Ilhan Omar and her allies and supporters will portray any criticism of her, no matter how reasoned and mild, as “fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism,” leading to death threats against her. This is a convenient way for her to avoid addressing the substance of the criticism and to stigmatize her opponents all at once, as well as to give the impression that she is a victim in need of special protection, and thus never, under any circumstances, to be criticized for anything.
“US: Ilhan Omar says Republicans using ‘Islamophobia’ to oust her from committee,” Middle East Eye, November 22, 2022:
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has fired back at Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s threat to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, accusing McCarthy and the Republican Party of consistently attacking her with “Islamophobia and racism”.
McCarthy, who is hoping to become the next Speaker of the House, promised numerous times this past weekend that he would remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, accusing the congresswoman of making “antisemitic comments”.
“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,” Omar said in a statement on Monday.
“McCarthy’s effort to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred – including threatening to strip me from my committee – does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with. It does nothing to address inflation, healthcare, or solve the climate crisis.”
If McCarthy ends up becoming speaker, he will begin the new position after the new majority Republican Congress takes office in January. However, he would not have unilateral authority to remove Omar from her committee assignments – that would require a vote in Congress.
On Saturday, during a speech he delivered to the Republican Jewish Coalition, McCarthy said: “I remember what she said about Israel. I remember what she said about the relationship. I remember it so much that I promised you last year that as speaker, she would no longer be on Foreign Affairs. I’m keeping that promise.’
Since being elected to office in 2018, as one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, Omar has received strong condemnations from Republicans and Democrats alike for her criticism of Israel.
At the same time, she has faced Islamophobic attacks from far-right media outlets and Republican politicians, including former President Donald Trump.
The congresswoman’s supporters argue that Republicans take her comments out of context to create manufactured outrage, and use Islamophobic undertones to portray her as an outsider trying to undermine the US.
She also faced numerous death threats, with a Trump supporter making a threat to her life in 2019.
Republicans ‘openly tolerate’ antisemitism
In her statement on Monday, Omar also took to criticising Republican leadership for attacking her while allowing their own party members to make antisemitic claims.
“At the same time, they have openly tolerated antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate and racism in their own party. Newly-elected Whip Tom Emmer said prominent Jewish Democrats ‘essentially bought control of Congress.’ And McCarthy himself accused Jewish Democrats of trying to ‘buy elections’,” Omar said.
“Instead of doing anything to address the open hostility towards religious minorities in his party, McCarthy is now lifting up people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Emmer and so many others. If he cared about addressing the rise in hate, he would apologize and make sure others in his party apologized.”
CogitoErgoSum says
No, this is what happens when the vote does not go your way. We win; you lose.
Welcome to “our democracy.”
kq6kq6kq6 says
I would rather welcome her out of our democracy and all the rest like her.
milo minderbinder says
CogitoErgoSum says
Nov 24, 2022 at 5:36 pm
No, this is what happens when the vote does not go your way. We win; you lose.
Welcome to “our democracy.”
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Actually, the vote did go her way, she has been reelected, surprise, surprise, and… the Democrats still control the Senate. The Midterms were a charade, nothing more than an exercise in futility,
People like Ilhan Omar are here to stay, they have been highly trained in the Art of War, especially the war of words and, they are winning and they will continue to win.
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJV)
Civilization is circling back to the Tower of Babel, a One World Government with its One World Leader and One World Religion, is just around the corner.
“COP27: Religious Leaders Unveil The New Ten Commandments.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/cop27-religious-leaders-unveil-the-new-ten-commandments/
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, I consider the Democrats loss of control of the House to be a victory. The winning margin was not as big as I would have liked but still it was enough. Omar’s whining is music to my ears and I want more – with lots of cowbell.
Wellington says
Omar’s a liar of course, engaging in classic projection, but there is a much bigger problem here and that is, effectively, that the entire Democratic Party of the USA has resorted to Omar’s “tactics.”
The present Democratic Party of America is presently more of a menace to the continued preservation of liberty, equality under the law, overall common sense, a blind justice system and many other good things than anything Islam in all of its rottenness intends for America. What Islam intends for America is, of course, awful but it nowhere, at least not yet, has the influence that the decrepit Democratic Party has.
I do wish more people would realize here in America how very much the Democratic Party has become the single greatest enemy of America—bar none. Yes, it’s this awful and one knows this or should know it by now. Ah, if only Islam was the greatest menace. But it is not. The Democratic Party of America is—the ultimate enemy within so to speak.
And I comprehend full well that the Republican Party here in America leaves much to be desired but it nonetheless is not a traitor to America, contra the Democratic Party. Oh yeah, I wish far, far more Americans would grasp this about the Democratic Party and which party is truly the ultimate enemy of the USA in our era.
In brief, Omar is nothing more than the tip of a very menacing iceberg which has depths aplenty seeking to destructively transform America into something no longer America. The key to grasping all this is to realize what the Democratic Party has become.
Fitna says
Agreed Wellington, the Dem party is rotten and corrupt which is why our enemies like Muslims are allowed in the party and given protection, some would call that treason.
I’ve noticed people like Whoopie Goldberg, rather than admit Omar is an anti-Semite she engages in the tu quoque fallacy accusing Republicans of defending anti-Semites in their fold.
Even if that’s true, how does that clear Omar’s ugly record? Whoopie also doesn’t seem to have any idea what a terrorist group is, saying the Taliban/Hamas are terrorists according to us…as if this is all just word play.
Someone needs to tell Whoopie if she was in Afghanistan or some other Islamic hell hole, she’d either be enslaved or killed for shooting her mouth off and being uncovered. There really are very evil people in this world Whoopie and Ilhan Omar is one of them.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, Fitna. I see we are on the same page again. Good.
N.B., Whoopie is a fool to the core of her being. She’s not dumb but she is monumentally ignorant and willful ignorance, which is virtually ubiquitous these days, makes a mockery of truth over and over again.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ilhan can use both Judeophobia, Hinduophobia and her own racism when in that Foreign Relations committee to target people making the case for those groups, but when she has to face the consequences of her behavior, it’s now islamophobic. Biden should make her ambassador to Qatar or Turkey or Somalia: she’ll find them to be very safe spaces for herself and her ilk
Burnaby Lad says
binary non binary
johnlloydscharf@yahoo.com says
I take it they think Dr. Oz is not Republican
clem.alford@talk21.com says
These terms and wirds are used to shut down any debate or discussion.
Islamophobia for example is to shut down debate on any discussion on Islam, Koran, Sunnah and Hadith if you read them they are full of antisemitism and hate of any none Muslims and calling for their murder and mutilation.
ConnSCG says
No one is targeting Ilhan Omar, she chose to be anti American and Americans don’t want anti Americans in Congress, it’s as simple as that.
peter11 says
Typical cry baby syndrome of muslims.