Ilhan Omar maintaining incitement against American system

Aya Ezz

Somali-born Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called on July 7 during a gathering of people of color and indigenous people for dismantling the American political system.

However, this is opening the door for calls for bringing her to court on charges of harboring hostility to the United States.

Omar said as long as the American economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, the Americans would perpetuate this inequality.

“We cannot stop at the criminal justice system, we must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it,” she said.

As a result, Republican members of Congress introduced a resolution condemning Omar and accusing her of making “anti-American” statements.

The resolution accuses Omar of advocating “for a Marxist form of government that is incompatible with the principles laid out in the founding documents of the United States.”

Unending incitement

Omar specified the most part of her notes on Twitter for criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump. Worse still, the site Geller Report News presented documents proving the presence of links between Omar, on one hand, and what it described as “terror sponsor Qatar.”

Omar ran dozens of tweets in which it incited ordinary Americans against police, including by voting against contracts between police and schools in Minnesota.

She also provoked the public against army troops safeguarding the demonstrations that erupted following the killing of black American man George Floyd.

In an interview with national public television network, ABC, Omar justified the protests by saying that Americans are fed up already.

She re-tweeted remarks she made in the aftermath of the killing of an Asian man at the hands of American police in 2006.

Some people believe Omar re-ran the tweet only with the aim of inciting Asian Americans against policemen.

Ties with Erdogan

In April 2019, Ben Weingarten, a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, contributed an article to the web magazine, The Federalist, in which he accused Omar of having a penchant for provoking millions of Americans with odious words.

This penchant, he wrote, masks the related elements of Omar’s associations, ideology, and background.

He added that Omar had a closed-press meeting in fall 2017 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

According to a curiously now-deleted article from the local Somali-language periodical in her district, the Tusmo Times, he said, Omar and the Islamist authoritarian president met during his U.N. General Assembly visit to New York.

He added that Omar and Erdogan discussed issues involving her native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota.

Omar thanked Erdogan for Turkey’s support for the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

The two also discussed investment and trade between Turkey and Somalia. The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Turkey.

Weingarten noted that Omar not only met with Erdogan, but also with the Turkish prime minister and other senior Turkish officials.