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Ilhan Omar, first Muslim refugee elected to the House, wants to be a check on rhetoric of fear
CBS "News" ^ | November 7, 2018 | By HOLLY ROSENKRANTZ

Posted on 11/07/2018 1:38:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Fresh off her victory as the first refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, Democrat Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that she is going to Washington to help "serve as a check on the rhetoric of fear and division."

Congress needs to make "sure we are moving the country in a "direction that is more hopeful, inclusive and prosperous," Omar said the morning after winning her election in Minnesota's 5th district with 78 percent of the vote.

Omar spoke during her campaign about her opposition to President Trump's travel ban against Muslim countries.

"When I was coming to this country, I heard about it's promises," she said. But those promises, she said "aren't extended to everyone." "I couldn't sit on the sidelines," she said.

In addition to her other "firsts," Omar is first person born on the African continent to be elected to Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: election2018
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1 posted on 11/07/2018 1:38:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Want a “direction that is more hopeful, inclusive and prosperous”?

Support Donald Trump.


2 posted on 11/07/2018 1:39:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

she was the one who was allegedly married to her own brother, in order to commit immigration fraud.


3 posted on 11/07/2018 1:40:07 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’ll be pushing Sharia. It’s all they know.


4 posted on 11/07/2018 1:40:35 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I couldn’t sit on the sidelines,” ...

A lot of your people can’t. So they kill others.

So just STFU.

WTF happened to Ohio?


5 posted on 11/07/2018 1:40:51 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What does she think of feminism?


6 posted on 11/07/2018 1:41:06 PM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: PGR88
she was the one who was allegedly married to her own brother, in order to commit immigration fraud.

I have a feeling our new AG may be looking into that.


7 posted on 11/07/2018 1:41:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: junta

What does she think of FGM? Wife beating? Horribly cruel method of slaughtering animals for halal meat?


8 posted on 11/07/2018 1:42:53 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bit late what with all of the known wolf atracks but thanks anyway.


9 posted on 11/07/2018 1:43:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Communists will continue to install more of their own ilk in government too to push back on hysteria against creeping Marxism.


10 posted on 11/07/2018 1:43:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Was she gentitally mutilated in Africa?

Does she want SHARIA LAW instituted here?

Does she also support the take over of this nation, by Muslims?

I bet that the answer to all three questions is YES.

11 posted on 11/07/2018 1:44:06 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dp0622

Not Ohio. Minnesota. I believe it’s Ellison’s old district.


12 posted on 11/07/2018 1:44:53 PM PST by toast
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To: PGR88
Yes and then she divorced him.

Just HOW was that "marriage" legal here, to begin with?

13 posted on 11/07/2018 1:45:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She also recently tweeted how Allah is God and that Israel is evil..Yep, this is who Democrats in MN elected


14 posted on 11/07/2018 1:46:11 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More prosperous? Like Somalia?


15 posted on 11/07/2018 1:46:18 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: PGR88

that’s gross!


16 posted on 11/07/2018 1:46:21 PM PST by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘Kill all infidels...’

-that kind of rhetoric?


17 posted on 11/07/2018 1:46:39 PM PST by relictele
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet she hates and fears Jews and the nation of Israel.


18 posted on 11/07/2018 1:46:47 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“In addition to her other “firsts,” Omar is first person born on the African continent to be elected to Congress”

Second


19 posted on 11/07/2018 1:47:35 PM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I bet she thinks she can run for President too.
(How long before she objects to a Christian
Chaplin giving the daily prayer?)
20 posted on 11/07/2018 1:47:45 PM PST by StormEye
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