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In the Left’s universe, “diversity” means that people of all colors, creeds and sexual proclivities, as well as all 73 genders, say the same things and espouse the same political positions. And while Leftists have assembled an impressive coalition of the allegedly marginalized, discriminated against, non-white, non-binary, and non-sane, cracks in the edifice are inevitable, as all the coalition members don’t hold the same values. Leftists may destroy the country first, but eventually, their “diverse” mosaic is going to devolve into warring factions.
We got a reminder of that this week, after the hijab-wearing, ostensibly Sharia-observant Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) had the temerity to wish gays a happy Pride Month and has since been dragged for it repeatedly by Muslims who believe that gay pride is an insult to Allah. Can the Left’s love affair with its favorite religion survive relationship troubles of this magnitude? Not in the long run.
Omar began the festivities when she tweeted Wednesday: “Happy Pride Month! We won’t stop fighting until all LGBTQ+ Americans can live free from discrimination.” That was straightforward and unremarkable coming from a far-Left congresswoman, but this particular far-Leftist publicly displays her adherence to Islamic law whenever she appears in public wearing her hijab.
Regarding homosexual activity, Islamic law (Sharia) is unambiguous, as one tradition attributed to Muhammad demonstrates. The prophet of Islam is depicted as saying: “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Lot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462) The “people of Lot” are the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and so this statement became the basis for the death penalty for homosexuals in Sharia states. No room for Pride Month there.
Because of this teaching, some Muslims were enraged that Omar would extend good wishes to “LGBTQ+ Americans.” One quoted in response to Omar’s tweet a warning from the Qur’an about following the ways of the unbelievers: “They will never be pleased with you unless you follow their ways. Say, ‘God’s guidance is the only true guidance.’ If you were to follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, you would find no one to protect you from God or help you” (2:120). Mohammed Hijab, a prominent Islamic spokesman and debater in Britain, tweeted: “Do you understand that Islam prohibits homosexual sexual practices? Have you left Islam?”
Dr. Abdullah Ali, an associate professor of Islamic Law and the Prophetic Tradition at Zaytuna College, a Muslim undergraduate college in Berkeley, Calif., didn’t mention Omar, but his rejection of her perspective was unmistakable when he tweeted Saturday: “Islam means submission to God’s will. The easiest way to undermine your faith is to insist that defying God’s commands is reason for celebration. We take no pride in sin. Any Muslim who celebrates sodomy, tribadism, or any other sin as acceptable behavior is an apostate.”
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mortimer says
Ihan Omar has turned her back on Sharia law (which is very clear about the destruction of gay men).
She is apparently more of a neo-Marxist than she is Muslim. I would not be surprised if she declares her apostasy some day in the future. I believe she is an apostate now.
mortimer says
Sharia law commands Muslims NOT TO CONGRATULATE kafirs about their celebrations … for those celebrations are not Islamic!
South-African-born Imam Younus Kathrada said that it is forbidden to “congratulate people for insulting Allah”. To do so is ‘a major sin and disbelief’.
“Would you congratulate a fornicator? Would you congratulate a murderer? Obviously not,” he said. “Would you congratulate a pedophile? Obviously not.”
(My response to Kathrada: ‘Obviously’ yes! Because Sheikh Kathrada venerates the world’s most obvious pedophile before Jeffrey Epstein. Islam doesn’t forbid pedophilia, but it forbids homosexuality.)
Infidel says
Can’t happen soon enough. One of the first times ever that I’m hoping that jihadists succeed in their fatwa of hunting down one of their enemies, if that enemy happens to respond to the name ‘Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’
mortimer says
Reply to Infidel: The mullahs are between a rock and a hard place on Ilhan Omar. How can they condemn one of the only Muslims in Congress? Even though she deserves it.
It’s more hot, steaming piles of farm-fresh TAQIYYA.
Infidel says
Doesn’t matter to them: getting another muslim/ah into Congress is trivial. In her district particularly, replacing her w/ another Somali muslimah is no big deal
Heck, we’ll likely see either the first muslim GOP senator in Dr Oz, or watch that seat flip to (D). Both great options for voters in Pennsylvania
tgusa says
All of this in your face promotion of an individuals sexual proclivities is a form of sexual harassment. Any group or company that I see doing that is immediately added to my cancel list. Yes, two can play the cancel culture game.
The left, having no real issues to protest because most of the real ones have already been rectified by past generations marches around wailing about insignificant things. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Lonely losers trying desperately to find some small meaning to their lives.
OLD GUY says
Ilhan Omar appears to have stepped in it. But then again she is liberal, marrying her own brother and living with her the other husband at the some time seems kind of awkward. Her wishing GAYS a Happy Pride Month will get swept under the rug as long as she still hates America and supports the islamic attempt to dominate the world.
D Cripps says
Many thanks for this article, as similar was on my mind. I have since thought that Ilhan Omar, whether she knows it or not, might have been following a sunnah-/sharia-based principle that I think I have read of (though I am not sure where) that doing what is haram is tactically permissible if advantageous to Islam (ultimate aim being global Islamic hegemony). Such activity might look to others, including Muslims, as outside the fold of Islam — hence the objections of Mohammed Hijab, et al — but is covertly for its cause. For Ilhan Omar, tweeting supportively for gay Pride might be sincere, or it might be a personal political expedient for popularity that has no eye on the ‘larger prize’ of sunnah-based hegemony…or it might be the ploy of an accidental or deliberate Islamist tactician who would have no trouble later rescinding these supportive remarks! I cannot say whether her tweets, if taken as those of a ‘true blue’ Muslim, would actually contribute substantially to “civilisation jihad” (as described, for example, in the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum” for the group in North America, i.e the process of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions”)…perhaps that would be a stretch. I hope nothing so complicated is happening.