​WASHINGTON – Rep. Ilhan Omar defended previous comments she made about the September 11 terror attacks in her first Sunday show sit-down on “Face the Nation.”

Host Margaret Brennan talked about how the son of a victim of 9/11 wore a T-shirt to a memorial service last week inscribed with Omar’s controversial phrasing “some people did something.”

“Do you understand why people found that offensive?” Brennan asked.

Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, didn’t answer yes or no.

“So 9/11 was an attack on all Americans. It was an attack on all of us. And I could certainly not understand the weight of the pain that the victims of the families of 9/11 must feel, but I think it is really important for us that we are not forgetting the aftermath of what happened after 9/11,” Omar said.

“Many Americans found themselves, now, having their civil rights stripped from them,” Omar continued.

“So what I was speaking to was, 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 as suspect,” she added.

Omar was also asked about some of the questionable rhetoric she’s used since becoming a member of Congress.

“I think it’s really important for us to recognize that it’s a new Congress, it’s a diverse Congress and we’re not only diverse in our race, in our ethnicity, in our religion, but we are also diverse in our perspective, in our pain, in our struggles and the hopes and dreams that we have and the kind of America that we want to shape for all of us,” Omar said.