Posted on 01/28/2024 8:51:16 PM PST by bitt
Somalian refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave a speech to the Somali community in Minnesota on Saturday that has gone viral thanks to English translation subtitles. The translations have Omar saying she and her fellow Somalis are Somali first and Muslim second–with no mention of being American. Omar also said she represents Somalia in Congress and told the audience that they control the U.S. government’s Somalia policy.
Outraged Americans called for Omar’s expulsion from the House of Representatives.
Reporting on the speech is sketchy as to the location, however a banner can be seen in the video with a partial date and location of “(Janua)ary 27, 2024…(Ho)tel Minneapolis”, indicating the speech was given in Minneapolis on Saturday; and Omar repeatedly addressing Minnesotans in her speech.
The speech also sparked controversy over Omar’s remarks about Somali ethno-nationalism and her expressing a desire to reclaim land from neighboring countries and issues with Somaliland.
Omar posted a response to the criticism on Sunday, “It’s not only slanted but completely off, but I wouldn’t expect more from these propagandists. I pray for them and for their sanity. No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal government. Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora are united in that effort and I stand in solidarity with them. No amount of harassment and lies will ever change that.”
It’s not only slanted but completely off, but I wouldn’t expect more from these propagandists. I pray for them and for their sanity. No nation state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal… https://t.co/bmdEAN6aUH
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 28, 2024
YouTube transcript of an excerpt of the speech (lightly edited for formatting):
A lot of people call me asking: Ilhan You should talk to the US gov. What will the US gov do? My answer was the US gov will do what we tell it to do. We should have that confidence as Somalis. We live in this country We pay its taxes. It is the country where your own daughter is a congresswoman. As long as I am in the congress, others will not take Somalia’s territorial waters. The US gov will not support others to take what’s ours. So don’t worry about that dear Minnesota. You got your lady in the congress. She is well aware and feel what you’re feeling. As for President Hassan Sheikh (of Somalia) I’m saying: we are very happy because of you. Because of the great work you did. You have showed Somalis and others that no matter how much problems we have as Somalis, we are capable people. We are people who know their country. People that never in their history….(inaudible) people that their country can never be put in danger. So want to congratulate the people of Minnesota and Somalis everywhere for sticking together (like my uncle said). And also how all of you stood by our President Because he needs all of us to stand by him.
Somalia is for Somali people. Somalia is one. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land cannot be divided. There are other lands that we are missing which we’ll seek insha allah one day. But for the land we got now it will not be divided. So thank you all for honoring me and welcoming me always.
She’s just an Obamanite.
It’s about the death to America cult gaining traction.
Ummm, Djibouti is an entirely different country and city. Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
taking advantage of another country claiming sovernty over someone should be grounds for loosing citizenship.
She’s the one who married her brother.
She and her family should have been detained and deported for immigration fraud a long time ago.
The same should happen to any naturalized U.S. citizen who openly violates their citizenship oath by demonstrating, either in word or deed, continued allegiance to any country other than the United States, or who in any way seeks to undermine the U.S.
Invite the third world become the third world.
Oh let us be generous ... Give the beyotch two choices: leave the USA taking your extended family with you, or hang.
And remember, in a just world traitors are not given a choice.
“Average IQ in Somalia is 68. Retarded is 70...”
You can say that about most democrats in America. Just walk around the ghetto of any urban city and try to talk to one of the Pygmy cannibals (if you dare).
See what I mean.
Capital of Somalia (well, whatever Somalia is) is Mogadishu.
Djibouti is a small independent country, former French Somalia.
During colonial times, there were Italian, British and French Somalia’s.
Somalis also live in big chunks of Ethiopia and Kenya. (and now in Minnesota!)
They wanted to unite, which started the five star movement.
Only the British and Italian Somalia actually united, to make just Somalia, but that became a failed state a long time ago.
Come to think of it, Listening to her, she wants to add sixth star to it!
How about expelling Rashida Tlaib as well? Where in our constitution does it state foreign terrorists must have a rep in the US Congress? When did this happen?
Well not only that, you can go to MSN.com and read the comments, it’s unbelievable human beings can be that stupid.
It happens when we let them in, and they’re elected by a majority savage congressional district!
This individual is not getting paid to represent Somalia
in Congress......she’s getting tax dollars to represent America.
Minn Congresswoman Omar’s remarks were shocking.
Specifically troubling, were her endeavors to revive the once-violent and dangerous ideology of enlarging Somalia.......she’s referring to Greater Somalia or Somali Weyn, which caused so much death, destruction and conflict in the Horn of Africa.
.....it was baffling to see her accuse the entire #Somaliland nation of “falsely claiming Somali identity.” Her ignorance of #US - #Somaliland cooperation in the fight against terror and piracy in the Gulf of Aden & Gulf Of Berbera was shocking to say the least.
We hope the house leadership and her caucus will take note of her public conduct, unbecoming a United States Congresswoman nor representative of the august house she serves in.
It might make one feel better to realize that Omar doesn’t mean a word of it. Her actual politics are generic 21st century atheism/feminism/leftism/anti-white racism. She might as well be a nose-pierced DSA cat lady, but to her credit hasn’t let herself get fat like most of them. She pretends to be a Somali patriot and faithful Muslim to intimidate guilty white liberals, raise funds and turn out votes in her district.
Somalia got approximately $3 billion in US foreign aid.
Overall, U.S. security assistance to Somalia and peacekeeping operations in the country amounts to approximately $3 billion, making Somalia among the most significant recipients of security aid in sub-Saharan Africa.
Another $300 million went to drought and famine aid. (Mar 20, 2023)
Not any more, it’s not.
Djibouti is spicy mustard.
That could get her a Presidential nomination.
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