MAR 29, 2024 JLM 63°F 08:33 AM 01:33 AM EST
Ilhan Omar Bill to Require State Department to Monitor ‘Islamophobia’ Moves Forward

Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Lightfootland) have determined to take action against “Islamophobia,” and their initiative is gaining traction. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday approved their bill calling for a State Department “Islamophobia monitor,” and now it will go to the full House for further consideration. The idea that Pelosi’s House would reject such a bill is virtually inconceivable.

This all started back in October, when Omar and Schakowsky introduced the Combating International Islamophobia Act, which would, according to a press release posted on Omar’s website, “require the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, and include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity in the Department’s annual human rights reports.”

This would supposedly “help policymakers better understand the interconnected, global problem of anti-Muslim bigotry. It will also establish a comprehensive strategy for establishing U.S. leadership in combatting Islamophobia worldwide.”

The press release said nothing whatsoever about combating jihad terror or about how suspicion of Islam may be created by the all too common spectacle of Muslims committing acts of violence while screaming “Allahu akbar” and justifying their actions by reference to Islamic texts.

Omar and Schakowsky claimed that “this year, the United States has seen over 500 documented complaints of anti-Muslim hate and bias.” Their link went to another press release, this one from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), claiming that these documented complaints include “hate crimes, harassment, school bullying, discrimination, hate speech, and anti-mosque incidents.”

“Hate speech”: this means that trivial incidents in which someone who is rude to a Muslim gets counted in as a hate crime, inflating the numbers of those crimes and contributing to the false impression that Muslims are victims of widespread discrimination and harassment in America today. With that low a bar, it’s no surprise that the press release at Omar’s site goes on to note that “in March, the United Nations Human Rights Council cited discrimination and hatred towards Muslims has risen to ‘epidemic proportions.”

Omar claimed that “we are seeing a rise in Islamophobia in nearly every corner of the globe. In my home state of Minnesota, vandals spray-painted hate messages and a Nazi swastika on and near the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center. These types of incidents are all too common for Muslims in the United States and beyond. As part of our commitment to international religious freedom and human rights, we must recognize Islamophobia and do all we can to eradicate it. That’s why I’m proud to partner with Rep. Jan Schakowsky to create a special envoy to put an end to this bigotry.”

Really, that Nazi swastika business is terrible. But let’s try to keep some perspective, shall we? Muslims in Nigeria are subjecting Christians to murderous jihad attacks on a near-daily basis. Muslims in Pakistan persecute Christians and other religious minorities by means of that country’s draconian blasphemy laws, which have seen lives destroyed on rumors and false charges. Compared to that, some spray-painted graffiti just isn’t that big a deal, although certainly the louts who did it should be caught and prosecuted.

Omar doesn’t say anything about Muslims being beaten or murdered, or even denied jobs and preferment, in the United States, because such incidents are vanishingly rare; to establish her victimhood bona fides she has to fall back on graffiti.

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Henry Lee 22:44 11.03.2022
She's evil alright!
[Anonymous] 21:37 11.03.2022
Someone needs to tell this hatefuidiot that just ‘saying’ we need eradicate Islamaphobia doesn’t make it happen. I would like her to stop being anti-Semitic. How’s that working out?
Tony Pettitt 09:02 19.02.2022
These antisemites are always spewing hatred toward the Jews. That’s why people give them a hard time, they have no regard for anyone but Muslims everyone else is Infidels and are persecuted by them. 
Pamela Hackner 21:28 14.12.2021
Has this Anti Semetic woman heard of the old saying " What goes around Comes around " she has spread so much hatred against Israel and all Jewish people now it is coming back on her and the Muslims.
[Anonymous] 20:15 14.12.2021
Jesus is Lord! Praise Jesus! God Bless America!🇺🇸 God Bless Israel!🇮🇱 Merry Christmas 🎄✝️to All! Happy Hanukkah 🕎!!!
Jon Holtz 19:55 14.12.2021
When will The People do something to remove those domestic terrorists from Office?
Dennis Bell 19:29 14.12.2021
They won’t create a Jewaphobia bill because the squad would be slammed in jail. Hate crimes in the US, when broken down by race and/religion shows Jewry has the most crimes perpetrated against us.
Justus Bell 19:25 14.12.2021
She’s a radical evil nut job
Robert Linn 19:20 14.12.2021
The Lord is fixing to clean house in America. Some religions were never meant to be in a Republic.
[Anonymous] 19:19 14.12.2021
Sister of satan. Spreading his lies.
Robert Sandra 19:19 14.12.2021
Thank you Robert Spencer for bringing out the idiocy in her supposed claim of bigotry. I do wonder if this is not connected to the fact that young girls are in training to learn how to behead people
Jeanne Ferguson 19:14 14.12.2021
This woman is evil. What about the Christians being killed by Muslim? That's ok? Where is the bill for the Christians? If we don't stop her soon we will be bowing down to her. Vote no!!!
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