Freshman Minnesota Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, in an apparent bid to keep a Twitter feud alive with President Trump, tweeted a photo of herself posing with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the “Door of No Return” on the coast of Ghana.
Part of a 15-member Congressional Black Caucus junket ( funded presumably by US tax dollars), they have been in Ghana to “mark ‘The Year of Return’ and the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown Virginia,” according to Pelosi. The Door of No Return, a part of the Cape Coast Castle, stands as a reminder of the evils of slavery — it marks the exit from dungeons under the castle where African slaves were held in merciless conditions until marched through that door to be packed on ships and transported to Europe and the Americas. Estimates are that 11 million African slaves ended up in the Americas; of those only roughly 400,000 came to the British colonies and subsequent United States. The vast bulk (10 million plus) were sold to buyers in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
European slave traders have rightly been pilloried for their central role in the transport and sale of other human beings for profit, and for their inhuman treatment of those they considered less than human. And, of course, Americans of the 17th through 19th Centuries have been condemned for being an avid market for the purchase of slaves and maintenance of slavery as an acceptable institution of society.
Little, of course, has been said concerning the fact that until modern times slavery had always been part and parcel of life in every civilization of the world — the powerful enslaved the weak; the conquerors subjugated their victims; empires imposed their culture on client states and conscripted “non-citizens” to forced labor. That was the way of the world. To the victor go the spoils.
Even less has been said of the fact that though the American colonists enslaved over 400,000 Africans, a blight on our national history, that accounts for only about 4% of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Where is the clamor for the guilty nation-states of Central and South America and the West Indies to acknowledge their huge part in this evil and to offer their mea culpas? Or is the United States to be held to a different standard than nations elsewhere?
But there is one fact concerning African slave trade that is even more obscure in Western media than this. There could be no slaves to transport from Africa to the West were it not for those willing to raid villages and capture innocent men, women and children and then march them bound the the slave markets they created at port cities in western Africa where the European slave ship captains could purchase them “wholesale.” The villainy of the white traders and slaveholders is often publicized, but who was the principal group that enthralled Africans in the first place to sell them to others? It turns out that the primary creators of the slave trade in Africa were Arab Muslims, going back all the way to the time of Muhammad.
Since Muhammad, the “excellent example” whom Muslims are enjoined by the Qur’an to emulate, owned slaves for himself, and bought and sold and gifted slaves in regular transactions, and mandated through Allah’s commands that those captured in jihad raids and battles became the property of the jihadis to keep for themselves or sell in slave markets, Islam has always determined slavery to be a legal and proper institution, with the one caveat that Muslims are never to enslave fellow Muslims. Unbelievers (the “kuffar”) have no rights to freedom and self-determination but are free game for Muslims able to take them captive.
As Arab Muslims invaded North Africa and colonized it, they quickly took slaves and began to send them back to the centers of their growing empire in the Middle East and Asia. With their growth in power and lust for conquest, they pushed south into sub-Saharan Africa and down both eastern and western coasts, subjugating tribes and assimilating some while enslaving others. Up until the Atlantic slave trade opened up in the 1600s, the bulk of African slaves were shipped east to the growing Muslim empires in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Reasonable estimates suggest that some 14 million African slaves were sent east to Muslim overlords in the rapidly expanding Islamic territories. Once the transatlantic corridor opened, another 11 million were sold by the Muslim slave traders in Africa to be sent west.
Since Islam in its theology sees nothing morally wrong with the enslavement of non-Muslims, it should not come as a surprise to discover that in its 1400 years of existence Islam as a religio-politico-supremacist movement has been responsible for more human slavery than any other movement in history. Its lead role in African slavery is only one horrific chapter in a tome that includes southern Europe, the Middle East, much of Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Even today, much of the unreported slavery that exists is to be found in Muslim-majority countries where it is masked in the form of expatriate Third World employees “hired” as housekeepers and private servants.
Ilhan Omar, in her “send her back” squabble with the President, wants to play off her African roots and America’s guilty psyche over its past sins by implying that she too and her ancestors were victims of the transatlantic slave trade and that “Donald Trump and other white racists” are seeking to continue to victimize her.
This, however, is farcical on two levels. First, Omar takes pride in presenting herself as a practicing Muslim and yet has nothing to say concerning the massive evils of slavery perpetrated worldwide by Islam over 1400 years. Instead, she wants to focus on the relatively small evils (by comparison) already admitted by the USA in its retrospective on American history. While as a nation we have repented of and outlawed slavery and are working to eradicate racism, Islam has made no strides in this direction except what was required of countries for United Nations’ membership. Omar is quick to calumniate the USA for past sins, but stands silent in the face of the greatest perpetrator of the evils she finds so reprehensible, presumably because she is prohibited by Islam from denigrating the religion that Allah perfected and delivered to the world through Muhammad (Qur’an 5:3). Well could the words spoken by a famous Jewish rabbi to the hypocrites of his day be applied to Ilhan Omar: “You blind guide! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.”
Second, Omar’s presence as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus creates the implication that she stands with other Black Americans as a victim of America’s pre-Emancipation and Jim Crow eras. But nothing could be further from the truth. Omar’s heritage is Somali, and her family fled thence to Kenya. We have no way of knowing whether any of her ancestors were taken as slaves by the Arab Muslim slavers of Africa, but one thing is certain — if they were, they would have been shipped from the East coast of the continent, and thus would have lived out their days in the Middle East, central Asia or India. None of them would have undergone forced transport to the Americas.
So how did Omar and her family end up in the USA? It was through the grace and mercy of the US government, and the sponsorship of an American church. After having fled the savage brutality of life in Somalia, Omar survived as a child with her family in an overtaxed refugee camp in Kenya, from which after several years they immigrated as refugees to the United States in 1992, when she was ten, and were granted asylum in 1995. Her life since arriving has been a remarkable success story, learning English, gaining her US citizenship in 2000 at the age of seventeen, graduating high school and then college in 2011. Rising through the ranks of local and state politics, Omar successfully ran for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives and took up that role in January 2017. A year and a half later, she filed to run for the United States House of Representatives to fill Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District seat, won that election in November 2018 and has occupied that post since January of this year, earning a salary (not including perks) of $174,000. A hefty sum here in the United States, in Somalia that would be a fortune beyond the dreams of avarice.
One might think that having been rescued from the ravages of her native country, and from the tribulation and futility of a fragile existence in an overcrowded refugee camp, Omar would be singing the praises of a country that has allowed her to rise from desperate poverty to formerly undreamt of heights of success, power, fame and fortune. But apparently not.
Instead, Omar rides on the updrafts of victim politics, seeing any criticisms of her positions as personal attacks on her as a woman, a minority or a Muslim, or better yet, all three. In this case, however, standing with Nancy Pelosi at the Door of No Return in Ghana, her hypocrsy is crystal clear.
One could almost wish that in her “return to Mother Africa” the portal in question would live up to its name, and she would walk through it from West to East. Perhaps a long-term refresher on life in Africa would stir some gratitude in her heart for all advantages she has enjoyed during her time in America as an immigrant turned citizen and member of Congress.
Instead of railing at those who have spitefully chanted “Send her back!” against her, perhaps Ilhan Omar would do better to speak gratefully of the country which has “sent her forward.” Such a stance would go a long way to earning the right to be heard by fellow citizens, and to working constructively with those across the political aisle for the benefit of all Americans.
Buraq says
Islam’s motto: No good deed goes unpunished!
Fiona ni aine says
Sure and let’s dig up Christianity’s most shining past deeds. Remind me which shithole country your ancestors left to seek a better life, please…
It’s time to erase ALL our differences and unite humanity toward higher purpose. I think we’re being misguided toward false enemies. Truly we have greed, falsehood, and murder at the highest levels of “leadership” worldwide. It’s the plutocrats
Big love to everyone ❣️and such
LB says
Yes, all cultures are the same, and all people in this world want nothing more but to love one another.
By the way, I hear that the prices for tourism in Africa and Middle East are on a record time low, and the offers in all tourist agencies are flying off the shelf, especially in Somalia. Quick, book one before they’re all gone and show all these racists here wrong!
Little known fact: that region is culturally maternal, which means that they hold women in the highest regard, so if you’re a woman, don’t be afraid to go up to the locals and start a conversation, especially at night. They’ll shower you with their… love and affection 🙂
gravenimage says
Fiona ni aine wrote:
Sure and let’s dig up Christianity’s most shining past deeds. Remind me which shithole country your ancestors left to seek a better life, please…
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“Dig up”? Islam persecutes unbelievers and enslaves victims *today*. Is Fiona ni aine ignorant of this, or is she OK with it?
More:
It’s time to erase ALL our differences and unite humanity toward higher purpose. I think we’re being misguided toward false enemies.
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Islam teaches the forced conversion or submission of everyone to Islam–and wages Jihad for just that purpose. Fiona ni aine may believe that she can erase this, but pious Muslims certainly don’t.
Jane K murray Balogh says
No one has mentioned the difficulty to trace an ancestry of slavery. Before the 1860s+, slaves were not listed by name. Since then, there has been much mixing of ethnicities. What % would one have to be to get reparations? Many blacks were listed as free blacks and some even owned slaves. Dr Henry Gates has explained this many times. Cory Booker was a guest of Dr Gates and also knows this situation. Irish Michael Moore had a bygone grandfather, a Scot, who was listed as a slave. There were horrible things done in the past in the name of religion or greed etc. We must not forget the past and most importantly not repeat the past. Mans inhumanity to man has been horrific, but making the innocent pay is not the answer.
Marion (@EisforEverythng) says
Good article! But there is one error – trans Atlantic slave trade started in 1501, to S America, by the Spaniards. 1619 is when the first black slaves were taken to the British colonies.
Phyllis Brown says
That does not excuse Omar’s negative behavior, You are glossing it over, Anyone can change their attitude if they so desire – and pray!
Eduardo says
If America will continue to harbor persons like Ilan Omar… They are only looking for divisiveness especially shes is within the walls of your house of congress… Can’t you Americans realized a trojan horse in your midst?? Your downfall as a great nation will come from within… Remember that…. Away with people like her, behind her are propagandist whose only intention is to destroy American dream… Now another blinded Sarah Palin is on the road with Omar… Get rid bad apples or the whole basket of will be rotten ddep down inside… God bless America…. From the Philippines with Love
Victoria says
So now we know where Nancy stands. She is in solidarity with the four whatever they are? A mixed bag of socialists and Islamist’s. Two of each. Does Nancy think that the withdrawal from the moderate wing of the party and joining the rabble will ensure her leadership? I don’t think so. She will end up falling on the sword, (gavel) for her bad decision.
FYI says
It is good to remember the historical reality of the appaling slave trade but let us remember that Omar’s beloved “prophet” muhammed{APFh,allah prays for him},the most perfect man that ever lived,was the owner,buyer and seller of black African slaves.
muhammed was a slave trader in African slaves.
sahih muslim 3901
“And he{muhammed}sold him{a slave} for TWO of the Blacks”
Note muhammed’s exchange rate.
BTW,African chieftains sold their OWN people into slavery for profit:that unpalatable truth tends to be ignored…and islamic slave trading took place too.
Michael Copeland says
Here is how black lives matter in Islamic source texts:
“(66) Chapter: Selling Animals for Animals of Different amounts or Quality, Hand to Hand
It was narrated that Jabir Sair:
“A slave came and gave his pledge to the Messenger of Allah to emigrate, and the Prophet did not realize that he was a slave. Then his master came looking for him. The Prophet said; ‘Sell him to me.’ So he bought him for two black slaves, then he did not accept until he had asked; ‘Is he a slave?”’
Sunan an-Nasa’i 462,1 Book 44, Hadith 173
English translation Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 4625
https://sunnah.com/nasai/44/173
Jayell says
I believe there is evidence that these chiefs were known to accept glass beads in payment for their humnan merchandise. Funny we never hear much about any of that.
dsr says
muslims sold muslims into slavery. Don’t let them tell you differently. Some of the 1st money that came out of the USA Treasury was to build war ships to stop muslims from raiding USA merchant ships in the Mediterranean. They have always been barbaric and will always be a barbaric religion wanting war and to kill anyone who doesn’t think like they do.
A_M_Swallow says
I wonder if any of Ilhan Omar’s ancestors were involved with the slave trade?
She comes from Sudan where (unofficialy) slavery still continues.
“Back to the dark ages of humanity?” (November 2014)
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/id252-sudan/2014/11/11/back-to-the-dark-ages-of-humanity/
mateenelass says
Actually, she comes from Somalia.
A_M_Swallow says
Oops. She was born in Mogadishu on 4 October 1982. So she is from Somalia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar
Slavery in Somalia was still going on in the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Somalia
beyondculturewars says
We should dig into her heritage a bit. What did her father do in Somalia? Was he a killer for the communist Red/Green axis of power dictator?) Why did she have to change names in order to escape to America? Why did her sister and brother not emigrate to US with her?
WPM says
So she poses in front of a castle for a press shot photo were slaves were sent to the Americas from the 16 century to the 19 century all black non-believers ( kuffars ).She has no connection to the blacks sent to be slaves in North and South and Central America except her skin tone.. Her Moslem “Brother and sister” till this day by their teaching still accept slavery as a way of life for any non-believers be they black or white non-believers ..Islam is not a racial issue it is an ideological issue ready to latch onto any political issue to advance it cause. Mohammands contempt for blacks his own words in the Koran and Sira that he saw them as inferior to whites is well documented .He was a proud owner of both white and black slaves ,he encouraged slavery to be practice by fellow Moslems thru-out his lifetime.
Crazy Elf says
Did you see the picture of Malania Trump standing in that very spot a year ago?
jewdog says
At least the English and American slave traders didn’t discriminate by religion. They enslaved Muslims as well as Christians, and everyone else, for their cheap labor. They were equal opportunity human traffickers, one might say. It’s wasn’t personal, Sonny, but strictly business. That’s a step up.
Crazy Elf says
Did you know the first person in America to own a black slave was a black man. I don’t remember his name. Although it’s easy to research!
Crazy Elf says
P.S.
*”Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black Angolan known for achieving freedom and wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. He was one of the first Negro property owners and had his right to legally own a slave recognized by the Virginia courts. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, and was granted land by the colony.[1]”*
Keys says
Yes, he was captured by another black tribe in Africa and sold to Muslim Arab slave traders. And then:
“Johnson was sold as an indentured servant to a white planter named Bennet to work on his Virginia tobacco farm. Such workers typically worked under a limited indenture contract for four to seven years to pay off their passage, room, board, lodging, and freedom dues. In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of limited indentured servitude. With the exception of those indentured for life, they were released after a contracted period, with many of the indentured receiving land and equipment after their contracts expired or were bought out.[5] Most white laborers in this period also came to the colony as indentured servants.” (Wikipedia Article)
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Will the African tribe that captured him and the Arabs be paying “reparations” to his descendants ?
My European ancestors were not in the USA until well over 30 years after slavery ended with the American Civil War. Will my family have to pay “reparations” ?
/sarc off
Keys says
Also from Wikipedia on indentured servants:
“Between one-half and two-thirds of white immigrants to the American colonies between the 1630s and American Revolution had come under indentures.[2] However, while almost half the European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies were indentured servants, at any one time they were outnumbered by workers who had never been indentured, or whose indenture had expired, and thus free wage labor was the more prevalent for Europeans in the colonies.[3] Indentured people were numerically important mostly in the region from Virginia north to New Jersey. Other colonies saw far fewer of them. The total number of European immigrants to all 13 colonies before 1775 was about 500,000; of these 55,000 were involuntary prisoners. Of the 450,000 or so European arrivals who came voluntarily, Tomlins estimates that 48% were indentured.[4] About 75% of these were under the age of 25. The age of adulthood for men was 24 years (not 21); those over 24 generally came on contracts lasting about 3 years.[5] Regarding the children who came, Gary Nash reports that “many of the servants were actually nephews, nieces, cousins and children of friends of emigrating Englishmen, who paid their passage in return for their labor once in America.”[6]”
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Will these white descendants get reparations too ?
/more sarc off
Angemon says
Indeed. Not only that, they also kept millions of African slaves for themselves. Another inconvenient question would be “why is there not a large African diaspora in the Middle East like there is in the US or Brazil?”. And, of course, I suppose we all can imagine the reaction of Arabs if they asked for reparations for slavery…
Greg says
You’re a Slavery apologist (everybody does it) then you switch gears and attack the prophet for owning slaves and neglect to mention Washington owned dozens of slaves and refused to release them even upon his death (at least Jefferson freed his dozens of slaves when he died). You’re just a hater on a rant. You add zero value to the discussion. Blessings and peace upon you. I pray you will turn away from the hatred which obviously confuses you.
Angemon says
“You’re a Slavery apologist (everybody does it)”
Where, exactly, am I doing what you allege?
“then you switch gears and attack the prophet for owning slaves”
Again: where, exactly am I doing what you allege?
“and neglect to mention Washington owned dozens of slaves and refused to release them even upon his death (at least Jefferson freed his dozens of slaves when he died).”
Two things, buddy:
1 – Whether Washington and Jefferson owned slaves or not is only relevant to the slave-owing prophet (by which, I assume, you’re referring to the imaginary historic figure of muhammad) in the sense that without muhammad there would have been no Atlantic slave trade.
2 – My nation ended slavery back when the US was still a British colony, so you can take your ramblings and shove them. Meanwhile, your religion allows for slavery. That you fake outrage on an imaginary excusing of slavery while following a religion that divinely sanctions it tells me you’re a very confused, very disturbed and very insane individual.
“You’re just a hater on a rant. You add zero value to the discussion. ”
No, I made a very pertinent question – considering that your coreligionists took at least as many African slaves to the Middle East (including the majority of females) as they sold to the Europeans why is there not an African diaspora comparable to the ones found in the US or Brazil? What happened to all the slaves, Greg? Can you explain that? Or are you limited to vomiting absurdities, accusing me of things I have not done before turning tail and fleeing?
SteveFinSC says
There is no African diaspora in the Middle East and Asia today because the Muslims castrated all male slaves after purchase, so they did not have any descendants. The male slaves either died of infection after the procedure or were worked to death. This is one of the reasons why the slave trade was so busy to the Muslim world. In contrast, only 400,000 Africans came to the US by the close of the slave trade in 1808. But, by the Civil War there were about 4 million Blacks in America and there are now about 45 million Blacks in America.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Angemon and SteveFinSC.
Todd Brady says
The facts are , she hates America and the land that rescued her from a land of terrible acts. She is not thankful for that. Her religion has been in constant conflict for over 1000 years with anyone who doesn’t believe as they do.
mateenelass says
Washington did not claim to be a prophet from God bringing timeless and infallible truth for all human beings to live by. Muhammad did make such a claim. His words and actions are enshrined for time immemorial as incumbent upon all Muslims to obey and emulate.
I have no hatred for Muslims as a group. Many of my relatives are Muslims. Islam, on the other hand, I dislike intensely, having studied it for over 40 years up close and personal, having grown up in Saudi Arabia and seen its deleterious impact on my family and many others.
Demsci says
Very well said, Mateen. Muhammad spoke for God/ Allah. Who thus intervened in human history. But for what? Muslims “like Greg/ or/ and Greg” try to establish moral equivalence with the Americans of the 17th-19th century. But would God/ Allah really be satisfied to know that HE just intervened for a draw? No, he should win gloriously, improve mankind’s fate in a unique wonderful way.
yiyoya says
George Washington in his will freed his slaves effective upon the death of his wife. Nice try at obfuscation and disparagement of Washington. Inform yourself on the real history of slavery. You live in the abstract, but the Founding Fathers not only were abstract philosophers but knew that they had to carefully and wisely apply abstract principles to the constraints of the reality of their time and place. You can go to 1:30 for Jefferson and Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrfjUzYvPo
yiyoya says
@Greg – Nice try at obfuscation of facts and history, and trying to disparage George Washington, but slavery was much more complicated than simply letting slaves go free. In his will George Washington instructed that all his slaves be freed upon the death of his wife Martha. Washington died in 1799 and his wife in 1802, his slaves, but not Martha’s “dower” slaves were freed in 1801.
“In his July 1790 will, written a year after he became President of the United States in April 1789 and nine years before his death in December 1799, George Washington left directions for the emancipation, after Martha Washington’s death, of all the slaves that he owned….His will stipulated that his slaves were not to be freed until Martha’s death because of his desire to preserve the families of those who had intermarried with Martha’s dower slaves….In accordance with state law, Washington stipulated in his will that elderly slaves or those who were too sick to work were to be supported throughout their lives by his estate. Children without parents, or those whose families were too poor or indifferent to see to their education, were to be bound out to masters and mistresses who would teach them reading, writing, and a useful trade, until they were ultimately freed at the age of twenty-five….In December 1800, Martha Washington signed a deed of manumission for her deceased husband’s slaves, a transaction that was entered into the records of Fairfax County, Virginia. The document was lost during the American Civil War. The slaves received their freedom on January 1, 1801, a little over a year after George’s death….Martha did not emancipate any of her own slaves during her lifetime. Her will bequeathed Elisha, a slave whom she owned outright at the time of her death, to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis. Upon her death, her dower slaves reverted to the Custis estate and were divided among her four grandchildren. The division split up families, divided husbands from wives and sent children away from their parents.” – Wikipedia
Jim Austin says
Those who condemn some for slaver while giving free passes to others do not oppose slavery per se.
Carol says
The Blacks weren’t the only people who were enslaved by the Muslims. The Barbary Pirates (Muslims) raided the coastlines from Britain to Italy kidnapping men, women and children. They took them to North Africa and sold them as slaves. A History professor at Ohio State Univ. has researched this and found over 1 million Europeans were captured and sold. Mohammed said that it was a right of Muslims to own and sell slaves who were infidels. I wonder if Omar (not her real name because she and her father came here with a family name Omar who were no relation to them) will admit that her brother Muslims were slavers.
Ekondig G says
And also the Ottomans: They took Christian girls for the Sultan’s harem. Once there, they could never leave, since they had been with the sultan. They also took Christian boys, indoctrinated them to be fanatics and taught to fight. They were the infamous Janissaries, the “fearless” cannon-fodder of the Turkish army. These were all slaves as well.
Rashaverick says
The first term Congresswoman Omar is a fraudster, who married her own brother to defraud US Immigration laws, she needs to be thrown out of Congress, and deported.
If Al Franken can be forced from the US Senate over sexual assault photographs, clearly US Attorney Genetal Barr must go after this Muslim enemy domestic combatent.
Lisel R Sipes says
Please keep her! She is full of lies. She is not a feminist as she claims but a tool of the muslim brotherhood. She is a terrorist. She married her brother. She cheated immigration. She stole money. I suppose Muhammed would be proud of her. But we are not
Alexander A says
I’m sorry but she’s coming back because she’s an American citizen!
A naturalized American citizen at that!
She is a feminist she’s spoken against female genital mutilation on plenty of occasions!
You say she’s a terrorist that’s just a slur because of her religion!
You say she married her brother there is no proof of that!
You say she cheated immigration there is no proof of that, again she’s a naturalized American!
You say she stole money!?
That’s a new slur I have not heard!
Stole money from who?
You guys around here talk about her in the foulest terms and about how her religion throws gays off roofs in other countries.
Well she is in the US of A and I saw her dancing and celebrating at Pride month!
You guys around here talk about how she is a part of a repressive religion let me let you in on something….
Most religions are repressive.
Oh and she wants to legalise marijuana to boot!
I think she’s one of the bravest politicians going around with all the death threats that she gets.
You shouldn’t be letting your own bigotry get in the way and fearing her you should be celebrating her she truly is an American success story and it bothers you guys around here so much!
The real fear is the right-wing nationalist gunman killing Americans en masse now daily in America in a town near you!
That is the real fear of modern-day America!
The far right are killing hundreds when are we going to hear the same vitriol in regards to them that some have about ilhan Omar??
Angemon says
“She is a feminist she’s spoken against female genital mutilation on plenty of occasions!”
What does she has to say regarding the hijab?…
“You say she’s a terrorist that’s just a slur because of her religion!”
How quick you are to link her religion to terrorism…
“You say she married her brother there is no proof of that!”
There’s no proof she didn’t either. That’s the gist of it. Evidence is inconclusive.
“You say she cheated immigration there is no proof of that, again she’s a naturalized American!”
The immigration fraud part is related to her marriage to her brother.
“You say she stole money!?
That’s a new slur I have not heard!
Stole money from who?”
Then you better catch up with the news…
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Ilhan-Omar-owes-Minnesota-4000-is-misused-campaign-money-592111
“You guys around here talk about her in the foulest terms and about how her religion throws gays off roofs in other countries.”
Is that not true? In some countries they’re thrown off roofs, in others they are beheaded, in other yet they’re hanged from construction cranes. All on the grounds of religion. Funny how different people with different cultural backgrounds all agree that their religion – the common link between them – ordains the killing of homosexuals…
“Well she is in the US of A and I saw her dancing and celebrating at Pride month!”
Indeed – something impossible to happen in her land or birth. Doesn’t prevent her from hating the US though… Did she celebrated the 4th of July in such an exuberant fashion? In fact, I suspect that, were the LGBT movement not being presented as some sort of oppressed minority, she wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about them…
“You guys around here”
You keep saying “you guys”. You’re a closeted sexist, that’s what you are. There are plenty of girls around here, but I’m guessing you have no issues erasing female existence if it serves to further your agenda…
“talk about how she is a part of a repressive religion let me let you in on something….
Most religions are repressive.”
Only one mandates warfare against unbelievers on the grounds they’re unbelievers. Only one religion mandates Christians and Jews to be treated as second-class semi-slaves. Only one gives divine sanction to beating of women and the possession of slaves, including sex slaves. Care to guess which one?…
“Oh and she wants to legalise marijuana to boot!”
Huh, so what?
“I think she’s one of the bravest politicians going around with all the death threats that she gets.”
By that metric, Trump is the bravest politician to have ever existed. But please, do explain – when you say “death threats” are you talking about random comments on the internet or actual, credible death threats reported to the police that required her to void going places or changing their daily routine? One is real, the other isn’t…
“You shouldn’t be letting your own bigotry get in the way and fearing her you should be celebrating her she truly is an American success story and it bothers you guys around here so much!”
She is, in fact, an American success history. Which begs the question: why does she hate America so much?… And, of course, in your eyes, there’s never any valid criticism of Omar – any one criticizing her is a “bigot”, plain and simple…
“The real fear is the right-wing nationalist gunman killing Americans en masse now daily in America in a town near you!
That is the real fear of modern-day America!”
Have you ever met a random shooter you haven’t considered to be “right wing”?… In any case, you should take a big, careful, well-thought-out look into your actions and see you are the responsible for some of the recent shooters. You and your ilk are quick to jump to anyone critical of immigration and label them “bigots”, “far-right”, “racists”, etc. You and your ilk see fit to go after them, their families and their means of livelihood. You and your ilk drive them out of public spaces, spaces where they could be exposed to different ideas and ideals, thus preventing radicalization. You and your ilk support Antifa, the one sthat started the violence. What do you think it happens to anyone when they see you and your ilk calling them “racists”, “sexists, “bigots”, etc., calling for their doxx for wrong-think, going after their families and means of living, etc.? What do you think it happens to someone when all they see is the world shouting them down and telling how terrible they are? There is a problem with immigration in the US. You and your ilk have tried to shout down anyone trying to discuss it. How is that working out for you?
“The far right are killing hundreds when are we going to hear the same vitriol in regards to them that some have about ilhan Omar??”
Lol!!! The “far-right” (which, were I to believe the MSM, is lurking under every rock, around every corner and behind every tree with a military-grade weapon tryng to either convert me or kill me) is attacked daily on the media while domestic terrorists Antifa are given free reign and portrayed in a sympathetic light. Be honest: you didn’t wait for the legalization of marijuana to smoke a pound or two, did you’…
Demsci says
I am glad she criticized FGM and danced at the gay parade.
And I am sure she says she is loyal to the American Constitution.
But … does she really consider herself first and foremost an American, and then of the Muslim kind, or does she consider herself first and foremost a Muslima, and then of the American kind? What would happen if she had to choose? And don’t get angry at someone asking that question. She herself asks a similar question to American Jews.
Demsci says
No, compare the vitriol she gets and the vitriol Trump gets.
In content Trump gets worse, more diverse vitriol. In volume he gets a hundred fold vitriol from what she gets. And she attacks him viciously and he is only a counterpuncher.
Demsci says
And since Robert Mueller and the Dems, incl. Omar, declare that “Donald Trump was not exonerated”, we can say the same about her regarding her incestuous marriage. See how that feels when she is at the receiving end
Chand says
The real fear is the right-wing nationalist gunman killing Americans en masse now daily in America in a town near you!
That is the real fear of modern-day America!
Which town, Alexander A? El Paso or Dayton?
They are coming pretty fast now!
Angemon says
“Which town, Alexander A? El Paso or Dayton?
They are coming pretty fast now!”
The El Paso the gunman was an environmentalist that said that the GOP was terrible, supported Universal basic Income. I guess “right-wing” isn’t what it used to be… The Dayton shooter claimed to be a leftist that wanted socialism, supported Elizabeth Warren, retweeted Bernie Sanders and expressed sympathy for the Antifa terrorist that firebombed an ICE facility, calling him a “martyr”. Again, I guess “right-wing” just isn’t what it used to be…
gravenimage says
Yes–the Dayton shooter certainly was a Leftist.
Angemon says
“The real fear is the right-wing nationalist gunman killing Americans en masse now daily in America in a town near you!
That is the real fear of modern-day America!”
Like in El Paso, where the gunman was an environmentalist that said that the GOP was terrible, supported Universal basic Income? I guess “right-wing” isn’t what it used to be… And didn’t the Dayton shooter claimed to be a leftist that wanted socialism, supported Elizabeth Warren, retweeted Bernie Sanders and expressed sympathy for the Antifa terrorist that firebombed an ICE facility, calling him a “martyr”? Again, I guess “right-wing” just isn’t what it used to be…
Perhaps you shouldn’t be so quick to jump to exploit bloodshed to further your agenda… Sometimes, those who jump too fast fall flat on their faces…
gravenimage says
Alexander A wrote:
I’m sorry but she’s coming back because she’s an American citizen!
A naturalized American citizen at that!
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If she was engaged in immigration fraud her citizenship may not be legally valid. And, certainly, her adherence to Islam is problematic, since it advocates the destruction of all Infidel polities. Not that Alexander A. appear to care abou tthis, of coruse.
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She is a feminist she’s spoken against female genital mutilation on plenty of occasions!
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Actual;ly, she had refused to condemn this atrocity on plenty of occasions.
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You say she’s a terrorist that’s just a slur because of her religion!
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Since Islam preaches Jihad terrorism, she is almost cerainly a supporter. But who has said that Omar is a terrorist herself? What rot.
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You guys around here talk about her in the foulest terms and about how her religion throws gays off roofs in other countries.
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How is opposing Muslim throwing Gay people off roofs “foul”? How grotesque. It is murdering Gay people that is foul.
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Well she is in the US of A and I saw her dancing and celebrating at Pride month!
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Her being lax–or considering this politic–does not change what Islam teaches–nor have I ever heard Omar condemn this savagery.,
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You guys around here talk about how she is a part of a repressive religion let me let you in on something….
Most religions are repressive.
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What other faith preaches the murder of Gays and Infidels?
This poster may like to pretend that this is not a threat to Americans, but this just shows what he is either willing–or eager–to see imposed on us.
ME Infidel says
Excellent article. Fmi, see I.Q. Al-Rasooli’s “Koran Blogspot”, Chapter 20, that discusses the Trans-Saharan Islamic slave trade that was at least 10X greater than the Colonial Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Lisa says
Come home and do some work on key issues. Stop wasting the taxpayers money.
GreekEmpress says
+1
6 week recess, traveling on taxpayers dime, talking much and doing nothing. Meanwhile, our southern border is a mess.
gravenimage says
Omar will likely cause m ore damage here in the US.
jimmy matho says
Her real name is elmi not Omar.
When they were in Kenya she adopted the name of a family that was accepted into America while the rest of her family who were not accepted was granted asylum in Britain and then she chose to marry her brother from Britain to bring him to America.
The Elma Family was part of the dictatorship that was overthrown in Somalia Omar comes from a family of oppressors of Somalians no doubt her family was involved in the slave trade
Carolyne says
A month or so ago this story was on Tucker Carlson’s show detailing Omar’s history of coming to the US under a false name and as a member of the Omar family, which she was not. I didn’t hear anything more about it until the above post. It really needs to be investigated but with our present corrupt FBI it likely won’t.
Raymond Liberti says
Since Africa sold slaves for centuries around the world, no flag from any African country should be displayed.anywhete…..just like the Betsy Ross flag.
Christine Brant says
Except Betsy Ross was a Quaker and they helped free slaves, running the underground railroad… what an obscene blunder by Kaepernick.
Colin Christie says
Raymond Liberti, do your background research before you make ridiculous comments about all Africa countries, I am a South Africa citizen and our history is not tied in with slavery export.
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar and the Door of No Return
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Why did Ilhan Omar want to come to a place that has long since abolished slavery–the United States–rather than stay in a place–Africa–that still practices it, and does so on the basis of Islam? How many will even think to ask these questions?
Tim Heffernan says
Check with the New England Historical Genealogy Society to learn how many New Englanders were captured by the Barbary Pirates in 1695 and most were never heard from again.
Eric Jones says
The facts in this article are correct. The Arab slave trade began one thousand years before the Trans Atlantic Slave trade. It still continues in Libya thanks to sultan Obama and Hillary Clinton. The slave trade continues in Sudan and Mauritania.There are immigrant families here in the USA that have Moroccan and West African house slaves working in their homes. I have heard that someone has announced that they will run against Ilinformed Omar for Congress. May he have success.
Eric
Alexander A says
The person you talk about that wants to run against ilhan Omar.
Is that the same person I’m thinking about with that long criminal record of stealing from hard-working Americans?
Angemon says
“Is that the same person I’m thinking about with that long criminal record of stealing from hard-working Americans?”
He said, after accusing someone of using a slur when accusing Ilhan Omar of stealing money…
gravenimage says
Does Alexander A. have a problem with slavery? Not so he says…
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Why isn’t she railing against the open air slave markets in present day Islamic Libya? What a cynical hypocrite banking on the ignorance of the American people courtesy of our suppressed media outlets.
How many know of Islam’s true history of terror and enslavement? How many know of her illegal acts
of lies and deception committed in order to gain American citizenship under false pretenses? What a dangerous slime ball!
Crusades Were Right says
Weren’t African Mohammedans also involved in the slave trade? Maybe Ms. Omar’s ancestors DO have a connection with African slavery after all!
Crusades Were Right says
Ms. Omar’s 2 greatest “talents”:
* Badmouthing USA
* Hiding her hair
Dr. Westside says
It’s just like a klansmans sheet just tied a little different and slightly off-color .
Carolyne says
I think her head is shaped like that Nefertiti hat she often wears.
Alexander A says
I’m sorry but she’s coming back because she’s an American citizen!
A naturalized American citizen at that!
She is a feminist she’s spoken against female genital mutilation on plenty of occasions!
You say she’s a terrorist that’s just a slur because of her religion!
You say she married her brother there is no proof of that!
You say she cheated immigration there is no proof of that, again she’s a naturalized American!
You say she stole money!?
That’s a new slur I have not heard!
Stole money from who?
You guys around here talk about her in the foulest terms and about how her religion throws gays off roofs in other countries.
Well she is in the US of A and I saw her dancing and celebrating at Pride month!
You guys around here talk about how she is a part of a repressive religion let me let you in on something….
Most religions are repressive.
Oh and she wants to legalise marijuana to boot!
I think she’s one of the bravest politicians going around with all the death threats that she gets.
You shouldn’t be letting your own bigotry get in the way and fearing her you should be celebrating her she truly is an American success story and it bothers you guys around here so much!
The real fear is the right-wing nationalist gunman killing Americans en masse now daily in America in a town near you!
That is the real fear of modern-day America!
The far right are killing hundreds when are we going to hear the same vitriol in regards to them that some have about ilhan Omar??
Mari-Bess Cary says
Oh, so because other countries did it, it absolves the US? Because we only had a certain percentage, or Mohammed did blah, blah, blah, or Africans sold people)to try and keep THEIR OWN from being taken), it makes slavery in the US ok? No. Not it does not. Not even close. If you think it does, or you want to keep bringing Omar up, as if she’s the one who suggested slavery to Mohammed? You’re sick, and ignorant and nothing anyone says will be able to educate you, so go play in traffic. ? ????????
Carolyne says
“Go play in traffic?”. How very original and clever of you. Ha!
nicholas says
ths artilcle doesnt dismiss America’s history. But you seem to want to dismiss the rest of history and present day slavary at the hands of muslim slavers. It calls out the hypocrisy of 1 said congresswoman. Why does that trigger you? Apart from being uneducated obviously and also a hypocrite.
Demsci says
No, America is not absolved. But let us not use double standards for America either.
Both the Americans AND the Arabs were humans to be held accountable, do not single out the Americans, as Ilhan Omar is so apt to do.
WPM says
Slavery ended in America over 140 years ago ,America admitted it was wrong and shameful .In the Americas(North ,South and Central) slavery was an institution for about 290 years. In Islam it was practiced for over 1400 years it is still an acceptable practice with no admitting it is wrong or shameful .Sexual slavery and active markets for slavery are still going on in some parts of the Islamic world today. Many of the most brutal practices of slavery in the Islamic world like castrating black male slaves ,and killing the children of black female slaves who gave birth in captivity were not an acceptable practiced done to the slaves bought to the Americas over 140 years ago.
gravenimage says
Mari-Bess Cary wrote:
Oh, so because other countries did it, it absolves the US? Because we only had a certain percentage, or Mohammed did blah, blah, blah, or Africans sold people)to try and keep THEIR OWN from being taken), it makes slavery in the US ok? No. Not it does not. Not even close. If you think it does, or you want to keep bringing Omar up, as if she’s the one who suggested slavery to Mohammed? You’re sick, and ignorant and nothing anyone says will be able to educate you, so go play in traffic.
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The United States *abolished* slavery, at great cost to herself. How is having abolished slavery absolving its practice? This is absurd.
And slavery is not a thing of the past in Africa–it continues to this day, on the basis of Islam itself. Has Omar every criticized Muhammed for taking slaves, keeping slaves, and trading slaves? Of course not–this would be un-Islamic.
The idea that opposing slavery is “sick” and that those who do so derseve to be killed is morally repugnant in the extreme.
Angemon says
“or Africans sold people)to try and keep THEIR OWN from being taken)”
Nah, they waged war to capture prisoners to sell to Europeans. King Gezo, a ruler of Dahomey, modern day Benin, said, in the 1840’s, he would do anything the British asked of him except ending the slave trade. He added this:
“it makes slavery in the US ok?”
Nope – it just begs the question: “Why is the US (and this applies to Europeans as well) supposed to bear the guilt for the slavery system as a whole?”
“If you think it does, or you want to keep bringing Omar up, as if she’s the one who suggested slavery to Mohammed? You’re sick, and ignorant and nothing anyone says will be able to educate you, so go play in traffic.”
So many “ifs” and “ors” covering possibilities that never took place – and I suspect never will – nothing covering what was actually said and done…
Dr. Westside says
So is she going to stay in this black non-racist Utopia of high technology and success ? Of course not she’s going to come back to the United States and say everybody that’s white is racist just like she has been doing . Omar is so racist she needs to have a sheet on her head . Oh wait …..
DiploNerd says
There’s another point not to be missed: Trump said that if she prefers Somalia and hates America, she should go back to Somalia, She didn’t dare! She did go to Africa, but to the opposite end of the continent! Somalia is on the horn of Africa’s east coast; Ghana is on its West Coast. This would be like telling her to go back to South Carolina so instead she goes to Oregon.
Leo Lust says
Great article, I would suggest to put the facts that Arab Muslims were (and still are) responsible for the slave trade closer to the beginning of the article – preferably in the title.
Alexander A says
Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries – Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense
What a load of rubbish you won’t even let me leave a comment that challenges any of your ideas!!
Also you have spelt defence wrong!! There should be a C where the S is!!
marc says
https://grammarist.com/spelling/defence-defense/ but i’m sure your always right usually.
Your comment was blocked for manual moderation, it’s been allowed, obviously you haven’t done your homework, maybe you should pick your battles with care.
Angemon says
“What a load of rubbish you won’t even let me leave a comment that challenges any of your ideas!!”
Islam mandates the killing of homosexuals. Please, challenge that.
A_M_Swallow says
Despite what he says “Alexander A” appears to have left a comment on this website.
As for defence/defense the English and Americans spell the same word differently.
CRUSADER says
Really! It’s like how potato is spelled, ain’t it, bloke? 🙂
gravenimage says
Alexander A has commented twice above just on this thread–he has certainly been allowed to comment here.
Then, if he is enraged about the minor differences between British and American spellings, perhaps he should take this up with the compilers of dictionaries.
khvostik says
some other sources – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade – estimates a share of British North America in Atlantic slave trade in 6.25%, not in 4% as it’s mentioned in the article. it’s still a small share, but the accuracy is essential, therefore I would suggest a correction with a range between 4 and 6.25% of total slaves traded from Africa to Americas.
Aasim says
Why is it when you talk about slavery from Africa to any other places you say ( Americans, Britains, pirates, etc,) but when you talk about Arabs having slaves you say Muslims. Either you say chri slavery, Muslim slavery or nationality or race slavery. Secondly, slavery was before Islam, Islam came and found it in society. Islam ended this gradually by so many means that wouldn’t cause a social wars.
Angemon says
“Why is it when you talk about slavery from Africa to any other places you say ( Americans, Britains, pirates, etc,) but when you talk about Arabs having slaves you say Muslims.”
Is that inaccurate? That the African slave trade was monopolized by muslims, Arab and non-Arab alike?
“Either you say chri slavery, Muslim slavery or nationality or race slavery.”
Yes, that’s how it was done. Americans owned slaves. British, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., owned slaves. Muslims monopolized the African slave trade. That was the common link with the people, regardless of race and nationality, that controlled the slave raiding/selling in Africa – their religion, a religion that gives divine sanction to the taking of slaves.
“Secondly, slavery was before Islam, Islam came and found it in society. Islam ended this gradually by so many means that wouldn’t cause a social wars.”
Yes, unfortunately slavery is a phenomenon transversal to all cultures in the world. With that said, how many religions/cultures give it divine sanction like islam does? As for islam ending slavery, nope – the last nations to abolish slavery, well into the 20th century, were muslim-majority nations. It came not out of islamic inspiration but out of international pressure. And even then it’s just words on paper – there’s still de-facto slavery going on in places like Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
Aasim wrote:
Why is it when you talk about slavery from Africa to any other places you say ( Americans, Britains, pirates, etc,) but when you talk about Arabs having slaves you say Muslims. Either you say chri slavery, Muslim slavery or nationality or race slavery.
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Slavery has been founded on different principles in different regions. In the New World, this was largely race-based. In the Muslim world, it is based on Islam and the model of the “Prophet”. Demanding that we ignore history is ludicrous.
Christianity never preached slavery, but Islam certainly does.
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Secondly, slavery was before Islam,
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This is true–but Islam has enthusiastically embraced other horrors which predated it, such as FGM, beheading, and stoning. And these have not gone away,since Islam can never change.
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Islam came and found it in society. Islam ended this gradually by so many means that wouldn’t cause a social wars.
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What a bald-faced lie–Islam has *never* ended slavery. Under pressure from the abolitionist Christian West it was nominally stopped in some places–for instance, Saudi Arabia had open slave markets in Riyadh when I was a toddler.
But slavery continues in the Muslim world–in Sudan, in Maritania, and in many other places. And when the Islamic State was founded, one of the first things they did was to enslave Christians and Yezidies And there interest in buying these slaves–especially sex slaves–from all over the Muslim world.
There has never been an abolitionist movement in Islam. How could there be? The “Prophet” himself enslaved his victims and kept and traded slaves and sex slaves–and this thug is considered the perfect man for all time by pious Muslims.
elee says
Hey black Muslims y’all bin PLAYED……..were y’all REALLY that ignorant, or is it just that, after a millennium and a half of enslaving and pillaging others, the Muslims have created nothing worth redistributing?
Robert_k says
If only Ilhan Omar would go to the “Gate of No a Return” for real. But then I’m only dreaming.
WPM says
Pelosi will pander and bend to any political hack that is an elected representative who gets elected under a” D” party line .If Hitler got elected to office in some state or city office under the” D” party line in America she would gladly defend him or her as a misunderstood take out of contest person of high moral standing .
TexRanche says
Was this the door through which the slaves sold by OBAMA’S family departed?
Mike says
Check BLAZE.TV (All in the Family episode ) to see all about Ilhan who is not an Omar and her list of mariages .
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says
….’No Return’… Oh, dare to dream..
mortimer says
DOUBLE STANDARDS ALERT !
Will Ilhan Omar CONDEMN MOHAMMED for being the owner of BLACK SLAVES ??? Yes or No? Justify answer please.
It isn’t discrimination or enslavement when MOHAMMED does it?
vlparker says
Perhaps a long-term refresher on life in Africa would stir some gratitude in her heart for all advantages she has enjoyed during her time in America as an immigrant turned citizen and member of Congress.
Will never happen. She is a jihadi on a mission to overthrow the US government and replace it with sharia law.
CRUSADER says
Brigitte Gabriel on Ilhan Omar:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfGxltTw6E
jca reid says
Wonder what this Bitch would have to say about the 125MILLION Africans that Islam took into slavery? Saudi Arabia eventually stopped slavery in 1961, under UN pressure. Mauritania in 1981. Actually the Sex-Slave Markets are back in action in the latter. Pres. Trump, I no it’s hard for him, instead of shooting off at the mouth, actually take a few minutes & compose a few minutes speech & completely deconstruct this woman’s argument & position. If it’s beyond him, get someone who is literate & intelligent enough to do so. Ayaan Hirsi or Robert Spencer are two most capable persons that spring to mind.
fredoniahead says
This is all we hear from the Marxist racist hate machine known as the “mainstream media”. They cause all of this…ALL OF IT!!!. When some White crackpot goes nuts they make it look like Whitie did it all while ignoring the endless Black violence that occurs day in and day out. Then, we never hear the race of the assailant. They are just “teens”, “people”, “young people”, “men” and other euphemistic bullshit to avoid saying “Black”. Did we hear about the Black that threw the four-year-old White boy from the upper floor of a mall?. Did we hear about the White man beaten to death for sport in Detroit by a mob of Blacks at a gas station?. Did we hear about the five people killed by the Black man on a interstate killing spree?. Did we hear about the game young Blacks in Phillie and Baltimore play called “White Out”?. How about the mob of around 400 Black “youth” that run through the Inner Harbor attacking random people on the street over Memorial Day and the Fourth?. How about the Black-on-Jew violence in NYC?. How about the Black-on-Gay violence?. Black-on-Asian violence?. It’s pandemic. No…imaginary White Nationalism did it all. Deceit, Denial, and Delusion.
Then, when Whitie does crack, like these two lunatics in Dayton and El Paso, that is all we hear from the race-baiting media. If those shooters had been anyone but Whitie, it would have been forgotten about by now because the Marxist media would have played it down and kept it as quiet as possible.
Keep it up, Leftist media. Just keep up the hate, sowing discord, and division. It’s what they want. Like vampires, they feed off of hate and rage.
Mark my words…I know what’s coming. A total breakdown of society and civil war unless someone stops the lying Marxist media from creating all this hate and rage.
Holy Tshinge Maduha-Ncube says
Well said article.. One thing Spencer left out is that African males enslaved to the East were castrated ..by the muslim arabs .Muslim were taking Africans as slave more than 900 or more years before Europeand arrived on the scene.I am African myself..and I am saddened at the ignorance of some black people who blindly follow this barbaric cult of islam.The main reason for castration was to prevent them.multuplying and having sexual desires.That is also why you dont find many Africans in the East today as you would in South America and the US..For evil islam is unsurpassed
Linde Barrera says
According to the Museum of African-American history in Detroit, Michigan, the tribe who was the winner of the fight or war against another tribe anywhere in Western Africa arranged to send the losing tribe to the slave traders and got $ for them. The men and women who became slaves were often branded on the upper back like cattle. I was there is March of this year. It is an excellent museum and worth the visit.
Slavery, in my opinion, is evil, regardless of who advocates for, and utilizes slaves.
CRUSADER says
Ilhan Omar and Brigitte Gabriel:
The Tale of Two Very Different American Immigrants
(Conservative Daily News)
Freedom is only but a lifelong dream to many in other countries, but here in the U.S., our citizens have the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Two American immigrant women, Ilhan Omar and Brigitte Gabriel, both found this to be true when they immigrated from war-torn countries to ultimately find themselves in the land of the free and home of the brave. While their childhood experiences in their home countries draw some parallels, their views on the country that provided them the ultimate opportunity could not be more different.
Ilhan Omar found asylum in the United States when she immigrated as a child from the war-ridden country of Somalia. After being welcomed as a refugee she became a naturalized American in 2000. In 2018, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and made quick use of her newfound political spotlight to embark in turning America’s founding principles into a thing of the past.
Brigitte Gabriel experienced having her childhood home in Lebanon decimated by Islamic militants at age ten. For the next seven years, Gabriel and her parents lived in an underground bomb shelter wondering each day if they would survive to the next. Gabriel applied for a Green Card, went through self-funded medical tests, studied about America’s history, our constitution, our judiciary system and passed exams in English before becoming an American in 1994.
Both women have garnished controversy on both sides of the political aisle for their stances on President Trump, Israel, immigration, and support, or lack thereof, on American values.
Omar has made her distaste of President Trump well known and has called him “the worst, most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen.”
Brigitte has continually expressed her support of the president and has stated, “President Trump is one of the last chances we have at saving this country and ultimately western civilization. We need to get behind this President and his agenda every step of the way!”
The pair have strongly opposing views on one of the United States greatest allies, Israel.
Omar’s continual demonization of Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric has been a central theme of her many controversial views. In 2012, Omar tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”
Omar recently introduced a House resolution that “affirms” Americans’ purported “right” to engage in the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that pursues the ultimate elimination of the world’s only Jewish state.
In contrast, Brigitte is a passionate advocate for Israel and continues to support the Jewish state by providing information and analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism.
Omar’s speech and actions make it clear that she detests America as it currently exists and wants to restructure a country that endorses open borders, socialistic views, and anti-Semitic actions.
As a legal immigrant who endured the legalization process, Gabriel encourages others to pledge their allegiance to America in order to serve and protect the country she so gratefully entered into. She also is a national security analyst and is one of the leading terrorism experts in the world.
Gabriel tweeted, “Immigration is a beautiful thing when done legally and with a citizen who loves America and wants to assimilate into American culture. Fully vetted and merit-based immigration. It’s common sense, not racist.”
While freedom provides the opportunity for people to do great and prosperous things, it also allows for the opposite. The two-sided token of freedom also ushers in the ability for those to follow in their desires of malicious intent. With freedom, you can choose to do good, evil or somewhere in between.
With Ilhan Omar, we see a strong woman who is tenacious in standing up for her beliefs that America is not a great nation, but rather one that needs to pay the ultimate price of destruction. It begs the question that why would anyone who despises America as much as Ilhan Omar, want to remain here unless she was trying to turn it into something else?
On the other side, we have Brigitte Gabriel, an equally strong woman with a sheer desire to preserve America’s exceptionalism for the next generation.
Whether you were born or immigrated here, if you hate America then why don’t you leave America? It seems like a reasonable question. You instead could find a country that better represents your values rather than trying to bulldoze the constitutional framework of a country that was so vigilantly fought for.
If you are an American who does not want to preserve our national identity, I say leave this nation to Brigitte and the rest of us who believe in its greatness and make room for the millions of others around the world that would give anything to be in your place.
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“The honor of a nation is its life.” – Alexander Hamilton
Robert_k says
If only Ilhan Omar found the “Gate of No Return” , then we wouldn’t have to send her back.
Buzz says
immigration.findlaw.com/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html.
Grounds for Denaturalization
1.Falsification or Concealment of Relevant Facts: You must be absolutely truthful when filling out paperwork and answering interview questions related to the naturalization application process. Even if the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) fails to recognize any lies or ommissions at first, the agency may file a denaturalization action against you after citizenship has been granted. Examples include failure to disclose criminal activities or lying about one’s real name or identity.
2.Refusal to Testify Before Congress: You may not refuse to testify before a U.S. congressional committee whose job it is to investigate your alleged involvement in subversive acts, such as those intended to harm U.S. officials or overthrow the U.S. government. This requirement to testify in order to maintain citizenship status expires after 10 years.
3.Membership in Subversive Groups: Your citizenship may be revoked if the U.S. government can prove that you joined a subversive organization within five years of becoming a naturalized citizen. Membership in such organizations is considered a violation of the oath of U.S. allegiance. Examples include the Nazi Party and Al Qaeda.
Omar’s naturalized citizenship can be revoked and have her sent back, her parents as well. Time limits are questionable however Omar associations will help in that manner, her use of the First Amendment will be a source of defense.
UNCLE VLADDI says
1.) Cape Coast Castle in Ghana It was originally a Portuguese “feitoria” or trading post, established in 1555. However in 1653 the Swedish Africa Company constructed a timber fort there. It originally was a center for the trade in timber and gold. It was not built specifically to oppress Africans, as other (Arabic) castles were.
2.) Re: “We have no way of knowing whether any of her ancestors were taken as slaves by the Arab Muslim slavers of Africa” – probably NOT, as Somalia was the first country in the world (before even Arabia) to allow and recognize islam and Muhammad, and it’s where his “oppressed” friends fled to, during his own lifetime.