Ilhan Omar has not been moved by the protesters being mowed down by the Basij and the IRGC in Iran. For several weeks she said nothing. And when she finally spoke out on Oct. 8, 2022 on the ongoing Iranian protests, she grotesquely compared the arrest, torture, and murder of Iranian women protesters to the supposed mistreatment of American women fighting for abortion rights. “EXPOSED: The Sick, Secret, Hateful, Anti-Semitic History of Ilhan Omar,” by Larry Ben-David, Matsav.com,
…“So, we know the women in Iran are bravely chanting, ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ for their rights, for their right to bodily autonomy,” Omar said. “So, here in the United States, when the right extremists are challenging our bodily autonomy, we have to stand up and say, ‘Women, Life, Freedom.’”
Omar is drawing a bizarre parallel between the Iranian regime, that monitors every aspect of life for women and sets down rules enforced by the morality police, a regime that has been murdering women and girls merely for protesting against the required wearing of the hijab, with those who In this country who are opposed to abortion. I haven’t noticed the American police clubbing to death right-to-lifers. Have you? Tehran doesn’t just ban abortions. It also arrests, tortures, and murders Iranian women – beginning with Mahsa Amini and Sabina Esmailizadeh — for not wearing their hijabs, or just for protesting, non-violently, against the regime. There is a difference between the murderous misogyny of the Iranian regime and the right-to-lifers in this country, one that apparently escapes Ilhan Omar. Making distinctions is not her strong suit.
Omar then used her Twitter account to promote a Responsible Statecraft article that claimed the leading Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad “isn’t just an Iranian journalist and activist. She’s on the U.S. government payroll.” The publication in question was the house journal of the Quincy Institute, which is headed by Trita Parsi, the founder of the National Iranian American Council and the Iranian regime’s primary fellow traveler in the United States.
Omar attacks a brave Iranian dissident, Masih Alinejad, who has been writing against the regime for decades. She now work for the Persian section of Voice of America, providing a weekly 15-minute program with vignettes about life today in Iran. So what? She does not take dictation from the American government; she is not its mouthpiece or puppet. She has been attacking the Iranian regime, beginning 20 years ago when she was still living in Iran, and continues to do so in her broadcasts for Voice of America and Radio Farda. She has risked her life; a gun-concealing Iranian intent on killing her was recently picked up by the FBI. The accusation, passed on by Omar, that Alinejad was “on the U.S. government payroll” – as if that were a Bad Thing, though last I looked Ilhan Omar is also “on the U.S. government payroll” – was made in a publication put out by the Quincy Institute, whose head is Trita Parsi, the senior apologist for the Iranian regime in the U.S. Was Ilhan Omar unaware of Trita Parsi’s doubtful reputation? I have the distinct impression that she doesn’t want the Iranian regime to collapse. After all, Tehran supports groups – Hamas and Hezbollah – that Ilhan Omar finds appealing. And she cannot fault Iran on its Israel policy; Tehran wants to see the Jewish state disappear even more than Omar herself.
In March 2022, 414 Members of the House voted for a Russian oil ban and additional sanctions against the Kremlin for its attack on Ukraine. Only two Democrats voted against sanctions on Russia: Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush (D-Mo.), both members of the far-left “Squad” of Democratic congresspeople.
Ilhan Omar is unusually supportive of Putin’s war, and unsympathetic to Ukraine. What made her so deeply impressed with the absurd case Putin has made for his invasion? 414 House members voted for sanctions on Russia; only Omar, and one other squadrette, Cori Bush, voted against them. One wonders whether some benjamins might have gone from Moscow to her husband’s political consultant/advertising firm, the E-Street Group. Omar’s campaign had previously contracted for $3 million of “work” from the E-Street Group, until an outcry made Omar terminate the contract in 2020. Since then she’s been on the prowl looking for other clients for her husband’s firm, in order to keep him, and her, in the style to which they so quickly grew accustomed. Might the Russians, taking note of her membership on the Foreign Relations Committee in Congress, and her leading role as a member of the “progressive” Squad, have decided to hire her husband’s firm to do P.R. work for them?
As of Aug. 2022, Omar had raised more than $2.3 million for her current congressional race, according to the Federal Election Commission. As expected, she received campaign contributions from supporters of her anti-Israel positions.
One example is the Sabri clan, who also contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Omar’s 2018 campaign. Some 20 years ago, the clan’s patriarch Basim Sabri, a wealthy real estate tycoon in Minneapolis, was convicted on three counts of bribing an elected official and served time in a federal penitentiary. His daughter Karmel, a leader in anti-Israel organizations, also contributes to Omar’s campaigns.
Of course the anti-Israel brigade will be sending money to Omar’s campaign. She’s been a good investment, always ready to assault the Jewish state and bemoan the “plight of the Palestinians.” Her talking points could have been written in Ramallah. She’ll never let them down.
In April 2022, Rep. Omar conducted a private visit to Pakistan, where she met the country’s top leadership and visited the frontlines of “occupied Kashmir,” a region Pakistan and India have bitterly contested for decades. Omar was joined by her husband Timothy Mynett, a Pakistani-American businessman from Texas, and a former member of Congress. The U.S. State Department said her trip was private, and the sponsor of her visit has not been made public.
Her trip was “private” but the outcome will be “public,” in the speeches and resolutions and votes she will deliver or introduce or vote on in Congress, where she will now be a champion for the “oppressed Muslims” of Kashmir, just as her Pakistani hosts had hoped. Why does she refuse to name the sponsor of her visit? Was it the rich Pakistani-American businessman, Javad, who was on the trip with her? Or could it have been the government of Pakistan itself that paid for the expensive junket provided both to Omar and to her husband Tim Mynett? The Minnesota voters have a right to know, as they decide whether to send her back to Congress for another term, or to jettison her for a candidate more focused on what matters to Minnesotans than on Pakistan, Turkey, Somalia, and “Palestine.”
Just one year before his meeting with Omar, Pakistani President Arif Ali defended Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel. According to Shiite News, the president insisted that “resistance against any occupier is permissible under international law; therefore, I consider the rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas justified.”
President Ali expressed appreciation for the “outstanding role” played by Omar “in upholding Muslim values, fighting against Islamophobia and in the cause of Palestinians and Kashmiris.” “He told Omar, “The world must be made aware of the suppression and possible Muslim genocide in India.”
The only “genocide” in Kashmir was that which Muslims in that region started in 1990, a campaign of murder that caused 80% of the Kashmiri Hindus to flee the region. There have been no mass killings or “genocide,” of Muslims either in Kashmir or in the rest of India. It is Hindus (and Sikhs) who have been driven out of Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), fleeing attacks by local Muslims. That is why the Hindu population of Pakistan has gone from 15 percent at independence in 1947, and has declined to 1.2 percent today; that is why the Hindu population in Bangladesh) has declined from 28 percent at Partition to 8 percent today.
Omar also met with the President of Azad Kashmir, Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry. Omar pledged, “I already voiced serious concerns over the human rights violations in the Indian-occupied Kashmir and would take up the issue with the U.S. Congress as well as the Biden administration.”
In addition, Omar paid an unusual visit to the tense Line of Control, which divides the Pakistani- and Indian-controlled parts of Kashmir.
Her Pakistani hosts wanted to show her the face-off between their forces – the good Muslim troops of Pakistani Kashmir — and the barbaric polytheist Hindu troops of India, imposing their will on the inoffensive Muslim population of Indian Kashmir. Her visit to the Line of Control, with Pakistani army guides providing their tendentious narrative, no doubt made a deep impression on this American Ambassador for Islam.
Tellingly, the campaign against India over Kashmir is essentially a “copy-paste” of the campaign against Israel, replete with a #BoycottIndianProducts campaign and accusations of genocide and anti-Muslim discrimination.
The only “genocide” in Kashmir has been the war made by its dominant Muslim population in 1990 on the Pandits in the Indian-held part of Kashmir. Muslim jihadists killed high-profile Hindu officials, which panicked the Hindu population. Of a total Pandit population of 120,000–140,000, some 90,000-100,000 left the valley.
Analysis of the anti-India movement indicates that the Muslim Brotherhood and Pakistani elements are behind the campaign. Pakistan is also training Hamas fighters, according to Pakistani Senator Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, cited by an Indian source last year.
Two months after her junket to Pakistan, Omar introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning alleged human rights violations by India. Specifically, Omar’s Res. 1196 condemned “human rights violations and violations of international religious freedom in India, including those targeting Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Dalits, Adivasis and other religious and cultural minorities.” The resolution was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which Omar is a member….
The campaign to force India to remove its troops from Kashmir, thereby leaving the last Pandits living there without protection from local Muslims, is being promoted in large part by the Muslim Brotherhood. That is the kind of ally that Ilhan Omar is willing to work with. It’s not surprising. She has always worked closely with CAIR, frequently speaking at their meetings, despite CAIR being an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, where the Foundation and its leaders were found guilty of terrorist financing. Muslim terrorists don’t seem to alarm her. Omar bizarrely described the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qaeda as when “some people did something.”
Ilhan Omar has helped out the Somali delegation in their relations with Turkey; she has pledged her support for Turkey’s Erdogan in rejecting the “Armenian genocide” designation. She has agreed to help the Muslims of Kashmir, portraying them as victims of Indian “genocide” rather than as the perpetrators of massacres who drove more than 70% of the Pandits – Kashmiri Hindus – out of Kashmir. It is only now, with the Indian army back in Kashmir in force, to keep the peace, that some Hindus have begun to return. And it is this Indian army presence, which allows Hindus to live in safety, that so exercises the Muslims of Kashmir and Pakistan and now, too, at least one Muslim in the House of Representatives. Ilhan Omar is always ready to take up the cause of Palestinians against the Israelis who “stole their land.” She knows a secure peace will only be achieved once the state of Palestine exists “from the river to the sea.”
One wonders how Ilhan Omar justifies spending so much time and effort on foreign policy matters that have nothing to do with the concerns of the Minnesotans she is supposed to represent. One would also like to know who paid for her trip, and that of her husband, the “political consultant” Tim Mynett, to Pakistan.
And did Tim Mynett make any contacts, while on that trip, possibly meeting with potential clients for his suddenly quite-lucrative political consulting business in Washington? Isn’t it at least possible that some well-heeled Pakistani-Americans, or even the government of Pakistan itself, decided to reward Ilhan Omar for her support, by hiring her husband’s political consulting business, to help burnish the image of Pakistan in Washington? Surely all the sources of income, especially those from foreign governments and businesses, now flowing to Mynett’s E-Street Group, need to be investigated.
Let’s find out who has been hiring her husband’s firm to do P.R. and “consulting” work since 2018, when she was first elected to Congress. Has he had any business from Pakistan or Pakistanis, from Turkey or Turks, from Somalis, from Palestinians, perhaps even from Iran? And has either Ilhan Omar herself, or her husband, failed to comply with the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act? As Ilhan Omar said, and it bears repeating — “It’s all about the benjamins,” Including those piling up in the coffers of Tim Mynett’s E-Street Group.
Wellington says
Moral equivalency thinking is a wretched, often purely evil, phenomenon to deal with. It functions, always, to turn proper ethics and ethical thinking upside down.
As here with a total moral scumbag, one Ilhan Omar by name. What a disgrace she is many times over. And what an insult she is being a member of a legislative body that was designed as a forum for honesty and the continuation of liberty.
Monstrous woman. Total parasite too—in keeping with that parasite of parasites, i.e., the belief system which is Islam. And does anyone think that if all the Founding Fathers had thought as she does, there would have been any American nation in the first place? I rest my case—for now.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe it’s about the Khomeinis, assuming that Iranian lobbyists paid her off?
SecondEve2 says
Ilhan Omar is Hizballah’s Representative in the US Congress!
47G2pilot says
She is right it is all about the Benjamins. Her Benjamins
PRCS says
A fine helo!
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
Yes indeed.
Really liked watching Whirlybirds TV Series 1957–1960 which featured a version of this fine helicopter!
somehistory says
the U.S. police may not be “clubbing right-to-lifers” but they are arresting them.
And, besides the fact that they are not clubbing the pro-babykillers. neither are they arresting the pro-babykillers for their fire-bombing and threats to life and limb they have made against the right-to-lifers.
i.elmi doesn’t care about those who put a sacred value on life, nor does she actually care about the young women in iran who are being murdered. i. elmi is a psychopath, a snake who has been given **power** over the people of this country to make laws; and the harder she works for islam, the harder she works against all freedoms…even the freedom to choose what clothes to wear, or where we can go and with whom.
Mark Spahn says
Ilhan Omar’s husband is “Timothy Mynett, a Pakistani-American businessman from Texas, and a former member of Congress.”
“Timothy Mynett” doesn’t sound like a very Pakistani name. Did he change his name upon becoming an American citizen and running for Congress?
https://biographymask.com/tim-mynett/
says he is a White Christian who was born in Albany, NY. How he became a Pakistani is not stated.
Scotsman48 says
I thought the teachings in islam was 100% against abortion so how can this silly silly wee lassie in a too tight headscarf claim any similarity with the actions of the current fascists in power in Iran and the Pro Lifers in the USA.
She is a Trojan Horse and not in a good way.
Alkflaeda says
You mean Trojan as in virus?