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Likely incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said that he plans to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her troublesome habit of making anti-Semitic statements, and now the winsome Omar has struck back–not, of course, by apologizing for her anti-Semitism and vowing to make amends, but by accusing McCarthy and the Republican Party in general of (surprise!) “Islamophobia,” “racism” and more. To the man who has only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, and to Ilhan Omar, everyone who opposes her must be an “Islamophobe” and a racist. After all, why else would anyone possibly stand against such a patriotic, accomplished, and eloquent legislator as she?
Omar issued a statement Monday complaining that “from the moment I was elected, the Republican Party has made it their mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism to target me on the House Floor and through millions of dollars of campaign ads.”
As completely predictable as this claim is, it warrants scrutiny. Omar is trying to give the impression that the Republicans have used “fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism” against her on a regular basis. Really? Has anyone in the Republican Party ever stated that Ilhan Omar should be opposed because she wasn’t born in the United States? Has any Republican ever said that the problem with Ilhan Omar is that she is a Muslim? Has any Republican gone before the waiting establishment media cameras and proclaimed that he or she opposes Ilhan Omar because Omar is black?
Of course not. What Ilhan Omar is claiming here is that “xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism” are what really motivate any criticism of her, no matter what the criticism is for and what is actually said. She has no evidence of this, of course, beyond the usual Leftist contention that everything Republicans do is xenophobic, “Islamophobic” and racist, and for most of her hapless followers, that’s quite enough. Like Omar herself, they know that those nasty Republicans are just inveterately intolerant, and they’re not going to tolerate that sort of thing for one minute.
Omar went on, once again predictably, to claim that this horrible Republican criticism had put her in danger because, as we all know, any speech that dissents from the Left’s agenda is tantamount to violence: “Whether it is Marjorie Taylor Greene holding a gun next to my head in campaign ads or Donald Trump threatening to ‘send me back’ to my country [despite the fact that I have been a proud citizen of the United States for more than 20 years], this constant stream of hate has led to hundreds of death threats and credible plots against me and my family.”
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Raja says
She wants to challenge the dictum: When in Rome do what the Romans do. Well, I almost “forgot” that she belongs to a vile ideology that seeks to change the way people *do around here” and her ideology, bottled in a wicked religion is worst example of hatred of all Other people under the sum. islam is the epitome of hatred straight from Satan.
Jim J Fox says
Well said! Apart from the Satan reference which is irrelevant & based on mythology…
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Summation: ilhan fiddled while her constituents’ city burned.
Ade Fegan says
The Return of Jafar
Wellington says
When seriously using terms like “xenophobia,” “Islamophobia” and “racism” in today’s America is the best you can do, it is indicative of just how out of real arguments you are and why you should not be taken seriously.
That giant parasite, Ilhan Omar, comes to mind here. And notice too, she has never praised America, or the West, or most certainly Israel, the only truly decent polity in the Middle East. Speaks volumes about this wretched and horribly confused woman. She is full of hate, which is another way of saying she is full of Islam.