Since she entered Congress earlier this year, freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has consistently made news with her anti-Semitism, which may yet force the Democratic Party into a corner. Less noticed—and apparently even less troubling to her party—is the hostility Omar shows in public statements about her adopted country. Omar was born in Somalia, which she fled with her family at age nine, during the country’s civil war. She spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya until the United States rescued her and her family in 1995. It’s not surprising that she has made her remarkable experience a centerpiece of her political campaigns and public life.
What is surprising is the extent to which her
narrative consists of complaints about the
intolerance, racism, inequity, and filth that she
found when she came to the United States, and
since.
Gratitude, for the country and the people who saved and welcomed her family, is largely absent from her telling. Interviewed on the popular Pod Save America podcast, Omar explained that when her family was preparing for resettlement in America, they watched orientation videos “about the life that they are to expect once they arrive here . . . happy families, and dinner tables where there is an abundance of food, images of happy young children running off to their school buses . . . images of a country where people are happy and leading a life that is prosperous. You are really looking forward to life as you see it on that screen.”
Life in American was not like the images she saw in the welcome video, Omar insists. “When we landed,” she recalls, “I saw panhandlers on the side of the streets, there being trash everywhere, and graffiti on the side of the walls.” Omar asked her father why America fell so short of what she had been promised, and he told her to “hold on, we will get to our America.” Omar has still not arrived in the America she was promised, though she has now been elected to Congress. We continue to disappoint her. “The current reality that people live in . . . an America where you can’t access the justice system equally because you are born with a different race, or a different gender, or are born into a different class, that isn’t the America that I heard about, that isn’t the America that I watched.”
Omar told a similar story to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, saying that she noticed “a disconnect between the ideals of America and the actual reality.” This is a constant theme. She did not expect, she has said, to “go to school with kids who were worried about food as much as I was worried about it in a refugee camp.”
America is not only as deprived as an East African refugee camp, the country is also filled with people who don’t recognize how lucky they are to admit people like Ilhan Omar. Unlike our violent and unpredictable natives, including the notorious “ISIS bride,” whom Omar makes a point of noting is “not an immigrant, but an American born to a family of diplomats,” immigrants like her “went through years of vetting and went through the process of becoming citizens. I mean we have been fingerprinted, tested, more than any American has ever been who’s born in this country.” Like many on the left, Omar believes that America’s purpose is to admit immigrants and make them feel welcome. To the extent that Americans “make room” for the next wave of immigrants, they fulfill the American dream; to the extent that they fail to be welcoming, they betray it.
Omar’s colleague in the House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has arguably become the Democrats’ domestic-policy leader, just as Omar now appears to be their leader on foreign policy, holds this view as well. “Those women and children,” she told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, referring to illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America, “trying to come here with nothing but the shirts on their back to create an opportunity and provide for this nation, are acting more in the American tradition” than opponents of open borders.
The American Dream once referred to the aspirations of Americans to provide better lives for their children. For the Left, that idea has come to mean the intentions of anyone, anywhere, who wants to come here. From this perspective, the people who now live in the U.S. are superfluous to America and the American idea. We are placeholders, keeping things together until tomorrow’s Americans—more deserving, though apparently less appreciative—get here. Meantime, we can try to survive this hellish existence until they arrive to bail us out.
Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal
and Project Director of the NYC Initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
CLOSET MUSLIM OBAMA AND HIS CRONY MUSLIM DICTATORS
“We must stop all Muslim immigration because, in the end,
those Muslims all intend to dominate and overrun our country. We need to stop
this “oligarchy” by our votes.” FROSTY
WOOLDRIDGE
ISLAM: THE SCOURGE OF WESTERN
CIVILIZATION
A radical Muslim
wants to cut your head off. A peaceful Muslim is praying that a radical Muslim
cuts your head off.
*
Why are we defended the borders of these
Muslim dictators when we can’t defend our own borders against NARCOMEX?
*
*
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world
where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the
petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Robert Spencer’s The History
of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is
an amazing book, extraordinary in its detail and riveting in its narratives and
analysis. This book documents the history of horrors, violence,
brutality, oppression, conquests by the sword, beheadings of hundreds of
thousands (probably millions), destruction of civilizations and cultures,
corruption, deception, and lies that are part of the Islamist culture, and
every other evil that you can imagine that one group of humans could impose on
others in the name of an ideology or, in this case, a
pseudo-religion.
ONCE A MUSLIM, ALWAYS A MURDERER!
Muslims
Stone to Death Christians in Barack Hussein Obama’s hometown of Kenya
Earlier this
month, jihadists of the Al-Shabaab terror group hijacked a bus heading to
Garissa and ordered all the passengers to exit the vehicle. The assailants
asked for identification cards, then proceeded to separate the Muslims from the
Christians.
When two
Christians refused to recite the Islamic statement of faith, or Shahada, they
were executed.
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
*
“Of
course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting,
Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president
for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
*
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional
cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre
pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
*
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP’S BIGGEST DEAL EVER:
Saving the 9-11 invading Saudis’ arses!
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money.
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of
madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming
fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the
Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
I
recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword
and Scimitar, which
contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle
East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his
father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's
awful. But it has been happening for a very long
time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged
we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
*
“You saved my a rse again and again… So, I’ll save yours like
Bush and Obama did!
WHO IS FINANCING ALL THE TRUMP AND
SON-IN-LAW’S REFINANCING SCAMS???
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
"I doubt that
Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy
Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons
for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money. In the early
1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht so that the then-struggling
businessman could come up with cash to stave off personal bankruptcy, and
later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel, one of Trump's many
business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of his landmark Trump
Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001."
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of
madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming
fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the
Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
I recommend that Ignatius read Raymond
Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword
and Scimitar, which
contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle
East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his
father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's
awful. But it has been happening for a very long
time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged
we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
BILL
CLINTON SUCKS IN BRIBES FROM ISIS DONORS!
The Muslim Sheikhdom Qatar is a major sponsor of ISIS and global
anti-American terrorism. How disturbing is it that Bill Clinton sucked in
a bribe of ONE MILLION DOLLARS under the guise of a birthday gift? There
is NO one the Clintons will not sell us out to and have already!
"Even though
it has gone virtually unreported by corporate media, Breitbart News has extensively documented the
Clintons’ longstanding support for “open borders.” Interestingly, as
he Los Angeles Times observed in 2007, the Clinton’s praise
for globalization and open borders frequently comes when they
are speaking before a wealthy foreign audiences and donors."
I
recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword
and Scimitar, which
contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle
East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his
father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's
awful. But it has been happening for a very long
time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged
we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
LONDON UNDER THE MUSLIMS: Murder, Rape, Mayhem and
acid in the face and knives in the back!
SQUANDERING AMERICA!
Endless wars for
Muslim dictators while the Mexican drug cartels expand from border to open
border.
TRILLIONS WASTED AS
AMERICA CRUMBLES!
The U.S.
provides Jordan with hundreds of millions of dollars each year in foreign aid,
making the kingdom one of the largest recipients of American taxpayer funds.
In 2017
alone, U.S. assistance to Jordan, a member of the international coalition
against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reportedly exceeded $1 billion.
PEW
MAP OF MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF EUROPE
MAP OF MEXICAN OCCUPATION of U.S.
THE KORAN
BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of
madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming
fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the
Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Koran 2:191 "slay the unbelievers wherever
you find them"
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other
than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the
infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight
them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you
find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron
rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when
you catch them".
“The tentacles of the Islamist hydra have
deeply penetrated the world. The Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood poses a
clear threat in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood also wages its deadly campaign
through its dozens of well-established and functioning branches all over the
world.”
*
“The
Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys
are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush
Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
* We
will take advantage of their immigration policy to infiltrate them.
* We
will use their own welfare system to provide us with food, housing, schooling,
and health care, while we out breed them and plot against them. We will
Caliphate on their dime.
* We
will use political correctness as a weapon. Anyone who criticizes us, we will
take the opportunity to grandstand and curry favor from the media and Democrats
and loudly accuse our critics of being an Islamophobe.
* We
will use their own discrimination laws against them and slowly introduce Sharia
Law into their culture..
Omar emboldened
If Democrats thought "censoring" Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitic statements was the way to get her to stop, they've got another thing coming.
Actually, their repulsively watered down resolution, explicitly triggered by her claims that Jews hypnotize the world, Jewish money ("all about the Benjamins, baby") controls U.S. politics, and U.S. Jews have dual loyalties to Israel, has only emboldened her to step up new lines of attack, this time in slamming the sincerity of people who really are concerned about anti-Semitism, calling it "faux."
This, fresh from that watered down resolution passed on Congress, is Omar in action, her actual response to the whole thing, stepping up attacks on people who criticize her anti-Semitism as a justification for herself. In Omar's fevered mind, those people are the "real" hypocrites, and she's the victim. What they say couldn't possibly be what they feel. In fact, their outrage is actually fake.
Omar has gone from attacking Jews directly to attacking non-Jews who defend Jews.
Sound as if she's changed any since the resolution? Sound as if she's going to stop? Sound as if she's going to change her ways? She doesn't even sound as if she's embarrassed.
All it shows is that she has a brimming quiver full of Jew-hate and has yet to shoot out all of her arrows. She won't stop until she makes Jew-hate mainstream. The quickness of her response shows she has no intention of even pausing.
Instead of slinking away in shame for a few days, at least, because Congress acted to condemn her anti-Semitism, she's actually treating it as a victory. After all, she never lost her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee; she got House speaker Nancy Pelosi to grovel for her in both speeches and in the House. She got her name removed from the original proposed congressional resolution in favor of a generalized proposal watered down first to a generalized condemnation of anti-Semitism, and then further watered down again to a generalized condemnation of hate in general, meaning a resolution that meant nothing. None of this was done by the Republicans for Rep. Steve King, whose blundering comments about white supremacy were something he said he didn't mean and never came up repeatedly for him. All the Democrats did was broaden their condemnation to a kitchen sink of hate, including favorite forms of hers, in a bid to suggest that anti-Semitism isn't the big problem.
Now Omar's doing her part to continue expressing her anti-Semitism, through attacks on those who oppose anti-Semitism. As a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite, this won't be her last outrage. The jellyfish resolution on hate has only emboldened her. The result will be more and more attacks on Jews and their defenders. This latest incident shows that it's already started.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) (Screenshot)
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who serves as GOP conference chair, called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for calling out Republicans who voted against a resolution condemning bigotry.
“Where’s the outrage over the 23 GOP members who voted NO on a resolution condemning bigotry today? Oh, there’s none? Did they get called out, raked over, ambushed in halls and relentlessly asked why not? No? Okay. Got it,” Ocasio-Cortez
tweeted Thursday.
(Screenshot)
“Here’s the outrage: your party put a sham resolution on the floor designed to protect the anti-Semitic hate and bigotry of
@IlhanMN,” Cheney tweeted in response Friday.
The resolution was approved by a vote of 407-23, with all 23 no votes coming from Republicans. Republicans complained that the bill was “watered down” and didn’t specifically address Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), whose anti-Semitic comments prompted the resolution.
(Screenshot)
As CNSNews.com
reported, the resolution lumped together anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and bigotry targeting “African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and others.”
As CNSNews.com previously reported, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has resisted GOP calls to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs over her comments. Instead, she defended Omar,
telling reporters Thursday that Omar didn’t understand “the full weight of her words.”
The worst anti-Semite in Congress
| March 06, 2019 12:00 AM
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been in Congress two months. Despite the brevity of her career, the House is already taking its second vote to condemn her anti-Semitic conduct without actually mentioning her name.
Omar’s hateful and false insinuations about secret and powerful Jewish conspiracies, spread to the wrong quarters, are just the sort that lead to hate crimes and synagogue massacres, a fact to which the congressional resolution clearly alludes.
It is mildly heartening to see the House, despite being controlled by Omar’s party, issue a retort to her vile prejudices, but the retort is painfully weak. And it is not at all encouraging to see that Omar, unlike Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has faced no consequences for her bigotry, despite causing so much trouble in Congress already.
The Democratic Party’s leadership appears to be scared that a clear, unambiguous repudiation of the most outspoken anti-Semite in their midst would offend certain constituencies in its ranks — Muslims, black women, campus anti-Israel BDS supporters — whose votes the party wants. The plague of political correctness has thus become a powerful force bolstering anti-Semitism.
That sparked a sufficient uproar for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to condemn the remarks and strong-arm Omar into what was claimed to be an “unequivocal” apology. But just a few weeks later, a reporter
spotted Omar at a public event, responding with a furtive smile when an attendee repeated her “Benjamins” remark back to her.
In the time since Omar’s forced apologies for her original outbursts,
she has both said explicitlyand shown through her conduct that she is not at all sorry for her rhetoric and conspiracy theories. As she put it, she only “apologized for the way that my words made people feel,” not for their bigoted content.
The truth is that she is not ashamed of her anti-Semitism. She wears it as a badge of honor. Her antipathy toward Jews, like that of many on the Left, has its roots partly in the Cold War tribalism of those who sided with Russia and Arab nations against America and Israel and partly in the virulent and noxious anti-Semitism that is a stain on so much of the Muslim world.
There should be no partisanship on this issue. People who disagree on politics should agree that the scapegoating of Jews for society’s problems is unacceptable and leads to violence.
Omar's fellow Democrats, especially her party leaders, need to stop rewarding her crocodile tears by
posing with her on the cover of Rolling Stone and letting her keep her plum committee assignment on Foreign Affairs. Omar is what she is: an embarrassment to her district and to her party. She is an ideologically hardened Jew hater. Every politician hoping to have a future should feel the need to keep a distance from her.
Instead of bringing another milquetoast resolution against anti-Semitism, Pelosi should be directing the House Ethics Committee to look into a censure or other more serious rebuke to make an example of Congress’ worst anti-Semite.
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