A video of Christians singing worship songs aboard an airplane amassed greater than 32 million views after Consultant Ilhan Omar questioned if Muslims would obtain the identical remedy.

The video reveals a person enjoying guitar and strolling by means of the aircraft's aisle whereas singing a Christian worship track on a crowded aircraft. In the meantime, some passengers joined in, whereas others sat in silence. The video shortly divided the web.

Omar, one among three Muslims at the moment serving in Congress, weighed in on the video, trying to attract a comparability to the best way Muslims could be handled in the event that they disrupted a flight to worship.

"I feel my household and I ought to have a prayer session subsequent time I'm on a aircraft. How do you suppose it is going to finish?" the Minnesota Democrat wrote.

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A tweet from Consultant Ilhan Omar, above in Minneapolis in August 2020, criticizing a gaggle of Christians for performing worship songs on an airplane acquired reward for calling out “hypocrisy.” Her feedback divided the web because the viral video topped 32 million views.Stephen Maturen/Getty Photographs

The tweet shortly divided the web, drawing backlash from many on the proper, whereas others got here to her protection. The talk over the tweet precipitated the congresswoman to pattern on Twitter Monday morning.

Some accused her of attacking Christians within the tweet.

"Ilhan Omar asks how folks would react if her Muslim household sang their worship songs on a aircraft. I do not know, however it's gotta be higher than the response to Christian worship in her house nation of Somalia, the place Christians are slaughtered for praying in public," wrote conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey.

She added in a follow-up tweet that "the state of affairs is likely to be just a little extra understandably tense."

Others, in the meantime, posted different movies that present Muslims praying on airplanes, noting that in elements of the world the place Islam is a predominant faith, it is extra frequent to see Muslims worshiping on planes.

"Relying on the circumstances. Stay and let reside," wrote @CarlGustavEmil.

Others, nonetheless, defended Omar, arguing that her level that Muslims would face scrutiny for worshiping on a aircraft carries some validity.

"Ilhan Omar is not criticizing Christians. She's declaring the hypocrisy. A Muslim might by no means dream to rise up at 30,000 toes to recite verses of the Holy Quran—not to mention brazenly categorical their religion," wrote Twitter consumer @mansoortshams.

Creator Cliff Schecter wrote: "Do not care what ya consider Ilhan Omar's politics, she makes an simple level. Do not suppose any of us want prayer foisted on us whereas in a flying steel tube 30K toes within the sky w/out a parachute to flee & regain sanity."

Others wrote that whatever the spiritual side, the expertise may very well be annoying for some passengers.

"It does not matter if its spiritual or not, they're disturbing a number of passengers, that is an invasion of different folks's area," wroteYoutube creator Peter Jordan.

Omar, one of many progressive lawmakers who make up the "Squad," has lengthy been a goal of Republican criticism. She took workplace in 2019 and has beforehand confronted assaults based mostly on her faith.

Newsweek reached out to Consultant Omar's workplace for remark.