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Is Ilhan Omar a Communist?
The American Spectator ^ | 8 May 2019 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 05/08/2019 11:40:33 AM PDT by GreyFriar

Is Ilhan Omar a Communist? The congresswoman invokes her idol and inspiration: Angela Davis.

Now there’s a headline to make progressives light their hair on fire. Few things set off liberals quite like anti-communism. Pro-communism doesn’t bother them much, at least not enough to openly complain. But anti-communism? One whiff of it sends them hyperventilating into howls of McCarthyism. The same seems true nowadays for socialism, as evident when Donald Trump devoted a mere line or two to it in his State of the Union. Judging from liberal hysteria, one would think Trump had announced a resurrection of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. What a shameless Red-baiter!

That brings me to Ilhan Omar, stalwart member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which describes itself as “the largest socialist organization in the United States.” Read: “socialist,” even as self-described “democratic socialists” insist that they eschew the label “socialist.”

Speaking of which, what is Ilhan Omar? How far left is she?

The short answer is we genuinely don’t know — yet. The more we learn, however, the more we beg the question. It would be valuable if a liberal reporter, in a friendly interview, sat down for a deep dive into what she believes. My sense over only the last few months is that Ilhan Omar may be the most extreme-left member of Congress, as judging from positions on everything from taxes to Israel, from wealth distribution to Venezuela. She soared further left than anyone on the Democrat radar — blowing by Bernie, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren — by calling for literally a 90% tax rate. That was 20% more than what even Miss Democratic Socialist USA, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had proposed a week earlier.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blog; bloggers; communist; davis; ilhanomar; islamicsocialist; jihad; omar; omarantiamerican; rop
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To: Lurkinanloomin

She took over his district I think


21 posted on 05/08/2019 12:14:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: GreyFriar

The emasculation of men is the reason why she is still allowed in the Capitol! Our Forefathers would’ve HANGED this treasonous, America-hating filth from the nearest tree.


22 posted on 05/08/2019 12:16:56 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Olog-hai

She couldn’t run on the Republican ticket. It’s too conservative and most Republicans are Christian. The only ticket, then, is the democrat ticket. She couldn’t care less about the democrat party, it’s the only way this Muslim could get her foot into the Federal government door, so she chose the socialist democrat party. She will never be a communist, she is and will always be a Muslim. It’s her way to establish a base to infiltrate more Muslims into our government for future “take over”. We must be aware the Muslims hate everything about our country, our beliefs, our government. Their dead leader Mohammad wants them to rule the world. (Heaven help us) Look what the Muslims are doing to Great Britian, Sweden, Germany.


23 posted on 05/08/2019 12:17:00 PM PDT by tillacum (I am a conservative deplorable and doggone proud of it. I back President Trump, I voted for him.)
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To: GreyFriar

The Dummycrat party today are every bit as far left as the Russian Bolshevik party a century Back


24 posted on 05/08/2019 12:17:39 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (The charisma of Reagan + the vision of Jefferson + the patriotism of Washington = Trump)
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To: GreyFriar

Nah, that would be BUTTPLUG’S father-—registered commie he was...


25 posted on 05/08/2019 12:21:00 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: GreyFriar; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

when Paul Kengor is suggesting that Ilhan Omar is a Communist it’s time to pay attention.


26 posted on 05/08/2019 12:27:11 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Olog-hai

Where are Somali Muslims in the Islamic hierarchy? If Islam ruled the world, would Somali Muslims be equal to all Muslims or up as slaves or get their heads chopped off?


27 posted on 05/08/2019 12:27:39 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Midwesterner53

I always blame GHW Bush for getting us into that sh*thole Somalia in December 1992. That was one of his last acts as president. If not for GHW Bush and his g.d. new world order we would not have Ilhan Omar and the hordes of low IQ Somali Muslims that came with her.


28 posted on 05/08/2019 12:27:47 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: forgotten man

I always blame GHW Bush for getting us into that sh*thole Somalia in December 1992. That was one of his last acts as president. If not for GHW Bush and his g.d. new world order we would not have Ilhan Omar and the hordes of low IQ Somali Muslims that came with her.

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This


29 posted on 05/08/2019 12:29:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

My tern is lslamoCommunist. Certainly fits her and Obola.


30 posted on 05/08/2019 12:31:46 PM PDT by libstripper (A)
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To: forgotten man

I agree but Dukakis would have been even worse for the country.


31 posted on 05/08/2019 12:45:42 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: GreyFriar

She is part of the cabal that absolutely hates America as founded and all those who believe in America as founded.


32 posted on 05/08/2019 12:45:45 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: GreyFriar
Serious question.

Does she have a clitoris?

33 posted on 05/08/2019 12:48:34 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: GreyFriar

There is no shortage of leftists that hate rich people and want to steal their money. There are even some at this site.


34 posted on 05/08/2019 12:54:44 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: GreyFriar
She is a Muslim.

What else do you need to know?

35 posted on 05/08/2019 12:57:04 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope, it's a staircase with each step deliberately taken.)
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To: Hojczyk; SaveFerris
Yes, Ann Corcoran, of Refugee Resettlement Watch, has chronicled the influx over the years. The only reason Omar is able to hold elected office is because a large swath of Minneapolis has been turned into Mogadishu by virtue of our friends in the federal government.

Combine that with the multi-generational Scandinavian socialism and it's a recipe for disaster.

36 posted on 05/08/2019 12:59:16 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: Olog-hai
"She’s an Islamic national socialist,..."

Yep! Islamic national socialist" == "Islamic Nazi", which does not equal "Islamic Trump voter" (Although Trump voters and President Trump have been declared to be Nazis) ...

37 posted on 05/08/2019 1:00:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: forgotten man; dfwgator

38 posted on 05/08/2019 1:12:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GreyFriar

She’s an anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectivist. Not good for Americans.


39 posted on 05/08/2019 1:40:50 PM PDT by PGalt
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She's not a socialist, she's not a Democrat, she'snot an American.
She's a rank opportunist with a horrific hidden agenda. Her game is to lie in wait
like a common criminal, to exploit every opening for Allah..... using our laws and our govt.

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Here she is making a "progress report" to the Muslim hordes...letting them know the agenda is coming along.

Ilhan Omar Boasts: I'm Trump's ‘Biggest Nemesis’
by Hank BerrienMay 7, 2019, The Huffington Post

Speaking with The Huffington Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has made numerous anti-Semtic and anti-America remarks, bragged that she is President Trump’s “biggest nemesis.” Omar boasted, “This is a president who has come to power because he was very much willing to vilify and demonize immigrants and refugees. He so proudly said we should halt Muslims from entering our country. He clearly has a disdain for black women who see themselves as equal to him. And so, for many people, it’s not a surprise that he finds his biggest nemesis in me.

Clearly, I am a nightmare; because he can’t stop really thinking about ways that he can continue to use my identity to marginalize our communities.” She added, “As someone who certainly has survived far worse people than him, I’m going to be alright … I always find conflicts to be the best sources for organizing.” Omar told The Huffington Post that the constituents in her community who voted for her have not changed their opinion of her despite the remarks she has made, crowing, “People who were actually willing to cast their ballot for me have not ever called or asked, ‘Why can’t you say things differently?’”

Omar positioned herself as a champion of the oppressed: “There are people who really have never felt completely visible in a system that wasn’t designed for them. And people who have always felt that the American dream was dying away. To now see [that] a refugee who has only been in this country two decades, who carries almost every marginalized identity that you could carry, has risen and ascended to one of the most powerful positions that you could be in our country? That is hope.” Speaking to a group of women in her district, she posited that people who have “taken on AIPAC” “have not returned,” blustering, “There are people who are invested in instilling fear in us. There are people who send me books of members of Congress who have taken on AIPAC and others and who have not returned. I think it is for them in their mind to be a cautionary tale. But for me, it’s a motivation. It’s a motivation to say that somebody has to buck the system.”

She stated, “Yesterday, you were saying that Muslim men don’t allow women to speak, and Muslim women are oppressed for being covered, so you want to liberate them. Today you’re angry because there is one of them that is too liberated. These people really are not sincere in their criticism. All they really, truly want is for us to go away.”

Omar concluded to The Huffington Post, “There are these people, these forces who are very much interested in making sure that this immigrant, this refugee, this woman of color, this Muslim ― who naively thinks that she must have some sort of equal status to them ― must be put in her place. The joke is on them. Because that is never going to happen.”

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Trump can breakup the Somali machine that put her in office....that is plotting against us. Remember Lake County, Indiana -- the Chicago suburbs at the very northwestern tip of the state. It epitomizes the Rust Belt, with the great steel cities of Gary and East Chicago, the oil refinery city of Whiting, and the surrounding blue-collar suburbs.

It had been a stronghold of the Democrats since the New Deal, and its political corruption is notorious. It was one of the last great political machines until the Bush Justice Department broke it up in the early 2000s.

40 posted on 05/08/2019 1:53:15 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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