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To: Rusty0604

I think Omar is a terrorist masquerading as a Representative.


1,883 posted on 07/07/2020 3:11:55 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Sounds like Trumps' niece, Mary, hates the whole family and is looking to "get paid" with a sensational book full of lies.

Bitter, angry, vengeful, full of sh*t.

Must be a liberal.— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) July 7, 2020


1,885 posted on 07/07/2020 3:14:18 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Ilhan Omar betrays her own constituents

Over at the Hill, I have written of how frustrated many Somalis were that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the first Somali American and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, had not used her seat to advance U.S.-Somali ties. Instead, Omar has made the Palestinian issue a cornerstone of her congressional activism, apparently at the urging both of Basim Sabri, her second-largest donor and a Palestinian American real estate tycoon from Minneapolis who donated maximum amounts to Omar’s congressional campaign, as well as his daughter Karmel, a fundraiser for causes in the Gaza Strip. No group or charity can operate in Gaza, however, without cooperating with Hamas, which has ruled the Palestinian territory with an iron fist since 2006.

Basim Sabri is a polarizing figure for Minnesota’s Somali American community. A convicted felon, Somalis say Sabri is essentially a slum lord or exploits the Somali community. Politicians need donors, but to ally and embrace Sabri, a man Somali Americans believe exploits them, rubs Omar’s constituents the wrong way.

Omar’s foreign policy partisanship in the broader Middle East has also raised Somali suspicion. Today, the United Arab Emirates invests in Somaliland, while Turkey and Qatar both back more Islamist causes in Mogadishu and shun the UAE for its Somaliland investment.

Omar’s use of Turkish and Qatari press as a platform, along with her fierce criticism of the UAE and Saudi Arabia from her House Foreign Affairs Committee perch, suggest she continues to internalize the divisions and partisanship which exist in Somalia. This is not to condemn the former and absolve the latter, but rather to recognize that it is hypocritical to condemn the UAE and Saudi Arabia without recognizing that Turkey is among the world’s worst offenders in terms of press freedom and that both Turkey and Qatar are essentially terror sponsors.

Many Democrats in the U.S. have embraced Omar because of her liberal social stances, as well as her antagonism toward Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. To see her as a representative of Somalis, however, would be to confuse her ethnicity with ideological diversity. Both Somali Americans and Somalis remaining in the Horn of Africa judge Omar by other standards and, at best, see a woman who has diverged from the values and interests of her Somali American constituents. At worst, they see a figure who has remained destructively provincial in her vision of foreign affairs.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ilhan-omar-betrays-her-own-constituents

...what the Somalis aren’t getting is that she’s supposed to represent all her constituents, not just Somalis, but I guess she can’t even do that right.


1,936 posted on 07/07/2020 8:16:01 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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