Recent statements by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have angered the progressive left-wing movement in the Democratic Party and some Islamist groups that use nonprofit organizations as a front for implementing questionable political agendas. McCarthy vowed that if he were selected speaker of the House, he would remove representative Ilhan Omar from her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Last year, I promised that when I became speaker, I would remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee based on her repeated anti-semitic and anti-American remarks. I’m keeping that promise,” McCarthy tweeted on Nov. 21.
The controversial representative did not wait long before she began defending herself in her usual way by playing the role of victim and raising the Islamophobia card. That is her standard method of facing any criticism and observation. She ignores the fact that she was initially not qualified to be a member of a critical committee whose role is to shape the foreign policy of this great country.
Her principal qualification prior to her position was a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York in 2016, which the Council on American-Islamic Relations — CAIR — facilitated for some unknown reason. That was two years before her Congressional bid.
“From the moment I was elected, the Republican Party has made it their mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and racism to target me on the House Floor and through millions of dollars of campaign ads,” Omar’s statement read.
While there are many American Muslims, Somalis, Blacks and Arabs in the Republican Party, Omar falsely accused it of ginning up fear and hate against Somali Americans and anyone who shared her identity, according to the statement.
Before one reviews some of her anti-American foreign policy positions that harmed the country itself, it is important to see who was standing behind Omar repeating her narrative portraying her as a freedom and human rights fighter against “American tyranny.”
A statement issued by CAIR — known for having an executive director, Nihad Awad, who is very close to the Muslim Brotherhood — called on members of Congress to reject what it described as an “unjustified and hypocritical threat.”
Despite the Islamist organization’s claim that the GOP was racist and Islamophobic, it admitted in the same statement that Republican candidates had made surprising gains among Muslim voters during this midterm election. “Members of Congress should not be silenced for daring to consistently speak out against human rights violations, whether committed by our nation’s adversaries, allies, or even our own government,” CAIR said.
Ilhan Omar by Lorie Shaull is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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