https://pjmedia.com/trending/omar-says-muslims-shouldnt-be-asked-to-condemn-terrorists/ WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Monday that Muslims shouldn't be asked to "condemn terrorists" In defense of his tweets over the weekend about a group of freshman lawmakers, President Trump criticized Omar specifically on Monday. “I look at Omar, I don’t know, I’ve never met her. I hear the way she’s talked about al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has killed many Americans, she said you could ‘hold your chest out,'” Trump said at the White House after a Made in America Product Showcase. “When she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down, ‘some people,’ you remember, the famous ‘some people.’ These are people who in my opinion hate our country.” Omar was asked for her response to Trump saying she was pro-Al-Qaeda. “When he made the comment, I know that every single Muslim who has lived in this country and across the world has heard that comment,” she said. “So I will not dignify it with an answer because I know that every single Islamophobe, every single person who is hateful, who is driven by an ideology of othering, as this president is, rejoices in us responding to that, and as defending ourselves.” Omar said she doesn't expect white Americans to condemn white people who commit crimes such as mass shootings. "So I think it's beyond time, it's beyond time to ask Muslims to condemn terrorists. We are no longer going to allow the dignification of such a ridiculous, ridiculous statement," she said. Last month, Omar declined to address a report that found the highest level of terrorist group recruitment has taken place in her congressional district.
Sweet posting.....does absolutely nothing to change the fact he wanted 5 human beings to stay in prison even after the authorities and DNA proved they were innocent.... In other words.....faced with point blank facts that you were wrong but still deny and it claim you were right. Sounds familiar. They were cleared of all charges but he somehow has insight to know they are guilty and should stay in prison. Every PERSON from whatever party or belief should find that disgusting. it shows the track record of "I am never wrong and even when confronted with evidence to the contrary never give in that you are wrong"
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45950/rashida-tlaib-accuses-dem-leadership-racism-says-emily-zanotti Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) lashed out at Democrats — not Republicans — yesterday, in the wake of criticism leveled at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for minimizing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, accusing Dem leadership, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), of racism and using Congressional colleagues of color as "tokens of diversity." Fox News reports that Tlaib "claimed in a Twitter message Saturday that she and other minority members of the party have been used as tokens whenever the party wants to project an image of inclusiveness." She joined a number of Islamic activists on Twitter who were accusing Pelosi, who tweeted that 9/11 was "sacred ground," of not doing enough to defend Omar against what they felt were unfair attacks over comments she made that "some people did something" on September 11. Omar's comments were, it seems, meant to allege that Muslims across the globe have been discriminated against and mistreated in the wake of the September 11 attacks — a point she was trying to use to justify her opposition to what she calls President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban," a travel restriction that prevents travelers from countries that actively sponsor and bankroll terrorist organizations from obtaining even temporary visas to visit the United States. The ban itself has been altered several times. The final version, which bans residents of nine countries, seven of which are majority Muslim, has held up under legal scrutiny (so far). Tlaib pointed out that several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have called comments criticizing Omar "incitement to violence" — a legal exception to the First Amendment's right to freedom of speech, and a punishable crime — but that Pelosi has chosen instead to ask Trump and others to simply tone down their rhetoric. That's because, Tlaib, says, Pelosi and others in Democratic leadership are actively racist. "They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse,” Tlaib wrote on social media. “However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.” Tlaib also retweeted a post from Omar, essentially accusing Pelosi of the same, as well as a post from a "human rights activist" who doubled down. “More and more we're realizing that POC [people of color] are used as props by @TheDemocrats,” Tlaib's retweeted missive read. “When we run, we're told to wait our turn. When we speak about our struggles, we're told we're angry. When we ask them to stand up for us, they say we're being divisive.” Pelosi's comments on Saturday, indeed, did not defend Omar. Instead she merely asked the president not to use images of 9/11 in "political attacks," tweeting, "The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence. The President shouldn’t use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack." This isn't the first time Pelosi has failed to rush to the defense of her more vocal, progressive colleagues. She has chastised Omar before for using anti-Semitic tropes in speeches and accusing fellow Democrats of having "dual loyalty" to both Israel and the United States (Tlaib has also unleashed that particular smear on occasion). Pelosi also spearheaded an effort to censure Omar, which ultimately turned into a weaselly blanket condemnation of "all hate." Just last week. Pelosi appeared to take aim at Tlaib's and Omar's sister-in-arms, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), complaining that real policy cannot be made on Twitter. This is a battle Pelosi is likely to lose
Good for Pelosi, she is the head honcho and telling those Junior Congresswomen to shut the fuck up and focus on their job and stop causing problems when they are trying to unite. Power talks and bullshit walks.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/ilhan-omar-911-cair/ Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar described the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States in a nonspecific way during a recent speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Omar delivered the keynote speech at a fundraiser for CAIR in late March and urged Muslim Americans to “raise hell” and “make people uncomfortable.” In one part of her speech that surfaced on Twitter this week, Omar described the 9/11 attacks in a peculiar way. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” Omar said
Not that I didn't believe you, but since I never really paid attention to the story back in the day, I went back and read everything about it. Indeed, he never really backed down. Here's an op-ed he penned from 2014. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...al-park-settlement-disgrace-article-1.1838467 Comments in a 2016 interview: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...tral-park-five-are-guilty-despite-dna-n661941 Here's the text of the full page ad he ran when the event originally occurred in case anyone is interested and never read it. That one line in there.. about losing civil liberties.... uh-uh.... no way. That's a biggie. That must always stand. Here's the ad: BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY BRING BACK OUR POLICE! What has happened to our City over the past ten years? What has happened to law and order, to the neighborhood cop we all trusted to safeguard our homes and families, the cop who had the power under the law to help us in times of danger, keep us safe from those who would prey on innocent lives to fulfill some distorted inner need. What has happened to the respect for authority, the fear of retribution by the courts, society and the police for those who break the law, who wantonly trespass on the rights of others? What has happened is the complete breakdown of life as we knew it. Many New York families—White. Black. Hispanic and Asian—have had to give up the pleasure of a leisurely stroll in the Park at dusk, the Saturday visit to the playground with their families, the bike ride at dawn, or just sitting on their stoops—given them up as hostages to a world ruled by the law of the streets, as roving bands of wild criminals roam our neighborhoods, dispensing their own vicious brand of twisted hatred on whomever they encounter. At what point did we cross the line from the line and noble pursuit of genuine civil liberties to the reckless and dangerously permissive atmosphere which allows criminals of every age to beat and rape a helpless woman and then laugh at her family's anguish? And why do they laugh? They laugh because they know that soon, very soon, they will be returned to the streets to rape and maim and kill once again—and yet face no great personal risk to themselves. Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a crime or an act of violence. Yes, Mayor Koch. I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them. If the punishment is strong, the attacks on innocent people will stop. I recently watched a newscast trying to explain the “anger in these young men”. I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. I want them to be afraid. How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS! When I was young, I sat in a diner with my father and witnessed two young bullies cursing and threatening a very frightened waitress. Two cops rushed in, lifted up the thugs and threw them out the door, warning them never to cause trouble again. I miss the feeling of security New York's finest once gave to the citizens of this City. Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls Immediately at an officer who has just risked hit or her life to save another's. We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal population of this City. Give New York back to the citizens who have earned the right to be New Yorkers. Send a message loud and clear to those who would murder our citizens and terrorize New York— BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY AND BRING BACK OUR POLICEI
Trump approval rating back up to 50 percent after the tweet over the weekend. I fully support Mr Trump and what he is getting done for America.
Trump approval rating back up to 50 percent after the tweet over the weekend. I fully support Mr Trump and what he is getting done for America.