Welcome,
to The Human Nature Channel. I’m you’re
host Alex Tamsula and … what … am I doing here?
Well what I’m doing here today is talking about The US House
Representative from Minnesota's
5th congressional district, Ilhan Omar, and her March 23 speech before
The Council of American Islamic Relations, better know as CAIR.
Grounded in her belief that
Muslims are being treated as second class citizens in America, Ilhan made an apparently
tone-deaf observation during her 21-minute speech, that The 9/11 attacks amounted
to, “Some people did something.” This
made headlines, especially after some conservative politicians pounced. But notice, I said her remark was ‘apparently tone-deaf’
because I detect ‘something’ deliberate here.
Can you guess what that is?
Texas
Rep. Dan Crenshaw said, in a Tweet, ‘First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who
killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as “some people who did something”.
Unbelievable.’
President Donald Trump afterwards
posted a video of the demolition of The Twin Towers as backdrop to Ilhan’s
words, “Some people did something,” which led Ilhan and her supporters to accuse
Crenshaw and The President of encouraging death threats to be made against her,
which predictably led to Omar’s supporters taking to the streets with signs, and
onto Twitter with a digital rally under the hash tag ‘We stand with Ilhan.’
However, if you think the statement
‘some people did something’ was not a piece of carefully crafted rhetoric, that
achieved the desired effect, I can get you a really great deal on The Brooklyn
Bridge and throw in The George Washington Bridge if you act today.
The news media said Ilhan’s
comment ‘some people did something’ was taken out of context. Fair enough.
I rose to the challenge and actually watched her entire speech for ‘the
context.’ I watched it more than once actually,
and I can state with certitude that the exact quote is, ‘CAIR was founded after
9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us
were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.’
The first part of that statement
is factually incorrect. CAIR was … founded
in 1992, same year The Omar family immigrated to the United States from Somalia. Ilhan’s Wikipedia page, noting the gaffe, slapped
a nice little fig leaf on it by saying that many Muslims joined CAIR after 9/11.
The second part of that
quote about losing access to civil liberties is a vital, stand-alone topic, serious
enough that it should extend beyond the experiences of this or that individual
ethnic group. Mainstream media’s elision
of this from the quote says a lot about broadcast journalism’s gutless nature
because they’d rather run with the ‘poor Ilhan is being targeted’ spin than
anything she said in her March 23 speech.
We’ll get into that later.
Using The Christchurch
Mosque shooting from eight days earlier as a frame of reference, her sunny disposition
reinforced by saying things like, “I also want the lights so I can see your beautiful
faces,” and love Trumps hate, Rep. Ilhan Omar went into a grievance-based speech
that began as an attack on President Trump.
Ilhan quotes The President as
saying, “Muslims hate us.” Now I know Donald
Trump has made numerous statements that are construed as Islamophobic by the
people who loathe him, many of these statements made before he was President, but
does he really hate Muslims?
Donald Trump may not be the
most eloquent off-the-cuff speaker I’ve ever heard, but was he talking about ‘all
Mulims’ as Ilhan would lead us to believe, or Al Qaeda, ISIS and radical Islam
in general?
See, I don’t really care
what Donald Trump says or how he says is.
I care about what he does. And I
would ask Ilhan this: did Donald Trump say, ‘Muslims hate us’ before he went on
his first Presidential visit to Saudi Arabia where he put his hands on the
glowing glass globe, or after? Did Donald
Trump say, ‘Muslims hate us’ before he invited Saudi Crown Prince Mohmmed bin Salman
into The Oval Office, or after? Did Donald
Trump say, ‘Muslims hate us’ before he pushed for selling billions of dollars
in military hardware to Saudi Arabia, or after?
If Donald Trump had said, “Some people hate us,” Rep. Omar might have
been okay with it. But I doubt it.
There was also Rep. Omar’s
mischaracterization of the so called ‘Muslim Ban’, a highly media driven issue with
its focus on protests that sprang to life in airports and other places all
around the country, for the cameras I might add, that was actually a travel ban
on Middle Eastern nations whose vetting processes for travelers to the US were not
meeting new government security standards, a move the Obama administration had also
made at one point.
Unfortunately, Ilhan neglects
to mention that Trump’s travel restrictions to Muslim countries had some notable
exceptions. Saudi Arabia was not on the
list. Egypt was not on the list. Indonesia, which I believe has the world’s largest
Muslim population, was not on the list.
Instead there were countries like the failed state that is now Libya, (a
gift from the Obama administration, mostly brought to you by Hillary Clinton);
Iran was on the list, no surprise there.
Somalia? Well since Rep. Omar’s
family comes from Somalia, no wonder she wants to love The President to death.
No, it’s mostly a victimhood
speech. Ilhan informs us that American
Muslims are viewed with suspicion by their fellow citizens. Since she’s speaking to the home-town crowd, so
to speak, this is accepted as a given with no corroborating evidence necessarily
required.
This allows Ilhan the latitude
to bounce into a blatant bit of fear-mongering about Muslims being denied medical
services because they are not viewed as fully human. At the very least, this is an insult to the
honor of the medical profession, in America and around the world. Because of the ethic, ‘Do no harm,’ any hospital,
any doctor, any nurse doing such a thing would have their licenses
revoked. If any cop ever refused to deliver
a Muslim baby in the backseat of a taxi cab, that cop would never survive the scrutiny
of such an action. Hey Ilhan, give us a
little credit for being professionals around here, huh?
But after saying such sweet-sounding
rubbish, Ilhan then effortlessly slips into a fanciful what-if story about a high
school student being sent to the principal’s office, for questioning a school curriculum
that teaches Muslim equals terrorist. If
that actually happened, I’d like to know where.
If it can never be proven to have happened, Ilhan should consider a career
in writing children’s books after she loses her next Congressional election.
So, we return to the words at
the heart of this latest skirmish in the culture wars, “Some people did
something.” We should note that this
statement is factually true. If I were some
linguist, and put that statement through a ‘truth table,’ it would sail through
like a marble swallowed by a baby. But
it is also an incredibly trite statement.
Imagine me saying something like, “Pearl Harbor. Some people did something.” Again, factually accurate, but considering
America’s entry into World War Two and the historic events that followed, I
would sound like a complete idiot. Ilhan Omar, however, is
not a complete idiot. She knows exactly what
she’s doing.
Notice
what she doesn’t say. She doesn’t say
the word jihad. She doesn’t mention the name
Al Qaeda. Is it because she doesn’t want
to? Why would that be?
I’ll
venture a partial guess. Is it possibly Rep.
Omar said what she said because she had not watched the events of 9/11 in real
time like I did? I was watching The Today
Show on 9/11. The last guest on the show
before the attacks began was Harry Belafonte.
(I wonder if Harry’s buddy Fidel Castro was watching?) The next guest up was Tracy Ullman, but news
footage of a plane having crashed into The North Tower of The Word Trade center
interceded.
Later
I watched the second plane crash into The South Tower and I knew that I was watching
people die. And here’s something else. Flight 93 flew over The South Side of Pittsburgh,
following The Monongahela River, two miles or so from my apartment. If I had been standing on the roof of my apartment
building at the right time and looked south, I would’ve seen that plane.
Over
the next four days I only got three hours of sleep a night. When I was awake, all I did was sit on the
couch and watch televison. It was only
until I started seeing TV commercials return on Friday that I got a sense that
things were returning to normal. After
the way my brain got fried watching Flight 175 crash into The South Tower, after
everything that followed, there is no way I could ever trivialize the attacks
of 9/11 or the nearly 3000 deaths that occurred, like Ilhan.
Because
her statement was so disrespectful, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ‘some people did
something’ got the wheels turning in my head.
If you’ve taken time to study 9/11, and viewed its effects globally, you
should know how The Middle East thinks about the attacks.
I
asked a friend of mine who had lived in Egypt what the Muslim world believes
happened on 9/11. He said, “They think it
was an inside job.” That’s the general
view. The specific view is, “The Mossad did
it.”
I
said earlier that there was something deliberate in Ilhan’s words. What’s deliberate is this – she’s not talking
to the American people, she’s talking past them. Don’t kid yourself. As the first Somali naturalized American
citizen to be elected to The United States House of Representatives, her words
have global reach, and I guarantee you ‘some people did something thing’ played
over and over again in The Middle East. It
was meant to. She’s a superstar over
there. On the cover of Vogue Saudi
Arabia? Ah ha ha ha …
Sometimes, things unsaid are louder than things
which are. Ilhan
Omar does not speak the name Al Qaeda. And
like I pointed out, The Islamic World does not wish to believe Al Qaeda was
behind The 9/11 attacks. An old 9/11
Truther like Alex here, who believes in his heart of hearts that 9/11 is an Insufficiently
Investigated Crime, wonders if he’s looking at someone who at some basic level,
shares his views.
Here
is where the failure of big stinking corporate mainstream media comes in. Nobody in broadcast journalism had the
integrity to ask Rep. Ilhan Omar who she thinks the ‘some people’ were. That’s because broadcast journalism doesn’t
want to know.
Was
Rep. Omar dog whistling an Islamic World that doesn’t buy The United States
Government’s official account of what happened on 9/11? Is The US Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district hiding
the fact that she’s a secret 9/11 truther?
Well if she is, she’s got some nerve when she says during her speech, “I
speak The Truth.” Here I’m not talking
about the words she says; I’m talking about the words she thinks.
If Rep. Ilhan Omar was a vocal 9/11 Truther in
the manner of Alex Jones, would she have ended up on the covers of Time Magazine,
Newsweek or The Rolling Stone? I think
not. If Chuck Todd had Rep. Ilhan Omar on
Meet The Press, and asked her directly who she thought these ‘some people’ were,
would Ilhan say, Al Qeada? And if she said,
“No,” or waffled on her answer, her media attention would dry-up in a flash. When it comes right down to it, big stinking
cowardly corporate media has thrown its arms around her. That they are giving her a pass on the 9/11 comment
is as obvious as missing front teeth.
If, as has been said, Muslims are under no obligation
to tell infidels the truth, some people somewhere in the Muslim world might be saying,
“Foolish Hamericans. Bwahahaha.”
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