Posted on 06/29/2021 5:15:15 PM PDT by Libloather
During an appearance on CNN Tuesday evening, Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar doubled-down on her comments equating Israel and the United States to terror organizations or state sponsors of terror.
When host Jake Tapper asked the congresswoman whether she regretted making the comparison, she responded, “I don’t.”
“I think it’s really important to think back to the point that I was trying to make. Obviously, I was addressing Secretary of State Blinken. The cases are put together in front of the ICC, the ICC has been investigating…,” she continued.
In the specific tweet that drew ire and backlash from Republican lawmakers, Omar wrote, “We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.”
A number of Democratic leaders in Congress condemned Omar’s statement, claiming that it “foments prejudice” and constitutes anti-Semitism against the Jewish community. The statement, signed by House speaker Nancy Pelosi, majority leader Steny Hoyer, majority whip James Clyburn, and other members, invited Omar to go on the record and withdraw her comment.
A group of Jewish House Democrats, including representatives Brad Schneider, Lois Frankel, Jerrold Nadler, and others, penned a joint letter earlier this month urging Omar to walk back her inflammatory words “placing the US and Israel in the same category as Hamas and the Taliban.”
“Ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice,” the letter added.
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And I don’t regret calling her an evil bitch.
Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
She committed immigration fraud to get here and get her citizenship.
She married her brother to fraudulently get him a green card.
If we still had the rule of law, she would be stripped of her citizenship and deported.
We can’t expect anything from a pig other than a grunt. UH, OH! Did I equate a pig to a Moslem woman?!?! Shame on me!!😛😛😛
Ilan Omar has freedom of speech...the rest of us, not so much.
Well, what do you expect from a racist, Jew hating, muslim bigot like her? She needs to be stripped of citizenship and deported to Somalia.
Ilhan knows all about terror groups
Ilhan Omar needs to resign from office. What is wrong with Minnesota’s 5th congressional district? Waiting for the 2022 elections is procrastination.
She’s some muslim bimbo. I regret that our country is run by complete idiots that she was allowed to step foot in America.
I heard she was being considered for a reboot of “All In the Family.”
Guess she doesn’t know about islam being a murderous evil destructive pseudo-religion that only knows how to slaughter innocent men, women and children and destroy that which they don’t understand since intelligence is way above what that pedophile mohammad created with his poems.
...because the MSM will say she never said those things.
Not nice, but the left uses these tactics regularly.
5th district is where all the skinny ljve
Skinny?
What does NR propose to do? Say “Oh my” and wring their hands?
The blindfolded broad holding the scales of justice is a whore, because she sold herself out to the democRAT party long ago.
She represents them all.
How many millions has she stolen since she came here?
She supports and is complicit with deadly international Islamofascist terrorism. Yet she uses her own status as an insult? She is a fraud and an insult to her own constituency, and the country at large.
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