The speech of Ilhan Omar CAIR raises protests in duel

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of an event where a congressman met with a US-Muslim civil rights group.

Protesters were protesting Saturday's presence of US representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota at the fundraiser for the Council for American-Islamic Relations in Greater Los Angeles.

Omar criticized his recent remarks about Israel, including comments that American supporters are pushing people to "allegiance to a foreign country." colleagues who tell me about the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. "