If we had any actual journalists today, they would be asking Ilhan Omar probing questions about what she thinks about the global jihad and where her loyalties ultimately lie. No one denounced questions of loyalty when John F. Kennedy was asked them as a Roman Catholic running for President in 1960. But today, asking them of Omar would be “Islamophobic.” Meanwhile, the Democrats and the Leftist establishment are making an all-out effort to portray any criticism of Omar as incitement to violence, which is a dishonest attempt to place any such criticism beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse. Incitement to violence is when you call for violence. Criticism is not incitement to violence. It seems as if every day now, one has to remind people that A is A in opposition to new ways in which it is being denied.
“Ilhan Omar, in bizarre clip, jokes about people saying ‘Al Qaeda’ in menacing tone,” by Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, April 12, 2019:
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar is facing backlash after her speech at a Muslim rights group’s event where she described the September 11, 2001 terror attacks as ‘some people did something.’
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a newly resurfaced clip of an old interview, joked about people saying “Al Qaeda” and “Hezbollah” in a severe tone — while noting nobody says words like “America” that way.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. … The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up,” Omar said during an interview from 2013 when she was an activist within the Somali community, chuckling as she imitated the professor saying “Al Qaeda” and “Hezbollah.”
Omar went on to contrast the way people say the names of terror groups with how they pronounce the names of western powers:
“But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “… But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.”
Omar made the remarks during an interview on the show “Belahdan” on Twin Cities PBS that was first unearthed by Fox News in February. Omar’s office did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment on the clip…
FYI says
Wait a minute!
Don’t muslims scream “allahu akbar”..”with an intensity”.. because they want those Arabic islamic supremacist words” to carry weight”?
muslims,members of the “religion of peace”:they never seem to understand Irony
FYI says
“When i was in college I took a terrorism class” says Omar.
She “learnt the ideology”:I trust there were no practicals or field trips{…how to make IEDs in the Chemistry labs,the use of taqqiya/taysin to fool Americans that islam is THE “religion of peace” ,how to blame the Jews/Israelis/Mossad and make it look as if they are behind it etc… etc}
Well,I suppose that is to be expected given she is obliged to follow the Sunnah of her misogynistic Terrorist “prophet” muhammed..mister..
“I have been made victorious through TERROR”
sahih bukhari 4:52:220
muhhamad was a man who famously said of muslim women{Sahih Bukhari 2658} that the reason the witness of a woman is valued as HALF that of a man is…… “because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind”
it seems omar is determined to prove her “prophet”s claims about muslimas[who BTW are all going to hell anyway Sahih muslim 241:all that hijab wearing for nothing{Thanks to Umar ladies!}.. for the Takfurna,the Ungrateful muslima females}
Of course we know allah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54} hates women:muhammed even got allah’s permission to rape them{Sunan Abu Dawud vol 2 hadith #2155}.what sort of god would do that?The same god that demands women wear hijabs….
As for mass-murder she mentions@2:05 in the video?Did she miss the part of Abu Dawud 4390 where her unholy “prophet” was mass-murdering Jews??Omar is an appaling liar and dissembler…
SemiDave says
Excellent!
abad says
In college?
But I thought Moslems took terrorist classes in mosques and Islamic centers.
gravenimage says
She appears to have taken this class at North Dakota State University:
https://bulletin.ndsu.edu/course-catalog/descriptions/pols/
It is Political Science 120.
It is also possible that she was referring to this class, at the University of Minnesota’s law school:
https://www.law.umn.edu/course/6708/terrorism-counter-terrorism-and-international-law
Probably her real problem with this class as that it didn’t *teach* terrorism.
Jule Bacal says
But the more she gets in paper for these things, the more honor and praise she gets from ‘her people’. she becomes a hero and proud of it.
SemiDave says
There is no place for irony within Islam because everything they do against the kafir is condoned and perfect in the eyes of Mohammad and Allah!
Muslims in their own arrogance are so superior to all other peoples of earth that they can only look down at others, never across!
Fear of their murderous ways by non-believers, to them, is funny because they will always be that way as they have always been!
DP111 says
They start with “Taqbeer”.
Jule Bacal says
This is getting too serious, too dangerous. What does Homeland, FBI,CIA say about this in Congress. At least this one shows her colors obviously but its really too serious.
jihad3tracker says
She is leading the Dems into a 2020 defeat.
Westman says
Perhaps it should be renamed as the Anarchist Party. No respect for law, hundreds of competing niche interests, and no unifying leader. AOC, Tlaib, and Omar are just more branches of party dissipation and disunity. The more they open their mouths the less doubt anyone, including Democrats, will have about who they really are.
WPM says
Yes getting all giggly when mention terror groups ,westerners are not to mention terror groups in serious manner? She would be just as giggly talking about Nazi “war art” of using people skin as lampshades I would guess? I guess that is why Moslems are the most cheerful people on the planet they find human suffering and terrorism most amusing especial when they are the cause of it. I should place the same influence in speech and body language when talking about Hitler as taking about ford trucks?
elee says
Did she giggle at recruitment videos of children decapitating kafirs? Please help me be multicultural by understanding how to be value-neutral about this stuff.
DP111 says
WPM
She would be giggly when talking about Nazis (killing Jews), as that really excites Muslims.
gravenimage says
Good questions.
WPM says
Her remarks, her body language ,show she was having a good all times seeing the nonbelieving instructor upset at Islamic terror groups plotting death and destruction of American people and landmarks of capitalism. . It was like a kid opening Christmas gifts for her seeing the fear in his voice. Death ,pain ,fear are the life blood of the master religion Islam!
Jayme says
I think the Dems should be far more worried about her then Trump she is feeding the base of Trump and likely will result them in voting in massive numbers more so then in 2016.
James Lincoln says
The mainstream media continues to focus on AOA, Omar, and Tlaib.
The trio is being exposed for who they are and what they stand for. Heck, even the bread and butter Democrats are getting worried…
And all of this will help to cement the reelection of Pres. Trump in 2020!!!
Jule Bacal says
I really do not think AOC is such a problem like the others plus any Muslims in our government anywhere & they are showing up in more places than most knew.
Really, this is serious. What does Homeland, FBI, CIA say?
Olli Hekkala says
What a beautiful smile. That saved my day. Uh, did she say anything important?
FYI says
“We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them”
Abu Ad Darda
Omar belongs to a religion whose “holy” koran CURSES Jews and Christians k9:30,a god who tells muslims k5:51″Take not the Jews and Christians for friends,they are friends to one another”; a god who preaches a Doctrine of HATE{Al walaa wal baraa} towards ALL non muslims.
Omar says her fatiha “prayers”,islamic “prayers” to her pagan Arab god allah the Best of deceivers k3:54:she bows down to this god,a misogynistic,racist,antichristian,antijewish,theologically and scientifically challenged bigot of a god.
Omar subscribes to a religion which is OK with bearing FALSE witness via various dissembling tricks.
{taqqiya,tawriya,taysin,kitman,muruna,darura..}
But yes,she does have a nice smile
…:f only she realized where the Hijab really comes from{Umar..}
SemiDave says
How could she while having only half the mental ability of a man? SMH
Westman says
Wouldn’t we like hear her voice inflection and see the shoulder movement when she says, “Israelophobia”? Omar, Tlaib, and AOC could form a wave together while shouting, “From the River to …..”
Israelophobics, every one of them.
Alej says
What we get for letting ragh e ads into America, and then into government.
Or Else! says
Recently, she said she’s getting backlash because she’s a Muslim, a woman, and a woman of colour….falling into 3 victimized, oppressed, identity groups. (At the hands of “whitey”, dontcha know?)
Only fools would fall for such an argument. She’s USING those identity cards to mask the real message: Islamic supremacy.
The irony is so thick.
It’s the SOFTWARE, folks…it doesn’t matter how “pretty” they make the packaging.
elee says
I wrote a separate post below about how Islam affects reasoning ability. Now for a little history of “identity politics”……..remember back in the 70’s, there were identity groups made up of white ex-cons with swastika tattoos? Most of the world said this was evil.
Now identity politics means not liking white folks and believing they should become dhimmis, spending their days in humiliation and apologies to every other cultural religious ethnic or sexual minority that can be imagined. And that may be the only thing they agree on, They all want to be compensated for something somebody else’s ancestor did centuries ago……according to what they deem to be history. And they agree that it should come out of that dastardly evil segment of the population that invented created propagated and underwrote modern civilization.
They’ve captured what used to be the party of working people in America with their “identity politics.” Do they ever think on the poisoned origin of all this? Well, they sure aren’t going to reason with us when they can shout trash talk instead.
somehistory says
elee
And article on FPM, I think it was written by Daniel Greenfield, about the “white privilege” that other groups claim against White people.
White men are said to be the most “patriotic” and “most likely to have guns.”
Those wanting to take the country for socialism, using islam and moslims, have targeted this group…Whites, esp men…because they stand in the way of the goal.
This moslim snake is a tool. She wants to cause trouble; in her words to “raise hell and make people uncomfortable.” She pushes the “woman of color” and “moslim” to try to gain support of other races and to ensure that all moslims pay attention to her and follow her lead.
Or Else! says
If they want to play the “reparations” card against “whitey”….how far back can we go? How about the 1 million to 1.25 million white Europeans kidnapped by Barbary Muslim pirates and enslaved in either North Africa or in the Ottoman Empire? ca. 1500-1750. Maybe more people over a longer span….but those are the stats I’ve read/heard.
White women were “prized” in Islamic harems/sex dens.
Islam and slavery go way back.
But the West’s education system doesn’t teach it….and our leftstream media certainly doesn’t bring it up.
Ruins their narrative. Lies, deceit, omission, disinformation, and flat-out hoaxes.
Demsci says
You are so right. When I read Byzantine history there was mention of “yearly raids into Byzantine (Anatolian) territory by Caliphate armies, from the 7th century right through to 1453, to plunder and capture slaves. Byzantine slaves in Baghdad at times were so plentiful that their price dropped and Many could afford to buy them”.
In 13th century Baibars captured Antioch and bragged in a letter to the absent count; I “enslaved your women and there was nothing you could do about it”.
and you were spot on with this claim by Omar that criticism was because of being a woman, black and a Muslim. And Steven Colbert was chiming in” Especially a Muslim”. For once he was right! Because being woman and black is an accident of birth AND I no longer believe many people are attacked or even discriminated against on that score. Do you?
But Religion is a choice, isn’t it? What with all its accompanying ant-democratic tenets and loyalties? why can’t adult sane humans be held accountable for that?1
Demsci says
and there indeed IS a woman that is black that does get attacked on her opinions, very words, sometimes even at restaurants.
But she is not claiming it is because of her gender or race. She maintaines it is because she supports Donald Trump and harshly criticizes the DEMS.
Candace Owens
underbed cat says
“There was a lab for that”? Interesting comment as a response to Ilham Omar when she admits in college she took a “terrorism” class. A class that studied the seeds of terrorism or a class discussing different terror groups such as al shabad, al queda, boko harem, daesh, isis, or hezbollah, or nowadays this includes “white supremacism”(ones Omar can identify)..the exact description unknown, but found it humorous to notice a raise in voice and shoulder by her instructor upon repeating a name of terror groups. When the interviewer asked, “there is a lab for that”, funny but revealing. He knows there is someone in or connected to each terror groups that is the designated instructor to assist in constructing IED’s or whatever can be produced in “lab”. The special group for the muslim brotherhood are the hidden soldiers. Those people were active in 9/11, she never knew them. they were not from Somalia. But as once stated by Obama, Islam is the organizing principle of the middle east. This includes Somalia and all the Islamic countries of the OIC….it is a complete way of life called Islam. And muslims are very aware of sharia law they are directed to travel, it is why they come, men and woman, in great numbers to America to implement sharia to say it is tolerance. Truth is stranger than fiction. It is spreading thru South America, Canada many islands and United States have cites that appear to be muslim countries. Oh, by the way ,they do something. In my opinion.
Renate says
If she thinks this is so funny, I’d like to know how she can represent Americans when she has no empathy for them.
abad says
Omar does not represent anyone or anything but Islam.
She cares not about non-Moslems she only cares about how non-Moslems treat Moslems.
Yet the way she, a Moslem, treats non-Moslems, is reprehensible.
I think she needs to be very careful of what she says.
Because as of right now, she is personally responsible for 9-11.
There is NO concept of the individual in Islam; there is only the collective.
There is a reason all Moslems think alike; their thinking is done for them by the Quran and Hadith.
Any deviation from that brings a fatwa upon a Moslem head.
elee says
Applause for your perceptive Comment. Each of the statements you made above is explicitly commanded by one or more Koranic verses. Small addition: in implementing Allah’s commands, many soldiers of the Prophet have recently found homebrew captagon useful in suppressing empathy for other human beings. Oh and it’s also good for staying up for hours and getting paranoid. Allah provides. Qatar assists.
Renate says
Which Americans would vote for such a representative?
Kay says
so interesting how she feels at one with Mohammedens from a completely different region of the world than the one she “represents” as part of the government and than the one from which she originated . . .
gravenimage says
Yes–she is also fine with Jihadists both Sunni and Shia–which gives the lie to the idea that they are always opposed to each other.
elee says
She loves her Islam……shouldn’t she dress in a black wool tent, zip her lips, and walk ten steps behind her escort? Wouldn’t all this smirking and grinning and face-baring get her killed in a real Muslim state like Persia or Gaza? Bet her home and her life are full of things the kafir oppressor forced on her unwilling culture…..you know, inoculations, electricity, heat, air conditioning, food that comes to her local big box from a reefer truck? Where’s their beloved 7th-century Arabia in her life?
Yep Muslims aren’t good at that consistency business. Their cult and culture dumbs-down the human brain, like the comorbid authentic 7th-century physical malnutrition they’ve mostly lived in since the days of the Fat Dwarf. Inshallah.
Only a Muslim could claim to love this or any other country and wish the curse of Islam upon it……and seriously expect to be believed by anyone but another Muslim.
Demsci says
Quite Right, Elke. One might add: where in the Muslim world can she say; “I love America, I swore an oath to be loyal to it?”
Demsci says
Sorry Elee (my spelling control did this, grrrrr).
somehistory says
When this first “surfaced” and someone commented on the “terrorism” class, she tried to make it be that they were lying about her having said that she had taken a “terrorism” class.
She took the class so she could know what was said and taught in order to counter it in her “activism in the somalia community” and then in public office when she ran. She wanted to know how to counter the counter terrorism.
Universities teach “anti-terrorism” not ‘terrorism” courses.
In the clip, she’s trying to use what she heard against those who are anti-terror, anti-jihad. She’s mocking the course and the professor, while laughing about how much power the terror groups have.
She’s trying to equate the word “America” with al-queda and hezbollah, even though she is fully aware the class was attempting to teach her….a moslim who evidently loves terror groups and what they do…what groups are out there and what is their intention regarding the rest of us. She already knew the groups. She already knew their aims and goals. She just wanted to know the tactics for overcoming those groups and what different governments are doing to counter the terrorism. It’s a case of “know your enemy.”
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Somehistory.
Peter Langbroek says
Unbelievable! She generalizes ‘white people’ and their opinions, yet is offended when people generalize muslims. She says we need to judge people individually. How ironic for a representative of ‘white people’ in her constituency to talk that way!
Ashley says
Had only this video emerged prior to the election…
gravenimage says
If only, Ashley.
tgusa says
Our government has gone completely insane. How long before a homicide bomber or nineteen find their way in to the chambers of congress? Will a legislative security administration be formed in the wake of that? When some people do something will congress subject themselves to rigorous searches similar to what the common people are subjected to at airports? Will cavity searches be conducted on the elected and their staffs as they come and go? Inquiring minds would like to know.
gravenimage says
Video surfaces of Ilhan Omar mocking concern over al-Qaeda and Hizballah, equating them with US Army
………………….
Just repulsive–she laughs over American concerns over Jihad terror.
That she inveigled her way into Congress is increasingly concerning.
Aussie Infidel says
Omar says “When you have an individual in a Western society who commits mass murder, we investigate that person and what has driven them to commit that act … But when an act is committed by these Muslim, you know, terrorists (she could hardly bring herself to say the word), what we investigate is that whole community, we investigate that whole faith, we investigate that whole society, and everyone is supposed to have some answers to why these people are doing that; when it is those individuals that people need to be investigating. It is their life that needs to be under the microscope, not the lives of the rest of the community, because – I am not part of al-Shabab …”
Omar may not be part of al-Shabab directly, but indirectly she is, because she subscribes to the same murderous ideology that drives those militant jihadists. Omar is the epitome of the ‘moderate Muslim’ – one who doesn’t commit the violence commanded in their scriptures (Q 2:191-193, 4:89, 8:24, 8:39. 9:5 etc), but doesn’t condemn those who do, and acts as a flag bearer for them. And all the while, Omar’s body language is so obvious, with that condescending smirk of superiority on her face. The adjectives which best describe Omar, are ‘conniving’, ‘mischievous’ and ‘sly’.
Omar also claims that the police investigate the whole community for the crimes of individual terrorists. But again, jihadis are motivated by the same murderous ideology followed by the moderates. The only difference is that the jihadis are the more devout and deeply indoctrinated militant psychopaths in the Muslim community, who have no empathy for others and no remorse for what they do. The moderates still have a vestige of conscience, while the psychopaths have none. It doesn’t take a whole community to carry out guerrilla attacks against unarmed people. As we have seen time and time again, just a single radicalized individual or small group armed with guns or bombs is sufficient. And as Robert has pointed out on many occasions, there is no way to determine who is a potential jihadi without a detailed psychological examination by someone who knows what to look for.
The only way to solve this problem, is to hold the ideology to account – and have the political will and guts to do something about it. Otherwise, we might as well surrender now to the likes of Ilhan Omar and the followers of her warlord prophet, and save a lot of bloodshed.
Debi Brand says
” … people saying ‘Al Qaeda’ in menacing tone,”
Demsci says
About Catholic loyalty. In England, ever since the time of Henry 8th, or at least Elizabeth, in whose time Spain did send an Armada, and France, the old enemy, was also catholic, the English government did discriminate Catholics, until the 1830’s or so. They for one thing could not hold high powered positions (although they seemingly could be in parliament).
Back then, Protestants held that Catholics were more loyal to a foreign power, the Pope, and foreign countries loyal to him, than to their own country.
Further back we can see that such an attitude is rather human. In the early 5th century Shah Bahram of Sassanid Zoroastrian Persia started to persecute Christians in his empire, because he suspected they were more loyal to Christian Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines would have gone to war, if it were not for the fact that there were many enemies to the North, like the Huns.
Demsci says
Robert is so spot on with this question of first and foremost loyalty. And it can be asked of all Muslims, especially when they ask entry as citizen or are being rescued fleeing war-scenes and other hell-holes.
Why can’t we ask Muslims; are you or do you intend to be an American who happens to be of the Islamic persuasion? Overall category American, subset Islamic.
Or a Muslim who happens to live in America? Overall category Ummah, subset America.
The second attitude is no good. But leftists want us to automatically assume, like innocent until proven guilty, the first attitude. Worse, even the asking of such questions is now VERBOTEN.
And saying being loyal to America is not enough, because that can still mean that a person wants an Islamic America, or a fascist or communist America. No, we want Americans loyal to the Constitution.
I say that if Omar claims to be loyal to the constitution, which is very clear, and still Muslim, what does that say about Islam, when there are so many clearly anti-American constitution Muslims?
To me, that means that Islam is Multi-interpretable and thus ambiguous, UNCLEAR.
sidney penny says
“Incitement to violence is when you call for violence. Criticism is not incitement to violence.”
Robert Spencer keeps hitting the nail on the head.
sidney penny says
Perhaps Robert Spencer or someone else has an answer for the question or proposition that she raises at 2.00,that is about investigating the society rather that the individual. This issue has been raised many times.
Carolyne says
As I’ve said before. The Somalis are the worst of the worst. Why did Obama bring them here in the first place and dump them in Minnesota? Was it because he too is a Muslim? However I think he is a Kenyan Muslim not a Somali. Most Somalis are physically very ugly. This one is pretty which makes her twice as dangerous.
OLD GUY says
Point in fact. Who’s side is she on? We the tax payer brought her and her family to America, we provided all the normal things that refugees need along with a good education and a extremely improved life style from the camp she came from. And yet she has no respect or thanks for our saving her from a horrible existence. She seems to enjoy spitting in our faces. Send her back.
WPM says
She wants to provide a” horrible existence ” for us here in America, she has a reptilian mind set , Islam with no respect for the non-Moslem as far as she is concern your a different species .She is the best of people and deserves respect and you are her slave as a nonbeliever ,how dare you ask her to respond to your questioning her authority over you!! Why the appeasing leftish asswipes not see this snake in the grass for what she is beyond my patience as an American citizen.