Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Mogadishu) iams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Posted on 03/10/2019 4:27:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan
America rescued Ilhan Omar and her family, but to hear her tell it, we are the ones who should be grateful.
Since she entered Congress earlier this year, freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has consistently made news with her anti-Semitism, which may yet force the Democratic Party into a corner. Less noticed—and apparently even less troubling to her party—is the hostility Omar shows in public statements about her adopted country. Omar was born in Somalia, which she fled with her family at age nine, during the country’s civil war. She spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya until the United States rescued her and her family in 1995. It’s not surprising that she has made her remarkable experience a centerpiece of her political campaigns and public life.
What is surprising is the extent to which her narrative consists of complaints about the intolerance, racism, inequity, and filth that she found when she came to the United States, and since. Gratitude, for the country and the people who saved and welcomed her family, is largely absent from her telling. Interviewed on the popular Pod Save America podcast, Omar explained that when her family was preparing for resettlement in America, they watched orientation videos “about the life that they are to expect once they arrive here . . . happy families, and dinner tables where there is an abundance of food, images of happy young children running off to their school buses . . . images of a country where people are happy and leading a life that is prosperous. You are really looking forward to life as you see it on that screen.”
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
I hear that Somalia is beautiful this time of year.
Life in American was not like the images she saw in the welcome video, Omar insists.
The images she saw implied that the incoming immigrants would assimilate into the US, work hard, and earn a place in the country. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that none of these were present in her life.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Mogadishu) iams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
The source article newspaper comments section has good people like us who ell the ingrate to get the heck out of here. College,aid,the chance to run for office rather than stay in Somalia be married at 12 and starve to death as one put it.
The lifetimes of us Boomers watched decades of foreign aid go to places that turn around and spit on us as President Trump said in different words.
It has to stop. What exciting clever foreign policy chess moves do we make by wasting American taxpayers’ money on foreigners? Tell me.
Stopping China and Russia from making fans in Iran and North Korea? Too late. That style hasn’t worked since 1950.
Not even then.
Let Russia and China give the money and we can laugh at them when it doesn’t work out.
Islam is the reason for all the suffering in muslim countries, yet they steadfastly spread it elsewhere rather than leave it behind.
We foolishly let them.
My offer to share in the cost of transporting this jihadi back to Somalia is still open.
If Ilhan Omar doesn’t stop making anti-American rants she’ll soon get a contract from Nike.
Apostasy is a capital crime in Mad Mo's religion. He is a very jealous prophet PBUH*.
*: Piss Be Upon Him
/s
TAKING BETS.
CORTEZ CONVERTS TO MOSLIM HOOD WITHIN THE YEAR!
CONGRESS....keeps killing American citizens who love our country.....and we haven’t revolted!!!!
2020 is do or die USA-TRUMP!!!
It’s not true that the grand prize
for Ethiopian Idol was a comb.
graffiti is a recent thing - started with black gangs marking their territory and vice versa with their Hispanic rivals. Maybe a few street artists who could actually draw and made some pretty nice murals on the sides of grocery stores and such, with the owner’s permission mind you, or on the sides of rail cars without permission, then a hundred gang signs brought to America as part of ‘foreign culture’. In my childhood and much of my adulthood, we never saw unchecked graffiti like there is now. But we didn’t grow up in cities, either.
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