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Ilhan Omar Discovers the Real Victim of 9/11: Ilhan Omar

Sep 22, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Of course. Who else could it possibly be? My latest in FrontPage:

The controversy began on the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11. Responding to Omar’s notorious statement that on 9/11, “some people did something” (which phrase was emblazoned on his t-shirt), Nicholas Haros Jr., the son of a woman who was killed in the World Trade Center bombing, declared: “Madam, objectively speaking, we know who and what was done. There is no uncertainty about that. Why your confusion? On that day, 19 Islamic terrorist members of al Qaeda killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. Is that clear? I was attacked, your relatives and friends were attacked, our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our nation’s founding on Judeo-Christian principles were attacked. That’s what some people did. Got that now?”

Omar responded to Haros by playing the victim card: “9/11 was an attack on all Americans.” (She didn’t address whether or not it was an attack on Somalis.) “It was an attack on all of us. And I certainly could not understand the weight of the pain that the victims of the families of 9/11 must feel. But I think it is really important for us to make sure that we are not forgetting, right, the aftermath of what happened after 9/11. Many Americans found themselves now having their civil rights stripped from them. And so what I was speaking to was the fact 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.”

Ilhan Omar’s message here is familiar, as many, many other Muslims have said it. After every jihad massacre and every jihad plot, we hear it again: the true victims of the attack are Muslims.

But Omar’s claim that after 9/11, Muslims in the United States had “their civil rights stripped from them,” and that now she herself was being treated “as a suspect,” is entirely baseless. Contrary to the prevailing myth, 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.

In fact, the whole claim of Muslim victimhood after 9/11 is a scam. Jonathan S. Tobin reported for the Gatestone Institute in December 2017 that “the statistics published by the FBI over the last 17 years refute both the Islamophobia narrative and the claim of a widespread backlash against Muslims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks by Islamists.” The reality is that “the myth of a post-9/11 ‘backlash’ against Muslims is politically motivated and spread by groups such as the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which presents itself as a civil rights group, but was founded to serve as a front organization for the terrorist group Hamas. The effort to persuade the public that America is Islamophobic stemmed largely from the aim to shift the narrative about terrorism to that of an Islamist war on the West to one according to which Muslims are terrorized by and in the United States.”

The facts, however, never get in the way of the Left’s narrative, and in this case, no one in the establishment media dared to contradict Ilhan Omar’s fanciful claims, if they were even aware that they were false. One day this mendacious and extraordinarily corrupt official will fade from the scene, but as Shakespeare noted, “the evil that men do lives after them.” (Yes, that adage applies to migrant women of color as well as to the evil white supremacist males of establishment media myth). Many Leftist public figures before Ilhan Omar have used the kinds of charges that she makes here to stymie counterterror efforts and stigmatize counterterror analysts, and they’ve had great success with that. It is almost certain that that success will continue far longer than the public career of Ilhan Omar.

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  1. T Yvette Hill says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 8:11 am

    This ideology is EVIL and she is on of billions of examples of this FACT…. she is a liar and manipulater. She hates America and I blame DemonRats for getting her elected!

  2. Matt says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 8:25 am

    WTC 7 was obviously a controlled demolition, and now we have “Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7 ” study to back it up. Some people did something.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 9:29 am

      It is not obvious. Journal of Metallurgy: https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/0112/eagar/eagar-0112.html

      • VRWC member77 says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 9:35 am

        mort, I’m guessing Matt forgot the -sarc off-

        • Terry Gain says

          Sep 22, 2019 at 10:02 am

          We know that KSM confessed to planning 9/11; that bin Laden bragged about it and all 19 hijackers and Moussaoui are Muslims. We also know that GWB was Governor of Texas while 9/11 was being planned.

          Matt believes that GWB, while Governor of Texas, conspired with al Qaeda to attack his own country. I would suggest that Matt get help, but there are no psychotropic drugs for his condition.

        • James Lincoln says

          Sep 22, 2019 at 10:08 am

          Terry Gain,

          You are correct, psychotropic medication can control many medical conditions – but it does nothing for willful ignorance.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 22, 2019 at 10:37 pm

          Yes–I think Matt is being sarcastic here.

      • Matt says

        Sep 24, 2019 at 7:33 am

        Oh look… I can come up with a web site too.
        https://www.ae911truth.org/wtc7

    • eduardo odraude says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:43 am

      As soon as you say it was “obviously” a controlled demolition, we know you don’t know what you are talking about and that you are choosing to ignore the many detailed scientific critiques of Truthers’ various conspiracy theories.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 10:47 pm

        Eduardo, with his quoting “some people did something”, I think that Matt is being sarcastic.

    • Carolyne says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 1:01 pm

      My sister also was infected by the delusion that our government carried out the destruction of the WTC. She thought that those who were reported as dead were alive and seen in Canada. She couldn’t explain how the government got those people reported dead to sureptisiously go to live in Canada and their relatives hold fake funerals for them she went to her death believing this.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 11:10 pm

        Just awful, Carolyne–sorry to hear this. I think a lot of people find the idea of Jihad terrorism too frightening, and would rather slander our own people, instead. Especially this twist, where no one actually died, seems less scary to some.

        I had one acquaintance say that the people jumping out of the Twin Towers were actually special effects. That’s some deep denial.

  3. No Muzzies Here says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 9:19 am

    GWBush and the other liberal pseudo-Republicans in government used the terrorist attack as an excuse to take away a huge chunk of our freedoms. It affected all of us, but Muslims were treated with kid gloves so they would not be offended.

    After the terrorist attack Islam became a protected class and enjoyed government-bestowed privileges formerly available only to Blacks.

    Muslims benefited, and the rest of us lost out.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 9:40 am

      Yep. True: ‘Muslims benefited’ from 9-11 through the rush by the US government to collaborate with Muslim Brotherhood organizations and even to compromise its own education of government agents.

      This is political game played at the top by US diplomats making deals with Muslim diplomats. Both sides don’t really mean what they say.

      In actual fact, the US largely lost the freedom of speech in the matter of criticism of Islam. They call it ‘self-censorship’, but the call for censorship is coming from US diplomats and the White House who make deals with dictators who have the luxury of 100% censorship.

    • Wellington says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:22 am

      No Muzzies here: What “huge chunk” of our freedoms did Bush and “liberal pseudo-Republicans” take away from us? Bush made excuses for Islam that were not based in fact and inconveniences followed such as long lines at airports but I have no awareness that Bush and some Republicans took away our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, our Second Amendment gun rights, our Fifth Amendment to no double jeopardy or self-incrimination, our Fourteenth Amendment right to equality under the law, etc. The Patriot Act essentially duplicated what already applied to the Mafia and organized crime.

      The main culprit in America over the past twenty years respecting the deprivation of rights has been the Left and nowhere has freedom been taken more away than where the Left is most in control, i.e., the educational system from kindergarten through graduate school. Bush and Republicans have had nothing to do with this.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 11:18 pm

        Agreed, Wellington.

  4. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 9:26 am

    …the next day I woke up as my fellow Americans were now treating me as suspect.”

    If the American people are suspicious of muslims (and they should be) it’s because they live for the same ideology that inspired the 9/11 attackers and all the other terrorists who kill for allah. I find it rather obnoxious that Omar acts so indignant about this when the god of her “religion” explicitly calls for the murder and terrorizing of unbelievers. Such a command is a declaration of war against humanity. Her god is not a peacemaker but a hateful warmonger. Omar is fine with condemning our justified suspicions of islam, but has a short memory when it comes to islam’s crimes and sins that caused it all. Omar works hard at sounding patriotic. But a true patriot wouldn’t so conveniently ignore the genocidal violence and bigotry her own religion inspires and the threat it presents to our nation. She can’t help but be biased in favor of islam because her primary affections and loyalty are with islam’s agenda of world supremacy for allah. If non muslims are suspicious of her it’s for good reason, islam is diametrically opposed to our most fundamental principals of freedom and equality, not to mention all the terrorism and murder that comes with it. But hey, forget about all that, just remember how muslims are the victims in all this. PUKE! At best, Omar is a false patriot and a hypocrite, at worse, a sharia infiltrator bent on destroying America and her freedoms. And given islam’s history I think we all know which is the more likely.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 9:43 am

      Excellent post by AAP. ‘justified suspicions’. She does share the ‘same ideology that inspired 9-11’.

      • David says

        Sep 23, 2019 at 8:57 am

        Remember, ‘Not all muslims….’ No, but too damn many! None of them should ever be trusted. Their allegiance is to Allah. Omar swore in on the Koran!

    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:18 am

      Agostino Armo Pellegrini,

      An excellent post-my compliments.

      By definition, a Muslim belongs to a religious ideology, Islam, that has – as you correctly stated – an “agenda of world supremacy for Allah.”

      This agenda directly opposes the U.S. Constitution.

      Omar is a fake, a phony, and a fraud.

      Unfortunately, she is also a United States Congresswoman…

      • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 11:17 am

        Mortimer and Lincoln, we are of one mind on the subject. It’s frightening what islam has been able to get away with in the name of religion. You’re right Lincoln, I believe she is a fake, just as islam is fake. They both pretend to be one thing while being another. Islam is not “a religion of peace” and Omar is not a true patriot of this country. The American people need to ask themselves, do we really want a legislator whose principal loyalty is for an ideology that makes our destruction a godly mission? Islamic culture and religion is a paradigm that is antithetical to our nation as black is to white or wet is to dry. One cannot identify as a true blue muslim and be a trustworthy legislator any more than a devoted KKK member can be trusted in good race relations. They’re either a liar for the one and true to the other or they’re lying about both, either way they’re a fraud and can’t be trusted.

      • David says

        Sep 23, 2019 at 8:59 am

        James Omar was voted in by a large community of Somali. All part of the plan. The rot sets in.

    • Wellington says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:39 am

      Fine post. Muslims deserve great suspicion because as you outlined their religion is one that has nothing but contempt for non-believers and for freedom. It is also the only religion that calls upon its deluded followers to wage war upon humanity “until all religion is with Allah.” (Sura 8:39) Over 100 verses in that wretched excuse for a holy book, the Koran, call upon Muslims to wage such a war. If one is an adult non-Muslim and not suspicious of Islam and Muslims they are not only ignorant but exceedingly foolish.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      Fine post, Agostino.

    • LsdyTess says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 7:13 am

      How in the heck can she say that holding the position she does? That very fact proves the falsehood of her so called claim shes a puppet of the DS & CAIR and will bring rack and ruin to this country

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Muslims in the USA definitely did not lose their human rights. They certainly may have been seen as suspects by some Americans and by law enforcement, because Muslims are suspects if they endorse the JIHAD doctrine.

    Even true terrorist-supporting Muslims like Linda Sarsour and CAIR still have all possible human and civil rights. They cannot, however, control what the public thinks of them.

    Ilhan Omar wants to be above criticism. She has the attitude of a Third-World dictator. Idi Amin comes to mind.

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:14 am

      Omar is more like Muhammad. A lying supremacist pretending to be something she is not.

    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 10:31 am

      mortimer,

      Regarding Idi Amin:

      I have posted a link to the 1976 movie “Raid on Entebbe”, a fairly accurate depiction of the kind of dictator that Idi Amin was…

      • FYI says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 11:03 am

        To give him his full title..

        “His Excellency,President for Life,Field Marshal al Hajj Doctor Idi Amin Dada VC DSO MC Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea,Conqueror of the British Empire in African in General and Uganda in particular”

        A polygamist,a muslim too….so no surprise at making up stuff….

        • Giacomo Latta says

          Sep 23, 2019 at 8:34 am

          You left out ”King of Scotland.”

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 23, 2019 at 12:20 am

        Idi Amin was not recognized much as a Jihadist at the time–more of a third-world dictator, albeit a particularly unhinged one. But he was very much a pious Muslim supremacist, and he supported terrorist hijackings–including the infamous “Entebbe” Hijacking by “Palestinian” terrorists of Israelis. Among Amin’s victims was the Anglican archbishop, Joseph Mubiru, Per Amnesty International’s estimates, he had 500,000 people murdered.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 23, 2019 at 12:23 am

          And his sick legacy continues. One of his children–he may have had as many as 54 from six wives–was convicted for his role in a murder in London in 2007.

  6. Angemon says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 10:19 am

    The facts, however, never get in the way of the Left’s narrative

    And thus the narrative must be repeated over and over, ever increasingly shriekingly, until the breaking point – aren’t the emperor’s new clothes wonderful?…

    • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 11:50 am

      Poignantly true, Angemon. Their whole narrative–the left’s–is a house of cards built on a foundation of lies: Islam is peaceful and we’re all racist bigots for caring about the mass murder and terror it causes. I think Alice found more logic and honesty down the rabbit hole than we get from them about islam. I honestly believe much of the world is suffering from a mental illness for islam, a kind of multicultural delusion that ignores 14 centuries of religious bigotry, murder, and hate. Thank goodness for Trump, he was the stopgap we needed to temper the spiraling madness. His frank honesty about the islamic threat injected some badly needed realism into the narrative, a kind of Thorazine pill to calm the crazy and terrified masses. The left hates him because he speaks for tens of millions around the world who know the true bloody history and jihad intentions of islam, they now have a voice in a world class leader. Whew! we can breathe again! Maybe there’s hope after all.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    As for Ilan Omar with her completely unfeeling and un-American character that Muslim politician truly is heinously callous . For many reasons , one of which was her very heartless statement of referring to those murderous jihads affronts which occurred on September 11, 2001 are the results of “Some people did something”

    Likewise, a Muslim cleric who called 9/11 a “comedy film” is terribly heartless and cruel ,this is a further reminder that on the day of September 9 2016 some man I know who works as a security guard at a public place told me a Muslim actually had the nerve to walk over to him and said to him two Muslim “Jokes” about 9/11. As if it was a funny subject. It’s wrong to even try to “joke” about 9/11. Talk about bad “jokes” those two are the very much worst of all. The first was “What is the difference between September 11, 20001 and a cow?” answer “You don’t keep milking a cow after fifteen years.” Not only is that “joke” awful but those Muslims trying to be funny by say that cruel thing do have some gall because they have no room to talk . For they are still are “milking” the topic of the crusades and the crusades have been over for well more than seven hundred years. What gall they have!

    The second “Muslim “joke” about 9/11 is “On September 11, 2001 the people trapped on the upper floors of the WTC had ordered their pizza sent two of them plane.” To say that such “humor” is terrible is an understatement. Furthermore, those two plane . Muslim who say those “jokes” are really only exposing their own sick, vicious, callous and heartless Islamic mindset.”

    Shame on Omar as well as those other Muslims who told those hideously awful “jokes’ about 9/11.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 12:31 am

      Yes; just sick, Walter. You can tell a lot about a person’s values by seeing what they think is funny. With Islam typically it is sneering at their victims. *Ugh*.

  8. gravenimage says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 10:31 pm

    Ilhan Omar Discovers the Real Victim of 9/11: Ilhan Omar
    ……………………

    Just disgusting. The Muslim surpremacist cares nothing for the victims of Jihad.

  9. Paul J says

    Sep 23, 2019 at 1:47 am

    The constant carping about being a victim is quite simple, it’s a way to justify ANY violent act against others because it is passed of as being only in “retaliation”. Everything is done in the name of retaliation. The real motives are far from being retaliatory but the excuses they give to hide those motives are that they are ‘in retaliation’ for some imaginary slight or persecution. Mad Mo did it in Madina to justify that attack on the unarmed caravan during the forbidden months and they have using the ” we are victims” scam ever since. “Persecution is worse than slaughter” so sayeth the nutcase prophet Mad Mo.

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