Ilhan Omar and the anti-Semites of the Left have won a total victory. To condemn everything is to condemn nothing. And anyway, this is more of the sloppy thinking that is pandemic these days. Since most Leftist would characterize honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror as “hate,” it can reasonably be concluded that such analysis is included in this condemnation of “Islamophobia.” There needs to be a public debate about what really constitutes “hate” in the first place, but there won’t be.
“Democrats Plan to Condemn ‘All Hate’ After Backlash Over Planned Ilhan Omar Rebuke,” by Jackie Kucinich and Sam Brodey, Daily Beast, March 6, 2019:
House Democrats spent Wednesday scrambling to put to bed a debate about anti-Semitism that no one wants after advancing a symbolic resolution condemning it that pleased no one.
The resolution, as it was initially conceived in the hours after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made a second round of anti-Israel comments last week, would condemn anti-Semitism—a second public rebuke of the freshman lawmaker who has been in office less than 60 days.
But by midweek, faced with a backlash inside the Democratic Caucus, leaders appeared to change course, asking the House Foreign Affairs Committee to draft a resolution that rebuked “all hate.”
“We’ll see what the committee comes up with, I’m a big believer in the committee system this is their jurisdiction, they have an array of concerns, priorities they are addressing,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters, adding that the resolution was not targeted at Omar’s comments.
Members involved in crafting the resolution have already been hit with requests from the offices of Democratic lawmakers for specific groups to be included in the resolution. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is Hindu, reached out to top Democrats to ask that Hindus be specifically mentioned in any resolution condemning religious prejudice, sources said. Other members have suggested Catholics, Muslims, and all forms of racism should be added, too.
Asked if the resolution would be diluted as a result of the inclusion of so many groups, Pelosi replied, “What’s too broad about fighting hatred wherever it exists?”…
Victoria says
According to the Koran, it’s okay to lie to the infidel.
TruthHonestReality says
Do – Kaffir Lives Matter ?
Garfield says
What is that one finger up gesture? Caliphate referance? Islamoc supremacy sign or what?
No Jews should EVER vote Democrat. No minorities should EVER vote Democrat!
elee says
This “foreign allegiance” business is an old Republican incitement against Catholic Democrats. In the late19th century—-all but a few years of which were Republican—they proclaimed the Democrats to be “the party of rum, Romanism and rebellion.” The foreign-allegiance trope may have cost Al Smith a Presidential election in the 20th century. In the same century I remember being proud and grateful that the tactic failed when the Republicans deployed it against candidate John Kennedy.
I’m appalled that Democrats, after a full day of caucusing, couldn’t find the courage to say that anti-Semitism is unacceptable. Well, if they want to make common cause with David Duke, it wouldn’t be the first time. But there is so much to be appalled at these days, isn’t there?
Stacy Girl says
If Kennedy were alive he’d be right in there with them. We know how he lived his life. The entire Kennedy clan is not catholic and not sane.
J D.S says
To be “Catholic” is to be universal…to be “Roman Catholic” is so different story..
elee says
Oh and god eye. Every time she throws that hand-sign she pledges allegiance to a foreign power with entirely un-American ideals and schemes for our future. Muslims would be wise not to raise this topic. There are a lot of passages in their Scripture that (“infallibly”) Commands them to avoid allegiance to our government or institutions. So far no one has seen fit to publish any of these quotations and citations. How suicidally patient and “tolerant” have we been? How long will we continue?
Joss says
Oddly enough, that one-finger sign was, certainly in the 80s, a Chritian sign, pointing to heaven. I remember have just such a symbol on the back of my old Kombi. The mucklims’re guilty of symbolic theft!
gravenimage says
True–I remember it being used just a few years ago in that context by Giants pitcher Brian Wilson. But now it is increasingly the Muslim sign of “Tawheed”, and of allegiance to the Islamic State.
CogitoErgoSum says
What a load of hogwash! These people can’t smell their own stench.
Tom Saunders says
The Democrats are going to make lemonade out of this. The “hate” speech resolution will pass overwhelmingly (unanimously except for haters/racists) then, in a matter of years if not months, there will be laws against “white nationalism”, “hate” speech, “Islamophobia”, “homophobia”, etc. because Congress is already on record as opposing them (except for the haters/racists).
Anjuli Pandavar says
“Hindus be specifically mentioned in any resolution condemning religious prejudice, sources said. Other members have suggested Catholics, Muslims, and all forms of racism should be added, too.”
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The multicultural chicken comes home to roost.
More…
“the resolution was not targeted at Omar’s comments.”
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Don’t you just love it when virtue signalling implodes under the weight of its own contradictions?
Or Else! says
Can’t you just hear the Muslim Brotherhood lobbyists?
“Okay, we’ll stop the anti-semitism if YOU classify Islamophobia as “hate speech”.”
It’s what the OIC bloc (Org. of Islamic Cooperation) in the United Nations has been calling for….worldwide!
mummymovie says
This resolution is, and has been from the get-go, all about criminalizing “islamophobia”.
This is a big, big deal: CAIR / MB / OIC (take your pick) are fully behind this, without a doubt.
This is the beginning of the implementation of sharia blasphemy law into U.S. policy and government, and silencing criticism of islam.
Patriotic and counter-jihad minded lawmakers need to be more alert and on the lookout for tricks like this.
somehistory says
mummymovie
Absolutely right. The oic and hillary clinton hatched a snake’s plan back in 2011 to “shame” Americans into silence on the evils of islam.
This hasn’t worked as well as they wished….the oic wanted the U.S. gov to make a law against it, but the Constitution didn’t allow for that, so “shaming” was the only way, according to clinton.
Now there are snakes in the House who would also be ‘at home’ in a chair at the oic. They are pushing for what oic said was necessary, and clinton wanted to help them get.
If the reps of Congress can’t speak the truth…then they won’t allow the rest of us to either.
Barbara says
The Quran is founded on HATE – Ban it;
No Muslim should have Citizenship in America – they are not supposed to be friends with infidels.
Islam declared war on the West 1400 years ago and again at 9/11!
The Democrats should expel all Muslim’s from their Party!
Why are the Democrats treating their declared enemies as friends?
Would the democrats have allowed Nazi’s be party of their team during WW2?
Muslim’s fought as part of the Nazi war machine during WW2 – both had the same goal to destroy the Jews!!!
If the Democrats are genuine – they need to expel the Anti-Semites from their Party and declare the Quran a book of HATE!
Walter Sieruk says
This Muslim politician , Ilan Omar, who is holding up in the air her right finger is the symbolic jester, or sign, for the Islamic god Allah. Which means “Allah is the one and only true god” .She must then credit any of her political gains to this god, Allah. Therefore, with that Islamic hand sign she made, it thus needs to be reiterated that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa ON PAGES 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi .
somehistory says
It has been said…and written…that you can’t legislate morality. Laws may be passed, but when it comes to forcing people to be moral….enforcement fails.
The same could be said of “hate.” Hate is sometimes necessary. One should hate the rape of children, abuse of others, murder, all forms of evil, etc. One should hate the idea of harming another, taking advantage, etc.
Hatred of another race or ethnicity….is wrong, but it is a fact of life. If the hate is not acted upon, then only to the one hating is there harm.
Then there is hatred of the ideas of others. This can fall under the label of bad or good….The idea of islam….is entirely hateable in a good way. I hate islam. I hate what it teaches, I hate what people do under its influence.
To decide to make a resolution against “hate’….is a very foolish thing. They are only humans in the House and making this rule of what is not to be hated….is a boomerang of trouble. A whole boatload.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
Demsci says
I like this post a lot. For its clarification of hate. And its place in the scheme of freedom of speech.
Originally the proposal was to condemn anti-semitism in a resolution. Then the
Dems amended it with “other hate-speech”. But the republicans could then amend it some more with “islamic hatred” or “international hatred” or hatred of Trump supporters. All rather silly.
But condemning anti-semitism was fine, because this is racism, based on accusations, insinuations against the Jewish race, not the Judaistic religion. Of course sometimes criticism on Israel or individual Jews can be justified. But anti-semitism is about stereotyping something that is an immutable characteristic of a person.
somehistory says
Demsci
Thank you very much. I like your addition.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician Ilan Omar, being so very anti-Jewish and anti-Israel must also be, in hidden essence, very anti-American .As the former US President ,William Howard Taft, had so wisely declared in a speech :Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
CRUSADER says
“Everything”….”Nothing”
Sure seems like “Total” scheming.
By the way, the photo of her index finger pointing up…
Isn’t that a Supremacist symbol?
Could look like a Hate symbol.
Better call out the Correctors!
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gravenimage says
Democrats plan to condemn “all hate” after backing down from condemning anti-Semitism
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So hating the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah is just as bad as hating Jews and wanting to see them all destroyed.
Yes, this condemnation is worse than utterly meaningless.
somehistory says
g.
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And since she is basically getting a pass for her expressed hatred, hatred of Jews and Christians will be allowed, but not the hatred of the evils she stands for as a moslim.
gravenimage says
+1
Jay Dillon says
Wait, don’t Dems want us to hate all white people, and all Christians, and Nazis of course, and nationalists of all types, and populists, and Trump voters, and “Uncle Toms,” and hamburger eaters, and those who scorn their “PC” totalitarian idiocy, and on and on. Car drivers. Plane riders. Choo-choo train non-users. Those who smile. MAGA hat wearers. There’s no end to the types of people Dems hate and want us to hate, for any and all reasons. These stupid Dems in Congress are big bloated hypocrites.
Max says
The Democrats were never going to offend Ilhan Omar, their rising star. After all, she represents all that the Democrats value most: Anti-Semitics, undying love for the murderous Ayatollah, Hamas and Hezbollah, intense dislike for both western culture and Christianity, hating and attacking anybody that doesn’t agree with socialism, open borders to any criminal that feels invited to the US and condemnation to anybody that demands law and order.
Paul J says
So basically condemning the hatred espoused in the Quran is to be officially classed as hate speech in itself. How convenient.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Assyrian Warns Americans to Visit Ilhan Omar’s District: You Won’t Think It’s America”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/06/assyrian-warns-americans-ilhan-omar-district/
gravenimage says
Very disturbing.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Remember the outrage on the left when “Black Lives Mater” was met with “All lives matter?”
Same thing here, sans the outrage. This was in response to a specific anti-Semitic outburst, not “generic hate speech” or anything anti-Muslim at all.
gravenimage says
Good analysis.
Demsci says
Yes, these were responses to real or imagined racism. Against blacks and Jews.
But as I see it, the reaction of the Dems is inappropriate because Islam is not a race.
James says
They are trying to make apples and oranges the same. For me, at least, Islamophobia means criticizing Islam. But anti-Semitism is more like wanting to kill all the Jews and confiscate everything they have built up in Israel. And of course if it is only a matter of being against Israel and for the Palestinian rights, what is the moral equivalence? The Palestinians do not want the Jews to be in Palestine, a two state solution would never be enough. So how can one say the merely want their civil rights? And what is the moral equivalence of sharia and the ethics of Judaism? They seem radically opposite. So I think the Democrats somehow want to befriend the movement that would destroy them and vilify a country that is not trying to destroy their way of life or replace their civilization. Why would one want to do that? A great puzzle to me.
owensgate says
Look and see the Islamic “tail” wag the American “dog”.
J D.S says
I can’t make out her hand sign…is that her middle finger or is that an IsIS salute?
Don Ameche says
It means something like …. ” allah is supreme….allah conquers all…”
ninetyninepct says
That is the ISIS hate symbol. She is the new form of Muslim terrorist and I cannot believe Americans tolerate shit like her.
somehistory says
J D.S
I have thought, more than once, when seeing these snakes make that salute…they have misread the middle finger of others as being the index finger, combining it with their islam salute to their fake ‘god.’
Because the way she holds it, her finger does look like a middle finger being held up.