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Apr 16, 2019, 8:40:03 AM4/16/19
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President Trump on Friday tweeted a video attacking Rep. Ilhan
Omar (D-Minn.) for the way she phrased a reference to 9/11. By
Saturday, dozens of lawmakers and public figures denounced the
tweet, which used video of the twin towers falling. And by
Sunday evening, Omar had responded as well. The Democrat said in
a statement late Sunday that threats against her life have
spiked, and she explicitly blamed Trump’s tweet for the surge.

“Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced
an increase in direct threats on my life — many directly
referencing or replying to the President’s video,” Omar said in
the statement, which noted that she now receives death threats
daily that often reference her faith.

Omar’s warning, which came hours after House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) revealed she has asked the U.S. Capitol Police
to increase protection for Omar, adds new urgency to the demands
for calmer rhetoric from her critics, who have repeatedly
charged her with anti-Semitism and now with downplaying the 2001
terrorist attacks.

Democrats slam Trump for his attacks on Rep. Omar
1:18
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other prominent
Democrats criticized President Trump for using 9/11 imagery to
attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). (Reuters)

But her detractors on the right have shown little appetite for
backing off. On ABC’s “This Week,” White House press secretary
Sarah Sanders disputed on Sunday that Trump’s words might
endanger Omar and promised that he would continue “calling out
the congresswoman.”

“Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, and certainly
not violence toward anyone,” said Sanders, who called Trump’s
criticism of Omar a “good thing.” She added: “The president is
absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her,
not only one time, but history of anti-Semitic comments. The
question is why aren’t Democrats doing the same thing?”

The central controversy
The latest political firestorm around Omar centers on a speech
she gave to a Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet on
March 23. As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reported, her
talk drew little attention until a controversial Australian
figure tweeted a clip of her using the phrase “some people did
something” when describing the 9/11 attacks.

[ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments have been all over the news. In
Minnesota, they’re causing pain and confusion.]

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) then helped the video go viral by
retweeting it last week, calling Omar’s statement
“Unbelievable.” The uproar led one Fox News host to question
whether the congresswoman, a former Somali refugee, was “an
American first”; the New York Post on Thursday published a
widely derided cover with a photo of a hijacked plane slamming
into the World Trade Center alongside Omar’s quote.

Trump escalated that rhetoric further with his Friday tweet,
which declared “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” over 43 seconds of Omar’s
comments interspersed with footage from Lower Manhattan during
the attacks.

‘Some people did something:’ Rep. Omar’s remarks in context
4:17
The remarks of the freshman member of Congress during an address
to a Muslim rights organization spawned controversy, but it was
just a snippet. (Video: Meg Kelly, Atthar Mirza/Photo: Atthar
Mirza/The Washington Post)

Omar and her defenders have insisted that her quote, which came
amid a longer speech decrying Islamophobia, was taken wholly out
of context. They’ve noted that Omar was among the 213 co-
sponsors of a bill to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation
Fund and suggested that the vitriol against her is actually
rooted in prejudice against her religion.

Real-life threats
Democrats also argue that Trump’s tweet, the New York Post’s
cover and similar messages can inspire real-world violence,
citing a man who was charged earlier this month with threatening
Omar by promising to “put a bullet in her ... skull.”

“@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent
is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a
member of Congress,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
tweeted shortly after Trump’s missive.

[ N.Y. Post denounced for using 9/11 to attack Rep. Omar over
speech on Islamophobia]

By Sunday, she had been echoed by many of the 2020 Democratic
presidential candidates.

In her Sunday night statement, Omar said her colleagues are
right to be concerned. Linking to recent studies suggesting that
hate crimes and assaults rise in areas where Trump holds
rallies, she accused the president of inflaming “extremists.”


“Violent crimes and other acts of hate by right-wing extremists
and white nationalists are on the rise in this country and
around the world. We can no longer ignore that they are being
encouraged by the occupant of the highest office in the land,”
Omar said. She thanked Pelosi, the Capitol Police, the FBI and
the House sergeant at arms for taking the threats against her
seriously.

The Democrat noted that Trump is planning a visit to her home
state on Monday, which she said she found “concerning.”

“Violent rhetoric and all forms of hate speech have no place in
our society, much less from our country’s Commander in Chief,”
she said. “We are all Americans. This is endangering lives. It
has to stop.”

You are not an American you dense cunt.

https://www.thelily.com/rep-ilhan-omar-says-she-has-experienced-
an-increase-in-direct-threats-on-my-life-following-trumps-tweet/

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Apr 16, 2019, 10:22:47 AM4/16/19
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Muslim Lies Matter... wrote

>
> Don't worry shithead. We're going to keep you around for as
> long as we can to make a mockery of the Democrat party and their
> stupidity.
>

If you love trump you love muslims. Muslims are rightists just like you!


Trump Got Elected Bashing Sharia Law. Now He’s in Bed With Its Lethal
Champion.

Trump rode to the White House on Sharia scaremongering—and now he’s
placating its most zealous practitioners in the Saudi court over the
alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Christopher Dickey


PARIS—When will Donald Trump bring Sharia law to America? Of course the
immediate answer is “never.” He campaigned against Muslims. He campaigned
against Sharia! But in light of recent events, one has to say, as Trump
would say, “Who knows?”

What’s certain is that the president’s reactions to the alleged murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and his administration’s fawning relationship
with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, should provoke questions
—especially among Trump’s core supporters—about just how subservient the
United States has become to a regime notorious for exporting its radical
terrorist-inspiring vision of Islam and Islamic law around the world.

After all, if the Saudis can get away with a murder as sordid as the
alleged torture and dismemberment of U.S. resident and Washington Post
columnist Khashoggi (latest reports suggest the hit-team at the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul started cutting him up while he was still alive) what
else might they try to do?

And what else might Trump try to accept?

Given the toadying on display from Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
this week, it’s not entirely impossible to imagine a day when Trump
announces that U.S. laws should be informed by the wisdom of the Quran
because, you know, his instincts on this are good and the Saudis are great
friends and it’s going to mean more jobs for Americans!

LEVERAGED
Trump’s Personal Saudi Deals Loom Over His Khashoggi Apathy
Adam Rawnsley

Again, that probably won’t happen, but ... who knows? An administration
built on instinct and disdain for facts can easily come to believe it can
do anything it wants, which is one reason the Saudi royals and the Trump
wannabe royals have so much in common.

For the moment, Trump’s inclined to give the crown prince more time to
perfect his implausible cover story, and the president vaguely promises
"severe" measures if that doesn’t pan out. But experience has shown that if
Trump can stall long enough he can move the news cycle to some other
distraction like, say, a confrontation at the Mexican border, or his own
continued demonstrations of violent contempt for the press, like his praise
Thursday for a politician in Montana who body slammed a reporter. (Trump
and the Saudis just love the phony thrills of wrestling "entertainment,"
another thing they have in common.)

But let’s get back to Trump’s core supporters and the Sharia question.




Because you are sane and we have a Constitution that is supposed to rule
out such things, you may never have worried about the Sharia-in-America
"threat." But many grassroots Republicans loved it when the background was
the administration of a president they claimed was a secret Muslim born in
Kenya.

Indeed, it was a classic dog-whistle. The notion of a creepy, creeping
Islamist takeover of America was a histrionic refrain from Donald Trump,
Ted Cruz and others throughout the 2016 elections, but it started before,
and has continued since.

The Sharia “threat” was a great distraction. At the same time that
Republican-controlled state legislatures were gerrymandering and vote
suppressing, they were scrambling to pass legislation banning “foreign
laws,” meaning “Sharia.” By the beginning of this year, 201 such bills had
been introduced in 43 states, and 14 legislatures actually passed them,
according to numbers compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.

“A questionnaire posted by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee
earlier this year asked, among dozens of leading questions, “Are you
concerned by the potential spread of Sharia Law?””
Although scholars can debate the true meaning of "Sharia," and do, the
political discourse in the American heartland is not about the texts of the
Quran and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad. It’s about the notorious
practices of regimes that claim their legitimacy based on those
scriptures—the kind of regimes with arbitrary religious courts that lop off
hands and feet and heads, like the so-called Islamic State or, yes, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (The basic difference between ISIS executioners
and KSA headsmen? Fewer selfies.)

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Trump and his supporters have been reluctant to let the Sharia issue go,
knowing it is a hot item with core supporters, which is why an online
"questionnaire" posted by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee
earlier this year asked, among dozens of leading questions, “Are you
concerned by the potential spread of Sharia Law?”

The SPLC, which monitors hate speech and is acutely (sometimes excessively)
sensitive to the issue of Islamophobia, calls “the mass hysteria
surrounding a so-called threat of ‘Sharia law’” in the United States “one
of the most successful far-right conspiracies to achieve mainstream
viability.”

To get a sense of the other side, I called Robert J. Muise, Esq. of the
American Freedom Law Center, who is co-author with David Yerushalmi of the
monograph “Offensive and Defensive Lawfare: Fighting Civilizational Jihad
in America’s Courts.”

I asked Muise what he thought of Trump’s performance in the Khashoggi
affair, and the threat that the Saudis were imposing their Sharia-type
values on America.

“I don’t think that there’s any secret that in Saudi Arabia Sharia law is
in force, certainly with regard to their free speech codes,” Muise said.
“If you want to find a place where First Amendment freedoms are not
afforded to journalists you don’t have to look too far beyond Saudi
Arabia.”

Muise then fell back on the basic legal arguments given for anti-Sharia
laws or, as he prefers, the model American Law for American Courts statute.
The narrow gauge argument is that the Constitution’s guarantees against the
imposition of foreign laws are undermined by the principle of comity,
accommodating the laws of other countries, and a handful of divorce and
custody decisions show Sharia rulings can “work their way into our laws.”
He also said free speech in the United States doesn’t seem to be protected
when it’s criticizing same-sex marriages, or Islam, or abortion. He
complained that attacks on “hate speech” are infringements on free speech.
“There’s nothing in the First Amendment about ‘hate speech,’” Ruise said.

Okay, I said, but given Saudi Arabia’s record on free speech, like
murdering people who speak out, what sort of example does it set that
President Trump is basically an apologist now for Mohammed bin Salman in
this Khashoggi case?

“You’re going to have to talk to the White House about where you’re going
with that,” said Ruise. “I’m not going to comment on that.”

Of course.

To be sure, in the aberrant Age of Trump, irony has just about died. The
preposterous contradictions of a Republican administration making America
great “again” are too many and too tragic to list. But to watch the frantic
efforts of the administration to cover for a murderous Saudi prince— this
from a president who came to power Muslim-baiting and harping on the
“threat” of Sharia—adds a particularly gruesome note to the narrative, and
an irony that should not be ignored.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-got-elected-bashing-sharia-law-now-hes-
in-bed-with-its-lethal-champion


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Apr 16, 2019, 1:13:17 PM4/16/19
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On 4/16/19 8:19 AM, Muslim Lies Matter... wrote:
> Don't worry shithead. We're going to keep you around for as
> long as we can to make a mockery of the Democrat party and their
> stupidity.
>
> President Trump on Friday tweeted a video attacking Rep. Ilhan
> Omar (D-Minn.) for the way she phrased a reference to 9/11. By
> Saturday, dozens of lawmakers and public figures denounced the
> tweet, which used video of the twin towers falling. And by
> Sunday evening, Omar had responded as well. The Democrat said in
> a statement late Sunday that threats against her life have
> spiked, and she explicitly blamed Trump’s tweet for the surge.


That only works if she admits that her own *hate speech* has created
more threats against innocent Americans....

Hating Jews is NOT a universal feeling. Omar is representing her
constituents with hate, why would she expect anything more, than what
she is offering?

Apparently she never learned the Golden rule... "treat others as you
want to be treated".

Just another obvious failure of Liberalism's MULTICULTURALISM.



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