“It is dangerous enough that the federal government keeps a secret watchlist of more than one million people, almost all of whom are Muslim, and treats these Muslims like second class citizens.”
Second class citizens? Really? In what way? What rights are Muslims denied? To what institutions or services are they barred access? How did Omar get into the House of Representatives as a second class citizen?
As for the watchlist, are there people on it who shouldn’t be? Have law-abiding, peaceful Muslims been inconvenienced? Probably. Mistakes will always be made. Patriotic citizens will put up with some inconvenience (while trying to have it redressed), knowing that the intent of the measures are to protect citizens. I have been stopped and given special searches at airports several times — once because police saw me working on “Jihad Watch” on my laptop and didn’t know what side it was on, and another time because a few pages full of Qur’an quotes fell out of my jacket pocket as I was going through security. In neither case, or in any of the others, did I complain. Targeting the terror watchlist as a whole only weakens our response to the jihad terror threat. Does Ilhan Omar want there to be no terror watchlist at all? Does she think there is no jihad terror threat? Or does that threat simply not cause her any concern?
“With CAIR’s Backing, Rep. Ilhan Omar Targets FBI Terror Database,” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, July 1, 2019:
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and ten other House Democrats have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, requesting information about how information from the FBI-administered terrorist watchlist is shared with foreign governments – including governments with poor human rights records.
In doing so, she pointed to the support of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a sometimes controversial group that has mounted legal challenges against the watchlist, formally known as the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB).
In a release Friday about the letter to Pompeo, Omar quoted CAIR national Executive Director Nihad Awad, who said the TSDB was “dangerous enough” in itself, but even more so when shared with “tyrannical regimes.”
Other signatories of Omar’s letter include Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). The two freshmen are the first Muslim women to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), one of the more than two dozen Democrats running for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination, also signed.
“In our oversight role as Members of Congress, we are entitled to information as to which countries receive this sensitive and classified information about American citizens, many of whom have never been charged, arrested, or convicted of a crime,” the lawmakers wrote.
They believe that the TSDB has been shared with more than 60 foreign countries, well beyond the 38 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries. They said other countries with information-sharing arrangements were believed to include Albania, Slovenia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Israel, they wrote. (Slovenia is in fact a VWP country.)
Omar and her colleagues voiced particular concern “that the federal government is sharing watchlist information with countries with dubious human rights records, including Saudi Arabia and China.”
“It is unacceptable for U.S. resources to contribute to the brutal repression of political dissidents abroad,” they charged.
The 11 House Democrats asked Pompeo to provide, within 90 days, specific information about the TSDB, including which countries get the data; what standards exist to determine whether the data is shared with foreign governments; whether foreign counties’ human rights records are taken into account when making decisions on sharing; and how and whether a data-sharing agreement can be rescinded once reached.
‘Second class citizens’
In her release, Omar quoted CAIR’s Awad as saying, “It is dangerous enough that the federal government keeps a secret watchlist of more than one million people, almost all of whom are Muslim, and treats these Muslims like second class citizens.”
“The danger, however, increases exponentially when this watchlist is shared with tyrannical regimes all across the world,” Awad continued. “Congress and the public ought to know which foreign governments receive the watchlist and what has been done to people targeted by a watchlisting system that now spans the globe. CAIR applauds this oversight.”
CAIR, which calls itself the nation’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, is a long-standing critic of the TSDB.
“For years, CAIR has represented innocent Muslims — people who have not been charged, arrested, or convicted of a violent offense — who have been targeted by the watchlisting system,” the organization says. “Some have lost jobs, been separated from their families, and all have been stigmatized by being treated as ‘terrorists’ by their own government.”
In 2016 CAIR launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a group of Muslim Americans who said that being placed on the watchlist resulted in invasive travel screening and harm to their reputations….
Buraq says
I sincerely hope that this clown, Ilhan Omar, is top of the list!
Julie Daly says
Agree and Muslim shouldn’t be in this country, their culture and beliefs are not Americans.
CRUSADER says
Not according to this article in activistic Huff Post:
(Note what is said at the very end of article….about tracking….)
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An unholy alliance of Islamophobic hate group members, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and armed anti-government militia members will rally against the nonexistent threat of sharia, or Islamic, law in the U.S this weekend.
The “March Against Sharia” rallies are set to place on Saturday in 29 cities across 21 states, and are being organized by Act for America, the nation’s largest anti-Muslim hate group. Act for America has billed this weekend’s events as some kind of noble stand against “atrocities” it attributes ― wrongly ― to sharia.
But a quick look at the group’s origins and its members’ statements reveal that pretext to be a ruse. Saturday’s marches are against Muslims and Islam itself, and they’re attracting some of the most dangerous elements of the far right.
“They are calling them ‘Anti-Sharia’ rallies, but let us call them what they are: ‘Anti-Muslim’ protests,” Muslim activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour wrote on Facebook. “If your definition of Sharia was defined by an anti-Muslim bigot, you might want to rethink it and ask a Muslim who actually follows the religion of Islam.”
What You Need To Know About Act For America —
Act for America is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. It was founded by Brigitte Gabriel, a Christian immigrant from Lebanon. She has said that “every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim” and that Muslims are a “natural threat to civilized people of the world, particularly Western society.”
Although the “March Against Sharia” event page claims Act for America believes in religious freedom, Gabriel has also said that a “practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Quran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.”
Gabriel and Act for America have worked for years not only to spread fear of Muslims, but to strip Muslims of rights afforded to the followers of other faiths.
Act for America has also long pushed the conspiracy theory that sharia law ― the deeply misunderstood legal or philosophical code of Islam, interpreted differently by Muslims across the world ― poses a threat to the U.S. Constitution. (It does not.)
Still, Act for America has successfully lobbied state legislatures across the country to introduce, and often pass, bills banning sharia law in state courts. The “true aim” of these bills, the American Civil Liberties Union wrote in 2011, is to “denigrate an entire faith system.”
Years ago, it was easier to brush off Gabriel as a fringe, far-right leader of a hate group. But that was before Donald Trump was president.
In recent months, Gabriel has bragged about having a “direct line” to the president, has been photographed having a meeting in the White House, and claims to have been dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago when Trump decided to bomb Syria in April.
Yet Act for America’s veneer of legitimacy hasn’t prevented its members from blatant displays of bigotry. In February, member Robert Goodwill was recorded talking to a man who argued that all American Muslims should be killed. “We’re not there yet,” Goodwill told the man.
The official Act for America “March Against Sharia” Facebook page is also rife with vile memes and comments denigrating Muslims.
‘March Against Sharia’ Rallies Draw Diverse Hate And Extremist Groups —
The convergence of anti-Muslim groups and other fringe organizations is a growing phenomenon, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted.
SPLC trawled through all the local “March Against Sharia” Facebook groups and compiled an extensive list of extremist groups and white supremacists who said they will be showing up at the marches on Saturday.
They found a slew of armed anti-government militia groups, some with histories of threatening government officials. The groups claim they’ll be providing “security” at the rallies, which means they’ll likely show up with guns. Often called “Patriot” groups, they include the Oathkeepers, the III Percenters and American Civil Defense.
The SPLC also found avowed neo-Nazis and white supremacists eager to take part in the rallies across the country.
In Texas, members of the group Sons of Odin will be attending the Houston event. (Sons of Odin describes its beliefs as “closely aligned” with those of the Soldiers of Odin ― a white supremacist, anti-refugee vigilante organization.) And the neo-Nazi group White Lives Matter is set to attend the rally in Austin.
In Batesville, Arkansas, prominent neo-Nazi Billy Roper announced that he was organizing a “March Against Sharia” rally there. Earlier this week, when SPLC wrote a report about Roper’s involvement, Act for America was quick to distance itself from him and withdrew its affiliation with the Arkansas protest.
In a statement to HuffPost, Act for America organizer Scott Presler said “hateful individuals sometimes latch onto others in a parasitic way in order to elevate themselves, or a completely unrelated cause.”
Presler added that Act for America’s alleged diversity shields it from being grouped with white supremacists, noting that Gabriel is an Arab-American and that the head organizer of the marches is gay.
Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, says anti-Muslim hate is a great unifier among far-right groups, and especially militia groups, however disparate or seemingly opposed their beliefs may be.
“Alliances have been building for some time between anti-government and anti-Muslim groups, and Saturday’s events are another concrete example of this disturbing trend,” Beirich said.
The Backlash —
Interfaith protesters across the country are planning counter-demonstrations at the “March Against Sharia” events.
On Friday, 129 organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, Amnesty International and the Center for New Community, sent a letter to mayors in the 29 cities where the marches are scheduled, calling on them to “reject” Act for America’s “bigotry,” and to “issue an official statement to reiterate to the people of your city that every person is welcome.”
March organizers canceled one rally in Portland, Oregon and relocated it to Seattle in response to pressure from Portland’s mayor, who worried about the rally’s effect on a city already reeling from two recent hate-fueled killings.
Late last month, a white supremacist aboard a MAX train in Portland screamed anti-Muslim threats at two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab. He then stabbed three men who stepped up to defend the girls, killing two of them.
One of the biggest rallies is happening in New York, but Rosemary Boeglin, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, told HuffPost that the event doesn’t represent New York City.
“To host an event, particularly during Islam’s highest holy month, with the explicit intention of reducing an entire community to inaccurate and hateful stereotypes is not what we stand for in New York City,” Boeglin said.
(America does not do a good job of tracking incidents of hate and bias. We need your help to create a database of such incidents across the country, so we all know what’s going on. Tell us your story. — Huff Post)
No Muzzies Here says
They are not here to become peaceful Americans. They are here to turn this country into a facsimile of Somalia.
Halal Bacon says
facsimile – shithole, tomato, tomatoe
CRUSADER says
Was it not the FBI which came out with the report about
current violent extremism being perpetrated by Right Wing groups?
How correct has the FBI really been?
mortimer says
Many of the names on the FBI list are probably given to the FBI by the intelligence agencies of Muslim countries who are gathering information on these jihadists.
Even Muslim countries find jihad terror organization give them a headache.
mortimer says
While no one should be slandered, those who are in contact with terrorist organizations and seemingly approve of them, are subject to scrutiny by police who are gathering intelligence on those organizations.
A country that does not defend itself from foreign and domestic terrorism is allowing its citizens to be slaughtered by the terrorists.
Islam has a doctrine teaching Muslims not to inform the authorities against ‘brother’ Muslims even if they are involved in crimes or terrorism.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Ilhan Omar is an exemplar of the Islamic teaching of AL WALAA WAL BARAA … which she doesn’t want Americans to know.
AL WALAA WAL BARAA means ‘comradeship and cleansing’. Muslims should support jihad and Muslim terrorists while ‘cleansing’ themselves of the dirty kufaar.
It is remarkable that Ilhan Omar believes Americans cannot understand Islamic teachings. We can understand them very easily, since we are studying them every day in the Islamic source texts.
Abu Jimma says
Maybe you should first know what it means befor posting stupid comment
https://youtu.be/QAfXIh9YgNo
Anthony Bertrand says
everything you need to know is here “By: Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani
Translated by: Omar Johnstone
Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara’ and the Declaration of Faith
Love is the source of wala’ and hate is the source of bara’; it is by this that both the heart and the hand are moved to act. Wala’ inspires intimacy, concern and help. Bara’ provokes obstruction, enmity and rejection. Wala’ and Bara’ are both related to the declaration of faith and constitute essential elements in it. The evidence of this from the Qur’an and the Sunnah is considerable.
As for the Qur’an, consider the following ayat: “Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does this has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them as a precaution. Allah bids you to beware (only) of Himself. And to Allah is the journeying.” [3:28] And He says: “Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind), If you love Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your wrong actions. Allah is Forgiving, Compassionate. Say, Obey Allah and the Messenger. And If they turn away, then surely Allah does not love the disbelievers.” [3:31-32] Speaking of the aims of the enemies of Allah, He says: “They long for you to disbelieve even as they disbelieve, so that you may be the same (as them). so do not choose friends from among them until they go out in the way of Allah.” [4:89]
And also: “O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of one another. And whoever of you takes them for friends is (one) of them. Surely Allah does not guide wrongdoing people.” [5:51]
And lastly: “O you who believe! Whoever of you becomes a rebel against his Deen, (know that in his place) Allah will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble towards the believers, harsh towards the disbelievers, striving in the way of Allah, and not fearing the blame of any blamer.” [5:54]”
muslims belong in the mid east and not in America
jarmanray says
I am sick and tired of Muslims ranting about being screened at airports. I remember being fully screened at LA International and I was wearing a suit and carrying a diplomatic passport. My wife was returning once from Peru where she had attended her grandfather’s funeral she was subjected to some very intense scrutiny because she was carrying only a small overnight case and she, too, was traveling on a diplomatic passport. When I am not immune to the security checks at airports, it makes me feel safer knowing that none of us are immune to a few extra questions and searches. I also love seeing the sniffer dogs in the terminals as they have no prejudices and are only there to keep everyone safe. If Muslims don’t like being treated like everyone else, maybe they should emigrate to Pakistan, Somalia or Iran.
CRUSADER says
Dogs really are better, particularly when they sniff at Muslims.
Can’t stand the Muslimas — brought in a pack trailing some Muslim male —
all wrapped up so their faces don’t show, yet they breeze by Passport Controls
all without a whisper. Meanwhile, us regular folk who’ve been traveling all our
lives now are suspect, and have to have our flip flops tested and our caps removed.
Abu Jimma says
You are a moron diplomate maybe for lawless country Muslims are not just for paki amaerican born muslims are more than 400,000 k
Angemon says
Citation needed.
somehistory says
And if she she gets her dirty hands on the list, she will share it with cair…and the mb with whose members she has close association…and then they can warn all of the listed moslims. and then, those listed will proceed to change their names and move about in order to hide until they are ready to do harm.
she’s going after the FBI, like aoc is going after the Border Patrol. aoc wants the BP investigated because she claims some of the agents “laughed at her.” With this fool working the border, and the omar and tlaib fools working with ciar and the mb, it should be easy enough for them to get a lot more moslim terrorists into the country.
The State Dept could just say, “no.” These trouble-makers could be told they don’t have clearance for such things.
It has been reported that the dems are working on getting a replacement for omar due to all of the bad publicity she has brought upon them. Or is that aoc?
CRUSADER says
All being orchestrated and puppet manipulated.
somehistory says
In a sane world, omar and the other moslim fools and the pro-moslim fools, would have to find cohorts who had a good reputation to sign on to their letter…instead of “co-conspirators in terror funding.”
This is akin to a prospective nanny using a letter from charles manson or jeffrey dahmer as a reference on the resume’.
livingengine says
CAIR used a dying child as a prop to subvert national immigration policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EuL3z2axc
CRUSADER says
“Heart Breaking”….
What the hell is going on?
We are at war, and most of us can’t recognize that!
somehistory says
The question that should have been asked every time these moslim creeps stepped in front of the mic: Just why did the father bring the child to the U.S. when he knew the mother is not a citizen? And if the mother had been here, but left, Why did she leave, knowing her child was ill?
The “father” looks and sounds very much like those recordings of 911 calls when the murderer/husband is saying how his wife is dying, not mentioning it was by his hand her blood was shed. Oh, boohoohoo…no real sorrow, just selfish motives.
cair…bolder than brass, slimier than a sidewalk snail. All of them should be “indicted.”
Mixtli says
Mohammedans are such great liars and hypocrites!
Angemon says
Hmmm, exactly what kind of people would have a problem with screening for potential terrorists?…
Mark Swan says
Good One Angemon,
Hmmm–by-golly–hum—it can’t be that simple—can it ?
CRUSADER says
Meanwhile, Islamist terror plots have NOT ceased in Australia….
Look out, OZ…. Mohamheadanism has y’all’s barbies and billabongs in its sights.
Alkimos says
Indeed,the authorities even started dribbling about how their prime concern is to keep the Oz public safe,at the same time steadily importing even more of the problem.
Wellington says
An enemy of America from within.
That’s what Omar is and one knows this or should know it.
So very tired of the multitude who still don’t.
gravenimage says
With backing from Hamas-linked CAIR, Ilhan Omar targets FBI’s terror watchlist
……………….
More enabling of Jihad.
Brian hoff says
She is of the Caucasian race. Watch the U-tude video called Who exactly is a Caucasian by Masarman will explain this. Scientists in the 19th century didnot go by skin color but by the shape of the skull and other characterise like hair texture. She has light brown skin color and she look more European than Nergeo race. All jew nomatter the shin color are Caucasian as are all Arab as are all North African as Southasian people South Pacific people and all Pakistan people and most India people are Caucasian. The finland and Hungrt people arenor Caucasian.. The Basque people of spain are Caucasian. So since she Caucasian she is white.
Brian hoff says
There is no pure race on earth as thought time interracial breeding have taken place. The modern man is than interracial mixture of many different pirmates people in our DNA.
gravenimage says
There is no such thing as a “pure” race, and that has nothing to do with intermarriage.
No surprise that “Brian hoff”–who admires Hitler–is babbling about race.
gravenimage says
“Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
She is of the Caucasian race.
…………………………
“She”–who? Ilhan Omar? No, she’s not. She’s from Somalia–born in Mogadishu. She is from the Sahel in Africa.
But what does race have to do with the Terror Watchlist? There are Jihad terrorists of all ethnicities.
More:
Watch the U-tude video called Who exactly is a Caucasian by Masarman will explain this. Scientists in the 19th century didnot go by skin color but by the shape of the skull and other characterise like hair texture. She has light brown skin color and she look more European than Nergeo race.
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She is from the Sahel rather than sub-Saharan Africa. She looks like many from the Sahel–light-skinned Black. Africa is *not* Europe. But, again, this makes no difference–the issue is that she is a pious Muslim enabling Jihad terror.
Yet more:
All jew nomatter the shin color are Caucasian as are all Arab as are all North African as Southasian people South Pacific people and all Pakistan people and most India people are Caucasian. The finland and Hungrt people arenor Caucasian.. The Basque people of spain are Caucasian. So since she Caucasian she is white.
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This is just really bizarre. No–while there are Arabs in North Africa–due to the successive, brutal Muslim invasions there–the claim that all Arabs are North African is ludicrous. Arabs are originally from Arabia, where they still dominate. Arabia is in Western Asia, not North Africa. No surprise that the illiterate “DefenderofIslam” is so ignorant.
And no–not all Jews are Caucasian. For instance, the “Falasha” are Ethiopian Jews, and are Africans just as are Somalis.
The idea that becoming Jewish–or any other faith–changes your ethnicity is just bizarre.
And, again, none of this unhinged nattering about race has *anything* to do with Jihad terror. You find Jihadists in all colors.
Wellington says
Brian hoff: You’re an idiot (which is to say a very typical Mo follower).
What the hell does race have to do with any of this? Aside from the fact that Omar is not a Caucasoid nor a Mongoloid nor an Australoid nor a Polynoid—she is a Negroid, what is imperative is to comprehend that she is a follower of the one major faith which is, a la Bertrand Russell, the only major religion which is totalitarian in both structure and ideology.
Learn this, fool. But of course you won’t. It’s the ideology, stupid, and which has NOTHING to do with race.
Keys says
Oh, and do you agree that Linda Sarsour is black, B. hoff ?
Giacomo Latta says
Dear Brain off: get yourself an education at a nursery school and forget the drivel you were told at the madrassa.
Georg says
The lack of self-awareness of a woman in a black hijab accusing others of creating second-class citizenship is pristine. And it belies her concern for human rights, exposing it all as a cloak, excuse the pun, for yet more snarling anti-Americanism.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Georg.
ric devlin says
USA…SLOW TO LEARN…THIS IMPOSTER.. ALONG WITH HER TWO TERROSTIST MATES IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN SOROS???????
Reuben Scratton says
“… a few pages full of Qur’an quotes fell out of my jacket pocket as I was going through security …”
Perhaps I shouldn’t laugh but this is just so spectacularly funny! ?
somehistory says
The fact that they stopped Mr. Spencer for special attention due to his having a “few pages full of qur’an quotes” just shows that they know the source of the terror the world is experiencing.
Kay Han says
The writer writes what Omar said and then continues by saying things irrelevant to what she said. Omar wrote those on the list are treated as a second class citizen, writer takes it as she said all Muslims are treated like that. And even that is not far from the truth.
Wellington says
Kay Han: What things are irrelevant? Details please.
Also, when the founder of the religion you adhere to said, “I have been made victorious with terror,” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220} and your chief holy book, in this case the Koran, has 109 passages calling upon Muslims to wage war against humanity “until all religion is with Allah” {Sura 8:39}, why shouldn’t those who prize such things as liberty and equality under the law (N.B., Islam sets up a Jim Crow system wherever it can based not on race but on belief with non-Muslims pure second-class citizens) be suspicious of all Muslims?
Shouldn’t one have been suspicious of all Nazis? Am I comparing Islam to Nazism? You bet I am. Both are totalitarian and both are inveterate enemies of freedom. There’s no upside to Muslims living in free societies, which free societies the Islamic world never has created nor ever will.
OLD GU says
Omar needs to be on the watch list.
Petet says
I want to put up in hell bastard illiterate
Garfield says
Yeahhhhh…..like, why keep a list of people who continually make threats and plot to murder people?
Really though, its surprising that in this age of information somehow the FACT that islam is a SUPREMACIST ideology in not main stream knowledge.
Also…why is FGM just….ignored?