Posted on 01/28/2024 8:51:16 PM PST by bitt
Somalian refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave a speech to the Somali community in Minnesota on Saturday that has gone viral thanks to English translation subtitles. The translations have Omar saying she and her fellow Somalis are Somali first and Muslim second–with no mention of being American. Omar also said she represents Somalia in Congress and told the audience that they control the U.S. government’s Somalia policy.
Outraged Americans called for Omar’s expulsion from the House of Representatives.
Reporting on the speech is sketchy as to the location, however a banner can be seen in the video with a partial date and location of “(Janua)ary 27, 2024…(Ho)tel Minneapolis”, indicating the speech was given in Minneapolis on Saturday; and Omar repeatedly addressing Minnesotans in her speech.
The speech also sparked controversy over Omar’s remarks about Somali ethno-nationalism and her expressing a desire to reclaim land from neighboring countries and issues with Somaliland.
Omar posted a response to the criticism on Sunday, “It’s not only slanted but completely off, but I wouldn’t expect more from these propagandists. I pray for them and for their sanity. No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal government. Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora are united in that effort and I stand in solidarity with them. No amount of harassment and lies will ever change that.”
It’s not only slanted but completely off, but I wouldn’t expect more from these propagandists. I pray for them and for their sanity. No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal… https://t.co/bmdEAN6aUH
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 28, 2024
YouTube transcript of an excerpt of the speech (lightly edited for formatting):
A lot of people call me asking: Ilhan You should talk to the US gov. What will the US gov do? My answer was the US gov will do what we tell it to do. We should have that confidence as Somalis. We live in this country We pay its taxes. It is the country where your own daughter is a congresswoman. As long as I am in the congress, others will not take Somalia’s territorial waters. The US gov will not support others to take what’s ours. So don’t worry about that dear Minnesota. You got your lady in the congress. She is well aware and feel what you’re feeling. As for President Hassan Sheikh (of Somalia) I’m saying: we are very happy because of you. Because of the great work you did. You have showed Somalis and others that no matter how much problems we have as Somalis, we are capable people. We are people who know their country. People that never in their history….(inaudible) people that their country can never be put in danger. So want to congratulate the people of Minnesota and Somalis everywhere for sticking together (like my uncle said). And also how all of you stood by our President Because he needs all of us to stand by him.
Somalia is for Somali people. Somalia is one. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land cannot be divided. There are other lands that we are missing which we’ll seek insha allah one day. But for the land we got now it will not be divided. So thank you all for honoring me and welcoming me always.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/omar-the-magnificent.php
POSTED ON JANUARY 28, 2024 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN ILHAN OMAR, IMMIGRATION
OMAR THE MAGNIFICENT
Suppose you are a House Democrat who has been in office for 15 or 20 years, dutifully working your way up the ladder as a chair of a subcommittee, raising money for the caucus, etc, and you heart that Ihlan Omar is booked on one of the premier Sunday morning network news shows. Look, even Nancy Pelosi can’t stand Omar and the rest of the squalid “Squad.”
And then you see Omar’s shocking speech from recent days in which she declares:
“The US government will only do what Somalians in the US tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the US.”
Here’s the key excerpt, with a longer version below in the Tweet of Somaliland’s deputy foreign minister disavowing Omar (Somaliland is apparently a breakaway province or independent entity—I am not entirely clear):
https://twitter.com/AmbRhodaJElmi/status/1751669533171994655?
Here’s the rest of the Tweet if you don’t want to click through:
The language she employed was regrettably unbecoming of both the office she holds and the constituents she represents.
Her expressions were lacking in common decency and revealed a significant lack of understanding of basic facts. Specifically troubling, were her endeavors to revive the once-violent and dangerous ideology of Greater Somalia or Somali Weyn, which caused so much death, destruction and conflict in the Horn of Africa.
Furthermore, her use of ethno-racist rhetoric didn’t escape attention and left many, with a deep sense of disappointment.
This was particularly bewildering for those who recall similar racist attacks she endured not long ago, of being ”not American enough” and was baffling to see her take a similar approach and accuse the entire #Somaliland nation of “falsely claiming Somali identity.”
Moreover, her ignorance of #US – #Somaliland cooperation in the fight against terror and piracy in the Gulf of Aden & Gulf Of Berbera was shocking to say the least. We hope the house leadership and her caucus will take note of her public conduct, unbecoming a United States Congresswoman nor representative of the august house she serves in.
When you’ve lost the foreign ministry of Somalia. . . Here’s to hoping Trump’s deportation list just got one name longer. But failing that, I want her to remain in the House and appearing as the face of the progressive Democratic Party on the Sunday talk shows, so Democrats have to own her.
So many competing ethnicities and tribes want to direct our immigration laws, foreign aid, and foreign wars to benefit "their people" rather than America.
Expulsion?
This calls for DEPORTATION!
Horse puckey. You want a dvedrse nation without responsibilities? Go back toRome in 400 AD. And just go to the other counries you are thinking of and leave the US of A.
This is why we should have anyone with dual allegiance serving in our government anywhere.
WTF?
If the capital of Somalia (Djibouti) were to be obliterated, it would sure improve navigability as oil tankers traversed the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea or vice versa.
Very surprised if she put Somalia ahead of Islam.
As for leaving America out, she despises America.
There are traitors among us wearing head scarfs.
Outrageous doesn’t even begin to describe the situation. At this late stage it’s really a matter of life and death for our nation. These people have infiltrated and they’re proud and confident that they can destroy us.
When Bork Obunga went over there to ask for 70000 somalis to dump on Minneapolis/St-Paul as part of his plan to wreck the US, you can be certain they did not give him 70000 of the ones that were above average....
What is the USA’s “Somalia Policy?”
We need to get rid of allowing anyone to have dual citizenships. My wife has dual citizenship and I’d be more than happy that’s removed.
miserable wretch...
SI say give these Somalians the entire State and they can turn it into a toilet like their old country as the Citizens who have allowed them to remain deserve it...
Well, Trump was right again, send her back!
EXACTLY,... x10 !
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