Omar apologized before for anti-Semitic remarks, and then walked back her apology. Do Democrat Party leaders really think she is going to stop making anti-Semitic remarks? Ilhan Omar is a devout Muslim. She isn’t going to stop believing in the Qur’an. And the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
“House Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel Slams Ilhan Omar for ‘Vile Anti-Semitic Slur,’” by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, March 2, 2019 (thanks to Todd):
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday for suggesting that pro-Israel politicians hold “allegiance to a foreign country” and demanded the freshman congresswoman apologize for her “vile anti-Semitic slur.”
“I welcome debate in Congress based on the merits of policy, but it’s unacceptable and deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views, including support for the U.S.-Israel relationship,” Engel said in a statement released Friday evening.
“Her comments were outrageous and deeply hurtful, and I ask that she retract them, apologize, and commit to making her case on policy issues without resorting to attacks that have no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives,” the New York Democrat continued.
Speaking Wednesday night at a forum at a Washington, D.C., bookstore with fellow freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the Omar said she fears everything they say about Israel is construed as anti-Semitic because they’re Muslim. She said that prevents a “broader debate” about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Some Jewish leaders said she then revived an old trope about divided loyalties among Jewish-Americans when she said, “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
She added, “I want to ask, ‘Why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the [National Rifle Association], or fossil fuel industries or Big Pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobbying group that is influencing policy?’”
Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said in a statement that he was appalled by her suggestion that Jewish-Americans have divided loyalties between the U.S. and Israel. He said her comment “continues the unacceptable pattern of the Congresswoman deploying anti-Semitic rhetoric when speaking about Jewish-Americans’ involvement in our nation’s democratic process.”
Marshall Wittmann, a spokesman for AIPAC, told the New York Times: “The charge of dual loyalty not only raises the ominous specter of classic anti-Semitism, but it is also deeply insulting to the millions upon millions of patriotic Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, who stand by our democratic ally, Israel.”…

CogitoErgoSum says
I keep in mind that her goal as a Muslim is to fight until everyone is either a Muslim or paying the Jizya to a Muslim (Quran 9:29). That means she will do all she can, overtly or covertly, to push for a change to the Constitution so as to make Islam the supreme religion above all others in the U.S.
PRCS says
Until she’s called on it.
Which, apparently, won’t be done by Congressman Engle.
Rarely says
And what, in your opinion, should he have done?
Naildriver says
What should be done? This reality that Islam is a ‘nation’ before it is a religion deserves to be acknowledged by the government for the very life of our nation. He should has called her out for this obvious ‘jihad’ on her part. But likely, no members of congress have the backbone to do so because they know the consequences would be political suicide not to mention endangering their very lives from Islamic devotees..
The SCOTUS may well be the last branch with any capacity to halt — or at least illuminate – this quagmire of propaganda; as in calling our enemy ‘terrorism’, disinformation – as in calling Islamic concessions in our ‘national interests’, and corruption – as in taking money and bribes from Islamic operatives as with billions of military hard ware sold to free trips to Mecca.
This enablement of Islam by US politicians is overwhelming at present.
— It’s called treason in the Constitution.
PRCS says
If he knows what Islam actually teaches: CALL IT OUT!
Surely he’s heard the ‘rumors’.
Frederick King says
If a Republican said something, they would be removed from the committee.
Emilie Green says
“Her [Muslim Omar] comments were outrageous and deeply hurtful, and I ask that she retract them, apologize, and commit to making her case on policy issues without resorting to attacks that have no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives,” [Engel] added.
Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
What’s the point in all this “demand an apology” stuff. She’s not sorry; she’s simply revealing what’s in her dark, Islamic heart. Any apology would be simply a mouthing of words.
We’re better off exposing Muslim thinking and Islam itself. That’s the source of the problem.
So just keep a running list of the Islamic things she says, and publicize that list.
PRCS says
Yup.
That she’s NOT actually sorry seems to escape Mr. Engle–and so many others.
Rarely says
I suspect he doesn’t expect either a heart-felt apology or a change of heart. By demanding the apology he is showing his displeasure at her remarks. Hurray for him.
elee says
….as if the world needed any more taqaiyyah…..
Rarely says
And, in your opinion, should he have done?
LILITH QADISHTU says
Many of us believe in America as it has been and will remain.
Muslims need to realize that they will NEVER overturn AMERICA and take it over..!!!!!!!!
lebel says
““I welcome debate in Congress based on the merits of policy, but it’s unacceptable and deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views”
That’s anti-semitic for jihadwatch but doing the exact same thing to someone because they happen to be Muslim is absolutely OK. The double standards are so blatant that even a jihadwatcher might notice them.
Terry Gain says
Sharia i Law or the Constitution? Which do you choose Lebel? You can’t have both.
CogitoErgoSum says
The U.S. Constitution states that no one particular religion shall be granted favor over any other religion. The Quran tells Muslims to fight until all other religions submit to Islam. These are two opposing goals. What is a believer in the Quran to do except to work towards paving the way for the time when the Constitution will be changed so as to make non-Muslims pay the Jizya or else die for their disbelief. Does a Muslim work toward preserving and protecting the Constitution or does he/she work towards eliminating some of the freedoms guaranteed by it? How more divided in loyalty can a member of the U.S Congress be than to be a Muslim?
eduardo odraude says
There is plenty of empirical evidence that very large numbers of Muslims would like to scrap the US Constitution and do not believe in freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Given that empirical evidence, there is good reason to be concerned over Muslims becoming part of US society and the US government. Some Muslims, thankfully, will be disloyal to Islam and seek to protect the Constitution and equal rights for all. But Muslim leadership and many rank and file Muslims will seek Islamic law and the destruction of free speech and freedom of religion. When few in number, Muslims will do those things surreptitiously. When greater in number, they will become more open about their intentions.
There is no remotely similar evidence to worry about in the case of Jews. Jews overwhelmingly believe in liberal democracy and fundamental human rights and have created the only fully liberal democracy in the Middle East. The Jews don’t seek to convert everyone to Judaism and don’t proselytize. Jews furthermore have a tiny population globally, only one-hundredth the population Muslims have.
That’s the essence of the uproar against Omar. She represents Islamic deception and totalitarianism supported by hundreds of millions of Muslims around the globe, and in service to that, she hates a tiny people that lost millions to a Holocaust only a few decades ago, a Holocaust in whose genesis Muslims played no small part. Consider for example Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Yale University Press, a book that explains how Haj Amin al-Husseini, one of the two or three top Muslim leaders in the world in Hitler’s time, used strategic leverage to persuade Hitler to kill Jews off in Germany rather than let them leave Germany in exchange for ransoms. Husseini was a key figure in the Holocaust.
lebel says
We all have VERY good reasons for our double standards Eduardo. That’s the problem in essence. The other side is saying that a tiny population holds a completely disproportionate influence on America’s foreign policy and indeed it can show evidence of this. That is today called anti-semitism at the highest levels of government.
Thanks for updating me on WW2, It’s good to know that Muslims are also now responsible for the holocaust. Great that despite all the available information of the past 75 years (the research is so good that you’re not allowed to contest in many countries) this amazing bit of information is just coming to light now. There will be a book coming out soon showing that in fact Hitler and Himmler both converted and jihadwatchers will lap it up.
FYI says
“muslims are now responsible for the holocaust”
It is well known that the grand mufti amin Al Husseni supported Hitler.
He certainly had SOME influence and bears some responsibility in the genocide of the past
Genocide.
An islamic speciality from the mass-killings of the Hindus to the Armenians 1917 ,to today’s ethnic cleansing of the middle east.
I guess you are not familiar with SAHIH MUSLIM # 6985:
islam’s call for a GENOCIDAL war against the Jews.
hamas/hizbollah/iran/isis certainly subscribe to this evil islamic supremacist ideology.You might say it represents an islamic version of the final solution,a genocide to come.When the mad mullahs of iran talk about wiping Israel off the face of the map,that’s what they are talking about.This is where it comes from:
SAHIH MUSLIM # 6985
{“There is a Jew behind me…kill him”}
Maybe you never heard of it..that must be it..but Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib most certainly have ,as it is mainstream islam.
Omar belongs to a cult that,unlike most world religions,actually has a policy of Genocide towards the Jewish people,on a par with the nazis.
Only an islamic apologist would defend such evil.
gravenimage says
Hitler based the Holocaust on the Armenian Genocide, sneering in 1939, “Who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”.
eduardo odraude says
lebel, go read the Yale University Press book I cited, and tell me where it’s mistaken about the relationship between Haj Amin Husseini and Hitler. Nor is it “new” information. The Yale book is just one of the more recent examples of research on Husseini and Hitler.
You also attack a straw man, namely an argument I never made. I did not say “Muslims are responsible for the Holocaust.” You dishonestly pretend I said that because you have no answer to what I did say, which is that Haj Amin al-Husseini, one of the two or three top leaders of the Muslim world in Hitler’s time, played a significant role in the Holocaust. Hitler had been letting large numbers of Jews leave Germany in exchange for ransoms. Many German Jews were going to Palestine. Husseini of course did not like that because Husseini, based on his interpretation of Islam, hated Jews. He told Hitler that if Hitler wanted the Muslim world as an ally, Hitler would have to stop letting Jews come to Palestine. Husseini told Hitler to kill off the Jews in Germany instead. Thus Husseini made it so that Hitler’s obsessive Jew-hatred coincided with Hitler’s strategic needs. No doubt Hitler already had the idea of exterminating the Jews, but Husseini certainly encouraged killing them and put strategic pressure on Hitler to stop letting the Jews go.
CRUSADER says
Sounds,
Smells,
Tastes
like TAQIYYAH
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Terry, CogitoErgoSum and Eduardo.
Don McKellar says
The Democrats actually do believe she will curtail from further anti-Semitic remarks. They are wilfully ignorant of her religion and have a fantasy-based version of Islam in their minds. It’s no different than any other religion, they believe, and is as benevolent as Christianity or Bhudism or whatever, and every attempt to point out what’s actually in the Koran that proves completely otherwise, only comes from racists and cannot be taken seriously or fact-checked. A world view every bit as nonsensical as their New Green Deal fantasies.
Jayme says
I think the Dems are very worried about her comments will feed right into Trump and before the election starts the Dems will have lost it.
gravenimage says
+1
PRCS says
“They are wilfully ignorant”
Per HRC:
“Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”
Not sure if she’s willfully ignorant or simply ignorant.
Terry Gain says
The demand for an apology is reasonable and to be expected but I don’t want Omar to apologize. I want her to keep talking. Non stop.
James Lincoln says
After careful consideration, I agree with you Terry.` Let’s keep Omar talking – and keep a detailed running tab.
Indiana Tom says
Rep. Ilhan Omar, you go girl and keep on going! Just feed the rope a bit more here and there.
PRCS says
Not just Omar.
Every Muslim in America who either purposely tells the truth about Islam (or slips up and does so).
Garnett Rope says
she doesn’t need to apologize, she needs to be removed from office.
Indiana Tom says
Why? I consider her a real advertisement for the Muslim faith and the Democratic Party. You go girl! She truly is a winning game changer, if you know what I mean.
PRCS says
+1
somehistory says
This is the *usual* way of a rep or a senator when another one says things that are unacceptable. An apology is demanded and many times it is made and the one who has *erred* will be careful from that point on.
The *usual* doesn’t fit a moslim. This moslim creep, *rep* for the brotherhood and cair, and isna, etc., has said how she feels about Israel and Jews. She “apologized” but it didn’t mean anything…it was less than worthless. She probably got on the phone with cair, or the mb, or her father, etc. and they said she shouldn’t apologize…moslims don’t apologize because to moslims, they are never wrong. Having spoken to her bros, she went back and said the same things again…and more.
Making her apologize is worth less than nothing. Even if she did, she wouldn’t mean it and would likely do a repeat of saying it again with additional insults thrown in for added effect.
The other reps in the House are not accustomed to dealing with the likes of her. Many moslims have kept a much lower profile before this, and the never-moslim reps have no way of dealing with her that will be effective….except getting her out of the House.
eduardo odraude says
Some people think that talking about taqqiya or Islamic disinformation/deception is a way of unfairly singling out Islam for criticism. But it should be remembered that virtually every government — especially the authoritarian kind — puts into operation to one extent or another strategies of disinformation and deception. Muhammad, the prime exemplar for Muslims, made no distinction between religion and state and himself became the religious and temporal ruler of an expansionist theocratic state. Islam is an authoritarian political movement with a system of laws for governing nations. In that sense, taqqiya and the other forms of sacralized Islamic deception should not surprise people. Islam is a globally ambitious authoritarian state project, ergo it includes in its culture strategies and rules of deception and disinformation. This does not mean your Muslim friends are all only pretending to be your friends or that all of them want to live under a totalitarian system. But what I’m saying does apply to significant numbers of Muslims.
CRUSADER says
Significant number of Muslims are just trying to scrape by in life, seeking a simple message to follow, while all the meantime remaining ignorant of their spiritual growth and where they are to end up in Eternity.
++++++++++++
gravenimage says
House Foreign Affair chair demands Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar apologize for “vile anti-Semitic slur”
………………………
Good for Eliot Engel.
On this matter, at least. On others, not so much:
“New York Dem shutting down terrorism committee to create Trump investigation panel”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-foreign-affairs-committee-chairman-engel-seeks-to-replace-terrorism-panel-with-one-to-probe-trump
Engel is spearheading this insanity.
alrassooli says
Treasonous Muslims in Congress
Two Muslim women were recently elected to the House who BEFORE their election used the usual dishonesty mandated in Muhammad’s Quran called TAQIYAH which allows Muslims to Deceive Quran ignorant none Muslims called Infidels/ Kuffar (80% of current humanity) portraying themselves as fair minded and tolerant Muslims.
Ihan Omar Somali from Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib so called Palestinian from Detroit became Democrat members of the House by swearing so called ALLEGIANCE to the USA on Muhammad’s Quran.
Yet what is most disgusting, disturbing and beyond belief is the fact that among 338,000,000 American citizens, there was and is not a single American with either the knowledge and or the backbone to point out the crystal clear fact that Muhammad’s Quran is the NEMESIS of ALL known human freedoms and the antithesis of the American constitution.
Any patriotic American in congress having had even a cursory reading of Muhammad’s Quran should have asked these Sharia compliant Muslim women which of the following Quran verses do they not understand:
Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
And
Al Tauba 9:29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous penalty for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”
What a travesty of morality and justice that Not a single member of the Media, Academia, Clergy or Politics pointed out that the single purpose in life for every Muslim is to Subjugate all of humanity to Allah’s Sharia and those who refuse to be EXTERMINATED.
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
CRUSADER says
Tlaib and Omar as women should be more concerned about the plight of females…
Diane Sawyer’s 20/20 Women in Islam: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Pamela Geller Irshad Manji….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cg-a2dn_PM
(Beware of course that CAIR is involved in some of the interviews. CAIR is careless toward liberty.
Whereas, in her interview Pamela Geller is very staunch in what she says on video.)
underbed cat says
In my opinion her comment is deeply revealing, considering she may be hiding or not hiding her allegiance to sharia laws. A study is needed for congress…this is concerning that sharia is now numerous, unseen and potential is not understood.
Giacomo Latta says
What I do not understand is why the koran never comes to the fore in any talk about anti-Semitism? It is obviously the source of muslim anti-semitism. It is not because they all independently read Mein Kampf over the weekend.
MJP says
Omar needs to be censored then removed from office along with Tahaha from Michigan her hatred towards non Muslims will not change & the Quran dictates she do these uncivilized hateful outburst to please Alibaba the Democrats will do nothing about her hatred because they are afraid of offending these barbaric creatures.