The Real Problem With Ilhan Omar

Some of my conservative – and in some cases “conservative” – circle of acquaintances are exercised over Ilhan Omar’s Muslim faith. Some of the more hysterical believe she’s the vanguard of an invasion bringing “Sharia” law to the United States.

In its time, the US has withstood attacks by the greatest empire the world has ever known, by international socialism, Naziism and Communism. A seventh-century ideology that can barely feed its own people isn’t going to conquer us. And Muslims make up less than half a percent of the American population; if they manage to impose Sharia on the other 99.5% of the population, the majority will probably deserve what befalls them.

But the problem with Ilhan Omar isn’t that she’s Muslim. It’s that she’s a “progressive“:

Ilhan Omar attended a 2017 conference in Istanbul with left-wing advocates, including a pro-abortion group that calls for “abortions beyond laws and borders,” and activists who aim to “challenge patriarchal structures.”
Rolling Stone recently lauded the congresswoman, who has repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments, as “everything Trump is trying to ban.” Omar told the magazine she was afraid to leave the country in early 2017 after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting travel from seven Middle Eastern countries the administration identified as terrorist hotbeds.
“I had just gotten sworn in [to the Minnesota Legislature] two weeks before,” Omar said, remarking on the executive order 13769, signed on Jan. 27, 2017. “There was lots of chaos, people being stopped at the airports. I had a flight scheduled a week after to speak at a human-rights conference in Turkey. I didn’t know whether I could go.”…The conference was in Istanbul, Turkey, which was not affected by the travel ban. Nevertheless, Omar used her upcoming appearance at the International Human Rights Defenders Conference, which was organized by the local Turkish government and the British Embassy in Ankara, as a cudgel to attack the president.

“Progressivism” will destroy this country long before Islam will.

“But she’s an anti-Semite!”

So are “Progressives”. Any antisemitism that comes from her Muslim background is an intersection with her real religion, “progressivism” – not an addition.

10 thoughts on “The Real Problem With Ilhan Omar

  1. Omar’s problem isn’t that what she said was wrong, AIPAC does have a hell of a lot of clout in Congress. Her problem is that she and her ilk think Hitler was too easy on Jews.

    BTW, any comment on the report from the legislative auditor vis-à-vis the pipeline between Somali child care scammers and muzzy terrorists? Sounds like they can’t be sure, but as much as 1/2 of the $200+ million in subsidies may have gone to Somalia.

  2. “Progressivism” will destroy this country long before Islam will.

    This. Is 100% true. But, Islam will destroy Europe much faster than Progressivism has.

  3. It’s not Islam, there numbers are too small to affect public policy, even in Minnesota.
    White people control all the levers of cultural, political, and economic power in the US.
    It wasn’t the Dakota Sioux who changed the name of good ol’ Lake Calhoun to bde maka ska. It was white folks.

  4. Worth noting here is that her comments in Istanbul are likely to have been with regards to Trump’s proposed ban on travel from 7 predominantly Muslim nations listed by President Obama, who is arguably also a progressive. So that incident proves she’s Muslim, really, not progressive.

    Later comments she’s made about other topics indicate she’s also progressive, which must rest rather uneasily with whatever Muslim faith she has, but at that point, it was her campaign, not her comments in Turkey, which proved anything. And as MP points out, she would be powerless without a quorum of progressive voters in her district.

  5. It’s not Islam, there numbers are too small to affect public policy, even in Minnesota.

    Disagree, MP. While muzzies are numerically a minority, you discount their force multiplier: Self-loathing white leftists.

  6. Agreed, Swiftee, sort of, but the force multiplier works the other way. If Muslims did not want to move to the US, they (meaning the people who cheat to get their kid in Hahvahd become he’s a numbskull class) would just find some other minority to use as a leverage point.
    Someday, I think that all my conservative friends will realize that this is not about socialism versus capitalism per se, it is about the desire to create the thing that the constitution absolutely forbids: the creation of an aristocratic class with different and greater political rights than the lower classes.

  7. “this is not about socialism versus capitalism per se, it is about the desire to create the thing that the constitution absolutely forbids: the creation of an aristocratic class with different and greater political rights than the lower classes.”

    By no means are they mutually exclusive.

  8. “you discount their force multiplier: Self-loathing white leftists.”

    Which leads inexorably back to my point – progressivism is the lethal enemy. Islam is just an opportunistic tool (as the German Lutheran and Catholic churches were for the Nazis).

  9. You gotta love progressives; it looks as though the Christchurch massacre is all Chelsea Clinton’ fault for bad mouthing Omar
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/16/new-zealand-vigil-chelsea-clinton-confronted-over-her-criticism-rep-ilhan-omar/?utm_term=.6bbd49ad11fc

    If this narrative catches on only conservatives (read racists, fascists, and white male supremacists) will be criticizing Omar in the future since all Democrats will be bullied into silence.
    Poor Chelsea, she may have to rethink her plans to run for office in 2020.

  10. Islam is just an opportunistic tool

    As are the rest of the various devients and reprobates the left hauls around in the clown car. They’re all tools, and as long as they don’t present an obstacle to the leftist agenda, they will be allowed a place.

    But the muzzies will eventually be an obstacle. Right now, they’re ignoring the sexual deviants and mental deficients in the car with them, but it won’t last.

    The left will throw them under the bus, they’ll come crawling to the right and we’ll wisper “no”.

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