Who to blame for this and for that? The Russians were always asking themselves that question: Kto vinovat? – Who is to blame? – was the title of a famous work by Alexander Herzen, a title subsequently recycled by many others, and not only in Russia.
Here in America, someone who enjoys finding non-Muslims to blame for the ills endured by the Muslim lands is Congressman Ilhan Omar, reliably hugging the shore of absurdity. She has yet again delivered her thoughts on Who Is To Blame for all the world’s ills. Apparently, the culprit she has in the past always dragged into kangaroo court of her own untidy mind hasn’t changed – it’s still the United States.
Her version of reality is here.
“When you see a Somali refugee or an Iraqi refugee or a Libyan refugee, we often are like ‘this is my neighbor, they must have survived some struggle,’ we don’t ever pause to think ‘what American policy made them come over here?’” she said at a Democracy Now! and Rising Majority event in Washington, D.C., receiving loud applause.
What makes Somalis or Iraqis or Libyan refugees come to America? It is the wretched and dangerous condition of their own countries, and the assurance that in America they will be living in a secure state, with a government of laws, that respects basic human rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion, unlike any of the countries they come from or, indeed, unlike any Muslim-majority country. They know, too, that they will have benefits of many kinds lavished upon them, these economic migrants who convince our immigration officials that they are “asylum seekers” fleeing persecution. The benefits they receive include some or all of the following: free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits, and family allowances. No one knows this better than Ilhan Omar, who is fully aware of just how well her fellow Somalis in Minneapolis have done by taking advantage of every possible benefit offered to them, even beyond the great and unmerited gift of being allowed to settle in America in the first place, among mostly unsuspecting Infidels whom those Muslim migrants have been taught since childhood to despise as “the most vile of created beings.” Yet Omar feels not the tiniest twinge of gratitude to the United States; in her topsy-turvy moral world, it is American policy that is to blame for what makes Somalia such an unpleasant place to live.
But how is America to blame for conditions in Somalia? The Republic of Somalia was formed in 1960 by the federation of a former Italian colony and a British protectorate. Mohamed Siad Barre held dictatorial rule over the country from October 1969 until January 1991, when he was overthrown in a bloody civil war waged by clan-based guerrillas. The American government was not responsible either for the long despotism of Siad Barre, nor for the civil war that deposed him. The war that followed among the various Somali clans had nothing to do with the American government. Nor did the appearance of the terrorist group Al-Shabab, which is a local branch of Al Qaeda. Fighting, insecurity, and lack of state protection, and recurring humanitarian crises have had a devastating impact on Somali civilians for years. The number of internally displaced people, many living unassisted and at risk of serious abuse, have now reached 3 million. The Islamist armed group Al-Shabab has subjected the people living under its control to harsh treatment, including forcibly recruiting them to its ranks. Somalis often suffer deadly attacks by Al-Shabab that deliberately target civilians. The Americans have “intervened” in Somalia in two ways. They have delivered humanitarian aid to civilians when such deliveries can be made without coming under fire, and they have attacked Al-Shabab which has terrorized and murdered so many Somali civilians. Surely Ilhan Omar knows this. Or does she not want to be bothered with mere facts, when malevolent falsehoods are so much more fun?
As for Libya, in what way was America responsible for the madman Qaddafi, who came to power in a coup that overthrew the pro-American King Idris in 1969 and also led to Libya closing down America’ Wheelus Airbase? In his forty-two years as the absolute ruler of Libya, Qaddafi faced only implacable enmity from Washington. And that following Qaddafi’s overthrow in 2011, among local militias based in Tripoli, Tobruk, Misrata, Benghazi, and other cities, again had nothing to do with America. As of right now, the Americans in theory “recognize” the government based in Tripoli under Fayez Al-Sarraj, but have done nothing to support it, and there are many in Washington who regard the pro-American General Khalifa Haftar, based in eastern Libya, as a better bet. Khalifa Haftar, after all, lived in America for 20 years, where he served as a consultant to the C.I. A., and even became an American citizen. But as with Somalia, there is little reason to blame America for the endless wars that have been going on in Libya since the most violent lord of misrule, Muammar Qaddafi, was killed in 2011.
Finally, Ilhan Omar mentions Iraq. The United States government has twice engaged with Iraq. In 1990-1991 during the Gulf War pushed Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait, which he had invaded and declared would now be the 19th province of Iraq. Does Ilhan Omar think that preventing the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein from swallowing Kuwait was a bad idea? Would she have preferred that Kuwait have disappeared, that Iraq have been enlarged, and that Saddam Hussein, further emboldened, might then have attacked the UAE or Jordan or even Saudi Arabia?
Then there was the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Americans sought to remove Saddam Hussein, and to bring Western-style democracy to Iraq. Were these aims illegitimate, in Ilhan Omar’s view? Aren’t Iraqis much better off today than they were when Saddam was in power, murdering his opponents at will? The only fault to be found with American policy in Iraq is that it was much too naïve and generous. Americans stayed, and spent two trillion dollars, in order to bring about peace, security, and a democratic government, in a country where the divisions, both sectarian (Sunni and Shia), and ethnic (Arabs and Kurds) could not be healed. In “democratic” Iraq, the Shi’a Arabs, who constitute 60% of the population, refuse to relinquish any of the power they now possess, and the Sunni Arabs whom Saddam Hussein had naturally favored, are as yet unwilling to acquiesce in their loss of power to the Shi’a. These conflicts have nothing to do with America.
Ilhan Omar seems to think that the Somalis, Libyans, and Iraqis now in the U.S. are “owed” their resettlement in this country because American actions in their countries caused them to flee in the first place. That’ a travesty of history. Somalia, Libya, and Iraq have been suffering from decades of what the Italians call Malgoverno – Bad Government. Think of the despots, all three pathologically evil, who ran these countries for many decades – Siad Barre, Muammar Qaddafi, and Saddam Hussein. Think of how , in Somalia, the clans have continued to fight each other long after Siad Barre was deposed, how the city-based militias in Libya have been fighting since Qaddafy was grotesquely impaled; how the Sunnis and Shi’a continue to battle over power, and over the money that power brings, in post-Saddam Iraq. Ilhan Omar doesn’t have time to recognize that truth; she knows it’s America’s fault that people have felt the need to flee Somalia, Libya, and Iraq. Hers not to reason why.
“When you see flooding happening in a country abroad and you are urgently raising money for these lives to be saved, you don’t think about, ‘How have I contributed to the climate warming that has led to these floodings and these catastrophes that are taking place abroad?’” Omar said.
Really? How does Ilhan Omar know what you or I think about flooding and its relation to global warming (the melting of glaciers and ice caps that lead to a rise in sea level), and our own contributions to that warming? We can hardly avoid thinking about it, as it is constantly being discussed on radio, on television, and online. There is even a movement to decrease air travel to an absolute minimum: not nations, but individuals, “take the pledge” for “the sake of the planet”). We are sufficiently aware of climate warming to think of our own contribution to it, however large or small. But America is not uniquely guilty, as Ilhan Omar believes; every industrialized nation has been contributing to global warming. Some less industrialized countries also contribute to climate change by starting fires to turn forest into ranchland, as Brazilian cattle ranchers have been known to do in the Amazon. It might surprise Omar to learn that the United States is no longer the main emitter of CO2; China now emits more than twice as much CO2 as does the United States, and its emissions continue on a steep upward curve. India’s CO2 emissions are steadily rising as well. Omar might also be interested to learn that Saudi Arabia emits as much CO2 as do Great Britain and France together, while Iran emits as much as Canada, Germany, and South Korea.
Ilhan Omar probably does not know that the Arab oil states, and above all Saudi Arabia, have tried to block or water down international agreements on lowering carbon emissions. An article in the Guardian about the role of the Saudis in the 2015 negotiations leading to the Paris Climate Accord is devastating:
Saudi Arabia has long played a high-profile presence at annual climate summits operating from the luxuriously appointed pavilions of the Gulf Co-operation Council – and over the years has regularly been accused of blocking action on climate change.
In the run-up to the Paris summit, however, the kingdom adopted a more amenable posture. Last month it delivered a plan to fight climate change, pledging a “significant deviation” in emissions, but was the last G20 country to submit its offer to the United Nations, and analysts described the targets as opaque….
Behind the closed doors of negotiating sessions, however, the Saudis have strenuously resisted efforts to enshrine ambitious goals into the text of a Paris agreement.
The Saudis objected even to the mention of 1.5C – a new more ambitious target for limiting warming now endorsed by more than 100 countries including vulnerable low-lying states and big polluters such as the European Union and US.
The kingdom balked at the goal of decarbonising the economy by 2050….
And although Saudi Arabia ranks as the world’s 15th largest economy, it has resisted efforts to grow the Green Climate Fund to help poorer countries cope with global warming – insisting only industrialised countries contribute.
Saudi negotiators have also demanded that if tiny islands like Kiribati be compensated for climate change, they should also be protected from loss of future oil income, and they have sought financial aid to acquire new green energy technology…
“We feel Saudi Arabia is playing a bully role in undermining the position of other Arab countries,” Hmaidan said. “It is unfortunate that the Arab group is the only group opposing 1.5C.”
Ilhan, take a good look.
No further questions, your honor.
mortimer says
“They always blame America first.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv8L-cuq17s
Tom says
The comparisons below tell more about why they are fleeing their countries,,,Over breeding by islamic /third world countries
Population growth in the United Kingdom
From 1960 to 2018 the population of the United Kingdom increased from 52.40 million to 66.49 million people. This is a growth by 26.9 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in the United Kingdom was recorded in 1962 with 0.85%. The biggest decrease in 1982 with -0.04%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in the United States
From 1960 to 2018 the population of the United States increased from 180.67 million to 327.17 million people. This is a growth by 81.1 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in the United States was recorded in 1961 with 1.67%. The smallest increase in 2018 with 0.62%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Germany
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Germany increased from 72.81 million to 82.93 million people. This is a growth by 13.9 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Germany was recorded in 1963 with 0.93%. The biggest decrease in 2011 with -1.84%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Somalia
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Somalia increased from 2.76 million to 15.01 million people. This is a growth by 444.6 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Somalia was recorded in 1977 with 12.54%. The biggest decrease in 1984 with -0.06%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Ethiopia
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Ethiopia increased from 22.15 million to 109.22 million people. This is a growth by 393.1 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Ethiopia was recorded in 1992 with 3.66%. The smallest increase in 1979 with 1.23%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Pakistan
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Pakistan increased from 44.91 million to 212.22 million people. This is a growth by 372.6 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Pakistan was recorded in 1983 with 3.42%. The smallest increase in 2018 with 2.08%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Afghanistan
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Afghanistan increased from 9.00 million to 37.17 million people. This is a growth by 313.2 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Afghanistan was recorded in 1993 with 9.19%. The biggest decrease in 1983 with -2.68%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Libya
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Libya increased from 1.45 million to 6.68 million people. This is a growth by 361.1 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Libya was recorded in 1972 with 4.46%. The smallest increase in 2013 with 0.55%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Population growth in Iraq
From 1960 to 2018 the population of Iraq increased from 7.29 million to 38.43 million people. This is a growth by 427.2 percent in 58 years. The highest increase in Iraq was recorded in 2013 with 3.97%. The smallest increase in 2007 with 1.69%.
In the same period, the total population of all countries worldwide increased by 150.3 percent.
Westman says
Omar emits personal corruption from every pore yet lectures the world from a “victim” of the US perspective like a two-year-old shouting “no!” to her parents. She obviously doesn’t respect the US any more than she respected her non-brother ex-husbands.
kathleen7546 says
TY for these stats!
eee says
We invested blood and treasure in feeding Somalis when their nasty theocracy yet again gave them empty plates. They thanked us with Black Hawk Down. No Somali should ever presume to lecture or criticise America, even after fraudulently procuring naturalisation.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Let us hope that the business of “marrying” her brother, and her reasons for doing so, to fraudulently acquire a green card for him, and to make him eligible for student loans, at long last gets the coverage it deserves. If she is convicted of deceiving the government about her brother to obtain both the green card and the student loans for him, she could face a very large fine and a jail term. Then there is the matter of where she got the $250,000 she has agreed to pay her husband Hirsi, while dallying with her political consultant and lover, Mr. Wynett. Did she take it out of her campaign funds, which is illegal? More fines, more lawyers’ fees, more mess. And to to it all off, there are the huge amounts she has been paying out of her campaign funds — hundreds of thousands of dollars -to her ‘consultant” and lover. An investigation should quickly make clear that this is self-dealing — campaign funds go to Wynett, who is paid a greatly unnecessary amount. Those moneys, in turn, are spent by Wynett and his lover Omar, not to further her political career but for other services rendered, and they have had a high old time spending those funds together on travel, hotel rooms, and restaurants.
Ilhan Omar, though grinning through it. all, is in very big trouble. Even some of her Somali loyalists in Minneapolis have begun to look askance at her ways. After all, she’s an adulterer, and furthermore, she betrayed her Muslim husband with a non-Muslim lover. Very bad form. In quite a few countries that practice the strictest form of Islam, she could be stoned to death. Could she be asked to discuss that at her next public appearance? Here in the good old USA she faces only monumental fines, lawyers’ fees, possible jail time and, oh yes, lest we forget, loss of her House seat. Still, she’ won’t be stoned to death. That’s something.
Infidel says
The latter point that you made is what puzzles me. How is she still popular w/ Muslims, having betrayed a Muslim husband w/ a non-Muslim lover (and presumably, renting out her package to him: that’s the equivalent of, say, Saudi Arabia leasing Medina to Israel). Is her advocacy more beneficial to the Islamic cause that it outweighs her religious adultery?
Also, Hugh, the entire article gives her too much intellectual credibility that she doesn’t deserve. Just hearing her talk for 10 seconds is convincing enough evidence of her IQ being in single digits. Her entire worldview can be summed up in a variation of that Animal Farm cliche: ‘Islam, good; anti-Islam, bad’
gravenimage says
I think other Muslims just recognize her as useful. In a fully Islamized society under Shari’ah law she would be stoned to death, of course.
Giacomo Latta says
”she could be stoned to death”?
Hmm, maybe I’ve been harsher on this sharia than I should have been.
Wanda says
What would you expect from an American hating terrorist!
Walter Sieruk says
About the Muslim politician Ilan Omar she is extremely anti-Jewish and likewise very anti-Israel therefore Omar is , in essence , Un-American and thus unfit to hold any political office in the USA .
As so well explained by the former US President, William Howard Taft, when in a speech he declared
“Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Walter Sieruk says
As for Ilan Omar, that subversive and scheming Muslim insidious movements of political manipulative anti- American ,anti Israel , pro -Sharia law agenda .
Omar , after her election to Congress she was thus was given a seat on the House of Foreign Affairs Committee where she has much influence to promote her Un-American Islamic ideas ,politics and polices upon America .
Omar with her foreign Islamic agenda she desire to impose on America which are in strong contrast to American ideas , values , politic and polices are a matter of concern .
With this type of insidious Islamic infiltration in the US government the wisdom of the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, very much applies to this serious situation.
For in a speech President Roosevelt, rightly, declared “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
It should not and must not be forgotten that this callous character is a completely unfeeling and un-American Muslim politician ,Ilan Omar, truly is. For many reasons , one of which was a very callous statement of Ilan Omar 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.”
keith says
“what American policy made them come over here”.
Genuine refugees don’t flee to the country and people who tore apart their own country. They instinctively head to some where that is safe and who will protect them.
Blaming the people of the US for the ills of the world is absurd.
Humanity is collectively to blame for the crap condition the planet is in. On one hand we have those who are blowing things and people up, raping children, causing chaos.
And there are those who are trying to stop the wolves from destroying the flock.
Sheep don’t run to the wolf for protection.
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar Blames – Who Else? – The Americans
Her version of reality is here.
“When you see a Somali refugee or an Iraqi refugee or a Libyan refugee, we often are like ‘this is my neighbor, they must have survived some struggle,’ we don’t ever pause to think ‘what American policy made them come over here?’”
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Yeah, ’cause that always happens–after all, when Fascist policies destroyed countries, didn’t the inhabitants all immigrate to Nazi Germany?
Does Omar even realize how ludicrous this claim is? But in this self-hating climate, she may have a lot of people who swallow this tripe anyway.
Joe S. says
I have great admiration for Robert Spencer and what he does by telling the truth about Islam. I also have no respect at all for Ilhan Omar. However I only question Spencer’s interpretation of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. George Bush had no business going there because: 1) Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction as had been claimed, 2) Iraqis need to be ruled by a strong man like Saddam to keep all factions under control, 3) Saddam was fair towards the Christian community, which is rare in a Muslim-majority country, and 4) Iraq is in areal mess now resulting from the American invasion.
gravenimage says
Actually, Robert Spencer has been critical of the invasion of Iraq.
Lili says
Omar’s entry onto U.S. soil, is explicit Shame
for “our” F.B.I. Top Notch.
A Somali ungrateful specimen, whose family supposedly under life threats, granted entry for humanitarian reasons. She marries her brother, then divorced him to marry her Uncle..those muslims are “special” animals.
That female? is full of hate towards anything American & Western, but will she give up her smartphone or PC with its built-in Intel Chip made in Israel…! In your dreams, such hypocrit. Clinton, Bush & Hussein imported a few million Muslims & gave them citizenship. From here it was but a short trip to send a crip like Omar to sit next to Pelosi, the Dry Old Bag. From the twin city came an enforcement of Rashida with her huge frontal Dairy plant…a Philistinian American..
No such Nation, never has been yet, the world swallowed the lie. Good Luck USA.
Giacomo Latta says
Please don’t forget the personal sacrifices that Ilhan has been making. Instead of living in a place where the toilet is a hole in the ground behind the main hut, she has forced herself to live in a house where the toilet is attached to a sanitary sewage network. Of course, that requires cleaning and she has been forced to import another immigrant from her home country to do the cleaning that this arrangement requires.
OLD GUY says
Like I have said before, if she hates being in this country and despises our people and form of government I am sure she can afford a plane ticket to her favorite Islamic country that will accept her. If not there are enough of us that can pitch in to buy her a one way ticket.
Rich Blessing says
I agree with seeing many major problems with bringing in so-called ‘refugees’, and especially so with adding them into politics ect….
BUT…let’s not overlook or dismiss that umm…foundation.
It’s NOT about who & what’s being brought in….
it’s all-inclusive and full-on about what’s being brought down.
Or far more precisely: getting smashed down.
YES, it’s a wake-up call!
If anyone hears the knock at their door, please open your door that’s keeping you closed off from the Powerful Creator God
NOBODY will have any second chance in life.
Choose to follow God, or stay stuck in the dark muddy pathway of satan.
Matthew chapter 18, verse 11.
Please find the only best direction in life.
Thank you.
Rich Blessing says
Stop for a short moment and think about only two words:
Confucius
and
Confusion
I mean hey…as the saying goes….third time’s a charm, isn’t it?
(o_0)