Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign

[saidsimplesimon]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/14/ilhan-omar-republicans-silence

Ilhan Omar has become the target of a dangerous hate campaign

Moustafa Bayoumi

Fox News, New York Post and Donald Trump are contributing to a climate of vigilantism that threatens every Muslim in America today.
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But the attacks continue. That’s why you could be forgiven for thinking that Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress, has said these – or even much worse – things. By now, she is accused so often of various speech and thought crimes that she almost seems like a figure in the Two Minutes Hate, the daily ritual used to whip party members into a frenzy in George Orwell’s novel 1984. In Orwell’s dystopia, the enemy of the people was the very Jewish-sounding Emmanuel Goldstein. If you believe some pundits, today’s enemy of the people is the very Muslim-looking Ilhan Omar.

Think I’m exaggerating? Consider how Ronna McDaniel, the head of the Republican National Committee, recently labeled Omar as “anti-American” on Twitter. Or then there’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, who questioned Omar’s loyalty, saying “You have to wonder if she’s an American first.” (Kilmeade has since walked back his statement a tad.) A few weeks earlier and also on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, Jeanine Pirro questioned not just Omar’s loyalty to her country but really any hijab-observing woman’s allegiance to the United States. “Omar wears a hijab,” Pirro said, accusingly. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States constitution?”

The allegations are baseless, but the attacks continue. The latest manufactured outrage derives from a speech Omar gave last month to the Los Angeles branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. As the Washington Post noted, Omar’s 23 March speech was broadcast live (including on Fox News Online), but became controversial only days ago. In one phrase of her 20-minute talk, which was focused on Muslim Americans and civil rights, Omar says “some people did something” when referring to the September 11 attacks. It’s abundantly clear by the context of the talk that Omar was saying that the actions of a few have distressingly enabled the threat to the civil rights of so many. To allege that Omar was minimizing the horrors of September 11 is to deliberately misconstrue the point of her comments.
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[PeeJ52]

1. It is the 2 minutes of hate, but thanks to Fox News, it's the 2 minutes of hate every 30 minutes...

[handmade34]

2. I for one am horrified

by what is happening and livid that nothing is being done (can be done) to fix this

[saidsimplesimon]

3. I had Brexit on my mind, so I stopped

by The Guardian today. Bit of a sticky wicket... The delay granted by the EU may help Parliament steer the ship to minimize financial and trade impacts. I haven't gotten past reflecting on two articles that I have shared.

Something can always be done. There is standing in front of our White House to voice our demand to stop the hate.

[PeeJ52]

4. CNN is completely ignoring the story. It might be buried somewhere on line...

but I can't find it. I really find that strange. A lot of main stream news sources are ignoring it, even though tRump still has it pinned to the top of his Twitter feed. It is dumbfounding.

[CrispyQ]

5. I could apply all of these to Mitch McConnell & Republican Leadership as a whole.

Think I’m exaggerating? Consider how Ronna McDaniel, the head of the Republican National Committee, recently labeled Omar as “anti-American” on Twitter. Or then there’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, who questioned Omar’s loyalty, saying “You have to wonder if she’s an American first.” (Kilmeade has since walked back his statement a tad.)

I could apply all of these to Mitch McConnell & Republican Leadership as a whole. They are anti-American; you have to wonder if they are America first or party first; & I question their loyalty to the Constitution.

[saidsimplesimon]

6. I could apply all of these to Mitch McConnell & Republican Leadership as a whole.

It's time our elected leaders stand up and demand Republicans and the President call off their MAGA mob. We need strong Democrats on every political talk show. We will not appear desperate. Forget trying to appear to be non-partisan, to many voters it makes Dems look weak.

I am not afraid of the fat ass faced cretin. If we want to win, sweep the elections for all offices in 2020, we better get busy on the ground, organizing and getting ahead of rumpie's reality show.

I demand the release of the full Mueller Report. Our tax dollars paid for and I'll starting placing calls to Congress on Monday.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Sure hope the

Sargent at Arms for the House has provided a Security Detail.

Until the Speaker and McConnell issue a joint Statement calling for this hate to stop,nothing changes. And most know the McConnell will not move until some gets hurt.

[ck4829]

8. K&R