Ilhan Omar’s message here is a familiar one: that Muslims were the real victims of 9/11. That they had “their civil rights stripped from them.” That they were now all being treated as suspects.
None of this is true. There was no wholesale targeting of innocent Muslims after 9/11. FBI hate crime statistics year after year show Jews, not Muslims, as the primary victims of hate crimes. Muslims have not been stripped of any civil rights. But many have used the kinds of charges that Omar makes here to stymie counterterror efforts and stigmatize counterterror analysts, and they’ve had great success with that.
“Omar responds to family of 9/11 victim who called her out at anniversary ceremony,” by Zack Budryk, The Hill, September 15, 2019:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday responded to a family member of a 9/11 victim who called her out on the anniversary of the attacks, saying she intended to highlight civil rights violations.
“9/11 was an attack on all Americans. It was an attack on all of us, and I certainly could not understand the weight of the pain that the families of the victims of 9/11 must feel,” Omar said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“It’s important for us to make sure that we are not forgetting the aftermath of 9/11, [when] many Americans found themselves now having their civil rights stripped from them, and so what I was speaking to was that as a Muslim, not only was I suffering as an American who was attacked on that day, but the next day I woke up as my fellow Americans were now treating me as suspect,” she added.
Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mother died in the World Trade Center, gave a speech on the anniversary last week while wearing a shirt with the words “Some people did something,” a reference to comments Omar made to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Haros also singled out Omar, saying, “‘Some people did something,’ said a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota. … Today I am here to respond to you exactly who did what to whom.”
In her remarks, Omar said the fight for Muslims’ civil rights in the wake of the attacks was necessary because “some people did something” and “all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” Omar was excoriated for the comment on the right by people accusing her of minimizing the attacks, and death threats against her spiked….
CogitoErgoSum says
“O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).” — Koran 9.123
I have no doubt she does what she can in this regard.
gravenimage says
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Me says
Well said… The wolf in sheep’s clothing… Playing the victim. Bravo… Good acting,..
mortimer says
Wolf in sheep’s clothing? How’s the adultery charge going, Ilhan? Do Muslims go for that much?
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, sometimes it is allowable if you temporarily marry your prostitute.
Kay says
I’m guessing they may allow that horse in the race for a while if it takes them toward their goal.
gravenimage says
Agreed. Kay. Omar would likely have been dragged to a hole in the ground in Somalia and stoned to death–but she is useful here in furthering the cause of Islam.
Fred Parsons says
Until the people in this country wake up and realize just who has perpetrated all of this on them it will
continue. When muslems can run amoke in peaceful neigh borhoodxs and threaten familes liing there
and no consequences against them then it will continue. Start by looking at the politics cauing this.
Start by recal peteions to get rid of may ors and others who volinter their cities for all of these cities who
take in so called refugees. I couldn’t threaten my neighbor and get away with it why should they????
If they don’t lkke it here then they should go back to where they came from
PRCS says
If they don’t lkke it here then they should go back to where they came from
Not to be mean, Fred, but where will those born here go and who will violate the law to make them leave?
Savvy Kafir says
PRCS — Obviously the law needs to be changed. The Constitution needs to be amended so that Muslims can be expelled en masse. If that does not happen, eventually uppity, fast-breeding Muslims will be in charge in the U.S., and there will be no Constitution at all. Just look at the damage they (and their PC allies) have already done to the First Amendment protection of free speech, at a time when Muslims make up a little over 1% of the population!
The U.S. Constitution — amend it or lose it!
As to where they go — I don’t really give a f**k, as long as it’s some part of the world that is already lost to Islam. (And that does NOT include Europe … or Minnesota.)
Eventually the U.S. & other Western military powers will need to temporarily seize control of coastal territory in one or more Muslim-majority countries, just long enough to dump the millions of Muslims currently living in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. Resettlement centers there can be partly funded by seizing the assets of oil-rich Muslims in the West. And the entire deportation operation could be funded (to a large extent) with the protection money that’s currently being paid to Pakistan, the vast sums currently being wasted in Afghanistan, and the welfare money now being paid to Muslim parasites in Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, etc.
Once enough people realize just how dire the situation is, they WILL vote into power principled politicians (such as Geert Wilders, Anne Marie Waters, and Marine Le Pen) who will do what’s necessary to rid the West of the cancer of Islam.
Rarely says
The perpetrators of the 9/11 massacre were ALL muslims. It was a coordinated organized attack. It would be foolhardy not to consider the possibility of further attacks. Who are you going to put under the microscope? Chinese-Americans? Get real. Any attempt to deflect that microscope is, in my opinion, treason.
A healthy response would have been cooperation, openness and an eagerness to eradicate such elements from their community. Instead did we find?
All too often (once is too often) we saw muslim leadership telling the muslim community NOT to cooperate with the police when investigating muslims accused of terrorist activity.
If one is going to act suspiciously one is going to be suspected.
Terry Gain says
Being an adherent of a conquest ideology can make people suspicious of you.
mortimer says
Very good, TG … and the opinion surveys provide STATISICAL PROOF that 20% of US Muslims want an Islamic overthrow of the constitution … 300,000 Muslims in the US want a revolution!
-A majority (51%) of US Muslims agreed that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.” More than half (51%) of U.S. Muslims polled also believe either that they should have the choice of American or shariah courts, or that they should have their own tribunals to apply shariah. Only 39% of those polled said that Muslims in the U.S. should be subject to American courts.
-25% of US Muslims support Sharia vigilantism. A quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, “It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.”
-A large minority of US Muslims support a violent revolution to overturn the US constitution and replace it with Sharia. Nearly one-fifth of Muslim respondents said that the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country.
-roughly 300,000 Muslims living in the United States believe that shariah is “Allah’s law that Muslims must follow and impose worldwide by Jihad.”
Wellington says
On point posts by both mortimer and Terry Gain.
Rarely says
It’s one thing to want a different system of laws while being willing to live under the existing laws and quite another to advocate overturning the current system of laws by revolution.
Kay says
Well, we’re up against it, aren’t we? Can these statistics find a wider audience?
But then again, some are ready to excuse shariah . . . and the Mohammedens like to falsely claim it’s like other religions’ guidelines.
gravenimage says
Yes–good posts, Terry and Mortimer.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain,
Succinct, accurate comment. My compliments.
Wellington says
With you here, Rarely.
mortimer says
Listen up, Ilhan,
Because of MUSLIM TERRORISTS who attacked Washington DC and New York, murdering thousands, all Americans were subjected to new levels of security and police intrusion initiated in SELF-DEFENSE by the American government.
AMERICANS DID NOTHING TO DESERVE what MUSLIM TERRORISM did on 9-11, because MUSLIM / ISLAMIC TERRORISM COMES FROM *ISLAM* … and is CAUSED by Islam’s teachings.
Koran 8.60 “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them). K.8.60 is an eternal commandment of Allah which all Muslims must obey or perish in Islamic hell.
Ilhan, a MADMAN created your religion.
Dave says
I’ve always believed u can’t trust any Muslims,violent or non violent,peaceful or non peaceful,radical or non radical….they all follow their evil QURAN,and want o live under an Islamic sharia law GOVERNMENT,they want sharia law world wide,in all peaceful civilised countries…..just have look at how run down and war torn all Muslim run countries are……..
somehistory says
USA Today asked her about what she said on the Face the Nation program.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/15/republicans-criticize-ilhan-omar-9-11-remarks-cbs-interview/2334643001/
She whined that “a particular bias and a certain lens that people critique the words I use. And that is not a bias or a lens that I can get ride of with one answer, with one conversation.”
She then whined some more about people not seeing her as an American or having the same feelings they do about the “attack on American soil.”
She will not apologize, she will not admit that her words were “offensive” as the Face the Nation host asked her. She wishes to offend non moslims and she’s an expert at it. Imo, she is a psychopath.
Her words and her constant appearances everywhere, recall the name of the skit on Carol Burnett: “As the Stomach Turns.” Sickening.
Kay says
I agree. Her continual evasions of questions about her stance and her utterances are bad enough. But her attacks on the US and Israel are unbearable.
I wish the media would stop spotlighting her. I wish Pelosi would take her off her committee assignments.
She’s a bad apple and I have a hunch she is coached by some more powerful than she is.
somehistory says
By members of the mb who call themselves cair. Pelosi lacks the integrity and backbone.
gravenimage says
Actually, Kay, it think in general this exposure of what this Muslim politician is like is a good thing.
Demsci says
She and you used the word “lens” and I picked up that word in several tv-programmes and articles of late. She pretends that her “lens” is that of an American of the Muslim variety “AMMU”. She demands to be seen and treated as an AMMU. But I think she behaves like a Muslim of the American variety, “MUAM”.
An AMMU demands democratic protection and equal rights, but also pretends to be first and foremost loyal, not just to the country America, but also to its democratic constitution and system.
A MUAM is first and foremost loyal to Islamic laws and co-religionists, worldwide, mostly dictatorial minded.
The other day Ilhan Omar questioned whether the current American president/ government could be trusted in their responses to Iran. Was that the “lens” of an AMMU or of a treacherous MUAM?
At best she and many other American Muslims have confused loyalties. Perhaps we should formulate the conditions upon which it is justified for a Muslim in America to pose as AMMU.
To me the question is whether a Muslim in America is to be considered an AMMU or a MUAM by default. And whether or not society, should demand from all Muslims in American democratic society to openly choose between being AMMU or MUAM. And the same in all democratic societies.
somehistory says
You wrote: “She and you used the word “lens”” That is incorrect. I was quoting her. I did not use the word in what I wrote about her.
gravenimage says
No pious Muslim is ever really an American or Dutchman or any other Westerner.
Demsci says
And yes, I do understand that she talks about dual loyalties of Jews, so I now talk about dual loyalties of Muslims. Or, more accurately; which loyalty should come first for both Jews and Muslims?
Demsci says
And I happen to think that most American Jews see themselves as Americans of the Jewish variety and not as Jews of the American variety.
gravenimage says
Yes.
Demsci says
My point is illustrated by the prohibition of the Nazi party in current Germany. It is because it is foolish to let a dictatorial minded party have a say in a democratic society. And I doubt that Ilhan Omar has a sufficient “Democratic loyalty and lens” and I suspect her to have more of an “Islamic dictatorial lens” at least in part of her policies.
Angemon says
Well, she is right, just not the way she claims. Big tech are cracking down on the freedom of speech of those whose political/social stance they don’t like. Left-leaning activists are also going after the livelihood of those whose political stance they don’t like. This includes trying to get them fired from their jobs and blacklisting them with credit card payment processors. And the 2nd Amendment? As Beto O’Rourke recently said, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47”.
mortimer says
– “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
– FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THE RIGHT TO BE CONTROVERSIAL and TO OFFEND
Kay says
+ 1
Kay says
And free speech is the right to speak the truth without fear of repercussion.
Wellington says
Omar’s such a liar but then she is a Muslim, now isn’t she?
Islam is not only the only religion that requires death for apostasy and the only religion that calls for war to be made upon all mankind until all the world is subjected to it, but it is also the only religion that actually instructs believers to deceive (and in six different ways no less) non-Muslims, who, btw, per Islamic law are the equivalent of human waste. And the wrongs I just stated that one can associate with Islam are just a handful of wrongs this putrid religion has put forth from the seventh century onwards.
Omar is a Muslim indeed. Never trust her just as one should never extend any respect to her religion. Speaking personally, I am filled with contempt for it as I am with Omar herself.
somehistory says
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
The more one knows, sees, hears and understands about islam, the more contempt one feels ..and that applies to this contemptible “rep” of islam, omar.
Wellington says
Absolutely, somehistory. And if one is not then there is something the matter with that person.
I understand you’re feeling better. I hope that is the case. As always, I enjoy reading your astute comments here at JW. Take care, pal.
somehistory says
Thank you, Wellington., for the compliments.
I am getting better, thank you.
gravenimage says
So glad to hear it, Somehistory.
Demsci says
Soemhistory, I posit that that’s because you come from a position of “democratic values” and “system”, an in part enlightenment revolution that came a 1000 years after and superior dark age Islam. That is your “lens” to look at Islam, if you will. You do not just abhor Islam but also know a much better societal (and scientific) alternative!
Demsci says
And superior to Islam I meant
gravenimage says
Familiarity does not always breed contempt–indeed, with some things it breeds more respect.
But the more I learn about Islam, the greater my contempt for it.
Kay says
Yes, a Muslim . . . and apparently out simply to destroy the US.
From her own birth and upbringing, she has no cause of identity with either “Palestinians” or with historical American slaves. Yet she claims every victimhood and so as to destroy, not to improve a thing.
Infidel says
Not just that, but she’s so full of it!!! After 9/11, President Bush went out of his way to ‘assuage’ the Muslim community, going to ridiculous lengths such as responding positively to ‘Muslim outreach’ programs, and looking the other way while Fuckistan did anything it felt like, such as harboring Osama in Abbotabad. So much so that when Nancy Pelosi was busy berating President Trump for his ‘Islamophobia’, she picked President Bush as her model of how a President should treat relations w/ the Ummah.
I’d like to see who it was in the Bush XLI administration who introduced the idea of importing Somalians en masse to Minnesota. That person – or persons – deserve to be put in front of a firing squad 👿👿👿
elee says
She is fully worthy of all the civil liberties that Muslims have accorded to Jews for a millennium and a half. w h
mortimer says
Ilhan Omar got elected to the US congress in spite of her views which most Americans oppose. Some ‘oppression’, that!
HOW ‘OPPRESSED’ IS SHE in fact, if she managed to get elected and has not been kicked out her political party?
We don’t see any effort by her own party to censor her?
In what way EXACTLY is Omar ‘oppressed’ … or is verbal opposition to her (i.e. normal free speech in a free society) considered to be ‘oppression’ by Omar?
Is there any way someone can criticize her or Islam that she approves of? Or is ALL criticism ‘oppression’, melodrama, etc.
Why does Omar think that being in politics places her above criticism? Or does Omar think that JIHAD isn’t a form of TERRORISM even though K.8.60 says ‘TURHIBUNNA’ (terrorize them)?
Kay says
It seems she thinks any question is “oppression,” and sometimes, one’s very existence.
Yes, I am very disturbed by her political party’s inability to censure her.
tgusa says
Clinton, Bush and Obama were responsible for bringing 10 of thousands of these third world savages here to the USA and forcing them on unknowing/undeserving American communities. I wonder if those men would like to see the same thing done to their daughters and loved ones? That seems only fair, what goes around should come around. That will be left to the people of the future to decide.
Kay says
Those elites live in gated communities and on several acres. They don’t share apartment buildings or neighborhoods or schools with the people they have dumped into our towns and cities.
tgusa says
Correct. But those elites are only safe where they are as long as they have the backing of the American people that surround them. I don’t think they have thought things through.
Naildriver says
Muslims should indeed have their civil rights stripped from them — sadly; no such thing has occurred let alone even proposed; but , these soldiers of Islam, Muslims all; should be denied entry into the USA military, teaching positions in public schools, workers or owners in daycare, and being allowed to serve and participate in government office from the postal service to president — this because they openly adhere to a an enemy system, intent upon the USA’s destruction and conquest, and US citizens conversion to it, or their murder should non Muslims oppose. There is simply no argument to those enemy aspects; yet globalists, the left, and many corporations engage in treason; to ensure Muslims remain a threatening and actively pernicious element in society.
Wellington says
The sum total of rights, including the right to life itself, stripped from non-Muslims by Muslims over the centuries approaches the incalculable—and continued even to this day (e.g., remind me again how many Christian churches and Jewish synagogues have been built in Saudi Arabia and Iran over the past twenty years).
This is why ANY Muslim complaining of rights deprived them in the West reeks of hypocrisy to the utmost.
The hypocrite, Ilhan Omar, comes to mind. But so do many other deluded followers of Mo. And no better, really, are non-Muslims in the West who keep making excuses for the religion which preaches to this day a master faith much as Nazism preached a master race. This is why when I look upon any Muslim garb, for instance the hijab, I might as well be looking at someone wearing a swastika armband.
Am I comparing Islam to Nazism? You’re damn right I am.
gravenimage says
+1
Naildriver says
Indeed, it is offensive to see Muslims in their garb in public, for those educated to Islam’s true content, teaching, and structure. It is offensive to see them; as check out lines in stores, ball games, sitting on street corners waiting for buses, or wandering museums and national parks.
Yes, they are as offensive and threatening (at least in the potential; as of seeing writing upon a wall that call for my murder) to me; just as a ‘Nazi’ in garb, even if in a Halloween costume, would be offensive to a Jew; or a Klansman robed, wandering a black neighborhood, to a Black.
WPM says
If you were American and a member and a member of the Nazis in 1938 you would be look at closer ,if you are a member of the communist party also a American in 1952 you would look at closer .If you are a member of the Islamic party a practicing Moslem you will be look at closer after 9/11/2001.Just comes with being a member of a group that wants to undermined every freedom ,rights, and the people of America you can belong ,but your actions will be look at .The KKk was brought down by of surveillance their violent activity so can Jihad violence.
Gork says
Some rights of some people were denied. Yeah. Something like that.
Here’s a clue: They weren’t Islamic people. No, MY rights of free speech, My rights of self defense, My rights against unreasonable search and seizure have all been abridged. Hers? Name one thing.
Name one right under the Bill of Rights that were denied to you, Ms. Omar. I dare you!
Naildriver says
Excellent retort to this vile Muslim’s whining.
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar: After 9/11, “many Americans found themselves now having their civil rights stripped from them”
………………
How *dare* the filthy Infidels try to take away Muslims’ rights to wage violent Jihad?
tgusa says
It is the non muslims of America that since 9-11 have been subjected to treatment as if they are potential mass murdering muslims. At the airport pre 9-11, Americans were treated like Americans, post 9-11, well, that’s obvious now. But just shut up Americans, and off with your shoes dammit!
Pretty sure there is something wrong with that picture.
Goofy says
It is high time to make a systematic review of the Koran to assess to which extent it promotes crimes against humanity, war crimes, slavery, including sex slavery and encouragement of deadly attacks on Jews and Christians. This review should be made known in all the mosques and special legislation should be passed to punish crimes encouraged by Islam, including “honour killings”. The time to act in a naive manner is over. We are under attack and we shall hit back to the full extent of our legislation.
gravenimage says
Goofy, you are mistaken in believing that “honor killings” are not illegal here.
The unexpected voice says
I hate her face. She should be removed from the office. All of her policies is Islamic Supremacists and Anti-Semitic.
somehistory says
https://www.glennbeck.com/theblaze-tv/ilhan-omar-all-in-the-family?
https://youtu.be/y34621LVK-E
A lot of info Beck lays out with the sources for his information, some of it from PJ Media
https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/ilhan-omar-african-slave-dungeons-like-us-migrant-detention-centers?
https://youtu.be/4pI1bAC7ofg
https://youtu.be/YVEd4zJcMus
https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/new-twitter-evidence-shows-ilhan-omar-likely-married-her-brother?
somehistory says
Somali gangs, made up of males between 13 and 25, with the occasional female, beating and robbing White people in omar’s district. What does omar have to say about this?
https://youtu.be/wYDC28gW3Eg
https://youtu.be/pwV5M7lm-xM
https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/09/17/mob-viciously-attacks/
gravenimage says
Thanks for those grim links, Somehistory.
Omar has been called out by her GOP opponent for this but has said nothing.
https://lauraloomer.us/2019/09/14/ilhan-omar-under-fire-after-violent-crime-increases-in-her-district/#.XYHCTShKjIU
James says
I doubt if she lost her civil rights. Did she lose them in Somalia or in that evil country she lives in now? What sorts of civil rights does she envision for kafir in America as soon as they have Muslim civil rights here, i.e., sharia law?
Kerry Wade says
Do not employ a Muslim. Why? Because they are a security risk. Turn them away and have the moral courage to stand fast. Until every section of society takes this stand we will experience the debasement of civilised communities until our country becomes a Muslim infested sewer.
somehistory says
She is complaining today about Mr. Trump retweeting something regarding her “dancing” in celebration of the 9/11 anniversary.
She was at a gathering of the Black Caucus from 9-11 through 9-15 and video was made of her dancing. It was claimed that she was celebrating the anniversary of the attacks by said dancing.
She denies that it was in celebration of the attacks and wants twitter to do something about the tweets.
Wouldn’t it have shown more respect for everyone… including those moslims that were hurt in the attack on “American soil” that she claims impacted her as it did everyone else… if she had refrained from dancing?
After all, 9/11 was the day of the attack, but people were still being pulled from the rubble days later. At least, in pieces and some personal items were being found all over the city. On 9-12 through 9-15, there was a lot of mourning.. Dancing was inappropriate, to say the least.
somehistory says
this is from a little while ago, but having never seen it before, I found it interesting, esp in light of the kind of person the daughter is.
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/07/17/bombshell-report-ilhan-omars-father-other-somalian-war-criminals-illegally-living-in-the-us/