Posted on 03/07/2019 5:21:14 AM PST by SJackson
The Democrat freshman Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) has proven again and again her anti-Semitic bent. She continues to caricature American citizens who support the Jewish state of Israel, including such supporters serving in Congress, of harboring dual loyalties and “allegiance to a foreign country.” While some Democrat leaders in Congress have called her out for her remarks, none appear willing to discipline her. Unlike the Republicans’ actions in stripping Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) of his House committee seats after he made remarks that appeared to defend white nationalism, Congresswoman Omar is still a member of the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, with no current intention by Democrat House leaders to remove her. Democratic House leaders also appear to be caving in to demands from Omar’s supporters that a clear-cut House resolution against anti-Semitism, which would not have called out Omar by name even in its original version, be even further watered down by adding generic condemnations of hatred in all forms, including of so-called Islamophobia.
Omar, a Somali-American, has regularly demonized Israel and sought to delegitimize it, hallmarks in themselves of her anti-Semitism. In the past, she has accused Israel of “evil doings” and of hypnotizing the world. Earlier this year, she compared Israel to the murderous, terrorist sponsoring Iranian regime and said she “almost chuckle[s]” when the Jewish state is described as a democracy. Omar criticized Israel for instituting laws that “recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it.”
Israel, like the United States, is in fact a pluralistic democracy that honors freedom of worship and religious tolerance. That’s certainly much more than can be said for Omar’s native Somalia, where Islam is the official religion and Islamic sharia is the basic source for national legislation. Employing a double standard when falsely accusing Israel of intolerant behavior that her own native country and other Islamic countries display is yet another hallmark of Omar’s anti-Semitism.
In castigating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its supposed influence in swaying U.S politicians to favor Israel, Omar claims she is holding fast to her stated position on “the problematic role of lobbyists in politics, whether it be AIPAC, the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry.” Somehow, however, she is not worried about the role of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR representatives have regularly lobbied members of Congress and their staff, as well as having conducted closed door meetings with members of the Obama administration. Its agenda is not merely to protect American Muslims’ civil rights, as it claims. The group, like Omar, is stridently anti-Israel. It has accepted foreign donations from radical Muslim countries such as Qatar. CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad proclaimed two decades ago that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Omar will be speaking at a fund-raising event for CAIR later this month, hosted by CAIR-LA, whose chief executive director, Hussam Ayloush, has compared Israel to the Islamic State. This same CAIR leader claimed after the 2015 San Bernardino, California terrorist attack, in which Islamist terrorists had murdered 14 people and wounded 31 others, that the United States itself was partly to blame for the attack. He said, “let’s not forget that some of our own foreign policy as Americans, as the West, have fueled that extremism.”
This is the company that Omar keeps – her kind of lobbyists. She is not only an anti-Semite, who deserves at minimum to be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee immediately and censured if she continues accusing her fellow representatives and others who support Israel of dual loyalties. Like the Islamist group she will be fund-raising for, Omar is an apologist for Islamic terrorism.
Shortly after four armed members of al-Shabab, the Somalian jihadist terrorist group, stormed the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya in 2013, resulting in nearly 70 people dead and 200 wounded, Omar said that terrorist acts were the “byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people’s affairs.” Is that how she justifies the slaughter by al Qaeda of thousands of innocent people who were going about their own business on 9/11?
In 2016, when Omar was serving as a Minnesota state representative, she pleaded for “compassion” in a letter she sent to a judge considering the sentences for a group of Minnesota men accused of trying to join the Islamic State. She blamed their attraction to the Islamic State and preparations to fight for the Islamist terrorists on the flimsy excuse of “systematic alienation.” Lets just show these would-be murders some “distributive justice,” she said, instead of the harsh prison sentences they deserve.
Finally, when it comes to complaining about “dual loyalties” and “foreign allegiances,” Representative Omar would do well to speak with her colleague, Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich). Tlaib said that much of her “strength comes from being Palestinian.” To show where her real allegiance lies, she wore a Palestinian gown, said to be a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, at her swearing-in ceremony. She explained, “Throughout my career in public service, the residents I have had the privilege of fighting for have embraced who I am, especially my Palestinian roots.”
A double standard once again. And today's Democrat Party is all in, bowing to its radical progressive base.
If I lived in Minnesota, I might have voted for her!
Omar does not exist in a political or cultural vacuum. Face it. A significant percentage of the Democratic base is pro Palestinian, anti Zionist and many are overtly anti Semitic. They will bitterly resent any resolution that even gently rebukes her. If pro Israeli Democrats tried at their convention to enter a plank in their platform that acknowledges and endorses American support for the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, they would not get far.
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The democrats have made Jew-hate acceptable. They’re doing their best to make White-hate acceptable. The frog/warm water theory comes to my mind.
Pelosi has completely lost control - and I love it!
There’s no need in trying to explain any of her actions. She was elected by the somalian refugees that have ruined Minneapolis. The Dem leadership in that state is embracing those very same people, thinking that they’ll be able to stay in power forever, with their help. The Dem’s are not nearly as smart as they tell themselves and will one day soon, find themselves on the bench, wondering why their somalian and muslim friends don’t respond to their emails, texts or return phone calls. That is because once the somalians and muslims get a foothold somewhere, they are there and nothing is getting them out. Especially some appeasing white liberals that cultivated the whole thing.
Some have said that she should be primaried out of her seat. The people that put her there agree with everything single thing she is saying publicly and what she says in private. The only way to primary her and get her out is if the next person is even more hateful and intolerant.
As the somalian population grows in that city and region, her ability to move up the ladder will grow with it. She’ll get 100% of that vote and toss in a sizeable chunk of the white, liberal vote and she has the potential to be a US Senator or Governor of that state.
When that happens, even though she may be running or described as a Democrat, she’ll be the farthest thing from it. She’ll be an anti-semitic, islamist, to the core.
If you lined up a hundred working-class Democrats....the vast majority (probably over 75-percent) are not pro-Israel or anti-Israel. Their top priorities center on taxes, healthcare costs, public safety, having jobs, etc. I think even half of them would say that border security has a relationship to the general public and safety.
For them, Omar and this whole social warrior agenda, has no real attraction. The party is sinking.
“I don’t hate Jews. I hate Zionists”
“Can you give me an example of someone you think is a Zionist?”
“A Jew”.
WHoo boy do elections have consequences.
They'll let Pelosi and Schumer to continue to live, but they both just lost ambulatory ability at the knee line.
The bench is not where they are going to find themselves.
It’s going to be much, much worse than the bench.
What you described in your post is a malignant, metastatic cancer growing very rapidly within our country, and our government purposely injected it into the body of America, and it is now purposely feeding it.
Ihlan Omar received over 250,000 votes. Probably not more than 10% of the vote was cast by Somalis.
White working class/middle class Minnesotans hate America too, and it’s not limited to Minnesota.
What an ugly person! She is SUCH a nothing that she has to define herself by what she hates. There’s CERTAINLY a pathology going on there.
There is an inhuman, intellectual/spiritual dead zone in you, when your identity IS what/who you hate
muzzies hate Jews, dems love muzzies, dems hate Jews. Any Jew who votes dem is insane.
Jewish voters thought they had bought and paid for the Democratic Party. It’s Jesse Jackson all over again. Many Jewish voters do not identify with Israel. The Israelis are not happy with many of the Jewish voters in this country. And old cancer has reappeared inside the Democratic Party.
The LIBs/DIMs are replete with hatred. Anyone that does not agree with them in any manner is the “enemy”. Historically, LIBs have murdered 100’s of millions of human beings (see the 20th century). Are they getting revved-up again? Are the DIMs becoming today’s Nazis? Really.
Other than being a Rag Head, where did her hatred of the Jews come from? I doubt she met one in Somalia or Somaliapolis.
This is only the beginning. A warm up for the venemous vitriol and racial purges yet to come. The “tolerant” Democrat party is becoming a weapon of mass political destruction.
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