A Freudian slip is embarrassing because for an instant something we hide is revealed to others. Maybe it’s suppressing bigoted and prejudiced feelings that we know are unacceptable in the wider society, but in a moment of stress and thoughtlessness, this dark side of who we are pops out.
Recently, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-D) had her own Freudian slip. I’m calling it her “Hijabi Slip,” because it relates to her confessions of deep Islamic religious piety. The slip appeared on her Twitter feed reacting to one from a Retawa Agnihotri, who quoted from the Qur’an.
Agnihotri tweeted, “Nor come nigh to fornication/adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).” (Quran 17: 32)
She was apparently alluding to accusations of marital and sexual improprieties against Congresswoman Omar that she had denied. This is the history. In October, 2019, Omar filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children. They had been separated since 2008. While separated, she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but got a divorce later through their Islamic traditions. There were allegations that Omar married Elmi, “her brother,” in order to grant him an immigration status.
Last month, Omar announced her new marriage to Tim Mynett, a political consultant who worked for her. Prior to this the couple was accused of having an affair.
Those matters imply a division between Omar’s reality and appearance. The congresswoman’s response to the Islamic accusation from Agnihotri is her Freudian slip. Omar, like most Muslim politicians in the U.S, poses as thoroughly modern, secular, and politically progressive.
She is so adept at this game that “the Democratic Party has become the party of Ilhan Omar.” Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not chastise her for her anti-Semitic tropes.
However, a different image appears in her tweeted response to Agnihotri. She did not reply with a secular western defense based on American cultural norms. Instead, Omar shot back what sounded more like a Salafi jurist in an Islamic state.
She tweeted, “And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever. They indeed are the Faasiqoon (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allah).” (Quran 24:4)
This drives to the heart of the issue: To what degree is a person, like congresswoman Omar, hiding deeply held religious beliefs for her political expediency?
Imagine if a Jewish Congressperson, when in a conflict regarding the Sabbath, chastising by using the scriptural injunction that those violating the Sabbath should be stoned to death (Numbers 15: 32- 36).
I am not in any way endorsing a “McCarthyite” Muslim scare that alleges loyalties to foreign powers in Congresswoman Omar or in Muslim politicians. I am, however, pointing out that some Muslim politicians have double-sided thinking and personalities. One side presents a secular Western persona when it is expedient. The other side harbors convictions that are hostile to American values and social norms. Omar’s Hijabi Slip exposes a deeper truth about how she thinks, and what she really believes.
It is fair to say that Congresswoman Omar has disappointed many American Muslims who want a better image of Islam in the American public. Her duplicitous behavior reveals U.S. Islamists at work to radicalize American Muslim communities and normalize Sharia law in America.
Darrell Pack is an Arabist and a member of the Islamic Reform Forum is Illinois
YYCAlberta says
We already knew of her long-term plans to turn the U.S. into an Islamic country.
Frank Zarzar says
That is the master plan. Always be pregnant……claim they are victims…..get everything for free….do not associate with infidels (that is all of us) Hold office and gain power. Keep breeding at a furious pace…..take over cities like they did in Dearborn Michigan …… We must rid ourselves of these murderous parasites before they turn us into Great Britain and France…
Jacquie Hemann Ruark says
Agree.
Jayell says
I think you’ll find that Great Britain is probably about to turn itself back into ‘Great Britain’ again. Can’t speak for France.
James Lincoln says
Sure hope so, Jayell.
But there is much heavy lifting to do…
Bernie Fried says
It is an accepted Fact that Muslims will lie to Non Muslims so why are we surprised with her actions? She is not to be believed on any issue save for the one where she is dedicated to America’s destruction. The issue that DNC allows her to maintain her position is a disgrace to all Democrats and a warning to all Citizens that Democrats do not have America’s interests at heart!
ana says
True.
DazzleMe says
+1
sweetolbob says
Eighty Stripes ! I’d buy a ticket to that. Especially if we renounced her citizenship and deported her !
OTTER says
So there you have it. She is a believer in the harshest punishments in the Quran. It is logical to assume that she subscribes to, and indeed, is subjugated by all the other bloodthirsty injunctions of the Quran. We, the kuffars are her eternal enemy. Wake up people, you ELECTED THIS DISEASE!
Ask the New York Times to comment on this. The Silence of the Lambs.
MS MADELEINE DUNN says
She’s just a liar. Her husband walked in on Ilhan and lover when they were in their pajamas at her home. Playing holier than thou with a savage Sharia tit for tat stinks to high hell, when clearly even if there were no witnesses she committed adultery. And clearly what she is saying is that as long as she can get away with it, it’s okay, and she warns that she will persecute anyone who confronts her with the truth.
sweetolbob says
Her husband either got there too late or too early ! I wonder which ?
Carolyn Marlin says
Sir if a USA voter votes Dems leadership are voters saying I am a kains father child????
OREN WYSOCKI says
Interesting that she quoted the hadith as if it was A defense of women, in muslim nations the governments interpitate the hadith as if A woman does not have 4 witness in her favor you are considered guilty. In muslim nations being caught alone is proof you have messed around, being alone with A man creates the presumption of guilt.
Arguing what someone actually thinks, and trying to determine if they are lying can be A difficult task in A world of intelligent people who know how to speak vaguely, and to imply, insinuate and speak of half truths.
What the koran actually says, the fact that the koran is very important to a very large number of muslims, in fact A critical percentage of muslims, that it forces any government formed to accommodate the believers in islam one way or another, is A better way to better identify and incriminate islamic society, that has escaped all criticism thanks to the left.
Measurements of the influence of A belief system, like has it garnered enough of the votes to supersede democracy and become the law, are clear logical ways for people to reason what type of nation and community muslims are, even though there are good and bad muslims. Asking questions like what percent of muslim women would face violence or threats if they removed their hijab, had an affair, disavowed islam, and other tests of freedom are easily conducted.
In fact we all already know the answers as to what will occur if they do, all that remains is the question of do we have the power to get it spoken into society to shame the women and leftists. The answer to that is that we cannot speak these things in society without facing consequences ourselves.
Hope for access to the media or judgment. In G-d I trust.
gravenimage says
Good point, Oren. This Hadith is used far more often *against* women, and is the main reason that women in Muslim countries seldom report rape, because this is their “admitting” they have had sex out of wedlock. If they can’t prove rape–which is almost impossible in Muslim countries–they can then be imprisoned ore even stoned to death, as a 13-year-old victim of gang rape was in Somalia a few years ago.
jca reid says
She is a vile, malicious, vindictive, hypocritical bitch! Following Islamic Teachings, why doe she have any kind of political power/influence? After all, Mohammed said a woman has only half the intelligence of a man at best.
The difference between Islamic Totalitarianism is that, unlike others starting out, where the Leaders want to get their hands on the Power, they simply want their ‘system to come out on top’. It doesn’t matter who the Leader/s is/are, as long as long as they get the Power!
OTTER says
There is nothing more immoral and depraved than Islamic ethics and she is the living example.
mortimer says
Islam has backdoors to allow Muslims to get around their difficulties. Omar makes her own rules.
She quotes the Islamic scripture when it is convenient, and when someone else quotes the verses that condemn her, she says that it’s ‘Islamophobic’ to quote the Koran.
commonsense says
Indeed. This tactic is characteristic of many, probably most, Muslim activists promoting their Islamic agendas.
Clifford Fodor says
She can say anything and to anything she wants, as long as it’s in the name of Allah. That’s what I read somewhere. You can lie, steal, and kill if you do it in the name of Allah.
James Lincoln says
Yes, mortimer.
She always wants it both ways…
gravenimage says
+1
Charleslavin says
They are never to be trusted ….parasites and leeches everyone of them …look around the world where there is trouble …90% of the time it is islam/ moslem sourced …
DazzleMe says
Absolutely, Charleslavin!
We need to rid ourselves of these parasites as quickly as possible!
Boromir's Horn says
She is exactly what we know her to be.
somehistory says
Ever notice that snakes have forked tongues? Forked tongues…synonymous with lying, deceit, dishonest person.
omar is a snake. She said there was nothing going on with the guy who is currently her husband…mr. omar. They were seen on many occasions…having dinner, etc….and she claimed it was all “business”…dirty business, proven by the fact her former husband caught the two of them together in pj’s on a couch, with no one else around and made a deal with her for big money. She committed adultery/fornication…who knows with how many…but the facts are clear that she was fooling around on her husband with the guy to whom she is married, denying it because lying is what she does. As Jesus said about satan the devil, “The Truth is not in him,”…the truth is not in her as one of satan’s many human children.
omar is full of islam and she is using it…even perverting the “four witnesses” thing to escape criticism and to point the dirty fingers at others. If she lived in arabia, iran, pakistan, she would need those four men to say she was innocent…and they couldn’t do that and be telling the truth.
She is getting paid a lot of money to ruin all that she can…from marriages, to the House, to the country. Working for islam and having a high old time of it. Snakes don’t use bombs…they use poison. Her poison is islam.
JHL says
American Ingrate.
RonaldB says
I can’t get excited about the article.
Omar was accused of violating Islamic law by the tweet. She replied with and expression of Islamic law countering the tweet. I think that’s an appropriate response, whether or not she is an Islamist or secular. If someone accused me of violating kosher law by eating carrots, rather than say “I don’t care about kashrut because I’m an atheist”, it would give me great pleasure to say “carrots are not haram, Einstein”. I’m just that sort of person.
I’m not sure how the author gets to accuse Omar of being secular. She makes a point of hiding her ugly head with an ugly hijab all the time she’s in public. I don’t see that as saying she’s secular. I think it’s a projection on the part of the author to accuse Omar of pretending to be secular; she gives the open appearance of being very fervently Muslim.
I don’t care if Omar committed adultery. If you kicked out every Congressman who committed adultery at some point, you’d be making laws by a small committee.
I don’t see any real reason to dispute whether Islamic beliefs or plain cultural Marxism is at the root of her intense hatred of America. I don’t care. By the time the cultural-Marxist, Islamic partnership to destroy America gets far enough for the two to separate, the destruction will already be irreversible. I’m certain the Muslims will kill the Marxists, but I don’t care.
The evidence that Omar hates America and despises its laws are clear and documented. She may or may not have committed adultery, or may have lounged immaculately in her pjs. But she has committed bigamy in pursuit of immigration fraud. She and the other Muslim and non-Muslim refugees see the US as a cash cow and an easy mark. Unfortunately, her Minnesota district is packed with refugee grifters just like her, and they like her well enough to consistently vote her into office.
As usual, the anti-Semitism canard is a red herring, of no relevance to the fact she is deeply anti-American. I looked at the article cited on her anti-Semitism, and the article makes the usual equivalence that being opposed to Israel is being anti-Semitic on its face. Just for the record, Israel does what it needs to to survive, which includes occasionally putting extra restrictions on Palestinians and other Arabs, and occasionally bombing places containing civilians. Criticizing Israel for these actions may be irrational, but it is not ipso facto anti-Semitic. I’m not saying Omar is not anti-Semitic. I’m saying, it really doesn’t matter. And yes, I realize there is going to be a lot of disagreement with this paragraph.
basho says
It is; ipso facto.
RonaldB says
Please present your evidence and reasoning.
gravenimage says
Ronald, Omar is a member of Congress advocating the flogging of people who flout Islamic law. I actually consider that a serious issue.
And I see you are saying again that it does not matter that pious Muslims are anti-Semitic. Again, I have to disagree.
Jocelynn Cordes says
I wrote an essay for the Federalist last year on the incommensurability of Islam with Western beliefs, and why it is ESSENTIAL to question whether or not one is an adherent to Islam or not if they are to hold office.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/08/entirely-relevant-ask-whether-elected-representatives-believe-sharia/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=06be70fc7e-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-06be70fc7e-
gravenimage says
Thank you, Ms. Cordes. I appreciate your work here.
Niemoller says
Produce four witnesses? There are millions of witnesses. Omar’s mockery of marriage is on full display and public record. The Quran doesn’t require eyewitness evidence of the actual sex act taking place, it is all based on the alleged reliability of those who confirm a suspicion. Witness is not an eyewitness in Islam.
gravenimage says
True.
Giacomo Latta says
”It is fair to say that Congresswoman Omar has disappointed many American Muslims who want a better image of Islam in the American public”
And is each of the other 3.5 million muslims disappointing the other 3.5 million muslims? I suspect not. The cited opinion is surely a minority muslim opinion. It is the first time I have heard this coming from a muslim.
gravenimage says
They are only disappointed that Omar has not gone even further against the “filthy Infidels”.
Mike says
A freudian slip , something that you hide from others and that you suddenly reveals , is this something like : ” Michael and I ” once said by OBAMA ?
Tim Carlo says
and this Minnesota district was created by no other then Barack Hussein Obama and he is still behind the scene creating more atrocities against America…. condemn anyone and anything that has to do with the Obama’s…
Kilfincelt says
The Koran says that Allah is the best deceiver and deceit is war. Many jihadists have violated Islamic law before they killed infidels because, according to Muslim tenets, the jihadist goes straight to Paradise if their acts are meant to forward the goals of Islam. Omar and Tlaib are jihadists in every sense of the word.
gravenimage says
Exactly–good point.
OLD GUY says
Omar will not support the constitution of the United States of America and should be kicked out of office, She is a deceiver by every description.
Donald says
Winston Churchill said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” The voters of Minnesota Elected this abomination which is exactly Churchill’s point.
YYCAlberta says
Muslims ALWAYS vote as a block, just as their Imams tell them to. Once a certain percentage of the electorate in a given district is Muslim, it is almost impossible to eject the Muslim they voted for.
Once the kids achieve the power of the vote, you will see more and more Muslims elected to local, state and federal offices. This tactic is pretty obvious to anyone who opens his or her eyes.
Oh, and the Islamic immigration we see these days strengthens their objectives even faster.
gravenimage says
Donald, Churchill also said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others”.
The problem here is that few Infidels understand anything about Islam. We have to continue to expose Muslim thugs like Omar.
Tom says
When are people going to realize that there are agents of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating our political systems with the express purpose of using those systems against us.
It is easy to search and read the MB Manifesto online and clearly see their agenda that they so openly espouse.
The west needs to awaken to the existential threat that is the MB fifth column within our society and the insidious purposes behind the election of Muslim politicians.
Leonard Feinman says
Sorry, but I could not find the quote from “Numbers” in the Bible. I looked on Wiki and other sources, and it speaks of a person who was gathering wood on the Sabbath and was stoned to death. The problem is, I can’t find this quote anywhere but the New Testament, so I have to wonder if this is another “mistranslation.” (As in Moses crossing “The RED Sea.” The Bible says he crossed “Yam Suph,” or Reed Sea, but this mistranslation is all most people know.
There are other biblical inconsistencies due to bad translations, and a few of them are contentious. They spell the differences between Judaism and Christianity’s take on Old Testament stories. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah was undeniable for anybody who cared to look.
Yes, I know this story is not about this, but somebody who uses Scriptures or Hadiths to justify their comments. We may all read a book, but not all books say the same thing. And, none of them prove any point more than the next.
barbaracvm1 says
If Ilan acted this way in a Muslim country she would be stoned to death. So why is she so anti US? She will not be murdered for her actions.
ana says
A year ago Omar was a skanky criminal. Today Omar is a skanky criminal. Tomorrow she will still be a skanky criminal. A year ago her district was stupid and supported her because the USA imported jihadi trash to that district. Anyone care to guess at the future here?
gravenimage says
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s “Hijabi Slip”
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Omar seems to know her Islam, all right…