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Forget about Israel: Ilhan Omar’s not a big fan of America, either
Forget about Israel: Ilhan Omar’s not a big fan of America, either
By Seth Barron ~~ Since she entered Congress earlier this year, freshman Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has consistently made news with her anti-Semitism, which may yet force the Democratic Party into a corner.... What is surprising is the extent to which her narrative consists of complaints about the intolerance, racism, inequity, and filth that she found when she came to the United States, and since. Gratitude, for the country and the people who saved and welcomed her family, is largely absent from her telling. Interviewed on the popular Pod Save America podcast, Omar explained that when her family was preparing for resettlement in America, they watched orientation videos “about the life that they are to expect once they arrive here... happy families, and dinner tables where there is an abundance of food, images of happy young children running off to their school buses... images of a country where people are happy and leading a life that is prosperous. You are really looking forward to life as you see it on that screen.”
Life in America was not like the images she saw in the welcome video, Omar insists. “When we landed,” she recalls, “I saw panhandlers on the side of the streets, there being trash everywhere, and graffiti on the side of the walls.” Omar asked her father why America fell so short of what she had been promised, and he told her to “hold on, we will get to our America.”
The American Dream once referred to the aspirations of Americans to provide better lives for their children. For the left, that idea has come to mean the intentions of anyone, anywhere, who wants to come here. From this perspective, the people who now live in the US are superfluous to America and the American idea. We are placeholders, keeping things together until tomorrow’s Americans — more deserving, though apparently less appreciative — get here. Meantime, we can try to survive this hellish existence until they arrive to bail us out.
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Hmm....., perhaps Ilhan Omar needs to go back home with the brother she married and help those folks in Mogadishu. I think we can do just fine without her.
Somalia practices the most extreme form of female genital mutilation... It is worth noting for the record that Omar’s family fled Somalia because her family supported and worked for the deposed leader who’s philosophy was Somali Islamic national socialism. Basically Somali Nazis.
Omar has still not arrived in the America she was promised, though she has now been elected to Congress. We continue to disappoint her.
Omar complains about panhandlers in America? In Squalor-malia they don’t beg? They just cut your throat and take your money. Everyone is on Khat the streets are full of trash, actually no different than San Francisco, or Portland Oregon. Their entire country is a dung heap.
Inequality? Ask the warlords about that.
One thing America doesn’t need is more liberal hypocrites. We’re drowning in them already.
Hah! Inequality? Ask the warlords about that. One thing America doesn’t need is more liberal hypocrites. We’re drowning in them already.