The Left and its Islamic supremacist allies have wholeheartedly embraced the notion that any criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar is incitement to violence. Their criticism of Donald Trump, however, including their open calls for violence against him and his supporters, is not incitement to violence. Nor is their criticism of foes of jihad terror who have been targets of violence. It only works one way, as the freedom of speech, the foundation of any free society, continues to slip away.
“Yemeni Corner Store Owners Are Boycotting the ‘New York Post’ for Attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar,” by Hannah Lifshutz, Common, April 13, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The New York Post has been the subject of extensive criticism in recent days, after the Rupert Murdoch-owned publication ran an offensive cover story targeting Representative Ilhan Omar. Critics have denounced the newspaper’s inflammatory coverage as islamophobic and an attempt to delegitimize one of the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress.
On Thursday, the Post published a photo of the Twin Towers, engulfed in flames following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with the caption, “Rep. Ilhan Omar: 9/11 was ‘Some people did something,'” above a subhead that read, “Here’s your something … 2,977 people dead by terrorism.” The quote the newspaper was referencing was an isolated excerpt from a speech Rep. Omar gave at a banquet hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations last month.
“Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” she said. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” According to NPR, CAIR was founded in 1994.
On Saturday, the Yemeni American Merchants Association, which represents thousands of Yemeni-American bodega owners across New York City, penned a letter to announce that they will no longer distribute the New York Post. In the statement, the organization argues that the tabloid’s provocative cover story, “aims to harm Omar and her family and other people of the Islamic faith.”
The group also stated that this type of inflammatory coverage puts the safety of the entire Muslim-American community at risk. “This rhetoric threatens the safety and wellbeing of Omar, Muslim leaders, and the larger Muslim American community at a time when Islamophobia is at an all-time high,” it said in a statement….