Omar: Dems Fight For Things ‘Most People Can’t Understand’

In an interview with The Intercept published Thursday, Rep. Ilhan Omar complained that Democrat lawmakers are so smart they’re burdened with “fighting about a lot of things” most voters “can’t understand.”

“I mean it’s the one thing that everybody accuses us of. We think we’re the smartest in the room,” she boasted. “We are very policy-oriented. We care about the details. Just today we were, you know, fighting about a lot of things that most people can’t understand, and there is that aspect of a [2020 Dem candidate Elizabeth] Warren that is exciting. She has a plan for everything.”

Her praise for Warren notwithstanding, Omar backs socialist Bernie Sanders for president, because “Sometimes you have to be reminded about the vision you truly believe in, and where your core values lie.”

Based on her short history in office, Omar’s core values appear to be socialism, sharia law, jihad, and anti-Semitism, not to mention (alleged) bigamy and immigration fraud.

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In a 2013 interview on the Twin Cities PBS show Belahdan, Omar mocked Americans for the anxiety they felt about Islamic terrorists: “When I was in college, I took a terrorism class…. The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up.” She then chuckled as she imitated the professor saying “Al Qaeda” and “Hezbollah.” “But you know,” added Omar, “it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with an intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with an intensity. But you say these names [Al Qaeda and Hezbollah] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to leave something…. It’s said with a deeper voice.” (See video)

During her tenure with the Minneapolis City Council from 2013-15, Omar acknowledged that she was a friend of several young men who had joined al-Shabab, a Somali jihadist terror group allied with al-Qaeda, several years earlier. “They were happy young men,” said Omar. “And then at some point, something happened. And that is what needs to be researched and studied. What is happening to make them feel disconnected from a community that has birthed them, that has nurtured them?”

To learn more about Omar, click on the profile link here.

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