And her basic premise was that jihad terrorism is all the fault of non-Muslims: “Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: ‘Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.’”
So you see, all we have to do is accept the poor dears, and jihad violence will disappear. This is a foolproof jihad-enabling argument, because when non-Muslims advocate for tough measures against jihadis, Rep. Omar can say that those measures will just “radicalize” more Muslims, and that the better way is simply to do nothing. This will, of course, allow jihad activity to continue unimpeded, since it doesn’t actually stem from “alienation,” but from imperatives within Islamic texts and teachings.
“Rep. Omar Called for Lighter Sentence for Men Who Tried to Join ISIS,” by Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal, January 24, 2019:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called for a more lenient sentence for nine Somalian men in Minnesota who were convicted of attempting to join ISIS in November 2016.
Omar, then a Minnesota assemblymember-elect, wrote in a letter to the judge presiding the case, Michael Davis, about “the ramifications of sentencing young men who made a consequential mistake to decades in federal prison.”
“Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to be 50 or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion,” Omar wrote. “Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: ‘Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.’”
Omar advocated for “a system of compassion” as a response to “fanaticism.”
“If we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation,” Omar said. “A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.”
Omar added that such violent fanaticism stems from “systematic alienation” resulting from being barred from the instruments needed to induce change.
“If the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, ‘I believe you can be rehabilitated. I want you to become part of my community, and together we will thrive,’” Omar wrote. “We use this form of distributive justice for patients with chemical dependencies; treatment and societal reintegration.”
Omar’s letter concluded by stating, “The restorative approach provides a long-term solution – though the self-declared Islamic State may soon suffer defeat, their radical approach to change-making will continue as it has throughout history – by criminalizing the undergirding construct rather than its predisposed victims.”…

Buraq says
Let’s try an experiment to see which system of dealing with the problem of Islamic jihad would end it for all time: deradicalization, forgiveness, throw money at the poor dears, …… or summary execution! I’m sure the final option would work better than anything else so-far suggested. Just fast-track the clowns to Paradise.
Win-win!
mortimer says
No, Buraq, your ideas were tried out in Nazi Germany. Go away.
Mirren10 says
I fail to see why you would think the death penalty for jihad murderers is what Nazi Germany ‘tried out’. Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews, not for being murderers, but for being Jews.
Nazi Germany murdered retarded/mentally ill people because they were seen as inadequates, not because they were murderers. Your reaction to Buraq’s comment doesn’t hold any water.
Mac-101 says
Exactly. And we expected Nazis at Nurnberg for crimes against humanity. What are Islamic Terrorist doin?
gravenimage says
Agreed, Mirren and Mac.
Gail Grifffin says
Mortimer has been hacked I think.
PRCS says
Stop being so damned rude, Mort.
Cyclohexane says
@mortimer. After due process of law, and indicted for a more than just cause. You’re comparing potatos with bananas. All we are saying is that we must apply our laws to their full extent (including the crime of sedition against the state for their hate preaching and conspiracy every Friday in every mosque) to impede the spread of this cancer in our midst. We should return the favor and do to them EXACTLY what they do to other religions, but with one huge difference: they would be allowed to practice their Islam but WITHOUT the Medinan Qur’an.
abad says
A better idea is to deport Omar, she was NOT born in this country and she is NOT an American, she is a Moslem.
PRCS says
Sorry, abad, but per our man made, secular laws, she’s an American citizen.
Joe says
Yeah but she is guilty of welfare, immigration, and loan fraud. In all cases, the facts are pretty clear. She should be serving a 20 year sentence.
PRCS says
Now, we agree on that. Her alleged crimes should have been thoroughly investigated and–if warranted–charged, tried, and–if warranted–jailed.
Not sure why those investigations were not aggressively pursued.
gravenimage says
There should be a process–as there is in some places–for stripping citizenship from those who falsely took the oath of naturalization.
PRCS says
There is.
The operative phrase, and the most difficult part to prove is “falsely took the oath of naturalization”.
Dave says
Graven, did she take the Oath on the Koran? If so, that doesn’t count.
You have probably noticed, it is mostly the same people who comment on here! Why not more people?
For the safety of America all muslims should be told to leave. Let’s not keep taking chances.
A_M_Swallow says
Deporting people on religious grounds would require a change to the US Constitution. Is there a related grounds that could be used?
Note: Treason includes waging war against the USA. Terrorism can be war.
Simo Hayha says
“…..A better idea is to deport Omar,”
Well, yeah,, a fairly good suggestion, but why not ship her to a very nice, comfortable free room at Guantanamo? Oh, and ship those being charged with terrorism with her. You know, for entertainment sake.
Indiana Tom says
Antarctica would be better.
Frederick King says
These would be jihadists should get prison time at hard labor, then deportation. This lady is a trash pile. Hillary would have 300,000 more of these here, had she won.
keith says
Alright everyone, we all know deep down that executing these fools will just inspire more fools to become martyrs and go to allahs garden blah blah blah. Unless, they are converted to Christianity before the execution!
Put the MSM to work for a change. televise the conversion, the administering of the last rights, the execution and the full bells and whistles Christian funeral.
If these clowns decide to blow themselves up. Scrape up the remains, give them the last rights and a full televised Christian funeral.
All TV stations all news papers the lot.
No martyrdom, No Allahs garden. No 72 virgins. No infidels as slaves for eternity. NOTHING!
Then lets see how many of the arseholes want to challenge the modern world.
Frederick King says
These guys were plotting to do premeditated murder. put them in prison, then deport them. This lady would force sharia law on all of us, and have every person the objected beheaded.
mortimer says
Ilhan Omar must think that Hamas has taken over the US government and they will start paying JIHADISTS and their bereft families for loss of a family member.
Immediately after her election, Ilhan Omar has started promoting Islamic terrorism. Are any of the Dem voters surprised at this betrayal?
Will the Dem party tell her to pipe down about Islamic terrorism? Or is the Dem Party now the official American home of JIHAD-TERRORISM?
If the Dems do nothing to distance themselves from Ilhan Omar, and do not censure her, they are in effect PROMOTING JIHAD TERROR.
The Dems have become an anti-American political party… a dhimmi party.
Jayme says
The Islamic Canadian Tire women will find out how much jail time she will get today some are projecting it will be less then 5 years.
Dave says
mortimer, you are right. The dhimmi-Dems
Dogman1947 says
What she said makes sense and might be true. Except that her premise of Jihadism is the result of marginalism is flat out wrong. Therefore her entire argument and conclusions are naked. One can say, for example, that serial rapists commit their crimes due to marginalization but we know serial rapists possess no innocent motives for their heinous crimes.
somehistory says
She blames everyone but the guilty for the actions of the guilty. Blame society, and give excuses for the criminal actions. Then, don’t punish the guilty for their criminal actions because that will just make them more likely to carry out more criminal actions; instead, allow them to go free and not face the punishment they knew to be warranted before they committed the crime. Don’t punish them because then people will view them as the criminals they are.
If she lived in a moslim country…and somehow was in the government…and a never moslim committed a crime against islam…maybe just in dress, or religious belief, would she be so lenient? Or would she be calling for the death sentence?
Even small children can learn that if they break the house rules…throwing a ball inside, or drawing on a wall with a crayon, they must face the consequences. Why should it be any different with the moslims who know the laws against terrorism and joining a terror group and still break those laws? They did the crime…not society for not “including” them…they son’t want to be included…they should do the time. Even if they come out of prison as old criminals, and people view them as criminals, they should face the music.
And she should not be making decisions for the country as she is not fair-minded or moral. She herself has broken the laws…marrying her brother, using government funds for her personal business, etc.
Mirren10 says
She is a mohammedan who has successfully infiltrated your government. She is following the mohammedan agenda.
Rarely says
I think she may have been elected. Problematic when we start to call that “infiltration”.
The more obvious garbage she spews the more damage she does to her “cause”.
Mirren10 says
infiltration:
”a method of attack in which small bodies of soldiers or individual soldiers penetrate the enemy’s line at weak or unguarded points in order to assemble behind the enemy position and attack it from the rear, harass enemy rear-area installations, etc.”
Certainly she was elected. So was Khan in London. They are mohammedans. They are *infiltrating* in order to carry out the islamic agenda.
PRCS says
Well, we agree on that.
Another election of an unqualified candidate, primarily carried out by her fellow “slaves of Allah” which has further contributed to the ongoing infiltration of a man made, secular government so despised by their “complete way of life”.
However will she support and defend those aspects of our constitution which permit what Allah and his messenger have prohibited without riling up the very folks who voted for her?
gravenimage says
True, Mirren.
J says
She blames jihad terror on kafir when in fact it’s moos-lams in college recruiting. Dr. Tawfiq Hamid gave a lecture on his experience on a YouTube video. And what does that one finger she is holding up mean, Allah is one? #banhijab
FYI says
she’s giving us the islamic finger…..
Of course,as masters of dissembling,muslims like to use that gesture for Tawhid
Perhaps Christians should try to reciprocate:flash 3 fingers and.. then.. one.
Surely that would mess with the islamic mind.
muslims think that Christians are guilty of Shirk due to an EPIC THEOLOGY FAIL on the part of allah in koran 4:171
For the record..the Concept of the Trinity is MONOTHEISTIC,but allah,tragically,thinks christians believe in a polytheistic 3-god .
3 aspects of the SAME GOD is NOT=3 separate gods.
We know from reading the koran that allah does’t understand Astronomy or Physics
{the sun sets in a muddy pool,the moon is a lamp,stars are missiles for the devils?SERIOUSLY allah???}and even believes ants can speak* but it seems allah,the Theologically,Scientifcally and Linguistically-challenged god of islam doesn’t understand Mathematics or Logic either.
No,no allah!!………..3 in 1 is NOT = 3
“say not “three” CEASE!It is better for you” says allah frantically in koran 4:171.
{Christians might note that due to this EPIC ERROR,allah doesn’t know what God’s “Holy Spirit” of Wisdom is nor the origin of biblical prophecy{see 2 Peter 1 v 20-21}
Just think about that ..and imagine a computer without an operating system.
The thing about the Trinity is that even if you don’t believe in it,allah has COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTOOD it.When you explain it to muslims they laugh because they cannot accept allah’s “perfect” book is in error.Since this EPIC THEOLOGY FAIL is in the koran and since muslims believe the copy of the perfect koran is in allah’s islamic carnal paradise..that means that….allah’s paradise has errors….
Christians do not see it as as dividing God into parts{is God a cake?},or that it is 3 separate gods in a polytheistic ensemble or LUDICROUSLY that Mary is somehow part of the Trinity.Why on earth would Mary even be part of the Trinity?DO explain that allah..
So remember when you see Omar or sarsour with that 1-finger salute:they are showing us they follow a Mathematically challenged god.Such ignorance accompanies the followers of allah.Its the smart people that LEAVE islam.To be an atheist,agnostic or Christian or whatever,but at least muslims should THINK about all the EPIC THEOLOGY errors in allah’s “perfect” book along with the antisemitism,antichristianity k9:30,misogyny…
*”O Ants!Enter your dwellings lest solomon and his armies crush you unperceiving”
koran 27 v 18.
“Unperceiving”What Ant would even know such a word?It always cracks me up.
Jews might be surprised to know that,apart from Solomon obviously being a muslim he had “armies of the JINN and Humankind ..and of the birds” k27 v 17.Given that allah claims he gave the Torah(in Arabic?allah only knows Arabic}to Moses k2:87 “We verily gave unto Moses the scripture” I wonder did allah write the Lord of the Rings.
“We verily gave unto Tolkien the Lord of the Rings”.allah could certainly make the claim since he falsely claims to be the author of the Gospel and the Torah koran 3:3
No Muzzies Here says
She did not become a member of Congress to uphold the Constitution and to defend the interests of the USA. She did it to uphold Sharia and to defend the interests of Muslims.
PRCS says
Time will tell–when laws to prohibit issues held dear by her Muslim constituents come up for a vote.
What? The filthy kuffar actually want to make FGM a crime? And polygamy, the un-stunned slaughter of animals for Eid al-Adha, the death penalty for apostasy?
A_M_Swallow says
Alternatively INCREASE the sentences since joining ISIS means they were committing a hate crime. The attackers were anti-White and anti-Christian.
gravenimage says
Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar called for lighter sentences for Muslims who tried to join ISIS
…………………
Of course she does–who can be surprised by this?
Dave says
I’ll give her a lighter sentence, of two words: **** off!
dlbrand says
“Rep. Omar Called for Lighter Sentence for Men Who Tried to Join ISIS….”
The above fight is the precise reason why Muslims should be allowed to serve in our Government — if indeed they are true to “Allah,” thus true to their creed, then, as Rep. Omar is doing, once “sworn in,” immediately, they will use their position to bend the laws of our nation. Bit by bit, by hook or by crook, force it, bend it, to be Islam compliant.
Indiana Tom says
Well, it is obvious that the Muslima is totally correct and all of these poor oppressed Jihadis just need more welfare, guidance, and job programs to turn their lives around. I was thinking of putting the poor fellows to work in a Brandenburg Disciplinary Battalion.
Badger says
Any country that allows in muslims is asking for trouble. They take trouble wherever they go. The only solution is to ban them completely from any Western nation. They add absolutely nothing of value to any country they manage to get a foothold in.
Name me a single country in the world where islam has benefited it. Go on, just one. Only chaos and murder follow. The liberal nations that embrace these people are deluded, they ignore history. And where they forge alliances as do the liberal left, there will be a final bloody reckoning. There always has been.
Look at Sweden and France today. Look at the Middle East in the seventh century. 270 million deaths at the hands of muslim invaders. 80 million of them Hindus.
And remember. Too many so-called authorities on islam insist on separating ‘muslims’ from ‘islam.’ I believe they do this because they are afraid of the usual empty accusations. That everyone knows a ‘good muslim,’ that there are ‘moderate’ muslims and ‘extreme’ muslims, that islam can be somehow ‘reformed’ that ‘we all worship the same God’ or they hark back to a mythical ‘Golden Age of Islam.’
READ THE KORAN AND SHOW ME A ‘MODERATE’ PASSAGE THAT HAS NOT BEEN ABROGATED BY AN ‘EXTREME ONE.
A muslim is a person who lives his life by the koran, denies the Golden Rule, all its commands he must obey, muhammad was the perfect man and muslims must model their lives on his. muslims, islam, muhammad, all is evil and will be the destruction of all who do not believe.
dan christensen says
“If the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, ‘I believe you can be rehabilitated. I want you to become part of my community, and together we will thrive,’” Omar wrote.
The consequence that most experienced people imagine is, that the treacherous Somalian men then calculates that all white folks are weak fools.
No honest American patriot desires that these muslims ever becomes part of a Christian community.
Muslims will never thrive together with civilized Christians in any country.
Omar is both a stupid and brazen Somali, naively overrating her own importance and underrating Christian intelligence.
The best deal for the treacherous Somali men would be to pay for a prison term reduction, in exchange for an accept of deportation to Somalia after doing time.
The Somalians need the US infinitely more than the US need the Somalians. Somalians are generally perceived as a parasitic nuisance in the Western world.
MJP says
Lighter Sentence I think the opposite Death Penalty would be more appropriate her statement leaves no doubt about what her objectives are she needs to be removed from office along with that ugly beast from Michigan
A_M_Swallow says
In Britain if you are convicted of a major crime your nationalisation can be revoked. Does the USA have a similar law?
gravenimage says
It *has* happened, but is quite rare, Between 1979 and 2011, 107 people were stripped of American citizenship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_citizens_of_the_United_States
Historically, the most common reason has been links with Nazi war crimes.
It has only been applied to a handful of criminal Muslims.
A_M_Swallow says
Thank you.
Dave says
When she said a lighter sentence, I thought she meant dowse them with lighter fuel and…..
Georg says
The woman who expertly demonstrates anti-Semitism despite being totally unfamiliar with the concept or its applications.