Rep. Omar: It's Trump's Fault That Democrats Killed My Father

Rep. Omar asked for privacy when her father died over the summer. And that seemed fair enough since she didn't politicize his death beyond a brief Islamic social media tribute. But Omar can't stop being her own usual horrible self for very long and so she decided to blame President Trump for her father's death.

"My father and over 300,000 people have lost their lives because of dangerous criminal neglect by Trump and his administration," she told MSNBC. "I agree with Clyburn that it is not enough for us just to issue subpoenas, we have to investigate and prosecute these people who are responsible for these reckless deaths."
"The president, to this day, has not shown an ounce of compassion to the people who have passed away," she added.
"My father survived so many things, for him to lose his life to COVID is devastating," Omar said, her voice shaking.

Since Omar wants to play this game, the only media outlet that reported on her father's illness at the time, the Daily Mail, claimed that he didn't want her around.

The father of controversial leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar is desperately ill in a Minneapolis hospital suffering from Covid-19, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
But Nur Omar Mohamed has banned the congresswoman from his bedside amid a furious argument father and daughter have been having over her affair and marriage to her campaign fundraiser.
Mohamed, 67, has been in a coma in Hennepin Medical Center for the past eight days.
The source said Mohamed — who is also known as Nur Said Elmi — and Omar have not been speaking in recent months since DailyMail.com posted pictures of her and her new husband Tim Mynett with his hand on her rear.
'He thought that was very demeaning that she should be walking around in public like that,' said the source. 'They have hardly spoken in three months.'
'He has been very angry about the shame his daughter brought upon him and the family for having an affair while married.'

Omar's spokesperson denied the allegations, and the Daily Mail is not hugely credible, but it's far from implausible that a member of the elite from a traditional culture would have issues with her affair, her remarriage to a non-Muslim, and the rest of the circus. It would also explain why her statement on her father's death asked for privacy. It's an odd request for a politician if there was nothing controversial going on at the time.

Either way, Minneapolis is run by Democrats.

President Trump allowed local areas to set their own coronavirus policies. Omar's father lived and died by whatever policies were set in Minneapolis and MN. Omar hasn't bothered to explain what exactly she blames President Trump for.

If anyone killed her father, it was her fellow Democrats.

Finally, Somalis in Europe appeared to be especially vulnerable to the virus, dying at higher rates than the native population. There hasn't been a clear explanation for the causes of this, but some possibilities have included a genetic predisposition.

That and unsafe behavior.

I delved into some of this when writing about the high death toll in Sweden's nursing homes which were heavily staffed by immigrants.

In early April, some medical experts estimated that Somalis represented 40% of the coronavirus deaths in Stockholm and 18% of the death toll in Sweden. That may be because of Stockholm’s first 15 coronavirus deaths, 6 of those who died were Somalis. The Somalis have been followed by Iraqis, Syrians, and Afghans as being significantly overrepresented among the ranks of coronavirus cases.
Stockholm’s immigrant suburbs were some of the hardest hit by the pandemic. In Rinkeby-Kista, where almost the entire district is populated by immigrants, infection rates were twice as high as the rest of Stockholm. Rinkeby is home to Somalis, Iraqis, Pakistanis, and Moroccans. The area has been a hub for violent Islamic riots, hateful mosques, and secret memberships in Islamic terrorist groups.
In early April, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health revealed that immigrants made up 1 in 5 cases of the virus and that 1 in 100 Somalis in Norway had tested positive for the virus. A week later, it was 1 in 4. Somalis made up 6% of confirmed cases. And in Helsinki, Finland, Somalis accounted for 17% of cases.
Researchers have proposed varying explanations for Somali vulnerability from ethnic benign neutropenia, to low vitamin D levels, dense living conditions, intergenerational households, high rates of smoking, and poor language skills.
In an International Center for Violent Extremism survey, some Somalis blamed a refusal to take health warnings seriously. One respondent from Stockholm claimed that the community had been listening "to wrong information with extremist ideas from religion (sic) scholars".
"Many people said that this disease is only meant to kill for non-Muslims thus, it cannot affect Muslims," a third Somali living in Sweden said. "I’ve watched shows from Somali National TV televised where the reporter asked people playing and socializing at Lido beach in Mogadishu if they are unaware of corona virus. So many of those people answered, ‘We are Muslims! This disease will only kill non-believers.’"

How much of an issue is this sort of thing in Minneapolis?

The media has been cautious when it comes to discussing the subject, but there have been lots of bulletins from Somali non-profits about communal ignorance.

Lack of information and misinformation was an initial issue for the Somali community, Khalif said. People thought COVID-19 was the flu. But when the Somali community in Europe was hit hard by the novel coronavirus, it started to sink in.
"That's when actually the community started to think about it," he said .
Khalif said he is concerned the communal nature of Somali culture doesn't mix well with social distancing.
"My fear is, when it comes within the Somali community, it explodes," Khalif said

A senior Somali elder had died before Omar's father. And the rates appear to be high in that community.

In the wake of his death, some in the Somali community talking about how the virus has hit them hard. Saciido Shaie lives in Minneapolis and says she’s seen too many people die.
“I’d like to send my condolences to Ilhan and her family,” Shaie said. “I know almost ten elder men who died. I want to send my condolences to them and their families but it is very sad to know our elders, particularly our men, are dying.”
Data from the Department of Health shows that, overall, the number of black Minnesotans infected is more than half that of white Minnesotans. These numbers are critical because black Minnesotans make up only 8 percent of the state’s overall population.

That's a reference to the death of Omar's father.

The bottom line is that Omar is cynically exploiting her father's death. At 67, he wasn't old. But the causes of his death likely lie within her own community and her own party.

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