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Everyone Is Missing the Biggest Questions With Ilhan Omar's 9/11 Downplay
Townhall.com ^ | April 16, 2019 | Marina Medvin

Posted on 04/17/2019 4:01:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

Ilhan Omar's diminutive words "some people did something" were more than just a slap in our American faces; these words were salt on the gaping 9/11 wound that will never heal for as long as we shall call ourselves American. But concentrating on the pain of our wound has led us to ignore the larger problem before us: why did Omar downplay Islamic terrorism against Americans while simultaneously decrying terrorism against Muslims abroad? Why did Omar lie about CAIR? What is the driving force behind Ilhan Omar?

Every word out of Ilhan Omar's mouth from her speech at CAIR was an affront to Americans, and the story she is selling is an Islamic terrorist white-wash lie. 

"CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties," Omar said.

Islamic terrorists ("some people") killed thousands of Americans in the name of Islam ("did something") for their Muslim leader Osama Bin Laden, who CAIR, a designated terrorist organization with ties to terrorists throughout the world, tried to shield from American bad press prior to the attacks and defended as innocent following the attacks. (There, I fixed it for you, Ilhan.)

Why did Ilhan Omar say these words? Why did she lie? What is her motivation? We need to review the CAIR speech as a whole, we need to judge the words in their full context.

Omar began her speech at CAIR by decrying the recent terror attack against Muslim worshippers in New Zealand mosques. “So we are coming off a tragic, tragic nightmare that has happened to Muslims in New Zealand,” she lamented. Omar then went on to explain how Muslims are victims of discrimination following 9/11, describing the Islamic terrorist attack on America as “some people did something.”

Compare Omar's two terrorist act descriptions from the same speech. An Islamic terrorist attack killing 3,000 people on American soil while injuring an additional 6,000, people of all faiths, creeds, and colors, amounts to “some people did something.” But a non-Islamist terrorist attack killing 50 Muslims abroad is “a tragic, tragic nightmare.” Doubly "tragic," you see, when Muslims are the victims, but just "something" when Americans are the victims.

All terrorist murders, irrespective of motive, are heinous tragedies, evil deeds, that should be condemned, punished and proactively prevented. But diminishing a treacherous assault on the countrymen to whom you have sworn allegiance, while at the same time paying respect to a tragedy abroad, is highly suspicious. It is even more dubious when you do this on behalf of terrorist sponsor CAIR, while simultaneously lying about CAIR's origins. 

CAIR was founded in 1994 by Hamas terrorist sympathizers. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization in the United States. CAIR is directly tied to Hamas. CAIR is a designated terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates. Since its inception as a white-collar version of Islamist supporters, CAIR has been actively involved in white-washing Islamic terrorism. They engage in liberal politics to create false sympathy for their cause, slyly slandering reporting against Islamists as "hate" and designating themselves as victims of American prejudices. For those unfamiliar with Hamas and how they operate, lying and manipulating politics is their modus operandi. CAIR simply follows suit. 

Since Hamas is primarily concerned with promoting a fully Islamic Middle East and destroying Israel, CAIR is typically involved with anti-Israeli / pro-Islamist politics. In 2014, for example, CAIR was at such a rally in Florida, screaming "let's go Hamas, we are Hamas, we are Jihad!” while holding up Holocaust denial signs and calling Israel a terrorist state. Indeed, the majority of CAIR activities are anti-Israeli and anti-semitic in nature, going so far as to blame Jews for 9/11 attacks. 

Following 9/11, CAIR started a campaign of conspiracy theories about the origins of 9/11. Al-Haj Ghazi Khankan, Executive Director of CAIR's New York chapter, claimed that the attacks were not perpetrated by Osama Bin Laden or by Muslims, but were in fact performed by “impersonators” who gained a benefit by blaming Muslims. These conspiracy theories have thrived in Muslim communities and are alive and well today. Ilhan Omar's full speech at CAIR is of rather chilling similarity to the conspiracy theories perpetuated by CAIR right after the 9/11 attacks, as are Omar's relentless anti-semitic fits. 

CAIR senior operatives have been convicted of terrorism-related offenses in the U.S. and have been sentenced to prison time for their activities. The DOJ named CAIR as a co-conspirator in a criminal case against terrorist supporters in the U.S. An FBI agent testified that CAIR was a front group for terrorist organizations operating in the U.S. CAIR board member Abdurahman Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for directing at least $1 million to al-Qaeda. This is the same al-Qaeda that Ilhan Omar pronounced with a proud, puffed out chest, and the same Islamist terrorist organization that was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden. Oh, and about Osama and CAIR – prior to 9/11, CAIR tried to help Osama Bin Laden be viewed in a favorable light after he orchestrated multiple terrorist attacks against Americans, and after 9/11, CAIR covered for Bin Laden, calling him innocent.

Ilhan Omar has spent her time in politics actively advocating on behalf of dangerous Islamic fundamentalists. Omar voted against a bill that denies life insurance benefits to radical terrorist policyholders who kill Americans. She has tweeted support for an Egyptian prisoner with terrorist ties. She submitted a letter on behalf of an ISIS member, asking a U.S. judge for "compassion" at sentencing. Omar has been raising money for terrorist front groups. She blamed the U.S. for "our involvement in other people’s affairs" as the cause of the Islamic terrorism that killed 70 people and wounded 200 in Kenya – which is strikingly similar to the language used by CAIR to blame the U.S. for inducing the 9/11 Islamist attacks.

Ilhan Omar has never apologized for her language. She has not made any attempt to distance herself from CAIR or from terrorism. Ilhan simply plays a victim card, straight out of the Hamas political playbook.

Democrats and liberal media have come to Omar’s defense, claiming she is entitled to speak freely and that criticism of her statements is endangering Ilhan Omar’s safety. Conservatives balked at the ridiculous  double-standard, the attempted suppression of criticism. Yet all were left to ponder unanswered questions about Omar’s speech. Is she simply misunderstood, like CAIR claims to be?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 911; cair; ilhanomar; muslimbrotherhood
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1 posted on 04/17/2019 4:01:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Ask her if she entertains notions that the building was imploded by bombs or the planes were flown by remote control or if Jews masterminded the whole thing.

“some people did something”

let’s get to the heart of that, shall we?


2 posted on 04/17/2019 4:04:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Kaslin

She is a radical plant, she and her ungrateful family needs to be shipped back to somalia


3 posted on 04/17/2019 4:04:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Kaslin

I’m just sick of hearing about her...and Alexandria Overbite Cortez.


4 posted on 04/17/2019 4:06:33 AM PDT by FrankR (Did I mention that NO Russian collusion was found...NONE....?)
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To: ronnie raygun

They should have never been accepted in the first place


5 posted on 04/17/2019 4:06:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I’m not missing anything - this woman is a puppet for CAIR. These hijab types must serve and do their male masters’ bidding.

She is following orders. Anyone who believes that the Moslems are actually allowing a hijab woman to lead is profoundly mistaken.


6 posted on 04/17/2019 4:15:45 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Kaslin
Omar was saying that the real victims of 9/11 were Muslims, because they're now looked at with suspicion, which somehow amounts to their rights being taken away. It's the same card they always play while at the same time trying to take over your country.
7 posted on 04/17/2019 4:16:01 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Kaslin

I watched an interview where the reporter asked a man about Omar’s words and the guy said: “she has the right to say what she wants but what Trump tweeted about her was worse.” The reporter should have come right back and asked him “doesn’t the president have the same right?”


8 posted on 04/17/2019 4:17:28 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Kaslin

I place a lot of blame on Bush 43 who went to the extreme by stressing to the country that Islam is good, basically. It isn’t. It never was. If he hadn’t been so wishy-washy, we could be in a far better place now. The period of time after 9/11 was a golden opportunity, and he blew it.


9 posted on 04/17/2019 4:25:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Kaslin

She’s a foreign agent and shouldn’t be in congress.


10 posted on 04/17/2019 4:27:16 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Kaslin
"We" aren't missing anything. We've been sounding the alarm about increasing numbers of enemies of the state in the White House, Congress, federal judiciary, universities, Hollywood, et al, for decades.

Joe McCarthy tried to warn us about the hijacking of America back when we could have made a difference, but the infestation and treason of liberalism was already firmly entrenched.

Then the communist agitators from enemy nations melted into the Democratic party and used it to eat away at America from within. But nobody but Tailgunner Joe realized it because communism, socialism, fascism and liberalism are all the bastard children of the same whore mother.

And now the children are grown.

Woe is us.

11 posted on 04/17/2019 4:31:50 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is chaos. Next step? The Abyss.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I place a lot of blame on Bush 43 who went to the extreme by stressing to the country that Islam is good, basically.

The worst part about that, is that I think Bush genuinely believes it. That is distressing.

12 posted on 04/17/2019 4:33:17 AM PDT by Mark17 (What, exactly, was the "only evil continually," that was going on in the days of Noah?)
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To: New Jersey Realist

:: The REPORTER should have come right back ::

I think I see the problem here...


13 posted on 04/17/2019 4:34:13 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: All

It’s a “dog whistle.”

When she said, “Somebody did something” re 9/11 at a CAIR event she meant, “The Jews did 9/11 and blamed us.”

I’ve seen that all over the web for years.

Leftist blame Bush/Cheney and Muslims blame Mossad.

Yet no msm “reporter” will ask her a question about her own words.


14 posted on 04/17/2019 4:37:28 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Kaslin

Omar is a cancer on the body politic and must be surgically excised and destroyed. there must then be radiation zapping to insure there is no remaining trace of the disease. Her brand of Africanization need not be entertained as an American right

America does not need to permit the rot from inside. America does not need to permit imported enemies to prevail.


15 posted on 04/17/2019 4:39:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Kaslin

I wish we would have built an exact replica of the twin towers; it would have been long done by now.


16 posted on 04/17/2019 4:40:19 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Fraudulent,lying, bigoted,anti American, racist...PERIOD!


17 posted on 04/17/2019 4:41:47 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Kaslin

We all know what she was saying.


18 posted on 04/17/2019 4:47:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: ronnie raygun

All of them need to be shipped out.


19 posted on 04/17/2019 4:51:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

“decrying the recent terror attack against Muslim worshippers in New Zealand mosques.”

Somebody did something - who cares.

(see how easy that is).


20 posted on 04/17/2019 4:52:44 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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