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You’ve heard, haven’t you, of AOC’s “Squad”? Among its most prominent, and virulently anti-American members is Ilhan Omar, (Islamist, MN). She and her colleague, Rashida Tlaib, are anti-Semites of the first rank. Even AlJazeera tacitly admitted as much:
Democratic US Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticised Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the country and called on fellow members of Congress to visit while they cannot.
Omar, of Minnesota, suggested President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were suppressing the congresswomen’s ability to carry out their oversight role.
‘I would encourage my colleagues to visit, meet with the people we were going to meet with, see the things we were going to see, hear the stories we were going to hear,’ Omar said at a news conference. ‘We cannot let Trump and Netanyahu succeed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us.
Yes, cruel realities like Israelis refusing to allow Islamist terrorists to murder every Jew. But Omar’s hatred for America and Jews is well known to anyone paying attention. I write today about a new chapter in Omar’s convoluted and deceptive marital history. Scott Johnson, who has been following this story closely, explains at PowerLine:
Omar and Esme Murphy
My sources first made me aware of Ilhan Omar’s affair with Tim Mynett a month before the Daily Mail got around to reporting it in July. Today the Star Tribune has finally broken the story in Omar’s hometown newspaper and it must come as something of a shock to readers who get their news from the Minnesota media and who take Omar at face value. Omar continues to play them all for chumps. The lies she is living are too many to count, beginning with the identity fraud implicit in her claim to be Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.
Coincidentally, Omar was scheduled to sit for an interview with WCCO TV political reporter Esme Murphy today (video below, story here). Murphy tenderly broached the subject of her affair with Mynett. The affair has split Omar from her husband and father of their three children, Ahmed Hirsi. They are separated and living apart. Indeed, they have been divorced ‘in their faith tradition,’ as Omar likes to put it (as we have reported exclusively). But for weekends when Omar is in town, the kids are living with Hirsi.
Given the news that has finally made its way into the local press today, Murphy asked Omar if she was separated from her husband and if she is dating somebody. Omar replied: ‘No, I am not. As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.’
That was good enough for Murphy, but Omar is lying baldly and That has been Omar’s, and her apologist’s, general tactic. Refuse to talk about things, or issue weak, non-specific denials. That and blame racism, Islamophobia, Israel, Trump, and shut up.
‘I know who I am,’ Omar told Murphy. Would it be bragging to say that we do too?
If we’ve been paying attention, indeed we do. Johnson continues in another article:
This is a big week for the Minnesota media. They are now permitting their consumers to catch up with the news delivered last month by the Daily Mail. That is, Ilhan Omar has separated from the husband she just got around to marrying last year (i.e., Ahmed Hirsi) and taken up with a married man (i.e., Tim Mynett) who works for her as a consultant. The Daily Mail even tracked down the expensive apartment into which Omar has moved and tracked down Ahmed Hirsi in Minneapolis for a ‘no comment.’ The Minnesota media haven’t gotten there yet, but they have opened the door to the subject.
Johnson refers to the Minneapolis media’s absolute reluctance to write anything negative about Omar, particularly The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. However, things are becoming so public elsewhere, they’re beginning, reluctantly, to nibble around the edges of what would be a career-ending story were a Republican involved.
The left-wing paper’s left-wing reporters write:
The episode renewed claims long promoted by conservative media bloggers that her previous marriage — allegedly to her brother — was part of an immigration scheme.
She has said previously that she has been involved with Hirsi, whom she called the ‘love of my life,”’ since 2002, though they were not legally married until 2018, shortly before she was elected to Congress.
Omar has vehemently denied she was married to her brother, calling the allegation ‘false and ridiculous.’
Reading between the lines of the current version of the story, I wonder if the left-wing paper’s left-wing reporters might be getting tired of being treated like chumps. It’s possible.
I rather doubt that. Unless the stink of political death begins to emanate from Omar’s DC offices, The Star-Tribune, as well as much of the rest of the American media, will do all it can to cover for her. Actual journalist Sara Carter adds additional information:
Omar and her alleged paramour.
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign has paid Tim Mynett’s E. Street group around $230,000 for fundraising consulting, digital communications, Internet advertising and travel expenses since 2018, records showed. The 37-year-old congresswoman was spotted back in March with Mynett at a California restaurant.
The affair, was discovered when the wife of a prominent Washington political consultant filed for divorce, claiming her husband made a ‘devastating and shocking’ revelation that he was having an affair with freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
On one hand, gentle readers, I could not care less about the marital difficulties, including affairs, of others. I doubt many expect any politician to be a paragon of virtue. However, in Omar’s case, if Powerline and other respectable journalists are correct, Omar appears to have fraudulently entered the country. Her apparently casual observance of American conventions and laws regarding marriage appear to be part of a pattern. Quite apart from her anti-American views and actions, and her despicable hatred for Israel—our ally–and Jews in general, if true, that should not only cause her deportation, but her expulsion from Congress.
There is much more to know about this situation. The only question is whether the American media is any longer capable of reporting it. Sadly, the answer may be depressingly obvious.
Full on narcicist, init? What’s she want with bugman?
It’s fair to use Islamic law to judge the validity of her statements, right?
Dear Sentneza:
Naw. She’s politically useful to the Islamists at the moment. Were she back home in a Muslim country though…
You are seeing faces in clouds. Just as the wicked flee when no man pursueth, so also the philosemites see antisemitism even when it isn’t there*. The thing is, although every one of your pieces of support for that charge of antisemitism is consistent with that charge, they are all also consistent with someone who formed an unprejudiced view adverse to Israel on the basis of the facts (or, at the other extreme, they are consistent with someone who hates everybody who isn’t muslim, even non-Jews**). Otherwise, by definition and by construction, no set of experiences could ever cause hostility specific to Israel – and that rules out reason. To prove the charge, you would have to show that there is no reasonable pathway to those particular views, for that particular person. That may be achievable, but it hasn’t happened here.
* I have sometimes had to show perfectly reasonable Jews who fancied they saw antisemitism across the board in 1930s Britain that their experiences, though real, usually stemmed from a more generic xenophobia that also hit the French and Irish, and from a residual anti-German sentiment that lingered after the First World War (they had often been picked on because many of them had German sounding names).
** As the old joke has it, “I’m not prejudiced, I hate everybody”.
Dear P.M.Lawrence:
I’ll leave it to readers to parse the reality in Israel. Suffice it say that if Israel’s enemies laid down their arms, there would be peace. If Israel laid down hers, genocide.
Wow. And what do you suppose would happen to the Palestinians under a peace of that sort? That’s right, even more of the quiet removal of what they need. I mean, that’s what’s happening now, only not quietly, so if it were done quietly and with only peace in response – as it was at first under the Palestinian Mandate, before the Arab Revolt – there would be no stopping point for it as it would all be “nothing to see here”. And that is also called genocide, so what you just wrote is equivalent to “Suffice it say that if Israel’s enemies laid down their arms, there would be genocide with peace. If Israel laid down hers, only genocide.”
You just want the Palestinians to get all the necessary comforts on their way out, though you might not appreciate that that is what it is.
And readers are indeed welcome to go and look at the history of all this to check it for themselves. Anyone who bothers can find some background from the early ’40s in the memoirs of Freya Stark, published as “Dust in the Lion’s Paws”, which are around on the internet; that shows how the Palestinians were already concerned that they would be squeezed out by Zionists.
Dear P.M.Lawrence:
Let me see if I have this straight. Even while Palestinians are working every day to murder every Jew, Israel provides them water and power and food and medical care and…
So if the Palestinians laid down their arms, the Jews would deprive them, in peace, what they willingly give in war?
No, you do not have that straight, in these respects:-
– “Palestinians are working every day to murder every Jew” is only true of some of them. At the other extreme, many (often the Christians) don’t even want to kill Jews. In between, there are some who are willing to kill them as part of a war, but don’t actually want to murder them. This is pretty much the same as the view towards the Palestinians among the Israelis, only the Israelis have fewer at the extremes.
– “Israel provides them water and power and food and medical care and …” simply isn’t true, without a lot of special pleading and redefinition. As the late Uri Avnery and others noted, Israel is being very careful to do a slow strangulation. It’s worth remembering that the Palestinians don’t actually need Israel for any of that, except for the fact that they are being blocked off. All they really need is to be allowed to fend for themselves, which would leave them much like the Lebanon in the ’60s. Their situation now is like what someone described of something else, “breaking someone’s legs and then giving him crutches” It’s nothing they should be grateful for.
– “So if the Palestinians laid down their arms, the Jews would deprive them, in peace, what they willingly give in war?” No, of course not. Rather, they would still give them what they now willingly give: slow squeezing, softly and silently vanishing away by attrition. That was my point: in conditions of quiet, of peace, it would be even easier to do that than it is now. That, not actual support, is what Israel is giving now.
You can check all this very easily, e.g. through Gush Shalom. Don’t take that for granted either; by all means double check it. But for God’s sake – and yours – don’t start from the position that Israel is doing right by the Palestinians and filter everything to line up with that, start with an open mind and see who is doing what to whom, and how long things have been like that. (Hint: look up “present absentees” on the late Jerry Pournelle’s site, and dig up his observations about how a U.S. diplomat once managed to make the Israelis keep their own laws about treating Palestinians decently – but only once, and only by going right there and watching them.) As the saying is, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts.
Dear P.M.Lawrence:
These are the same Palestinians that teach their Kindergartners to hate Jews, right? The same people whose leaders pay the families of terrorists killed in the murder of innocent Israelis? The same people that were murdering far larger numbers of Jews prior to the security wall’s construction, and that hide missile and rocket launchers on the grounds of schools and hospitals? Those Palestinians?
Surely not all of them want to commit genocide, but by the same token not all Germans wanted to do it in the 1940’s. That’s cold comfort, then and now.
Replying to Mike McDaniel:-
Yes and no. Those are among the ones I mentioned who are at one extreme. There are others, including those who neither wish to kill Jews nor teach it, and yet others for whom such killing is a mere job of work of the sort that comes up in war (and which needs no teaching).
Seriously, Palestinian Christians are a lot different from that. But most of those got squeezed out already. That’s what quietism gets you in their situation.
Hold it. What you are doing here is building in your conclusion, what is called “begging the question”. Those who do the things you list claim:-
– This is war, and this is no murder.
– Israelis killed are no more innocent than Palestinians killed.
– That’s not hiding weapons, that’s simply putting them in the only available places.
Now, you can disagree with that, but if so you should back it – at least as much as acknowledging it. And it’s worth remembering that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; if Israelis endorse the very same methods and justifications for their own terrorists seventy years ago and more (which they do), then they hold when the boot is on the other foot.
Yes, it is indeed cold comfort, even if we indeed stipulate that they do want that. And, the same holds for the slow Israeli genocide against them.
Remember, each group would be happy enough with the other lot gone, and dead is merely one way of doing that (think “Hell or Connaught”). There are two lots of bad guys, and a few who aren’t but are caught in the middle. But most Jews could leave, while few Palestinians can. The only genocide likely here is one way, on the lot that are cornered.
I am amazed that you, who criticise one eyed left arguments, don’t see that you have bought into the very same sort of stock in trade in this area.
Dear P.M. Lawrence:
Oh, I see the argument quite clearly. Let us remember that the Palestinians have been given virtually all of what they asked in past negotiations, but refused, opting instead for continuing violence, as is called for in their charter. In war, few escape with entire clean hands. Oh and Palestinians who cross into Israel and kill women and children in their beds are indeed less innocent than their victims, who are entirely innocent. I merely choose to support our allies.
Oh, and considering this, as opposed to Israeli society, I’ll take the Jews.
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/toxic-masculinity-my-foot/
Reblogged this on Willing Wheeling.
Dear Willing Wheeling:
Thanks for the link!
Ilhan Omar is living proof that a snake can walk and talk.
Of all of the members of the squad, Alexandria Empty Cortex is at
least the most amusing. She recently stated that the people of
her generation are the smartest people in the world. You cannot
make this kind of crap up. On the subject of Hurricane Dorian,
she stated that gas stations would not be running out of gasoline
and that electric cars were better in the event of a prolonged power
outage. On the Blog where I found this, the operator asked the
question, “Who ties her shoes?”
Dear Leonard Jones:
Now, now, we can’t blame the Left for magical thinking. It’s much more interesting and aspirational than actual reality.