• Video of a ministry group performing the song "How great is our God" to a crowded flight went viral.
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar questioned the response her family would get if they sang a religious song.
  • Omar was calling out a double standard about the treatment of Muslims on airlines.

After a video of a ministry group performing a religious song on an airplane went viral, Rep. Ilhan Omar subtly called out a double standard.

"I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?" Omar, who is Muslim, said in a tweet on Saturday.

The video she's referencing was originally posted by Jack Jensz Jr. on April 9. The founder of Kingdom Realm Ministries, he captioned it, "Worshipping our King Jesus 30,000 feet in the air!"

The video featured a man playing an acoustic guitar as another person sings "How great is our God" to a crowded flight.

It's unclear what airline the flight was on and where it was headed, but in an explanatory video, Jensz said the ministry group had been returning from "helping the Ukrainian Refugees at the Ukrainian border."

Jensz said the group spoke with the air host and asked if they could sing a song "to bring hope and joy to this flight."

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He said the pilot and all the air hosts agreed, and added that the group would not have performed if the cabin crew said no.

"They even made an announcement to all passengers letting them know who we are and what we did in Ukraine and introduced us and allowed us to get the guitar out! People then clapped and welcomed us," he said.

In the video of the performance, some passengers can be seen singing along and recording, while others did not look as amused.

Omar has faced repeated attacks over her faith, including Islamophobic comments from Rep. Lauren Boebert. The Minnesota representative was drawing a comparison between the ministry group's ability to perform a faith-based song to a whole cabin of passengers thousands of feet in the air, to the experiences she and other Muslims face on airlines and in airports.

There have been many incidents of Islamophobia on airlines in the years following 9/11. In September, a woman was arrested after being accused of verbally and physically assaulting an African-American Muslim woman during a Spirit Airlines flight from Atlanta to Detroit. In 2016, two Muslim women were kicked off an American Airlines flight because the flight attendant felt "unsafe." Others have been removed from flights for simply speaking Arabic.

Conservative backlash Omar called 'a complete and glorious meltdown'

But Omar's comments sparked a backlash from some conservatives online.

In a tweet, Georgia Congressional candidate Vernon Jones, whom former President Donald Trump has endorsed, told Omar to go back to "wherever you're from."

"Why do you hate Christians, Ilhan? If the freedom of religion we enjoy here in America disturbs you, feel free to pack your bags and head back to Somalia, Sudan, or wherever you're from. Take your brother with you," Jones wrote.

Royce White, a GOP candidate running for Omar's Congressional seat, made similar remarks.

"I'm coming for your seat. Don't disrespect Christianity! You're a globalist fraud. You can't pray in Pelosi's office! The Democrats you serve don't believe in God. Their platform is openly anti-God. Minneapolis will not become Mogadishu. We will not bend the knee. #Godspeed," White said in a tweet.

Attorney and columnist Kurt Schlichter wrote that Omar should "shut up and stop being a bigot."

On Monday, in response to the backlash, Omar said, "the original snowflakes had a complete and glorious meltdown."

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