Posted on 07/16/2019 9:59:21 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
- I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim anti-Semitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it. -
I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for everything.
Fast-forward to 2019. A freshman congresswoman from Minnesota has been infuriating the Jewish community and discomfiting the Democratic leadership with her expressions of anti-Semitism. Like me, Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia and exposed at an early age to Muslim anti-Semitism.
Some of the members of my 2006 AJC audience have asked me to explain and respond to Ms. Omar’s comments, including her equivocal apologies. Their main question is whether it is possible for Ms. Omar to unlearn her evident hatred of Jews—and if so, how to help.
In my experience it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to unlearn hate without coming to terms with how you learned to hate. Most Americans are familiar with the classic Western flavors of anti-Semitism: the Christian, European, white-supremacist and Communist types. But little attention has been paid to the special case of Muslim anti-Semitism. That is a pity because today it is anti-Semitism’s most zealous, most potent and most underestimated form.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
what everyone wants to know is when she was married to her brother did she do somethings?
Excellent post.
Can a muzzie overcome her ingrained hatred for non-muzzies?
(Why do we ask ourselves these stupid questions when we know the answers?)
Source for this? I find it hard to believe that’s real.
NO!
this photo of the moment she said that speaks volumes
....she remains loyal to Islamic Jihad in America.
Me too, because if it is it's game set and match.
Rush who saw the video.
The quote about white people is a lie. It’s been debunked by every known source on the internet.
Don’t run with fake items as it makes everyone on FR look bad.
El Rushbo just referred to Ilhan Omar as “that little ball of compressed hate”. Priceless.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the only, repeat, ONLY good thing to come out of Somalia. She became so by renouncing Islam.
Right! I’m listening to Rush now.
I don’t trust her as long as she’s wearing that headgear, and the same goes for other women with that veil. It’s a sign that they’re taking that “religion” too seriously and that’s dangerous.
And contrary to the MSM propaganda, she is hateful, antisemitic and a racist.
There is no excuse for hate even if she is an “oppressed minority.” And until we accept this fact, racism will continue to exist and her actions and words will continue to perpetuate it.
Are you trying to get Jim sued by finishing out the excerpted article in your post?
No, she/they hate the USA and western culture in general...next question...
I think I’ll just let it stand as it is.
Many criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated.
Many criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated.
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