Omar’s conduct can be described in one Somalian word: Ceebta (Shameful)!
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--April 13, 2021
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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar is the first Somali American and African refugee in the United States Congress. She was born in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. After spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp to which Ilhan Omar and her family fled as Somalia descended into civil war, she and her family moved to America. They settled in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in downtown Minneapolis, which is nicknamed “Little Mogadishu” because of its high concentration of Somali American residents. Ilhan Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 and was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. She was re-elected in 2020.
Omar made the Palestinian issue a cornerstone of her congressional activism
Omar is a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee and has
recently been named Vice Chair of the House Subcommittee on Africa,
Global Health and Global Human Rights. Rather than use her prominent
congressional platform to speak out on behalf of the suffering Somalian
people who are not as lucky as she was to live the American dream, Omar
has singled out Israel with a barrage of anti-Semitic remarks. Omar has
also turned her ire here at home on America’s political and
socio-economic system...........To Read More....
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