Speaking at an event last month for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar said, "CAIR 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."
The New York Post published Thursday's tabloid with the quote from Omar, who is one of two Muslim women in Congress, and an image of the Twin Towers engulfed in flames from September 11, 2001. Under the picture is the headline "Here's your something."
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the New York Post's cover as "horrifying" and "hateful."
Ocasio-Cortez pointed to Omar's co-sponsorship of a bill that would reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
"She's done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won't even support healthcare for 1st responders- yet are happy to weaponize her faith," Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter.
Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts accused the Post of "manipulating" Omar's remarks, and said that her full comments "clearly speak" to Islamophobia in America post-9/11.
"Manipulating her remarks is defaming & dangerous for her & her family," Pressley said on Twitter. "Stop with this recklessness."
She blamed Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Post, writing, "This is on you - stoking hate, fear & division, putting REAL lives at risk. Shame on you."
"The NY Post knows exactly what it's doing - taking quotes out of context and evoking painful imagery to spread hate and endangering the life of Rep. Omar. Shame on them, and shame on Rupert Murdoch," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat and the other Muslim woman in Congress, on Twitter.
CNN has reached out to Murdoch's corporation News Corp and the New York Post for comment.
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