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The son of a woman killed on 9/11 slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar at Wednesday's memorial service for beingness insensitive to victims' families when she gave a speech proverb, "Some people did something" to draw the terror attacks.

Wearing a shirt with the Muslim Minnesota congresswoman'south infamous words emblazoned on it, Nicholas Haros Jr. paused from reading the names of the dead at the televised Ground Nothing service to lambaste Omar.

"Madam, objectively speaking, we know who and what was done. There is no uncertainty most that. Why your defoliation?" Haros Jr. (inset) said.

"On that day, xix Islamic terrorist members of al Qaeda killed over iii,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. Is that clear?"

Haros then connected driving habitation his point.

"I was attacked, your relatives and friends were attacked, our ramble freedoms were attacked and our nation'due south founding on Judeo-Christian principles were attacked. That's what some people did."

"Got that now?"

Haros likewise said he wanted the Minnesota Democrat and her and pals in the then-called "Team" — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx/Queens), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) — to know "just who did what to whom."

"Show respect in honoring them, please," he said of the victims. "American patriotism and your position demand it."

Haros, who runs an on online Catholic organization chosen "Facebook Apostles," concluded by saying, "For God and country, Amen," and making the sign of the cross.

His speech was greeted with applause at the service marking the 18th ceremony of the destruction of the Twin Towers by al Qaeda hijackers. Those clapping included several NYPD cops in clothes uniforms.

Haros' mom, Frances Haros, was killed while working in the south tower as a receptionist at a securities brokerage. She was 76.

Haros Jr. as well worked in the south tower, but was out of boondocks on business trip.

Now retired, Haros lives in Ocean County, NJ, and told The Post that Omar's words were "cruel and hurtful."

"An apology would be nice," he added.

This wasn't the first time he used the 9/11 memorial service to rip politicians. Terminal twelvemonth he didn't single anyone out, but he chosen on pols to "Cease using the bones and ashes of our loved ones every bit props for your political theater."

Omar fabricated her comment concluding March during a banquet held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Woodland Hills, Calif. The former Somali refugee said the group "was founded afterwards ix/xi, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose admission to our ceremonious liberties."

Omar and Tlaib are the only two Muslim women in Congress.

Omar on Wednesday didn't direct respond to Haros' comments, but posted a somber video on Twitter in which she recounted being 18 when the attacks took identify.

"I was in a classroom in college and I think rushing habitation afterward existence dismissed and getting dwelling house and seeing my male parent in complete horror every bit he sat in front of that Goggle box," she said.

"And I remember just feeling, like the world was ending."

Boosted reporting by Bob Fredericks