was insensitive to the 2001 terrorist attacks. "It's putting lives at risk," he said. she said, accusing Trump of fomenting extremism. "It has to stop."
His statement came on Sunday night following an announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she had taken steps to ensure the safety of the Democrat of Minnesota. Pelosi also urged Trump to record the video.
The video quickly disappeared as a tweet pinned to the top of Trump's Twitter feed, but it was not deleted.
Trump then stepped up his rhetoric Monday morning, tweeting: "Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and does nothing, decides to defend her leader, Omar's representative, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli and the thankless declarations of American hatred Omar did. "

Later on Monday, Trump announced that he was going to "the Grand State of Minnesota!", Responded Omar by re-tweeting this article by commenting "The Great State of Minnesota, where we do not welcome that immigrants, we send them to Washington. "
Minnesota has the largest concentration of Somalis in the country, and most of them are in the Minneapolis area.
Pelosi said Monday at the London School of Economics and Political Science: "I do not think any US president should use the tragedy of September 11 as a political tool. I think it's wrong, I think this is below the dignity of the office. "

___
What did Omar say?
Omar told a meeting of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles on March 23 that many Muslims had seen their civil liberties eroded after the September 11 attacks.
"It's been too long since we live with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and, frankly, I'm fed up, and every Muslim in this country should be fed up," she said. stated in his speech. to the video posted online. "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people had done something and we were all starting to lose access to our civil liberties."
CAIR was founded in 1994, according to its website, but the number of CAIR members soared after the attacks.
___
How Trump reacted
On Friday, the president retweeted a video pulling "some people did something" from Omar's speech and including press footage of hijacked planes that hit the twin towers. Trump also tweeted, "We'll never forget!"
The president has widely criticized Omar's political opponents and conservatives, saying his phrasing offered a casual description of the assailants and attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Neither Trump's tweet nor the video include Omar's complete quote nor the context of his comments.
In Minnesota, Trump held his remarks at a Burnsville trucking company, primarily focused on tax reduction adopted by the GOP in 2017.

___
Who echoed Trump
Other prominent GOP voices joined Trump to criticize Omar.
"The first member of Congress ever to describe the terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on September 11 was" people who did something, "tweeted Rep. Dan Crenshaw of R-Texas. Navy SEAL, retired, lost his right eye in 2012 during an explosion in Afghanistan.
"Here's your something," launched the New York Post on a cover under a picture of the flaming towers.
Brian Kilmeade, host of Fox News Channel, said about the "Fox & Friends" segment about Omar: "You have to wonder if it's an American premiere."
___
Life and death…
Omar has been the target of threats in the past. She tweeted to Kilmeade and Crenshaw: "It's a dangerous incitement, given the death threats I'm facing."
"My love and commitment to our country and that of my colleagues should never be questioned. We are ALL Americans!
A man from upstate New York State has recently been charged with death threats.
___
security
Black Congressional caucus members said in a conference call Monday that they feared for Omar's safety, especially during the Trump campaign in Minnesota. President Karen Bass said the outrage against Omar was "outraged", "putting even more of her life in danger".
Bennie Thompson, President of House Homeland Security, added: "Congress members should be free to give their opinions on topics without fear of threats of injury."
"I am concerned about this idea and the idea that, if your thinking is different from that of the president, you become a target."
___
Associated Press Errin Haines Whack contributed to this report.