{"id":71937,"date":"2019-08-13T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71937"},"modified":"2019-08-12T06:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:58:56","slug":"minnesotas-intellectual-titan-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71937","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota’s Intellectual Titan Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan lights up Rep. Ilhan Omar – and Muslim extremism<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOmar does not represent me as a Muslim, (she) does not represent millions of Muslims in the Middle East. You know like in Arab countries we call her the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d Idan, 29, said on the podcast\u00a0The Sara Carter Show<\/a><\/em> on Aug. 4.
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Now, do you remember when Omar was sworn in? The way she got lionized for representing the future for Muslim women in America? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently Rep. Omar does not (I’m adding emphasis):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after the interview aired, Omar, 37, fired back at Idan on Twitter, saying, \u201cHey, I might be wrong but I don\u2019t think you are a #MN05 resident and like that makes be [sic] not your representative<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em>

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#IntellectualHeftAtWork<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The former Miss Iraq replied<\/a>, \u201cSeriously @IlhanMN this is your intellectual come back?\u201d She then went on to lambaste Omar as anti-American and antisemitic. In a series of follow-up tweets she accused Omar of pursuing a \u201cMuslim Brotherhood agenda using this democracy to further YOUR & YOUR FRIENDS Islamic socialism goals of dividing & weakening our country.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know who I want to see reading this piece more; DFLers, or the rump Xenophobe coalition in the GOP, who keep asking “where are the Muslims pushing back against the extremists?”, and ignoring when…well, Muslims push back against extremists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Idan also\u00a0blasted<\/a>\u00a0Omar for using her platform as congresswoman to advocate for the freedom of Hoda Abdelmonem, a senior member of the Muslim brotherhood, but not to help women \u201censlaved by mandatory sharia\/in jail awaiting an imminent death for speaking out against dictatorial regimes.\u201d
Idan, who now lives in the US,\u00a0called out<\/a> antisemitism taught in Muslim countries and voiced support for Israel at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, last month. She was forced to flee Iraq with her family after receiving death threats in November 2017 for taking a selfie with Miss Israel Adar Gandelsman at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

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Maybe Idan can be persuaded to come to Minnesota and run against Omar? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I doubt the DFL will have her, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan lights up Rep. Ilhan Omar – and Muslim extremism: \u201cOmar does not represent me as a Muslim, (she) does not represent millions of Muslims in the Middle East. You know like in Arab countries we call her the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d Idan, 29, said on the podcast\u00a0The Sara Carter Show on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,2,155],"tags":[403,164],"class_list":["post-71937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71938,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71937\/revisions\/71938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}