Posted on 03/07/2019 2:06:07 PM PST by bitt
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Thursday defended controversial comments he made this week related to the Holocaust, saying that dark chapter of history and the Jewish suffering that accompanied it was uniquely horrific and he would never diminish its significance.
"Every student of history, which I consider myself to be, recognizes the Holocaust as a unique atrocity which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews," he said in a statement posted to Twitter. "It should never be minimized; I never have and I never will."
Clyburn came under fire Thursday from Republicans and some Jewish groups after saying the experience of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) a freshman Democrat who fled violence in her country and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp was "more personal" than that of those whose parents suffered through the Holocaust or other historical instances of savage violence and human rights abuse.
"I'm serious about that. There are people who tell me, 'Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.' 'My parents did this.' It's more personal with her," Clyburn told The Hill.
"I've talked to her, and I can tell you she is living through a lot of pain."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The suffering of the Jews is beyond comprehension! She should have kept her mouth shut. When she became a member of congress, she had responsibilities she has failed miserably at. She can’t say the things she has said.. I don’t feel sorry for her.. she has no compassion.. she gets no compassion!
If the House Democrats had presented a resolution condemning Ilhan Omar by name for making anti-Semitic comments, anti-Semitism would have appeared as an isolated case within the Democratic party.
However, since the Democrats in the House rallied to Ms. Omar’s support by not allowing her name to be used in their final resolution, the entire Democratic party has been implicated as supporters of an anti-Semitic agitator.
Instead of being isolated, Ilhan Omar has instead become a prominent figure in the Democratic House, infecting the entire Democratic party.
So someone who is "living through a lot of pain" can say practically anything and get away with saying it.
Got it.
I want to hear this same sentiment from him the next time a black person commits a crime against someone and that person then calls them a nigger because they're also "living through a lot of pain".
I want to hear this same sentiment from him the next time a white person commits a crime against someone and that person then calls them a cracker/honky because they're also "living through a lot of pain".
I want to hear him express this same sentiment to the Angel Families as well. Can those families call the people who killed their family members wetbacks because they sure as hell are "living through a lot of pain"? As it stands now they can't even be called the illegal aliens that they are!
And for those having vapors...if a can completely spell out cracker/honky and wetback then I can spell out nigger.
One slur is just as reprehensible as the other, isn't it?
Or are some animals more equal than others? /Animal Farm
Dear House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.,
The warm, squishy feeling between your toes is not sweat
from the heated hunting socks your wife bought you for Christmas.
Also, the smell emanating from the warm, squishy 'stuff' you just stepped in
should give you an idea of what it was that you actually just stepped in again.
Walking barefoot in the park is never a good idea.
Insincerely,
philman_36
Defending the indefensible.
Shame on this hack.
He and Omar should resign, immediately.
Having grown up around people with those tattoos on their arms, Clyburn needs to get sent a pair of pliers in anticipation of his need for others’ gold teeth. Or a free ticket to the Soros school of ‘Good Germans’
Well, their anti-American bias is just out and out “in your face”, so I’m sure you are right.
His original comment makes no sense with regard to
Israel or anti-Semitism.
For once I totally agree with James Clyburn.
DC needs a purge.
Rep Omar’s district will never again elect a non-Muslim. It is conquered territory.
(self conquered by our insane immigration practices)
Omar’s district has maybe 25,000 Somali voters. She won by something like 190,000 votes, many of which came from white working- and middle-class suburbs. Minnesota is a hostile foreign country, even the white nominally Christian part.
BINGO!!! Next time we get slapped with the slavery excuse, i’m gonna remember Mr. Clyburn’s remarks and use them as a rebuttal. DNC - party of anti-Semites, muslim apologists, God denying socialists.
unfortunately it wasn’t all that “unique”.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Middle Eastern Womens Coalition (MEWC) director Nahren Anweya on Wednesday warned Americans who visit Minnesotas 5th district, Rep. Ilhan Omars district, the 2016 terrorist recruitment capital of the country. You wont even think youre in America, she said of the district that elected Ilhan Omar. MEWC Director of Speical Projects Anweya was speaking at an MEWC press conference calling for Rep. Omar to resign. She said she has cousins and family members called whores for showing part of the back of the arm in Iraq, a country where one day they were wearing mini skirts.
It is truly because of people like [Rep.] Ilhan [Omar], when the government is infiltrated and it starts this way because it happened in Iraq and it happened against us, she went on. Iraq used to be a country where Jews lived freely, where Assyrian Christians lived freely, where even Armenians were there, and even moderate Muslims lived until sharia law took place and everyone was affected.
Americans truly need to understand that this will affect you one day if you dont make a change right now, she said of sharia, adding she knows the early signs of genocide.
Anweya asked how the House of Representatives passed 393-0, Resolution 75 recognizing the ongoing genocide of Christians and other religious minorities under ISIS in March 2016 but now support representatives like Ilhan Omar. She cited Omars request to a judge for a lighter sentence for a terrorist supporter. We are here because of God, to give you a warning as Americans, said Anweya. We are here to tell you this is coming here, and it is here and it will affect you. It will affect everyone. You will see your daughters get beheaded, she went on. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Come again? Rag-head fled to escape Somali violence?
Then why, as an American citizen, did she hurry back to Somalia to get her BIL a job?
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The rag-head Omar has an agenda no one could ever imagine. Omar has world-wide terrorist connections.
BACKSTORY--Just a few weeks after her election to Minnesota's state legislature, Ilhan Omar was in her homeland she says she
"fled in fear." She was with then-President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a favorite for re-election. He reportedly invited her to
appear beside him prior to the Somali election taking place.
No Longer "Fearful," Omar Endorsed Somalias New President. Four Days Later, Omars Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somali Administration.
What was the deal she made with the corrupt-ridden Somali govt? Are the violent Somalians she once fled,
privy to US security reports from Omar's position on the Congressional Foreign Affair Committee?
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A foray into foreign politics, should have disqualified her from getting US security clearance.
How did she get US security clearance in Congress? Did she falsify govt documents?
What a crock-she’s a wannabe jihadist who hates Israel and Jews-and if “living through a lot of pain” is making her this unhinged, then she belongs in psychotherapy-not in congress...
I want to say something really ugly, but Im gonna bite my tongue.
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I will help you. Here’s something “really ugly”:
Rep Clyburn.
So why is he allowed to say this and Stephen King was not allowed to say what he said............King clarified how he meant what he said which was in relation to teaching in school
A foray into foreign politics, should have disqualified her from getting US security clearance.
How did she get US security clearance in Congress? Did she falsify govt documents?
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Good catch (as usual).
Also, staying in Kenya and then coming to the U S to spread Islam is a fad. Obama did it, too. Maybe it’ll go stale like bell bottom jeans and Cabbage Patch doll collecting. We can only hope.
For her security clearance interview she probably batted her eyes and said “The only dirty nuke bombs I’ll set up to cross the border will be little ones.” Not so bad./s
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