Video: Omar says nation should fear 'white men'

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (video screenshot)

A clip from an Al Jazeera television interview last year has been unearthed showing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claiming America should be afraid of "white men" rather than Islamic jihadis.

Because, after all, it's white men who are causing most of "the deaths," said the Muslim freshman congresswoman.

Al Jazeera asked her about fear of Muslim terror attacks such as those at Fort Hood and San Bernardino.

"I would say, uh, uh, our country should be more fearful, um, of, of, white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country," Omar said. "We should be profiling, monitoring, um, and, uh, and, and, creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men."

Todd Starnes pointed out that Al Jazeera host Medhi Hasan had observed that some Americans feel justified in fearing Islam because of jihadi violence.

Islam expert Robert Spencer explained at Jihad Watch that it's "become commonplace for Leftists to assert that 'white nationalists' are a greater threat to Americans than Islamic jihadis."

"This is a myth that originated back in June 2015, the New America Foundation published a study that garnered enthusiastic international publicity, as it purported to demonstrate this idea that 'right-wing extremists' and 'white supremacists' were a larger threat to the U.S. than Islamic jihadis. The mainstream media was thrilled," Spencer wrote.

He said the "media delight stemmed from the fact that the study confirmed its biases and relentless endeavor to downplay and deny the jihad threat."

"Thus the New York Times and NPR and the rest were not in the least interested in the fact that the New America Foundation study was obviously skewed, as it was based on the number of those killed by jihadis and by right-wing extremists since September 12, 2001, leaving out 9/11. The study also ignored the many, many foiled jihad plots, and the fact that jihadis are part of an international movement that has killed many thousands of people, while right-wingers and white supremacists are not. It stated that right-wing extremists had killed 48 people from September 12, 2001, to June 2015, while Islamic jihadists had killed only 26 people in the U.S. in that span.

"If 9/11 had been added, the tally would have been 3,032 killed by Islamic jihadists and 48 by purported right-wing extremists."

He said that even playing the bias game doesn't really work.

"Counting the Orlando jihad massacre, which took place after the study was published, but leaving out 9/11 as the NAF study did, the death toll stood at 76 killed by Islamic jihadis, and 48 by purported right-wing extremists (I repeat 'purported' because to get to its count of 48, the NAF counted as 'right-wing' attacks killings that were perpetrated by people who were obviously deranged psychopaths devoid of any ideology)."

Omar is the subject of a complaint filed by the watchdog group Judicial Watch with the House Ethics office calling for a congressional investigation of allegations she married her brother in an immigration-fraud scheme.

As WND reported, investigative reporter David Steinberg and others have published over the past three years substantial evidence that Omar married her brother to defraud U.S. immigration and perjured herself eight times in her divorce statement. In addition, a Minnesota state agency last month fined her for filing joint tax returns with a man who was not her husband while legally married to a man who appears to be her brother.

"The evidence is overwhelming Rep. Omar may have violated the law and House rules," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar."

Fitton encouraged Americans "to share their views on Rep. Omar's apparent misconduct with their congressmen."

The complaint calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an immediate investigation into Omar's conduct.

Investigative reporters believe Omar married her biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a citizen of the United Kingdom, in 2009, as part of an immigration fraud scheme. She divorced him in 2017 after the claim that Elmi is her brother arose during her run for office. Records indicate that during the time she was married to Elmi, she lived with the father of her children, Ahmed Hirsi, whom she described as her husband according to her "faith tradition."

The State of Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board already has determined that Omar violated state campaign finance laws for improper use of campaign funds. She was forced to reimburse her campaign thousands of dollars.

More significantly, Judicial Watch said, the board discovered she filed joint tax returns with Hirsi in 2014 and 2015 while she was legally married to Ahmed Elmi.