Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea

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The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea

by Clare M. Lopez

At a press conference held outside the U.S. Capitol on 23 March 2023, the first day of Ramadan, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI) jointly introduced a bill they claim is intended to combat “Islamophobia”. The bill was co-sponsored by 20 Democrat Party members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In December 2021, Omar led an initiative in the House to pass a bill that would establish a special U.S. government envoy on “Islamophobia”, although the term is nowhere officially defined. To date, no “Islamophobia” envoy has yet been designated by the Biden administration, although Secretary of State Antony Blinken did issue a formal statement on 15 March 2023 in support of “International Day to Combat Islamophobia”.

H.Res.250 — 118th Congress (2023-2024) (track it here — no action as of this writing after it was introduced in the House)

Editor’s Note

As the Sharia TipSheet noted on 11/7/22, Islamophobia legislation is a bad idea, starting with the free speech problems it would create. Defining ‘Islamophobia’ was under consideration in Britain in 2022, but the government abandoned the attempt. B’nai Brith points out the problems with trying to define the term: B’nai Brith: “The group says the broad definition could lead to students or staff being punished for expressing dislike for the Republic of Iran’s persecution of LGBTQ people or restrictions placed on women in Saudi Arabia.” British government officials said defining the term would also hamper counterterrorism operations and stoke community tensions. Moreover, Islamophobia legislation criminalizes scholarship and public debate reaching to, among other things, university cultural studies, and political science, as well as criminal justice studies textbooks, discussions, research papers, theses, and dissertations. For example, see page 11, 38, and 93 of the text, The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam, for World View discussions that would run afoul of Islamophobia legislation.

In Other News

“IRS Allows Islamic Terrorists to Fundraise Through Leftist Nonprofit” by Daniel Greenfield, Jihad Watch, March 6, 2023

  • The IRS stands accused of allowing Non-Profit 501(c)(3) status for groups with questionable ties to leftist and even terror-linked organizations.

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6 thoughts on “Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea”

    • An irational fear of islam and it’s slaves of god.
      Howzzat?
      Which is fine. I nether fear muslims, or islam, and, from reading the quran, as a kuffar, there is nothing irrational in fearing a cult that explicitly calls for my murder, and for genocide against my society.
      I feel the same about marxist-communist-natsoc-maoist-fascist and any theocrasy or totalitarianism. And smurfs. Hipsters, too.
      It’s a bad, bad idea. So horrible, that cauterization is required, post haste. For all of them. Including the smurfs.

  4. The irony is that Ms Omar is in an adulterous relationship with some white infidel so it’s obvious that she doesn’t take her religion seriously when it suits her to ignore it. Also, I suspect The Pedophile (PBUH) would have something to say about a woman taking a position of authority over men.

    Females like her would be the first to recoil in horror were they forced to actually live under the theocratic dictatorship they agitate for.

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