House Republicans finally did something right. By a party-line 218-211 vote, they kicked leftist Muslim radical Ilhan Omar of Somalia off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had explained, as does the resolution that removed her, that Omar’s series of “anti-Semitic” and other comments disqualified her from serving for national security reasons.
Omar and the gang that supports her collapsed in hysterical shrieks of “racism.”
Yet the resolution ignores Omar’s shady past: vote fraud, campaign finance violations, sending millions of campaign dollars to her consultant husband, and, worst of all, immigration fraud by marrying her brother.
What no Republican asked is why an Islamic refugee with a demonstrated hatred for the country that took her in, and zero respect for its history and institutions, is permitted to run for office, let alone serve on a sensitive committee that deals with national security and classified material.
The Resolution
Still, the resolution clearly shows that Omar is a walking, talking incendiary explosive device. She might detonate at any moment.
Not surprisingly, first on the list is Omar’s “anti-Semitism,” a crime tantamount to treason on Capitol Hill.
On February 10, 2019, Omar suggested that “Jewish people and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were buying political support, saying, ‘It’s all about the Benjamins, baby,’ leading to condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike for her use of an anti-Semitic trope.”
After Democrats condemned her, the resolution avers, she “doubled down” on the remark on February 27: “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” she said.
At the time, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) called the remark a “a vile anti-Semitic slur,” and said such remarks have “no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives.”
Another of Omar’s outlandish remarks concerned the 9/11 terror attacks by her coreligionists. “Some people did something,” she said.
On May 16, 2022, she called Israel “an apartheid state,” and further proclaimed that those who don’t agree must “get on the right side of history.”
On June 27, the resolution continues, she equated “Israel—which has the right and responsibility to protect itself and its citizens from all forms of terrorism—and Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization actively engaged in committing war crimes, including using civilians as human shields, which is banned under customary international humanitarian law.”
And when the leftist media asked whether she regretted those comments, she replied characteristically: “I don’t.”
And so Omar, the resolution concludes, “by her own words, has disqualified herself from serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a panel that is viewed by nations around the world as speaking for Congress on matters of international importance and national security.”
“I will continue to speak for the families who are seeking justice around the world — whether they are displaced in refugee camps or hiding under their bed somewhere like I was,” she tweeted after the vote. “I didn’t come to Congress to be silent. I came to Congress to be their voice.”
“I am Muslim, I am an immigrant, and interestingly, from Africa,” Omar said of the GOP move:
Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy, or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced?
Ranted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat and former mixologist, “there is nothing consistent with the Republican Party’s continued attack, except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body”:
This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.
“Rep. @Ilhan brought a unique perspective to @HouseForeign Affairs and served on the committee with dignity. Removing her was a desperate act of political retribution that does not reflect the values of this nation,” said Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, the fake Indian who represents Massachusetts, sent up smoke signals from the other side of The Hill.
Omar “is the first African-born congressmember and the only House Foreign Affairs Committee member who’s lived in a refugee camp,” she said:
It’s shameful that Republicans are trying to remove her after smearing her for years. We need her voice, values, and expertise on the Committee.
The Real Problem
Yet documenting Omar’s career as an oratorical suicide bomber doesn’t quite do her justice. Myriad news reports through the years show that she’s quite adept at, and attached to, the type of political activities and illicit — if not illegal — shenanigans one would find in her native Somalia.
Just before the 2020 election, Project Veritas caught Omar’s torpedoes on camera perpetrating vote fraud.
Omar funneled millions in campaign funds to her boyfriend and then husband Tim Mynett’s political consultancy. The self-dealing only ended after ethics complaints and pressure from the Federal Election Commission forced her to stop.
Also accused of other campaign finance violations, Omar helped blow up Mynett’s marriage. The details of their affair, which both denied, surfaced in divorce papers, after which the Daily Mail caught the two shacked up without benefit of clergy.
Omar divorced her husband to marry Mynett, but that was after she divorced her brother, whom she married to commit student-loan fraud.
Given that history, Republicans had no reason to believe she could handle national security information properly, “anti-Semitism” regardless.
“This is a dangerous argument that members must reject,” Omar tweeted before the ax fell:
We can’t go down this road.
No member of Congress should be removed from committee because of accusations of undermining a relationship with a foreign country.
Members must maintain their independence on policy issues.
Republicans went down that road.
