(Photo by William Chen, via Facebook)
Posted on 05/21/2019 3:52:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
Videos at link.
Last night hundreds of protesters gathered in Times Square in New York City to call for the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protest was organized by conservative activist Joe Diamond, whose campaign to raise funds for a Times Square billboard was pulled by Facebook soon after they’d raised adequate funds. The Jerusalem Post covered the event:
Following the Minnesotan congresswoman’s highly-publicized allegations of antisemitism and statement downplaying the 9/11 terrorist attacks, New York native and activist Joe Diamond organized a rally and billboard launch calling on the removal of Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to the US legislature.“In my lifetime I cannot think of any other politician who presents a bigger threat to the alliance between the US and Israel and to America’s Jews,” Diamond told the Jerusalem Post ahead of Monday’s protest. “This woman is an ardent antisemite and she doesn’t even try to hide it.”
Omar’s critics had planned to launch a billboard with redacted quotes from the politician, alongside graphic 9/11 imagery. The group, named ‘Ilan Must Go,’ was prepared to spend thousands of dollars on the billboard, with donations from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zionist Organization of America and more. Instead, the detractors put the video display on a truck, as they were unable to receive a stationary billboard permit from local authorities, which cited the ad as “disparaging.”
No U.S. mainstream media outlets covered the protest. The mobile billboard can be seen in the following video posted to Twitter:
Here are photos that were posted to The Coalition to Get Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee Facebook group:
Joe Diamond, the organizer, spoke with PJ Media about the rally and said he was very pleased with the turnout. He expressed disappointment that the billboard was not approved to run, but says it was not the city that denied approval. "It was a private billboard owned by a private company. As far as I know, the city had nothing to do with it," Diamond said. According to Diamond, Clear Channel, which owns the billboard space, waited until last Wednesday to inform him via telephone they weren't going to let him run the billboard because they claimed they don't run ads that disparage groups or individuals. This was after they'd previously agreed to run it. "We had already signed the contract and made the downpayment," Diamond explained.
Why is it our fault?
This is great. But hundreds in Times Square is not that big a deal.
Deer rifle
There's something sinister about these rag-head whining for "civil rights".....
complaining about Christians in a decidedly Christian country like America.
Rag-head Omar whines about her "challenge" to make sure "her people" feel represented.
Balderdash------Islam is all about "triumphalism".....getting power over infidels.
The word “Islam” means submission.
These people are plotting, lying-in-wait to force submission to Islam and to install Sharia law in our nation. ....using our Congress and our laws.
We cannot rest til these people are unceremoniously kicked out of our country.
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Arch-typical Muslim----full of guile, malice, hatred and venality.
Omar'll say anything to get her way.
Her "I'm nice act" is pathetic. Her unmitigated contempt for American intelligence is appalling.
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Islam is an existential threat to all of us epitomzied by this creepy Minnesota Somali Muslim woman in OUR Congress. Says she will thwart Muslim hatred with “her love."
Yeah, sure. We got a large dose of "Islam’s love" on 9/11. So she can keep her lousy love…..and just GTH out of our country.
Well said, Liz! You’re dead on the mark.
Omar the Eichskank
>>It is important that we stand up to evil.<<
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Then why allow muzzies in the country?
We have become suicidal.
Rotsa Ruck. Anti-Semitism’s never quite gone out of style.
That’s great! The picture and the diddly.
BUMP! See tag.
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