9/11 victim’s son says he was banned from commemoration ceremony for blasting Ilhan Omar

The son of a 9/11 victim claims he was not allowed to read the names of the fallen at the annual remembrance ceremony after criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar’s earlier comments about the disaster.

Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mother Frances died in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, went viral in 2019 after criticizing Omar for minimizing the attack by describing it as “some people did something.”

But Haros took aim at Omar and other members of the left-wing “Squad” at the 2019 ceremony, even wearing a T-shirt with her comments on the front.

“Madam, objectively we know who and what was done. There is no doubt about that. Why your confusion?” he said during the live broadcast.

Now he claims he has not been allowed to read the names of the 9/11 victims since the incident, despite being involved for years.

“It seems like I will never be picked again since my last lecture,” Haros, 71, told the New York Post“Maybe I was just a little too controversial.”

Haros decided to testify after Omar made inaccurate comments about the creation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The Minnesota representative said CAIR was founded after 9/11 in response to the attacks on Muslim Americans and the loss of their civil rights following the attack.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people had done something and that we were all starting to lose access to our civil rights,” she said.

This is incorrect, as CAIR was founded in 1994, several years before 9/11. Her comments were also dismissed by Haros.

“That day, 19 Islamic terrorists from al-Qaeda killed more than 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars in economic damage. Is that clear?” he said during his speech.

“I was attacked, your family and friends were attacked, our constitutional freedoms were attacked, and the foundation of our nation on Judeo-Christian principles was attacked. That’s what some people did. Do you understand that now?”

Ilhan Omar was criticized for describing 9/11 as “some people did something” during a broader point she was making about the loss of civil rights for Muslim Americans in the aftermath of the attack

The 9/11 museum refuted Haros’ claims that he was not allowed to attend the lecture, saying that participants are selected through a lottery.

“Every year, we receive hundreds of requests from families of victims of the September 11 attacks to read the names of their loved ones aloud. This is more than we can process. That is why we use a lottery process for the selection,” the report said.

Haros responded to the museum’s statement, calling it “suspicious.”

“I find it highly unusual, given my previous chances,” he said. “The fact that I haven’t been called up makes me a little suspicious.

I think the number of people interested [who want to read] decreases every year as time passes.’

Haros said he still attends the ceremony, but no longer as a reader, and that he “grieves terribly for the victims and their families.”

The 9/11 museum said it uses a lottery system to determine who gets to read the victims’ names during the annual commemoration

He plans to hold a private mass for his mother and spend the day in memory.

“Many Americans are now facing the fact that their civil rights are being taken away,” she told CBS.

“So I was talking about the fact that as a Muslim, I not only suffered as an American who was attacked that day, but I woke up the next day and my fellow Americans treated me as a suspect.”