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The Melting Pot Myth Is Destroying America (Ilhan Omar is proof).
Spectator ^ | March 19, 2024, 11:18 PM | Nate Hochman

Posted on 03/20/2024 4:19:19 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for the nation of America.

A few months ago, controversy broke out surrounding comments Omar made during a speech about Somalia (delivered to a predominantly Somalian crowd in Minneapolis): “We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims,” Omar thundered, according to the English-translation subtitles. “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.” In a shockingly candid admission, Omar openly bragged to the crowd about her ambition to serve the interests of a foreign nation while ostensibly representing American voters in the U.S. government: “The U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do,” she boasted. “That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis.… For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”

“Us,” of course, did not refer to the United States. No serious observer of politics could ever imagine the congresswoman describing America in such terms.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; crime; immigration; islam
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The melting pot analogy worked when immigrants were European and Judeo-Christian. Like alloying elements in steel, they made our country stronger and tougher.

Immigrants from third-world islamic pestholes are like contaminants that ruin the melt, making the resulting metal weak, porous and brittle.

1 posted on 03/20/2024 4:19:19 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Well stated. Read the Koran and understand!


2 posted on 03/20/2024 4:21:40 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zangwill


3 posted on 03/20/2024 4:27:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Machavelli

Islam had nearly zero input into how we came upon this path.


4 posted on 03/20/2024 4:28:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

In every melting pot, there is slag. The useless, undesireable, unyielding leftovers of the process of preparing a strong alloy. It MUST be removed and discarded and rejected before it is allowed to destroy the strength of the final product. Ilhan Omar is the perfect example. And yet, she is allowed to stay and is welcomed. Now we see the result.


5 posted on 03/20/2024 4:28:30 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it woill defend itself.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

There is no ‘melting pot’ any longer.


6 posted on 03/20/2024 4:30:49 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

They abandoned the “melting pot” anology a month time ago.

30 years ago it became the “mosaic” made of tribes, to discourage integration by minorities.


7 posted on 03/20/2024 4:32:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Somehow “30 years” became “a month” due to quick correction.


8 posted on 03/20/2024 4:33:59 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Omar in Villa Somalia w/ Somalia's president.

Cong Omar Endorsed Somalia’s New President. Four Days Later,
Omar’s Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somalia Administration

9 posted on 03/20/2024 4:43:46 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The me!ting pot also worked when we insisted that immigrants assimilated into our culture and way of life. Once we stopped requiring assimilation; it was all over.


10 posted on 03/20/2024 4:50:43 AM PDT by Jean2
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Our politicians have turned the melting pot into a chamber pot.


11 posted on 03/20/2024 5:10:15 AM PDT by drone
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A perfect analogy; the intent is balkanization and erosion of social unity in order to dilute the power of the people. Can’t have uppity middle class folks running around all over the place, for crying out loud.


12 posted on 03/20/2024 5:11:31 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yes, what we are seeing from Ilhan Omar now has pretty much been visible sometime ago. Best thing to do would be to send people like that back to the hole they came out out of unless they can show some real honest American spirit to better themselves & their country. Haven’t seen any of that in this woman since she came here. Guessing she just doesn’t understand about American values, but we understand her & others like her pretty well. Until things change, she doesn’t belong in our government.


13 posted on 03/20/2024 5:12:08 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

It’s not really a “melting pot” if they hate us and won’t assimilate.


14 posted on 03/20/2024 5:14:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Our choices are:

—Acknowledge that she is an American and indict her for treason
—Deport her

I am good with either one.


15 posted on 03/20/2024 5:16:12 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Jean2

That was the key. The metaphor of the melting pot depended explicitly on newcomers forsaking their foreign allegiance and adopting a new loyalty to America and American ways. For generations, this was reinforced by the American culture and especially the education of the next generation. That’s how immigrants became Americans. Since the Left destroyed public education, that crucial function has been disabled.


16 posted on 03/20/2024 5:23:46 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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>Omar’s Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somalia Administration<

Could that also be her brother?

It’s so hard to keep track without a scorecard.

EC


17 posted on 03/20/2024 5:28:45 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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Cong Omar Endorsed Somalia’s New President. Four Days Later,
Omar’s Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somalia Administration.

Guess who the tax-paid American Congressman is taking her orders from?


REFERENCE -—— In a shockingly candid admission, the tax-paid Omar openly bragged to the Somali crowd about her ambition to serve the interests of Somalia—a foreign nation— while being paid by tax-paying Americans, and ostensibly representing “American voters” in the U.S. government:

TAX PAID OMAR-—“The U.S. government will do what we Somalis tell the U.S. government to do,” she boasted. “That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis.… For as long as I am in Congress, (being paid US tax dollars) no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us Somalis.”


18 posted on 03/20/2024 5:40:33 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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The melting pot worked when immigrants assimilated. My grandparents who came over from the old country, were proud to be Americans.

These days, what with democrat race baiting, it doesn’t.


19 posted on 03/20/2024 5:40:42 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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If all races inter-marry it will eliminate all diversity.


20 posted on 03/20/2024 5:43:14 AM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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