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Ilhan Omar responds to 'hateful rhetoric' by Fox News hosts about refugees: 'Not surprising'
aol ^ | August 18, 2021 | STEPHEN PROCTOR

Posted on 08/19/2021 7:37:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

Ilhan Omar responded to right-wing figures Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham pushing back against the US accepting Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban.

Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee after her family fled Somalia and lived in a refugee camp for four years, so her views differ greatly from those of Carlson and Ingraham.

“It is not surprising, right?” Omar said. "This is their playbook. They know how to whip up their base into frenzy. You have the man who led us into this war, President Bush, say we should allow for Afghani refugees. And then you've got these crazy people on the right doing what they always do with their fear mongering and their hateful rhetoric.”

Ingraham has taken the angle of questioning whether or not the U.S. will be able to properly vet the refugees. But as someone who is familiar with the process, Omar is not concerned.

“We’ve done this many a times where we have evacuated people, airlifted them into safe spaces so that we can properly vet them and have them come to the United States as vetted refugees. I know a little bit about that, you know?” Omar said. “I know what it's like to be a child in a family scrambling for safety in a war-torn country. I know the rigorous process you go through to get vetted as a refugee. We are the most vetted people who come to the United States. The process is long, and it doesn't just end when you arrive on the shores. It continues for years until you are eligible for citizenship at five years of entrance.”

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Omar also responded to right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, who claimed, “What’s going on here is Joe Biden wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omar’s to come to America to change the body politic permanently."

“He needs geography classes, and somebody needs to send him a globe, maybe. I’m not from Afghanistan, I’m from Somalia. And many Somali refugees are in this country and many of them are prospering just as I have,” Omar said.

1 posted on 08/19/2021 7:37:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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“You have the man who led us into this war, President Bush, say we should allow for Afghani refugees.”

Huh.


2 posted on 08/19/2021 7:39:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Omar is the enemy within. Sadly, that means a significant portion of Minnesota is the enemy.

I can bang away at the keyboard, making these observations, but one day soon, the shtf. When things come apart, it’s important to know who is the enemy.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 7:39:38 AM PDT by brownsfan (For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
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To: MarvinStinson

The acceptance of refugees worked so well with Somalia, what could possibly go wrong? < /sarcasm >


4 posted on 08/19/2021 7:39:53 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Poor people give rich people all their money anyway. Just as they have always done.)
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To: MarvinStinson

How many countries are there in the world? Why do the refugees always have to come here??

Why doesn’t the UN recommend refugees be airlifted to Mexico, or Brazil, or Colombia, or Nigeria, or Egypt, or UAE, or Saudi Arabia, or Canada, or Thailand, or China, or Russia??


5 posted on 08/19/2021 7:40:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
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“right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk”

Charlie Kirk is “right-wing” now? That pro gay marriage and open borders segment of the right-wing is quite something.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 7:40:21 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden and pray for his downfall.)
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To: MarvinStinson

She said the US doesn’t want these refugees because they are all more successful than Americans and people are just jealous.


7 posted on 08/19/2021 7:44:21 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: MarvinStinson

Yesterday 2000 people were flown out of Afghanistan by the US military, only 325 were Americans. The WH says now says we have 15,000 Americans in Afghanistan wanting out. Americans should come out first, then the others!!


8 posted on 08/19/2021 7:45:30 AM PDT by elpadre ( ge amount of money)
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To: MarvinStinson

Did Omar talk about her wedding night with her brother?


9 posted on 08/19/2021 7:45:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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“It is not surprising, right?” Omar said. "This is their playbook.

And Tucker said that this is exactly how you would respond: with racism charges.

10 posted on 08/19/2021 7:45:58 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MarvinStinson

Omar is one of the best arguments why not to allow refugees by the thousands into this country.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 7:48:00 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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Omar is the enemy within.

In a bizarre news item this morning, I read that the man who proved with DNA that Omar definitely married her brother to commit immigration fraud has been arrested by the MN FBI. So the FBI is now the U.S. Stasi for the "elite" (and I would term her as "elite" as a piece of dog droppings).

12 posted on 08/19/2021 7:48:13 AM PDT by EinNYC
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It certainly is racist to be concerned for your nation when importing endless millions of unvetted and culturally hostile people into its core. I mean, who would not actually demand for it to happen. It makes us so much stronger. History proves it.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 7:49:09 AM PDT by odawg
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Omar is the perfect example of why we shouldn’t accept refugees. Interpreters and their immediate families are one thing, general population should not be accepted.


14 posted on 08/19/2021 7:51:21 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: BenLurkin

Ilhan Omar doesn’t understand - in a free country we all have freedom of speech - NOT just ‘elites’ like George Bush. His say as a private citizen is the same as any other private citizen - no more - no less.

And Tucker’s ‘base’ worked into a frenzy? Tucker’s base is the people who have lived here for a long time - the people who built and defended this country for generations...


15 posted on 08/19/2021 7:55:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our incompetent military brass needs to spend less time reading Marx and more time doing their jobs.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“You have the man who led us into this war, President Bush”

Actually the people who “led” us into this war were, you know, the “some people who did something.”


16 posted on 08/19/2021 8:06:58 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MarvinStinson

No Afghan Savages are wanted in Fellow Muslim countries .

These are Savages that have destroyed Europe .
They socialize in Rape , Robbing , and Rioting .

Ask Sweden where these muslim savages rioting monthly .


17 posted on 08/19/2021 8:10:51 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger l)
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To: MarvinStinson

Amazes me that Omar could have time to get in a few words slashing at us when she must be really busy giving speeches denouncing the Taliban’s abhorrent treatment of women. Stoned to death, raped, young girls made into forced prostitutes, beaten for trying to drive a car or do something like go to college without a male chaperone allowing it.

What? She and the rest of the Squad never denounced them at all? Not a word?

Must be HYPOCRITES.


18 posted on 08/19/2021 8:15:21 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MarvinStinson

Ilhan Omar should talk she married he brother to get into the country she is an illegal.


19 posted on 08/19/2021 8:39:18 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Because the military age males, I won’t call them men, who abandoned their women and kids to the Taliban will make dandy citizens, won’t they, Omar...

And Deep State’s war on women continues.


20 posted on 08/19/2021 8:41:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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