“A right-wing extremist just dedicated a racist, Islamophobic book to bashing Ilhan,” the Ilhan for Congress fundraising email read. And then asked donors for $5 or $100 because the book might “turn more people away from bold progressive ideas, and incite violence against her.”
The book is American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party. And in it, Benjamin Weingarten, has written a damning indictment of Omar and her allies.
The fundraising letter’s claims that it incites violence and that it’s racist are false. But American Ingrate might very well make people question some of those “bold progressive ideas”, because Weingarten’s scope goes beyond a grifter from Minnesota trailing accusations of infidelity and even incest through her twisted political career, while romancing her fundraising strategist. They go to the very question of how someone like Omar, with all her issues, personal and ideological, was able to rise so high.
On a personal level, it’s understandable why Omar wouldn’t want anyone reading American Ingrate. Her own memoir, This Is What America Looks Like, is due out in the spring. And after a series of stories digging into her past, her alleged marriage to her brother, her infidelity to her ex-husband, and her campaign finance issues, not to mention the torrent of anti-Semitism coming from her on Twitter, the Islamist politician would like to change the subject and get back to enjoying some positive publicity.
But American Ingrate is more about the political environment that made Omar possible.
Omar’s upcoming memoir is mistitled. Her arrogance, disdain for America, bigotry, and embrace of conspiracy theories is not what America looks like. But it is what the Democrat Party looks like.
American Ingrate is not just an examination of Omar’s scandals, but of the Democrat scandal.
Beginning with her privileged background in Somalia, Weingarten explores Omar’s personality through the lens of her ideology. He charts the mix of Islamism and Marxism of her background, and how it prepared her for her role in the post-9/11 Democrat Party. He describes her rise as “Obamaesque” and, indeed, the parallels are obvious. Both Omar and Obama share deliberately obscured backgrounds, familial hatred for America and embrace of radical politics. And these two elements, the lack of background information and a background built on hatred for this country, are intertwined. Omar and Obama both had to disguise their anti-American roots to realize their American political ambitions.
Obama and Omar both redefined their anti-American identities as quintessentially American. Omar’s upcoming memoir is her own attempt at repeating the trick Obama had pulled with Dreams From My Father. As American Ingrate notes, Omar is ambitious and aggressive in seeking higher office. It is unlikely that she intends to climb no higher than the House of Representatives in Washington D.C.
Her aggressive fundraising in response to American Ingrate and her biography highlight a politician, who faces few real political challenges at home, but is building a machine intended to elevate her further.
Omar, as Weingarten points out, is both a symbol of the transformation of the Democrat Party and of the alliance between Islamists and the radical Left, and one of the engines driving the transformation.
“There has never been a U.S. representative so perfectly positioned at the intersection of these two ideologies aimed at undermining our country, who has garnered such widespread support, not only from her Squad but from the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Democratic Party itself.”
Anti-Semitism is, in some ways, incidental to this alliance. And yet in other ways it’s the litmus test. It’s often been said that Jews are the canary in the coal mine. Anti-Semitism signals the death of a civil society and the rise of a totalitarian order. The perpetrators often use anti-Semitism because it’s easy. The Jews are a wedge issue for an escalating series of attacks on a society’s norms of decency.
Omar’s anti-Semitism isn’t just about Jews. Like most Islamists, she violates the norms of bigotry both to show that the Jews are defenseless, in much the same way that the Nazis did in Germany, but also, because successfully violating them sets the stage for further violations. Similarly, her attacks on America, her dismissal of 9/11, are an escalated version of the same pattern of ideological warfare.
Once the Democrats began defending her, they became complicit in her future offenses. And then it was too late for them to stop. Every time she escalated her hateful rhetoric, they had to go on covering for her. It was either or admit that they had been wrong to defend a politician who really is a bigot.
Islamic anti-Semitism and leftist anti-Semitism, Weingarten notes, represent a bridge between Islam and the Left. The fusion of the two, which he traces back to the KGB and Edward Said’s Orientalism, transformed racism into anti-racism, and imperialism into anti-imperialism, reversing western morality.
Despite her own privileged background, Omar’s status as a minority woman allowed her to legitimize anti-Semitism by reducing it to power relationships. The Left insists that real racism can only be directed by those who have more power at those who have less power. But every racist movement insists that the people it hates have too much power. Even if it has to rewrite reality and truth to make that claim.
The Left’s insistence that real racism can only be a function of power relationships legitimizes racism. Its insistence on determining which races really have power and which don’t is a classic racist strategy.
Omar is one of the most recognizable figures in the country. Yet she insists that she’s the victim. In her fundraising email, her campaign claims that she risks being “drowned out by the smears and conspiracy theories.” But her upcoming memoir is being put out by one of the world’s largest publishing companies. It’s already being promoted by the mainstream media though it’s a long way from being out.
American Ingrate, a critical look at Omar, is unlikely to be reviewed by any major media outlet.
Who then has the real power?
In American Ingrate, Weingarten asks that, “Rep. Omar be held to the same standard of scrutiny as every other politician.” But the function of identity politics is the obliteration of equal standards.
As long as Omar insists that she’s the victim, she can never be held to the same standard.
Victimhood creates multiple tiers, whether through a formal caste system such as intersectionality or the informal one of guilt and rage, and lefties and Islamists both excel at exploiting this system.
That is why Omar reacted to the publication of American Ingrate with false claims of victimhood.
Being a victim means never being held accountable. It also allows Omar to use crybullying tactics in an effort to intimidate and silence journalists like Weingarten, David Steinberg, who did much of the original investigating of Omar, or Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker of PowerLine, and many others.
The Omar campaign’s fundraising email calls American Ingrate an “unprecedented attack.”
And it is. Not because, as Omar falsely claims, it incites violence, but because it exposes the ideological roots of her hatred for America. That’s why Omar doesn’t want you or anyone else to read it.
Jaladhi says
This is a Muslim trait! She can’t help it being a true Muslim! 🙂
DiploNerd says
Qur’an 22:38 says that Allah does not love the ungrateful.
JHL says
If Allah really exist, how is it that only Mahammud had contact with him?
FYI says
In Sahih Muslim 241 allah sends women to hell for the terrible ‘sin’ of being ungrateful{Takfurna}But then allah doesn’t like women or think they are worth much{only HALF the value of a man koran 2:282}
All that hijab wearing for nothing…..in honor of a god whose polygamous “prophet” muhammed with his 9 year old “wife” Aisha,said that women have a “deficiency of the mind” which is WHY the koran insists they are only HALF the value of a muslim male.
ilhan omar,according to Sahih Mulsim 241, is sure to be sent to allah’s hell:besides,she makes the Biblical Jezebel look like a decent,moral woman{what with the adultery,the bearing false witness,marrying her brother..I guess they do things differently in Somalia}
Iambob says
‘…how someone like Omar, with all her issues, personal and ideological, was able to rise so high.’
Simple answer: She’s the black, female, Islamic, Marxist personification of Barry’s ‘fundamental transformation of the United States’ America voted for not just once, but twice. She embodies American hatred and disdain, as he did.
gravenimage says
Too many foolish liberals consider her a “progressive”, which could not be more grimly laughable.
Boromir's Horn says
her “bold progressive ideas” like
Marry your brother, keep the bloodline strong!
To calm yourself down, think of the Holocaust
Some people did something, like kill 2,977 innocent Americans
Band together and become America-hating Islamic jihadist’s
Promote the idea the Jewish state of Israel is illegal, as for centuries, it’s been inhabited primarily by Arab Muslims
Boromir's Horn says
Not to be outdone, AOC declared today that inequality is a preexisting health condition and that black + brown minority and low-income communities should receive coronavirus relief in the form of reparations.
Boromir's Horn says
While on the subject of idiotic and dangerous politicians, Pelosi is putting together a task force to oversee the coronovirus response “in real time”.
Aside from the obvious, putting James Clyburn in charge of it, the guy who infamously said “we can use this crises to restructure things to fit our vision”, and the partisan attempt to impeach 45!
Imagine you’re a firefighter, in the middle of battling a raging fire, and the town board decides to audit the job you’re doing, asking questions, getting in your way. Now imagine how the homeowner feels as his house is burning to the ground. That’s what this investigation will be like. YOU ARE THE HOME OWNER!
Remember this in November! These attacks will not stop until we take back the House!! MAGA 2020!!!
gravenimage says
Yes–a lot of politicians–leftists especially–are trying to make political hay out of this crisis. Of course, this was quite predictable.
donald says
I hope AOC is running in November, and hope that Mn votes her out, or at least one of the militias take care of things!
gravenimage says
What is the second part of this supposed to mean? If this thug is calling for violence, this is disgusting. I agree with voting her out, the latter–if this is indeed what donald is saying–is grotesque.
Why is he posting something like this? Agent provocateur.
mortimer says
Leftists and Islamists generally avoid debate because the facts are not in their corner, and they know it now.
Their only recourse is to claim they have a right to control the narrative. That means all other voices must be silenced.
The use of slanderous epithets Ilhan Omar and her squad is all they’ve got … NAME-CALLING. This is a fallacy called ‘ad hominem’ or ‘poisoning the well’.
People who are unaware of fallacies are completely taken in by this manipulation and unaware of how they’ve been tricked.
mortimer says
In 2009, Jamie Glazov identified the Red-Green Axis in his important book ‘UNITED IN HATE’.
Little did we know that this Axis of Evil would take over the Democrat Party and twist people’s minds.
mortimer says
Weingarten points out the RACISM OF LOWER STANDARDS that permeates the Dem Party.
In American Ingrate, Weingarten asks that, “Rep. Omar be held to the same standard of scrutiny as every other politician.”
That cannot be done because the Dems actually think non-Europeans are incapable of the same standards of ethics and achievement. It is generally acknowledged among Muslims that Omar is not a practicing Muslim in private and she would be executed for her sins in an Islamic country.
The way the Dems lure people of color into their plantation is by using DOUBLE STANDARDS and sleight of hand: to cast themselves as benevolent slave owners versus the more vicious Republicans. (Note that the Republican Party was actually created to abolish slavery, and later kept that promise.)
The Democrats haven’t been this angry since Republican Abraham Lincoln took away their slaves.
Boromir's Horn says
Nicely put mortimer
Sensei says
Boromir I so appreciate your comment …with that said I am so appreciate Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch …thank you to all of you.
Sensei
RonaldB says
There is, I believe, an exception in Islam to the requirement for strict adherence to Islamic law. That exception, related to the definition of Taquiyya, is that a Muslim may lie, renounce Islam, or publicly break Islamic law, if the end result is to advance the spread of Islam. Thus, Huma Abadin, a Saudi Arabian citizen whose mother, father, and brother were high officials in the Muslim Brotherhood, was able to marry a Jew and stay in good standing with the Islamic community. It is against sharia law that a Muslim woman marry a non-Muslim male. But, at the time of the marriage, it looked like Anthony Weiner was headed for a high position in the Obama administration, giving him access to lots and lots of classified information. So, naturally the Islamic requirements for marrying within Islam were waived.
Ilhan Omar is undoubtedly operating under that same Islamic exception: in the interests of advancing Islam, she is allowed to flout the details of Sharia law. If she were ever to be expelled from the US (one can always hope), her treatment in Somalia would depend on whether her murderous relatives were in power, or the murderous enemies of her relatives.
Although Somalia is trying hard to export all its murderous denizens to the US, the supply is really limitless, and the Somali is fully capable of producing all the sociopaths necessary for both domestic and foreign consumption.
commonsense says
Excellent post, RB.
Mural says
+1. Nicely written.
gravenimage says
Good posts. Mortimer.
JHL says
Beware of those who sanction the victim, for the criminal always blames the law.
OTTER says
If she gets reelected, then it is absolute confirmation that America has lost its mind.
Notice that Muslim politicians like her only allow themselves to use the word Muslim when describing themselves, but it becomes immediately racist when somebody else does it.
Islam and Muslims like her are the first and eternal creators of the ‘other’ and we are the despised ‘other’, the kuffar ,to be conquering by all means. Books like this get in the way so they have to be attacked in the most aggressive manner.
Mural says
+1
James Lincoln says
OTTER says,
“If she gets reelected, then it is absolute confirmation that America has lost its mind.”
That is a true statement.
It’s a given that ALL of the muslims in her district will vote to reelect her.
Any non-muslim who votes for her, after all that as been learned about her since first being elected, is totally brain-dead…
gravenimage says
Too many Infidels have *no idea* what this stealth Jihadist is all about:
“Ilhan Omar and the Politics of ‘Radical Love’”
https://progressive.org/magazine/ilhan-omar-politics-of-radical-love-nichols/
It includes such jaw-dropping lines as these:
“…she is stepping up to express a deep, sometimes aching, often controversial concern for human rights, human development, climate justice, diplomacy, and peacemaking projects that might usher in an age of peace and shared prosperity. Her vision is of a “radical love” that extends beyond borders…”
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Ouch !!!
gravenimage says
I know, James. But this idiocy is sadly not uncommon on the Left.
Mo says
Will buy it as soon as I am able.
DazzleMe says
Myself as well, Mo
RonaldB says
After a promising beginning exposing the anti-Americanism of Omar, Daniel Greenfield gets lost on the snipe hunt of antiSemitism and never really gets back to the scent.
Writers like Greenfield consider hostility to Israel and its Jewish government to be synonymous to antiSemitism. This is simply false, as shown by Iran, which is rabidly opposed to Israel, but which closely protects its community of Orthodox Jews, who are compliant politically, and practice Judaism as they wish.
I think the antiSemitism canard is trotted out routinely to allow the accuser to not have to work too hard to make a rational case against her. In a way, it’s equivalent to a leftist cutting off an argument by shouting “racist”. The argument certainly falls flat with American Jews, who overwhelmingly as a community support the Democrats, support Muslim immigration, and oppose any measures by the US government to protect the borders and safety of the US. And I can document each of these claims with links to mainstream US Jewish sources. Individual Jews, of course, can be patriotic and protective of the US and its boundaries.
Ilhan is profoundly anti-Western and profoundly opposed to Western institutions. She supports any measure which weakens Western institutions and removes general confidence in the US government and culture. She is a member of an alliance of highly ethnocentric non-whites who act together to erode any sense of identity and community derived from traditional America. The fact that she is supported not only by her constituents, every bit as anti-American as she, and by the Democratic Party, makes her extremely dangerous.
Let me say the coalition between Islamists and leftists is unsurprising and also is rooted in past conflicts. The Islamist movement of Ayatollah Khomeini was allied with the Iranian Communist Party, right to the point of the Islamist victory. At that point, the Ayatollah executed his former allies; the Islamists are strongly ethnocentric and have no intention of sharing power with anyone. The cultural Marxists realize this, but their hatred for the US and its culture is stronger than their own self-preservation instincts.
Islamists and cultural Marxists share the same approach to achieving power, so an alliance is natural. Cultural Marxists derive from the Frankfurt School, a collection of old Bolsheviks who couldn’t understand why Western workers didn’t rise up in revolt once the November 1917 revolution took place in Russia. They came to believe that it was the loyalty of workers to their culture that prevented the revolution. Hence, to institute a Communist society, the cultural basis of the traditional society must be destroyed.
The Islamist approach to spreading Islam is almost identical. Milestones written by Sayyid Qutb and the Quranic Art of War by Malik both detail the gradual erosion of confidence in Western society and the creeping advance of Islam as an alternative, as a fundamental part of Islamist plans for expansion.
gravenimage says
Ronald, I know you have said before that antisemitism is not an issue in Islam–but I cannot agree.
Islam’s virulent hatred of Jews is a consistent marker in that foul creed, and it is the model for hatred of all Infidels. Demanding that we ignore this is, I believe, much mistaken.
Wellington says
Just to further sustain your point, gravenimage, some time ago mortimer posted a comparative analysis done by Dr. Bill Warner which showed that while 7% of Mein Kampf is anti-Semitic and replete with Jew hatred the three major Islamic texts combined (Koran, hadiths and sira) add up to 18% overall possessed (probably the optimal word) of anti-Semitism and rank Jew hatred.
gravenimage says
Yes, Wellington–most salient point by Mortimer.
RonaldB says
Well, let me say I value our disputations, although we do not end up in agreement.
I include a link to a Wiki article detailing the acceptance and prosperity of the Jews under the Ottoman empire:
Remember. I’m not arguing the Muslims were particularly tolerant. I’m arguing that the Muslims did not treat the Jews worse than they treated other non-Muslims. I would think that the definition of antiSemitism would be that you treat Jews worse than you treat others, for no good reason.
I have one additional question. Do you believe Omar hates Israel worse than she hates the US? I don’t. She hates both. It was the US that made the mistake of admitting her and her family.
The reason I bring up the vacuousness of the specific antiSemitism charge is that Omar presents a deep threat to the US. Why waste time on antiSemitism? If it is to mobilize the Jewish community, a strong supporter of the Democrats and cultural Marxist issues (yes, I can document that if asked) against the Democrats, it’s wasted effort.
gravenimage says
Hi, Ronald. With all respect, making a point that the oppressive Ottoman Empire didn’t always persecute Jews any more than it did Christians is certainly damning with faint praise, considering the appalling treatment of Christians there.
And no–most Anti-Jihadists don’t expose the horrors of antisemitism in Islam as some sort of ploy to mobilize the Jewish community in the US. I think it is important to expose *all* of the horrors of Islam, whatever the political orientation of some Jewish people in the United States.
You may also consider it “vacuous” to expose stories like these:
“Hamas top dog: ‘If ventilators are not brought into Gaza, we’ll stop the breathing of six million Israelis’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/hamas-top-dog-if-ventilators-are-not-brought-into-gaza-well-stop-the-breathing-of-six-million-israelis
“Muslim Doctor: Zionists Use Coronavirus to Distract the World From Their Scheming”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/muslim-doctor-zionists-use-coronavirus-to-distract-the-world-from-their-scheming
These are just from today. There are many, many more examples of unhinged Muslim Jew-hatred.
Islam hates Infidels in general–but it specifically targets the Jews, including for genocide.
This does not mean that Muslims don’t also hate non-Jewish Infidels–of course they do. Omar certainly also hates America. But here is no doubt that she and Rashida Tlaib have a special animus for Israel and Jews.
Like you, I value our exchanges, despite our disagreement here.
somehistory says
omar is a snake, She doesn’t shed her skin, but does shed poison relentlessly.
When Mr. Trump was saying how bad the virus is to America a couple of days ago, omar snake tweeted the moslim/islamic/islamist phrase for praising their fake ‘god.’
snake omar knows that most Americans don’t know arabic, nor the phrases of islam that mean death to the infidel/kuffar…ordinary Americans and people of other countries…so she uses those phrases openly and boldly and without worry that anyone but moslims will understand her.
Being against America, when she was taken in and cared for, educated (although her speech and ability to read are horrific), allowed to live, to go where she wished, allowed to wear her scarves on the House floor, to speak what she wishes and to marry whomever she wishes and get away with incest and bigamy…so far…treats the American people as a snake treats the bunny that warms it in the winter warren.
She is glad to see Americans suffering from the virus and the chaos it has caused with loss of jobs, personal freedoms to travel, visit, shop, etc. and even dying by the thousands. snake omar praises her fake ‘god’ for all of the stress, strife, trouble, sickness and death.
She should be kicked back to the land where she can not do so much damage while…getting paid by taxpayers…thus losing her ‘job’ and means of maintenance.
Wellington says
Omar is disgusting as is Tlaib and they want the destruction of traditional America, but then by the year so do more and more Democrats—AOC and Berne Sanders (how appropriate his initials are “BS”) being just two more examples of the enemy within.
Wellington says
I know Sanders is an Independent but he caucuses with the Democrats and so if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck it’s a duck.
gravenimage says
Dear Wellington, Sanders was indeed an independent for a very long time–albeit because he was in so many ways to the left of most Democrats.
But he is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, as he did in the last election. As I understand it, he joined the Democratic Party in 2015 for just this reason.
Wellington says
Joined? I thought Sanders is still technically, politically, an Independent as is Angus King of Maine who also caucuses with the Democrats. This is my understanding of matters, gravenimage.
If you have any evidence to the contrary I would appreciate it if you would convey it. But, you know, in a way, it is almost a distinction without a difference since most everyone on the Left is more or less dismal and ignorant if not downright nuts.
gravenimage says
OK, Wellington. I did some digging around, and it appears–to my considerable embarrassment–that you are correct:
“Bernie Sanders Signs Democratic Party Loyalty Pledge For 2020 Run”
Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has signed a loyalty pledge, promising to run and govern as a Democrat if he wins the presidency in 2020, a new requirement for candidates that largely grew out of his own 2016 campaign.
The pledge Sanders signed was given to all active Democratic presidential campaigns last week. It affirms to the DNC chairman that they “are a Democrat … are a member of the Democratic Party; will accept the Democratic nomination; and will run and serve as a member of the Democratic Party.”…
…In the Senate, Sanders caucuses with Democrats. But after his first run for the White House, Sanders seemed to suggest going forward that he would run as a Democrat instead of an independent, saying in 2015 when he filed for the New Hampshire primary that he would be on the ballot as a Democrat in future elections…
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700524861/bernie-sanders-signs-democratic-party-loyalty-pledge-for-2020-run
He seems to be saying that if nominated as the Democratic candidate that he would run as a Democrat–although whether that would entail his actually registering as a Democrat is less clear.
I like to consider myself pretty well informed, especially about something this basic.
You can see that the above–and similar stuff from Sanders–is pretty ambiguous, though.
Stieve says
This broad is only mad since a book like this has put an actual name to her actions and beliefs – she is an ingrate.
Leftist muslim supremacists dont care if the info gets out that they lie, cheat, etc, that is what the media is for, to cover for them.
Omar is afraid that a label that encapsulates her corruption sticks. That might make her look bad to those not pay attention.
OLD GUY says
Omar is not in Congress to support the constitution, she is there to destroy it.
gravenimage says
Spot on, OLD GUY.
Linde Barrera says
I wrote an email this past week to my US Senator, Charles Schumer, and asked questions about several points. One of the statements I made was that I was ashamed of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC, and Nancy Pelosi. I hope each of them gets voted out of office. The US cannot afford to have people in Congress like these who go against American freedoms to set up their own “brave new world”. ???
Cart5000 says
Why spend so much Time on this two bit insignificant bimbo. Somalia was guide nice when I First went there as Italy ran the place. The moronic muslims took it over and two years later it was a smelly pig Pen. And now this filthy riff raff and others like her want to
Ruin The USA with their phony religion
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Omar and Tlaib and other Muslims are loud and quite influential–and more of these Muslim thugs are infiltrating the politics of the West all the time. Too few understand their goals.
TKF says
What’s it gonna take to get this stupid b*tch under oath in a senate hearing? I’d have this evil Muslima on the first plane back to Islamic turd-pile Somalia so fast it would make her hijab spin.