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Rep. Omar’s Anti-Semitism is Just CAIR’s Anti-Semitism Greenfield
Front Page ^ | February 15, 2019 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/16/2019 8:06:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

Rep. Omar’s Anti-Semitism is Just CAIR’s Anti-Semitism

Pull on the string of Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism and you go right back to the Muslim Brotherhood.

February 15, 2019

Daniel Greenfield

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Rep. Ilhan Omar defended the anti-Semitic Black Israelites hate group in January. In February, she was originally scheduled to speak at an Islamic Relief USA dinner alongside IRUSA’s Yousef Abdallah who had endorsed violence against Jews and described former Governor Chris Christie “down on his knees before the jewish lords and masters… only money makes stuff like this happen.”

Abdallah’s comments were very similar to the anti-Semitic Twitter slurs that got Omar in trouble.

That’s not a coincidence. Omar’s worldview, including her anti-Semitism, was shaped by a familiar network of Islamist organizations which control life for most Muslims in the United States.

In March, Rep. Omar is headed to California to speak at CAIR’s Los Angeles dinner. There she will appear alongside CAIR’s Florida boss Hassan Shibly who has defended Hamas and vocally praised Hezbollah. “Israel & it’s supporters are enemies of God and humanity!” he had tweeted.

Shibly has vocally defended Rep. Omar over her comments about Jews.

Rep. Omar’s comments about Jews are a commonplace CAIR talking point. Nihad Awad, the co-founder and executive director of CAIR, had made an even more explicit version of the same argument. “Who of Clinton’s advisors … is opposing the latest agreement with Iraq? Look at their names. Look at … their ethnic or religious or racial background.”

“The Jews plan to distort Islam’s image and have succeeded in their plans,” he later claimed.

Before that, Awad had been the PR director for the Islamic Association of Palestine, CAIR’s previous incarnation, which had published “America’s Greatest Enemy: The Jew! And an Unholy Alliance!” The hate pamphlet claimed that, “the Jews through their Zionist machinery have power over all the agencies and organs of the United States government.”

It’s no coincidence that Rep. Omar is speaking at the events of two Islamist organizations which have a history of promoting the claim that Jews control America using money. It’s where she got those views.

The coverage of Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitic tweet has treated its bigotry as if it were her own. It’s not.

Rep. Omar isn’t just dropping in on CAIR. She had also served on CAIR-Minnesota’s advisory board. And her trip to California is a matter of repaying her biggest group of supporters for their backing.

Omar had benefited from three CAIR fundraising events in California. While she had accused pro-Israel politicians of taking money from pro-Israel Jews, she’s been taking money from pro-terror Muslims.

Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism was absorbed, along with other even uglier views, from the Islamist lobby of hate groups like CAIR. And Omar’s career shows that there is no Islamist agenda too extreme for her.

In 2017, she was one of only two representatives to vote against a bill limiting terrorist life insurance payouts.

In 2016, Omar sent a letter in defense of 9 ISIS recruits in Minnesota. "A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty," she wrote of the ISIS recruits. "People seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them."

Rep. Omar doesn’t just hate Jews and oppose Israel. These are only components of her Islamist worldview which sparks with sympathy for Islamist terrorists in America, as much as in Israel.

Congress doesn’t have an Omar problem. It has a CAIR problem. And that’s a much harder problem to solve than soliciting a non-apology from Rep. Omar for letting her anti-Semitic slip show.

Over time, CAIR leaders learned how to say the same ugly things in a more deniable tone. Rep. Omar is learning the same tricks. But coded bigotry isn’t an improvement. It is in some ways worse.

Rep. Omar has tended to be condemned and to apologize for word choices. But her word choices are not inopportune. And they are not the issue. The Islamist politician wasn’t blindly stumbling into offensive territory because of her word choices. Her word choices reflect the stark apocalyptic terms in which she sees the conflict with Israel.

Omar’s worldview is CAIR’s world. And CAIR’s worldview is that of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb had claimed that the Jews use money to control the world. Hamas, an arm of the Brotherhood, had claimed in its charter that, "with their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others... With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests."

Pull on the string of Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism and you go right back to the Muslim Brotherhood. Omar is just a symptom of the problem. And the problem is the Brotherhood’s presence in American politics.

Omar’s hateful views are unremarkable among Muslim Brotherhood activists. They’re so commonplace that they’re little more than background noise. Conspiracy theories about global influence are used to explain how the Jews were able to win back their independence and maintain an independent country.

When Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel”, she was echoing the same worldview from another angle. It’s the tip of an Islamist conspiracy iceberg that goes far beyond a current clash with Hamas and instead all but contends that the Jews had started WWI and all the other wars in order to achieve their geopolitical goals.

In the Koranic and Qutubian worldview, the Jew is a primal enemy of Islam. The Jews are behind all the conflicts and there will be no peace until a final apocalypse in which the Muslims wipe out the Jews.

And then Allah will awaken the people.

Opposition to Israel and support for Hamas helps Muslims affirm the role of the Jews as the fundamental enemies of Islam, who prevent the supremacy of Islam from taking hold.

Islam’s victory can only be achieved by destroying the Jews.

These are the ingredients baked long and hard to make Rep. Omar’s worldview.  And this is only the beginning. As more Muslims are elected to higher office, more of them will be Islamists.

CAIR has a solid grip on Muslim communities in America. As more Muslim are elected to national offices, CAIR’s agenda will sink even deeper into the national and local legislatures. That is what we should be talking about. The only lesson Rep. Omar has learned is to choose her words more carefully and that will make it easier for Democrats to ignore her anti-Semitism and harder for Jewish activists to complain about it. But Rep. Omar’ convictions, grounded in her religion, are not about to change or go anywhere.

There’s no point in talking about Rep. Omar, unless we’re also going to talk about CAIR.


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1 posted on 02/16/2019 8:06:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 02/16/2019 8:09:18 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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Address Records Show Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Lived With First Husband Throughout Marriage To Brother;
CIRCA 2018--Growing amount of evidence implicates Omar in multiple federal and state felonies

P.J. Media ^ | October 30, 2018 | David Steinberg / FR Posted by grundle

In recent days, as a Minnesota state Representative, Democrat Ilhan Omar, has campaigned with Minnesota Attorney General candidate Keith Ellison (Democrat-Muslim-MN). Omar is the Democratic nominee for the federal House seat, MN CD-5, that Ellison is vacating. She is the assumed favorite to win the seat.

The allegations stem from Omar’s 2009 marriage to British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her apparent brother. Below, exclusive new evidence backs the claim that this marriage was fraudulent. Also, this new evidence suggests that student loan fraud and immigration fraud were Omar’s motivations for marrying Mr. Elmi.

In 2016, shortly after Rep. Omar defeated 44-year incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the Democratic primary for MN House District 60B, someone anonymously posted the initial allegations on the SomaliSpot.com message board.

The poster claimed Omar had been granted a Minnesota marriage license in 2009, and subsequently married her brother Ahmed Elmi while she was still Islamically married to Ahmed Hirsi -- with whom she had two children at the time. (Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...

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Given the woman's propensity for fraud, it is imperative that L/E determine:
(A) her membership in violent Muslim Somali organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt,
(B) her knowledge of Somalis that pulled off the $300 Million daycare thievery, and,
(C) whether the Somali daycare fraud money financed her campaign,
(d) the number of US govt checks she is cashing now or has cashed in the past.

This woman is adept at finagling her identity.
how many identities is she using?
Is she using multiple identities to cheat taxpayers....collecting US freebies under multiple identities?
Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income (ObamaPhones),
Housing Assistance---they get $1000, only use $400, taxpayers pay the rest;
EBT Food Stamps (SNAP),
ObamaCare Subsidies for Immigrants,
ObamaCare Subsidies for Low Income, Medicaid,
TANF Welfare,
Energy Assistance,
IRS-EITC,
General Assistance Cash,
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),
Assets for Independence,
School Lunch Block Grant,
Job Assistance,
Job Training,
Minority Job Assistance,
Job Relocation,
Woman Infants and Children's Program,
Refugee Jobs Program,
Needy Families Cash Assistance,
Migrant Education Grants,
Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities,
Social Security for Refugees

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It is imperative that we determine
(A) her membership in Somali organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt,
(B) her knowledge of the groups that pulled off the daycare thievery, and,
(C) whether the daycare fraud money financed her campaign,
the number of US govt checks she is cashing now or has has cashed in the past.

ACTION NOW:

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3 posted on 02/16/2019 8:10:31 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Trump needs to have this one's immigration papers scrutinized under a microscope.....plus every document relating to her campaign and personal history.

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Address Records Show Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Lived With First Husband Throughout Marriage To Brother;
CIRCA 2018--Growing amount of evidence implicates Omar in multiple federal and state felonies

P.J. Media ^ | October 30, 2018 | David Steinberg / FR / FR Posted by grundle

Keep in mind...falsifying official documents is the preferred criminal method to cover-up larger crimes.

REFERENCE--Falsifying Government Documents. involves altering, changing, or modifying a document for the purpose of deception.......can also involve forgery and/or passing copies of false documents. Falsifying documents is usually done in connection with broader criminal aims, such as extortion, government fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, financing terrorism........

Types of documents commonly falsified may include:

◾Tax returns and income statements

◾Personal checks

◾Bank account records

◾Business record keeping books

◾Immigration documents (such as visas, passports, etc.)

◾Identification cards and birth certificates

Many different types of acts can be considered as falsifying a document, including:

◾Altering or misrepresenting factual information such as prices or monetary amounts

◾Stating false information when requested to provide truthful statements

◾Forging a signature

◾Using official letterheads without authorization

◾Concealing assets or property WRT obtaining federal/state grants))

◾Knowingly using or distributing a fake document

A person can only be held criminally liable if they are deliberately acting with the intention of deceiving or defrauding another party.

Falsifying documents is a very serious offense and is generally classified as a felony. This means that a person charged with falsifying documents may be subject to the following legal penalties:

◾Having to pay a monetary fine

◾Incarceration in a prison facility

Depending on the gravity of the offense, as well as individual state laws, falsifying documents can result in a prison sentence of 5-10 years. Also, if government documents or authorities were involved, the legal penalties may be more severe. ..... legal penalties may increase with repeat offenses.

The penalty for falsifying government documents is outlined in the Crimes Act of 1958.

4 posted on 02/16/2019 8:12:12 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Will somebody PUH-leeze abduct that woman to some Seraglio?
5 posted on 02/16/2019 8:26:12 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Louis Foxwell

https://spectator.us/day-ilhan-omar/


6 posted on 02/16/2019 8:26:37 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: left that other site

The face of trouble, and voter incompetence and anti-Americanism.


7 posted on 02/16/2019 8:33:06 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Islam=CAIR=Islam.

Now you know where the problem actually is.


8 posted on 02/16/2019 8:44:56 AM PST by Flintlock (FIRST, you plug the leaks--THEN you bail out the boat.)
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To: EagleUSA

Yes indeed.


9 posted on 02/16/2019 9:40:12 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Flintlock
SCRUB THE NAMES OF
OBAMA AND CLINTON
FROM EVERY PAGE
EVERY STATUE
EVERY PORTRAIT
AND EVERY MENTION

. AND RECLAIM OUR HISTORY

. SO OLET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE

10 posted on 02/16/2019 10:02:12 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Liz

Enforcing all this requires a functioning DOJ ! We haven’t had one in 10 years. There was that Sessions guy - oh yes “fractally-dimensioned chess, Session in Huber hideout with a Googolplex number of indictments! Trust The Plan!”.

Let’s see what Barr does.


11 posted on 02/16/2019 10:38:56 AM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Enforcement is by the Judges (mainly Obama’s), not the DOJ investigators. What was Sessions to do except pile up sealed indictments? The latest judge confirmation blockade was cleared in the same period that Barr was vetted and confirmed. Somewhere there is a schematic or flow chart of How To Drain The Swamp and it can’t be published to the fanbase ‘cause it would inform the enemy as well. All we can hold on to is “Trust The Plan” and crumbs/hints.


12 posted on 02/16/2019 4:21:47 PM PST by rocknotsand (Rock. Not sand.)
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To: rocknotsand

Pile up sealed indictments...yeah ok


13 posted on 02/16/2019 4:58:19 PM PST by Reily
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