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Ilhan Omar Under Fire After ‘Racist’ Comments Against White Men Resurface
White men are the most dangerous threat to America today, “Squad” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed in an old video that has resurfaced amid a number of infelicitous statements that have kept her in the crosshairs of conservatives for months.
The interview clip, first shared by Laura Loomer, shows Omar speaking plainly about how Americans should be “more fearful” of white men because “they are causing most of the deaths within this country.” The 2018 interview was part of the Minnesota Democrat’s attempt to reframe domestic terrorism as a greater threat than campaigns of global jihad.
Omar, who is Muslim, told former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan that she supported the categorization and profiling of white men to reduce the number of mass shooting events in the U.S.
“I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country,” she said. “And so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.”
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“Ilhan Omar, a jihadist member of Congress who has documented ties to HAMAS, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS says jihadists aren’t a threat and we should instead be creating policies and databases here in the US to ‘profile white men’, who she says are the biggest terror threat,” Loomer wrote, sharing the clip.
By Monday morning the video began to draw congressional attention as U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) weighed in to denounce Omar’s statements as racist.
“Racists have no place in Congress. Unacceptable,” he said on X.
In the interview, Omar was also asked about President Donald Trump, who was in his first term, and his culpability in the proliferation of attacks by Islamic extremists. She told Hasan that Trump is “exclusively responsible” due to his anti-Muslim rhetoric and controversial ban on travel to the U.S. from majority Muslim countries.
“I think when you… demonize and dehumanize, it is easy for people to commit acts of violence against those individuals because they no longer see them as a person, as someone who has feelings, who’s worthy of respect. We are moving away from this idea that we are supposed to be a welcoming nation,” she said.
The resurfaced video comes as Omar is grappling with the fallout from an expletive-ridden tirade against a conservative journalist who asked her about Democrats’ plans to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member deported to a supermax prison in El Salvador.
“I think you should f*** off,” Omar replied multiple times before staff attempted to block the reporter’s camera.
As the video of the interaction went viral, Omar responded in a post, writing, “I said what I said. You and all you miserable trolls can f*** off.”
In March, she appeared to shove a young Fox News reporter after he asked why she and other Democrats refused to applaud President Donald Trump’s promise to keep biological men out of women’s sports. And just a month earlier, she drew heat for referring to Americans as “stupid” for electing Trump.
The New York Post reported in January that the FBI has launched an investigation into Omar’s marriage to her brother, with a “trove of documents” reportedly being handed over to agents.
Any findings would be shared with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. The penalty for falsifying a marriage to skirt immigration laws is up to five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has circulated a petition calling for Omar’s deportation.
“America would be a better place if Ilhan Omar were deported back to Somalia,” Rep. Gill wrote in an email to supporters, citing Omar’s recent advice to illegal immigrants on how to avoid capture by ICE.
