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Ilhan Omar Snaps at 'Appalling Question' Asking Her to Condemn Female Genital Mutilation
PJ Media ^ | July 23, 2019 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 07/23/2019 12:38:56 PM PDT by rickmichaels

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Ill.) snapped at a progressive Muslim who asked her at a conference on Tuesday if she could make a public statement condemning female genital mutilation, calling the question "appalling" and "very frustrating."

"Should I make a schedule, like, does this need to be on repeat every 5 minutes? Should I be like, so, today I forgot to condemn Al-Qaeda, so here's the Al-Qaeda one. Today I forgot to condemn FGM so here it goes. Today I forgot to condemn Hamas so here it goes. You know, I mean, it is a very frustrating question that comes up. You can look up my record. I've voted for bills doing exactly what you are asking me to do. I've put out statements upon statements," Omar said at the Muslim Caucus Education Collective's 2019 Conference.

"I am, I think, quite disgusted to be honest that as Muslim legislators we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to because the assumption exists that we somehow support and are for, right? No, there is an assumption. So I want to make sure the next time someone is in an audience and is looking at me and Rashida, and Abdul and Sam, that they ask us the proper questions they will probably ask any member of Congress or any legislator," she added.

Omar urged the person who asked the question, Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values, and the rest of the audience, not come forward "with an accusation that we might support something that is so abhorrent, so offensive, so evil, so vile."

She continued, "I would like, not just for you, but for everyone to know that if you want us to speak as politicians, as American politicians, then you treat us as such."

Video: Ilhan Omar Snaps at 'Appalling Question' About Condemning FGM


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To: rickmichaels

It’s a good thing no reporter has EVER ASKED President Trump a stupid question.

He’s so lucky.

And I must add...The President handles those inane questions with total patience and aplomb. Never gets angry, always polite.

Omar has none of those qualities. She is a street brat.


21 posted on 07/23/2019 12:51:07 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: grobdriver

https://checkyourfact.com/2018/11/29/fact-check-ilhan-omar-vote-female-genital-mutilation-felony/

Short answer: yeah, looks like she did.

I think this was a set-up myself: she was questioned by a muslim. Yeah, I’m that paranoid. :/


22 posted on 07/23/2019 12:53:21 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: rickmichaels

You mean like her heart swells for Al Qaeda?


23 posted on 07/23/2019 12:53:46 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: rickmichaels

So...she’s for it?

Poor thing probably had it done to her as a child in Somalia. I have little sympathy for her as an enemy adult but great sympathy for her as a child.


24 posted on 07/23/2019 12:55:47 PM PDT by Persevero (Desmond is not -Amazing- Desmond is -Abused-)
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To: rickmichaels; All

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Translation: “No, I don’t condemn it at all”


25 posted on 07/23/2019 12:57:24 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: rickmichaels

I wonder if her Minders are ok with that answer.


26 posted on 07/23/2019 12:57:57 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: rickmichaels

“Do you support lying to infidels?”


27 posted on 07/23/2019 12:58:36 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: rickmichaels

....... “I would like everyone to know that if you want us to speak as politicians, as American politicians, then you treat us as such.”.......

Just answer the questions like other American politicians do....you’re treated otherwise because you conduct yourself otherwise as anti-American.

Can she not answer questions without ‘feeling’ she’s still a victim, and that by her own design? What she really wants is just a platform to spew her rants against this nation.


28 posted on 07/23/2019 1:01:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: DungeonMaster

” “Do you support lying to infidels?” “

YES, Exactly !!!


29 posted on 07/23/2019 1:07:03 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: Liz

FYI and comments!


30 posted on 07/23/2019 1:07:42 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Demographics will determine, who wins control of America.)
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To: A strike

And her answer actually was...?


31 posted on 07/23/2019 1:08:10 PM PDT by SteveO87
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To: DungeonMaster

They are trying to reestablish the Barre Regime in Somalia. She most definitely has handlers.


32 posted on 07/23/2019 1:12:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: rickmichaels

The follow-up should have been, “So you refuse to condemn FGM?”


33 posted on 07/23/2019 1:12:35 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: rickmichaels

This is a psychological reveal.

Why would she have a problem repeating condemnation for something she really wants to condemn?

She wouldn’t.

She has NO PROBLEM condemning Trump repeatedly.

So the only reason she would get perturbed by getting asked to repeat a condemnation about FGM is because she really don’t want to condemn it.


34 posted on 07/23/2019 1:15:44 PM PDT by z3n
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To: Yaelle

Yep, now she knows how Republicans feel. Especially white Republicans who are expected to answer for every crime committed by some white man. LOL

Cue the tiny violins!


35 posted on 07/23/2019 1:18:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: rickmichaels
Ilhan Omar

Never mind those standard wet dreams... The only truly rewarding one is of mushroom clouds rising from the Ka'ba in Mecca and, for completeness, all other moslem nations...

Only radical surgery will save the patient (Earth)... Every other idea is just a guarantee of a slow, agonizing death for the patient..

36 posted on 07/23/2019 1:18:25 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: rickmichaels

she’s not mature enough to be a rep., or a dog catcher.


37 posted on 07/23/2019 1:19:50 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: rickmichaels

If the MSM covered Omar the way they covered Trump in 2016, the headline for the next week would be, “Omar fails to disavow female genital mutilation.”


38 posted on 07/23/2019 1:20:15 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Vendome

She is surely living with it. She is fine with it.


39 posted on 07/23/2019 1:22:34 PM PDT by arthurus (zz)
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To: rickmichaels

On the one hand, she’s probably a bit touchy about this topic.

On the other, since she’s a full-bore jealous Muzzie, she doesn’t want any woman to have what she no longer has, especially an infidel woman.

Say, do you think there’s a potential brand extension in here for Planned Parenthood?


40 posted on 07/23/2019 1:31:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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