Criticism of Ilhan Omar is not an inducement

A few years ago, I spoke at the University of California at Berkeley. My presence was apparently so shocking to a group of people in particular that hundreds of police officers were needed to ensure the safety of the event. As I spoke inside, the protesters activated, sang and shouted. One of their favorite songs: "SPEECH IS VIOLENCE!"

This, of course, is obvious nonsense. Speech is not violence – and violence is not speech. To assimilate the two is the mark of a tyrannical world view: if I can treat your speech as violence, then I am entitled to use this violence to suppress your speech. And yet, this obvious mistake has become the rallying cry for the defense of the execrable Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

Omar, who is content to launch an openly anti-Semitic nonsense every week since his election, has been the target of criticism this week at an event that took place late March shortly after his Democratic colleagues had concealed his hatred against the Jews by relaxing their resolution. of conviction. Speaking before the historically respectful Hamas-American Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Omar has launched a flood of lies about the mistreatment of Muslims throughout America. In the middle of this roadblock, she dropped a line around September 11: "CAIR was founded after September 11, because they recognized that some people had done something and we were all starting to lose access to our civil liberties. "

This minimization of September 11 – and that is what it is – has led to a backlash on the part of the Conservatives. It's not as if Omar's past in dealing with terrorism with protective gloves was a novelty, after all. In 2013, Omar did an interview in which she blamed one of her professors for treating terrorist groups with horror without doing the same with America, England and the Army. : "What was interesting in the class was every time the teacher said" Al Qaida ", his shoulders rose … But you know, it's that you do not say" America "with intensity, you do not say" England "with the intensity, you do not say" the army "with the intensity. "

In 2016, Omar wrote a letter to a judge asking for lighter sentences for men accused of being ISIS recruits, noting that these men were content to "choose violence to fight direct marginalization" and calling their recruitment "a consequential error" that resulted from "systematic alienation".

In 2017, Omar wrote for Time magazine: "We must recognize that our nation was founded by the genocide of indigenous peoples and on the backs of slaves, that we maintain global power with the tenor of neo-colonialism … Our national avoidance tactics have put the spotlight on potential international terrorism. This is not exactly a resounding reprimand for international terrorism.

But now, Omar criticizes those who quote it simply as inciting violence. She claimed that President Trump, who had posted a video juxtaposing the Sept. 11 comment with his comment "Some people did something", is responsible for a slight increase in the number of death threats that have occurred. she has received. Her close friend, the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Went so far as to compare Omar to a victim of the Holocaust.

This is immoral to the extreme. Omar is not a victim because she is being criticized. And the word is not an incentive. Senator Bernie Sanders was not responsible for shooting at the baseball game of Congress. Former President Barack Obama was not responsible for shooting the Dallas police. And Trump is not responsible for those who send death threats to Omar. He is responsible for criticizing it – rightly so, in this case. Democrats who are hiding behind incitement to incitement are simply trying to break the debate. And it's much more dangerous for America's future than to criticize a radical politician.

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