Ilhan Omar Urges
Release Of Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Leader, Report Says
By Ryan Saavedra
@realsaavedra
April 3, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) advocated on Tuesday for releasing
a senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) — which is designated
by several nations as a terrorist organization.
"I recently met with @jkbadawy and @thefreedomi to
talk about Hoda Abdelmonem, a political prisoner in Egypt," Omar tweeted
from her official Congressional Twitter account. "I hope that Trump brings
up her case in his meeting with the regime that has imprisoned her. We must
work to #FreeHoda."
Conservative Review's Jordan Schachtel reported that Hoda
Abdelmonem is "a senior member in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s women’s
affiliate," adding that she "remains an influential figure and a
senior leader in the Islamist outfit, and the campaign for her release has been
a top priority item for Muslim Brotherhood-aligned individuals, groups, and
governments."
Schachtel noted that Omar has "continued to show a preference for
antagonistic U.S. adversaries and throwback Islamist
leaders and groups, as opposed to U.S.-friendly Middle East nations and
peaceful reform movements worldwide. She has become a regular on the CAIR speaking circuit.
The terror-tied
Islamist group raised mountains of cash for her congressional campaign."
"The Muslim Brotherhood is classified as a terrorist
organization in several nations,
including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Russia, Egypt, and Bahrain. The group has spawned the likes
of deceased Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader
of ISIS," Schachtel concluded. "Republicans in Congress continue to
push legislation and directly appeal to President Trump to classify the MB as a
foreign terrorist organization, given its tendency for violence and the group’s
extremist, anti-American philosophy."
In 2016, Omar asked U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis
for leniency and compassion in the sentencing of "9 Minnesota men charged
with planning to join ISIS," Fox 9 reported.
"The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of
compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect
change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation,"
Omar wrote in her letter to the judge. "A long-term prison sentence for
one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our
justice system misunderstands the guilty."
Omar has been embroiled in an anti-Semitism
scandal since the day she took office in January.
Omar — who has refused to deny
that she is an anti-Semite — has promoted numerous anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories and used anti-Semitic tropes.
In early March, Omar accused a Jewish
member of Congress of expecting her to have dual loyalties to Israel. Omar also
stated that she believed her "Jewish colleagues" had
"designed" a conspiracy against her where they planned to accuse her
of being anti-Semitic "to end the debate" on Israel.
Omar has also refused to answer
why she supports anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS)
campaigns against Israel.
Omar's anti-Semitism has led to her being condemned
multiple times by Congress and to repeated public criticism from world leaders
including President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
as well as leaders in her own party.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) both blasted Omar at
AIPAC this year, with Pelosi going as far as to suggest that Omar was
"anti-American."
"I simply declare to be anti-Semitic is to be
anti-American," Pelosi said. "It has no place in our country."
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