Search Results for: Ilhan Omar
March 21, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar has refused to answer substantive questions regarding her marriage to husband number 2, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. I think is fair to infer that Elmi is her brother and that she entered the marriage for some dishonest purpose. If so, the dishonest purpose would likely have something to do with student aid while she and Elmi went to college in Fargo at North Dakota State University. If Omar
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March 8, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff
Having escaped condemnation for her anti-Semitic remarks, and indeed having avoided even a straight resolution condemning anti-Semtism itself, Rep. Ilhan Omar has gone on the attack. That’s not surprising, but some might be surprised at the target of her latest attack. This time, it’s not Jews. This time the target is former president Barack Obama. The New York Post reports: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in
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March 8, 2019 — John Hinderaker
The Ilhan Omar problem continues to rile the Democratic Party. Earlier today at the Washington Economic Club, Nancy Pelosi defended Omar essentially on the basis that she is a child and not responsible for her actions: Omar has a “different experience in the use of words”? Different from what? Omar is 37 years old. She has lived in the United States since she was 13. She is a college graduate.
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February 14, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s exchange with Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams yesterday consumed less than five minutes, yet it warrants close scrutiny (C-SPAN video below). As a newly installed member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee doing her thing, we see the devolution of the Democratic Party. Omar begins by calling Abrams “Mr. Adams.” She pretends to deep knowledge about him, launching an ad hominem attack on Abrams for wrongdoing
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February 14, 2019 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Examiner’s Naomi Lim reports that yesterday the House passed an amendment to a resolution with a message to Ilhan Omar: “In rare vote, House sends a message on anti-Semitism to Ilhan Omar.” We have Rep. David Kustoff (R., Tenns.) to thank for this: The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a broad condemnation of anti-Semitism days after Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., received widespread criticism over her comments on Israel.
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February 13, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar questioned Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams at a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing. As Max Boot observes elsewhere on Twitter, she doesn’t seem to realize that Abrams is a leading advocate of human rights and democracy–not a promoter of genocide. She does seem to know, however, that Abrams is a supporter of Israel and the member of a suspect “faith tradition.” Related: The Spectator USA’s Dominic Green
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February 4, 2019 — John Hinderaker
That headline might overstate the case, but only slightly. In 2013, left-wing activist (now Congresswoman) Ilhan Omar was interviewed by Ahmed Tharwat, who–for some reason–had a television show on public television in Minnesota. What sort of a guy is Tharwat? His Facebook page includes this delusional headline: “Winston Churchill killed as many as the worst genocidal dictators of the 20th Century, says Indian politician.” So that’s the context. Omar’s interview
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February 2, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Mark Mellman is the prominent Democrat who has taken the helm of the Democratic Majority for Israel. The group is new and badly needed. It resists the tide that is sweeping the Democratic Party toward anti-Semitic haters of Israel such as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib et al. Jonathan Martin covered the birth of the new group for the New York Times here (accessible here via Outline). I wrote about
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January 31, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) Movement and an opponent of the state of Israel. She likens Israel to South Africa, calling it an “apartheid regime.” See, for example, the speech she gave on the floor of the Minnesota legislature in support of the BDS Movement that I transcribed in “Ilhan Omar: Why I hate Israel.” Omar’s opposition to the contrary
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January 24, 2019 — John Hinderaker
Kurtis Fechtmeyer has started a petition to formally censure Ilhan Omar for her “repeated history of false, derogatory and hateful communications that go well beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse….” You can sign the petition at Change.org. This is Kurtis’s more extended statement in support of the petition, which he posted earlier today: After the threat of legal action, Representative Omar has deleted a false and libelous statement from her
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January 24, 2019 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune is the hometown newspaper of international superstar and Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar. As a state legislator she was the subject of the documentary Time For Ilhan. Hey, does anybody really know what time it is? The Star Tribune has given Omar celebrity treatment at every step of her career since the moment in 2016 when she won the primary to represent a heavily Somali district
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January 22, 2019 — Scott Johnson
Scott Gillespie is the editorial editor and vice president of the Star Tribune. He is in charge of the opinion side of the newspaper. In his daily email newsletter yesterday, Scott discussed the paper’s coverage of Rep. Ilhan Omar under the subject heading “Opining on Ilhan Omar.” I think it’s fair to say that Scott is proud of the paper’s coverage of Omar. I wrote Scott to say that I
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December 31, 2018 — Scott Johnson
Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s New York Times profile of Ilhan Omar (accessible here on Outline) appears to exist in two versions. I have written Ms. Stolberg to pose one more question: Dear Sheryl: When I use Outline to read your [profile of Ilhan Omar], it carries the sentence: “And at home in Minnesota, Ms. Omar has been dogged by specious rumors that she briefly married her brother for immigration purposes —
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December 31, 2018 — Scott Johnson
New York Times congressional reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg profiles Ilhan Omar in “Glorified and Vilified, Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar Tells Critics: ‘Just Deal’” (accessible here via Outline). Omar is more or less made to order for the Times; she perfectly embodies the state of the left. She is this year’s model. She therefore receives the mostly hagiographic treatment one would expect from the Times. A cynical reader of the Times might
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November 19, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
The House of Representatives has lifted a 181-year-old ban against wearing hats on the floor of the House. The ban was instituted in 1837 as to push back against the British custom of wearing hats in parliament. The change has been made to accommodate newly-elected Ilhan Omar, a Muslim who wears hijab. It will also enable another newly-elected Muslim, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, to do the same. In addition, Democrats
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November 13, 2018 — Scott Johnson
I tried to bring the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic views of Minnesota Fifth District Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar to the attention of Power Line readers in several posts. And that’s not all! I also tried to bring them to the attention of Weekly Standard readers in “The anti-Israel seat,” to the attention of City Journal readers in “A question for Democrats” and to the attention of the editor of the Star Tribune in my
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November 5, 2018 — Scott Johnson
Ilhan Omar will be elected to succeed Keith Ellison representing Minnesota’s Fifth District. It appears increasingly likely that she married her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi for dishonest purposes in 2009 and didn’t get around to dissolving the marriage until 2017, all the while living with the man she advertised as her lawful husband and father of her children. You’d never know it, however, if you get your news from
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