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

A 9/11 victim's son claims he was banned from reading the names of the fallen at the annual memorial ceremony after he called out Rep Ilhan Omar's previous comments about the disaster.

Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mom Frances died in the south tower of the World Trade Center, went viral in 2019 after he slammed 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' during the 2019 ceremony, even wearing a T-shirt with her remarks emblazoned on the front.

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

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

'It seems like since my last reading, I never get picked,' Haros, 71, told the New York Post. 'Maybe I was just a little too controversial.'

 Haros decided to take the stand in the wake of incorrect comments made by Omar about the creation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The Minnesota rep said CAIR was formed in the aftermath of 9/11 in response to the targeting of Muslim Americans and the loss of their civil liberties following the attack.

'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,' she said.

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

'On that day, 19 Islamic terrorist members of al Qaeda killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. Is that clear?' he said during his speech.

'I was attacked, your relatives and friends were attacked, our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our nation's founding on Judeo-Christian principles were attacked. That's what some people did. Got that now?'

The 9/11 museum refuted Haros' claims he was being barred from the reading and said participants are selected on a lottery basis.

'Each year, we receive many hundreds of requests from 9/11 family members to read their loved ones' names aloud, more than can be accommodated, which is why a lottery process is utilized for selection,' it said.

Haros hit back at the museum's explanation as 'suspicious'.

'I find it highly unusual, considering my previous odds,' he said. 'The fact that I haven't been called makes me a little suspicious. 

'I would think the number of interested people [who want to read] decreases every year as time goes by.' 

Haros revealed he still attends the ceremony, but not as a reader and 'mourns terribly for those lost and their families'.

He plans to conduct a private mass for his mother and spend the day being reflective.  

'Many Americans found themselves now having their civil rights stripped from them,' she told CBS.

 'And so what I was speaking to was the fact that as a Muslim, not only was I suffering as an American who was attacked on that day, but the next day I woke up as my fellow Americans were now treating me a suspect.'