The president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy admonished freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar Wednesday morning and blasted Democrats for not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism.<br /><br />“I’m frankly, as an American and as a Muslim, insulted at their resolution because it doesn’t name Ilhan Omar,” Dr. Zuhdi Jasser told Fox News' “America’s Newsroom.”<br /><br />“You listen to [Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.] and he says ‘oh, we’re going to work with her,’ I mean it’s patronizing, they’re infantilizing her.”<br /><br />A House vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, following alleged anti-Semitic comments by Omar, D-Minn., was delayed Wednesday.<br /><br />Engel, who initially spoke out against Omar’s comments, has recently softened his statement.<br /><br />"First of all, it's not up to me. This is done by the leadership. I don't know that that would do anything except exacerbate the situation even more. I'm looking to get rid of anti-Semitism, not looking to punish anybody,” Engel said Tuesday.<br /><br />A furious Jasser hit back, asking co-host Sandra Smith: “When did congressional office become a deprogramming rehab for radical Islamist ideologies?”<br /><br />The resolution in question was expected to state the House “rejects anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.”<br /><br />The resolution will now include all forms of bigotry.<br /><br />Jasser questioned the new inclusions because he does not believe Omar’s remarks have anything to do with Islamophobia.<br /><br />“Congress is actually seeming to turn into sort of the U.N. where everything… when you talk about anti-Semitism you have to talk on Islamophobia,” Jasser said.<br /><br />“Every American should be offended. There’s no moral equivalency in western history between anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bias. There isn’t.”<br /><br />Jasser expressed that Democrats are patronizing Muslims and said Omar should be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her comments.<br /><br />“When are we Muslims going to be treated like adults?” Jasser told Smith. “They’re treating her like a child. When they did a resolution against Steve King and he was removed from committees, I don’t remember them talking about other forms of hate because he was treated as an adult, as he should have been, who should have been removed from his committee.<br /><br />“She should be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
