Maybe the Republicans don’t want someone on the foreign affairs committee who is so far to the Left that she equates the U.S. and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban. But Omar knows how to play the Left and its media, and so she is making this all about identity politics.
“Islamophobia,” in this context as in all others, is a manipulative term designed to intimidate people into thinking it is wrong to oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression, or even to criticize any Muslim, especially, in this case, Ilhan Omar.
“Omar says some Republicans don’t want a Muslim in Congress: ‘These people are OK with Islamophobia,’” by Julia Mueller, The Hill, January 29, 2023:
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday said some Republicans are “OK with Islamophobia” in response to questions about efforts by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to block her from continuing to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“You remember Donald Trump coming into my state and saying, ‘Muslims, Somali refugees are infiltrating our country.’ You remember [Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene [R-Ga.] coming to Congress after [Rep.] Rashida [Tlaib (D-Mich.)] and I got sworn in and saying, ‘Muslims are infiltrating Congress.’ You remember [Rep. Lauren] Boebert [R-Colo.] saying that I was a terrorist. What did McCarthy do? He said, ‘She apologized, and we don’t have to worry about her Islamophobia. That never happened,’” Omar said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“And so these people are OK with Islamophobia. They’re OK with trafficking in their own ways in antisemitism. They are not OK with having a Muslim have a voice on that committee,” Omar said.
McCarthy targeted Omar, the first Somali American and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, for removal from Foreign Affairs. He also booted Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee.
Omar’s removal requires a vote by the entire chamber, while Swalwell’s and Schiff’s removals could be made by McCarthy alone due to rules around the Intelligence Committee.
“If they want to debate political differences, and that’s something that we should all have the opportunity to do so, but to smear someone and their character, their love for their country and the work that they get to do on a committee is wrong,” Omar said.
“And it is politically motivated. And, in some cases, it’s motivated by the fact that many of these members don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
Omar has been accused of making antisemitic comments relating to American support of Israel. She has since apologized for the remarks and said on Sunday that “I might have used words at the time that I didn’t understand were trafficking in antisemitism.”
“To insinuate that I knowingly said these things, when people have read into my comments to make it sound as if I have something against the Jewish community, is so wrong. … I voted for every single resolution — no Republican can say that — condemning antisemitism. My work is clear,” Omar said….
somehistory says
Take a poll of Americans…ask where they would like i elmi, alias i omar., to be. On a committee in Congress or on a small raft back to somalia.
i. elmi is a slimy snake, interested only in filling her pockets and enabling islam in the takeover of the “miserable House from within,” as her best buds in the mb stated last century.
i. elmi is an illegal alien…here through lies told about her name being omar i order to enter the country. i elmi is a lying, adulterous, fraud, who uses the ‘phobia’ weapon to stay in a position of power where she is paid by taxpayers who actually are here legally.
Send her packing.
Linde B. says
To somehistory- Well stated.
And I think any reader of JihadWatch should contact
Kevin McCarthy’s office and
make this suggestion:
“Ilhan Omar should be on
the ‘Best Dressed Female From
A Foreign Country Committee’”.
😏🤩🥳😎💃🕺
somehistory says
Thanks, Linde.
wpm says
She should be dress in a prison orange jumpsuit awaiting deportation for lying to get into this country.
somehistory says
And stripped of her scarf…as she should have been when standing in the halls of Congress. She broke the rules right from the beginning.
VictorMc says
Agreed, why on earth can’t the Americans deport this appalling piece of anti-semitic rubbish? They have been brainwashed….
Hoi Polloi says
Exactly, SH. Why can’t “many of these members [NOT] believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
Is Somalia importing American Christians who bring their own legal system and who break Somali laws with impunity into their voting bodies? Ilhan? Say what?
wpm says
The majority whip in the congress can appoint or remove anyone he wants that is the rules .When the majority whip is a democrat they put democrats in high position in charge of committees ,when it is a republic he puts republicans in charge. Is it politics yes that is the way the rules apply. There is no quota on a persons back ground or race ,or religion it is what party in charge .She is a a racist anti-Semitic and the other bozo was sleeping with a Chinese spy also Schiff lied many times to advance the stupid Trump is working for the Russians agenda .Three idiots who did nothing good for America and they have no shame for the things they did. In a just world they would resign. for what they did or possible face charges at least for lying to get into this country she is an illegal alien who broke the law to get into this country..
James Lincoln says
Muslim “snake” Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) states:
“many of these members don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
She is conflating non-muslim refugees / Africans with muslims.
Many of these members are okay with non-muslim refugees from Africa – as well as other countries – who love the United States, its constitution, and its laws / values.
They are not okay with Koran loving muslims with all of their dangerous baggage – big difference.
Wellington says
+1.
wpm says
Christian Africans are being killed today at an alarming rate by Islamic African jihadist the MSM will not talk about it or cover it .The reason it has nothing to do with white Europeans or white people anywhere at anytime in the world. All talk is about slavery that end in America over 150 years ago nothing about Islamic slavery that is still an accepted practice in many Islamic majority countries under the cover of bring non-Moslem people to work taking away their passports and forcing them into labor under terrible work conditions ..
VictorMc says
She is a very sick woman and she has been supported by the joke ‘democrats’ (small d)
Scotsman48 says
If this silly wee rag headed bitch is okay with denouncing Israel and Jews then I am okay with her calling me an islamowhatsit.
Now that she has learned so much from the country that gave her everything she has in her life today, even though she spits on the country, then I suggest, as Trump did, that she return to her home land and try and fix that disaster zone.
VictorMc says
Simple really Scotsman48. The bitch has made millions in the US, if it were to be you would you return to the filth hole she comes from? What naivete. The US system (under Biden/Obama) is in a worse state than you think.
somehistory says
“their love for their country and the work that they get to do on a committee ” i. elmi, alias, i omar
her “country” is somalia and “the work” she does is all for islam.
And the “national security” thing she also said….is a **threat** as mozlums like to make. *do as mozlums demand or pay the price** via terrorism
“This is the woman that apparently married her brother to get in the states, has a father who is a known terrorist in the states, committed adultery with another woman’s husband, married him and funded him hundreds of thousands of dollars, violated campaign finance laws, wants to tax Americans 90%, voted for paying jihadis by insurance companies when they commit suicide during jihad, backs the murder of the unborn and we’re to believe getting rid of her from a committee is a “threat to national security”? ”
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/jihadi-ilhan-omar-plays-the-victim-its-a-threat-to-national-security-to-kick-me-off-committees-video/
Hoi Polloi says
Exactly. She can work to improve Somalia (Average IQ in Somalia: 68) instead of lowering the US to her level.
somehistory says
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/kevin-mccarthy-antisemitism-house/2022/11/20/id/1097229/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-gop-ilhan-omar/2023/01/31/id/1106744/?ns_
Some have been persuaded to vote her off…some undecided…supposed to decide Wednesday, today.
John ..Smith says
Thanks for the Links Somehistory. She shouldn’t be on the committee at all, she is a staunch anti-semite that not only hates Israel, she also hates the country that has benefited her so much. kicking her off this committee is just one small step, she should also be kicked out of congress and never be allowed to hold a position in government again. This is what they did to Jeremy Corbyn over here, and she is a thousand times worse than him.
somehistory says
You are welcome, John, and I agree with you. she has no business doing the business of the government.
OLD GUY says
Oh yes there it is Islamophobia, the lie that keeps giving. Any time someone accuses or says anything that a Muslim disagrees with or doesn’t want to hear it is automatically ISLAMOPHOBIA. Omar should never have been elected to political office in this country to begin with. She represents ISLAM not America.