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

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia

by Clare M. Lopez

“Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader ‘Our President’; Saying, ‘The President and I Have a Special Relationship, I Call Him Uncle and He Calls Me His Girl’”, by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 31, 2024

• “EXCLUSIVE: Emmer calls on Ilhan Omar to resign for ‘appalling, Somalia-first’ speech” by Luke Sprinkel, Alpha News, January 29, 2024
• “Ilhan Omar Speech on Representing Somalia in Congress Goes Viral With Calls to Expel Her From the House” by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 28, 2024
• “Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System” by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, January 30, 2024 — Insightful essay on what America’s Immigration System ought to be for… which is a set of shared principles and values
• “I’ve Been Identifying Ilhan Omar as ‘D-Mogadishu’ for Years. It Turns Out I Was Right.” by Robert Spencer at PJ Media, January 29, 2024 — Robert Spencer’s take on whom Rep. Omar really is in Congress to represent — it’s not the American citizens of her Minneapolis district
• “Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia” by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024

Biden Administration Continues Shelling Out Millions to Taliban Regime in Afghanistan

“United States Confirms Sending $80 Million To Afghanistan Every 10-14 Days”, Afghanistan International, 01/19/24

• The $85 billion in top-of-the-line military equipment and weaponry that the Biden admin left behind in August 2021 apparently wasn’t enough.

Inside the Gate

“US government employees plan walkout over Biden’s Gaza policies” by Joyce Karam & Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al Monitor, January 12, 2024

• “US education official resigns over Biden’s Israel-Gaza policy: ‘I cannot stay silent’“, by Reuters at the New York Post, January 4, 2024

“Biden’s Department of Education Investigating San Diego State University for ‘Islamophobia’ Over Statement Condemning Oct. 7 Hamas Terrorist Attacks” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, January 5, 2024

• Why? Because the university issued a statement condemning the October 7, 2023 HAMAS attack against Israel and offered support to campus members

“Bay Area Muslim organizations hold first-of-its-kind FBI training on Islamophobia” by Answer Hassan at ABC 7 News, January 23, 2024

• Speaking of ‘Inside the gate’… Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) President Salam al-Marayati was among the participants

“Qatar allegedly hired ex-CIA agent to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz, other lawmakers opposed to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood” by Benjamin Weinthal, FOX News at New York Post, January 20, 2024

• This was a Qatar operation, home-away-from-home for the Muslim Brotherhood and HAMAS leadership

ICYMI: “Boom Times for Turkey’s Lobbyists in Trump’s Washington” by Adam Klasfeld at Courthouse News Service, October 31, 2019

• From 2019, but apropos for today given the extensive lobbying network Turkey has set up in Washington, DC. Among that network, not shown in this piece’s graphic, are the Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, MD, which is the U.S. hub for Turkish Muslim Brotherhood operations in collaboration with the ADAMS Center of Northern VA near Dulles Airport. Founding member of the Brotherhood’s USCMO (U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations), the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), with close ties to Turkey’s ruling AKP (Justice & Development Party), is the parent organization of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), that has been the instigator of so much antisemitism on U.S. campuses.

“Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on NSC was UNRWA official while it was aiding Hamas” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024

• “Biden Appoints Former Palestinian UNRWA Official as Director of NSC Intelligence” by David Israel at The Jewish Press, January 24, 2021 — A look back to the beginning of the Biden administration when Maher Bitar was first appointed to the NSC

For previous essays by Clare Lopez at Sharia TipSheet, see the Clare Lopez Archives.