“Omar said she is worried that many will see her comments and those of Tlaib as anti-Semitic ‘because we are Muslim.’”
No, but it’s likely because you’re Muslim, Ms. Omar, that you are so indefatigably anti-Semitic. As you know, the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
You believe all that is holy writ. So it’s no surprise that you would be anti-Semitic.
“Ilhan Omar equivocates on her anti-Semitism statement: ‘I apologized for the way that my words made people feel,'” by Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, March 1, 2019:
Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday equivocated on the “unequivocal apology” she offered in the wake of tweets that many thought were anti-Semitic, saying she was only apologizing if people were offended by her words, not for the words themselves.
The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan asked the Minnesota Democrat Omar why she apologized and whether it was for a badly worded tweet or for being anti-Semitic wittingly or unwittingly.
“Absolutely not,” Omar replied. “I apologized for the way that my words made people feel.”
“Oftentimes, you know, we are in places where someone will say something and they might not know how it makes you feel and it’s not acceptable that once you express to them that this is hurtful or that you have felt attacked by their words,” she added. “They should acknowledge how you feel. They should speak to that. They should apologize. And you know figure out a way to remedy that situation.”
In February, Omar sent out a series of tweets complaining about the influence of the Jewish lobby on Congress and at one point said, “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby!” Many saw her comments as anti-Semitic, but she told Hasan that she was only pointing out the influence of money on politics….
In Thursday’s interview, however, she said, “I think the theme here is because I’m Muslim.” She said that there were plenty of people “within journalism, within politics, within all kind of aspects of our society who have spoken about the kind of influence that AIPAC has on Congress and on our foreign policy” and that she was being singled out for her Muslim faith.
She suggested that critiques of her stemmed in part from “preconceived notions about who a Muslim is” and also that Republican complaints about her remarks and those of Rep. Rashida Tlabi, D-Mich., was tantamount to bullying.
Omar said that she and Tlaib “are quite used to bullies and we’ve always beaten bullies.”…
This week, Omar said she is worried that many will see her comments and those of Tlaib as anti-Semitic “because we are Muslim.”