Ilhan Omar: “Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs” (Then how dare you impart that hatred upon any other group when you yourself understand how it feels. How dare you hate when you have been hated for the exact same reason)
Minnesota Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. She “lauded Jewish-Muslim cooperation in combating bigotry,” while stating that “like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.”
Omar is not hated for her religious beliefs. She is looked upon with suspicion and disgust because of her views, which are rooted in those beliefs. It is highly insulting to Jews for her to compare herself with them. Jews experience anti-Semitism purely for being Jewish. The Islamic states surrounding Israel have tried repeatedly to obliterate it since 1948 and still aim to do so solely because it is the Jewish state. Since obliterating Israel has not proved possible, the next step for Islamic supremacists has been to try to delegitimize the Jewish state through boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS). The BDS movement is based on the lie that Israel is oppressing the Palestinians, when Israel is merely trying to protect itself and its citizens and live in peace.
The record of Ilhan Omar leaves much to be desired. She has accused Israel of “evil doings” when Israel launched an aerial campaign to defend itself against Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza. She has also accused Israel of hypnotizing the world, adding: “May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” Omar also supports BDS. In fact, Omar has “fought to make sure people’s right to support it [BDS] isn’t criminalised,” making her the “first member of Congress to publicly support the BDS movement.” She also has close ties with Hamas-linked CAIR — which did fundraising for her political campaign.
Now Omar is deceptively saying: “Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.” No. She is opposed for her hateful actions.
“Ilhan Omar lauds Jewish-Muslim cooperation in fighting bigotry”, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 27, 2018:
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, lauded Jewish-Muslim cooperation in combating bigotry.“Like members of the Jewish community, I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs,” Omar, who has stirred controversy in the Jewish community for attacks on Israel and suggesting she backed the boycott movement against the Jewish state, wrote Monday in an op-ed for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But we know that we are stronger when we stand united against bigotry and hate.”Omar, until now a state lawmaker, has come under fire for calling Israel an “apartheid regime” and for saying it had “hypnotized the world” to ignore its “evil” treatment of Palestinians.Her oped notes a spike in reports of hate crimes on Muslims and Jews, and last month’s massacre at a synagogue complex in Pittsburgh.She cited instances where the communities stood up for each other.Muslim organizations “raised more than $200,000 to support the victims and their families from the Tree of Life Synagogue,” she said. “I remember how, less than two years ago, Jewish Americans stood with their Muslim-American neighbors against the administration’s cruel travel ban. Eighteen rabbis were arrested as they protested the ban outside Trump Tower in New York.”Omar correlated the spike in hate attacks, reported by the FBI, to Donald Trump’s presidency.“The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence,” she said…..
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