American Ingrate, Ilhan Omar the Somali Bitch

Omar is “amazingly ungrateful,” Weingarten notes, after America’s land of opportunity has taken in Omar’s family as refugees from 1990s war-torn Somalia and allowed her to achieve lofty heights. Rather than laud America’s freedom, she has become a prominent national figure in a “red-green” alliance of convenience between Islamists and Leftists, united in their various collectivist desires to extinguish liberty. Thus she “is in the running for leader of the modern-day ‘Blame America Firsters.’”

Former federal prosecutor and leading conservative intellectual, Andrew McCarthy, notes in a forward that “Omar is the instantiation of this Islamist-Leftist collusion.” This “committed ideologue at the crossroads of statism” forms an intersectional link between two ideologies that jointly despise Western civilization yet radically differ over key issues such as gender and human sexuality. Accordingly the “alliance between Islamists and Leftists is not intuitive,” he notes, and Weingarten observes that in Omar’s confused farrago “it is unclear where her Leftism ends and her Islamist sympathies begin.”

Weingarten analyzes how the “secular progressive camp” and the “Islamist camp” want “to impose totalitarian designs anathema to America’s founding principles and the Judeo-Christian values that underlie them.” Rather than benefit disadvantaged minorities, such centralizing agendas will actually primarily empower state-employed “white elite social justice warriors.” Such devotees of a “Great Awokening” will impose a “condescending paternalism justified by narcissistic virtue-signaling.”

These attacks on a Judeo-Christian “Great Satan” America complement attacks on the “Little Satan” Israel, for Weingarten observes that “Jew-hatred is a key ingredient in the glue that holds the progressive-Islamist axis in the West together.” Omar is thus unremittingly bigoted towards the “collective Jew” Israel, which is actually the “first line of defense of Western civilization against Islamist tyranny” in the “perpetual struggle between civilization and barbarism.” Yet the “preternaturally victimological” Omar “has leveraged criticism of her own bigotry to transform herself from victimizer into victim” and used “Islamophobia” as a “weapon of identity politics” in a “victimological pivot.”

Omar’s own Minneapolis, Minnesota, congressional district in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where Somali refugees to America congregated, embodies the Islamist-Leftist alliance. “Little Mogadishu” melds here with “college town. Literally adjacent to the looming low-income and subsidized housing towers where many Somalis first settle upon arriving in America are swanky modern condos,” Weingarten reports. In a district that is actually over 60 percent white, the “only thing that would seem to unite the inhabitants” is “overwhelmingly progressive” politics, an example of how “elite opinion” of the “ruling class” promotes her.

In Minneapolis Weingarten documents how “Omar is a symptom of our failings as a country” and “of what happens when a progressive-Islamist axis takes hold,” namely “crime, poverty, and misery—but always with the best of intentions.” The progressive politics that has long-dominated her overwhelmingly Democratic district has proven hollow, as “Omar’s district was recently rated as the worst for black Americans nationally according to numerous socioeconomic criteria.” “Cedar-Riverside has seen a dramatic rise in violent crime, driven by Somali gang warfare,” and, with this Somali population, Minneapolis’ “welcoming progressive bastion…remains the terror capital of the United States.”

Meanwhile Weingarten notes how Omar lives in a “luxury condo in an upscale Minneapolis neighborhood,” a class struggle-hypocrisy well-known throughout the history of socialist totalitarianism, as in her native Somalia. Here her parents actually were “important Communist apparatchiks” of the “ruling class” in Mohamed Siad Barre’s “Marxist-Islamist dictatorship” that emerged in a 1969 military coup and fell into chaos in 1991. Now “Omar appears to have returned to a life of privilege” thanks to another red-green alliance.

Omar has also so far enjoyed a privilege before the law, as revealed by Weingarten’s collated evidence of numerous scandals including violating congressional rules on book payments. She “is outspoken on everything but the personal behavior that has implicated her in all manner of potential crimes,” he writes, such as the copious indications that she briefly married her brother in an immigration fraud. Her complicated personal life of marriages, divorces, and affairs has involved office payments to lovers and the filing of joint tax returns with a man with whom she merely had a Muslim, but not a legal, marriage.

Correspondingly, Omar would probably fail standard government security clearance background checks, yet Weingarten notes that this does not concern Omar and other members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). With this plum appointment by congressional Democrats to a position handling classified information, she “poses a significant threat to America’s national security interests” concerning the “most sensitive matters of war and peace.” Her numerous ties to her native Somalia and in Turkey’s Islamist dictatorship as well as Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only heighten these dangers.

Weingarten analyzes Omar in a wider context where the “Left is effectively accepting an ethos of national self-hatred” and “self-immolation.” The radicalized “Democratic Party is no longer the Party of John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton” and has “no more Scoop Jacksons.” The “Elephant in the Room: Democrats are Trading Jewish Votes for Muslim Votes” especially contrasts as “conservatives and Republicans…demonstrate by word and deed that they are America’s preeminent philo-Semites.”

Weingarten urgently concludes with a warning about the “simmering civil war” that endangers America, “man’s last, best hope on Earth.” “Progressive orthodoxy prevails across our core institutions” and has “never been more widely represented in our national politics.” Yet faced with Omar and her allies, embattled conservatives often respond with “suicidal rules of engagement.”

Conservatives, Weingarten accurately observes, “cannot expect to win political elections one day every two years if we are losing elections for the American Mind every other day of every year.” Particularly free speech requires defense as the “first pillar the progressive elites and Islamists alike seek to abolish” so “there can be no competition in the War of Ideas.”