Is it dangerous incitement to mention that Rep. Ilhan Omar said something easily debunked?

We need to be careful when we write anything about Ilhan Omar because the freshman congresswoman and queen of drama might consider it “dangerous incitement,” even if it only involves quoting her own words.

She’s already been corrected on what she calls President Trump’s Muslim ban, which had absolutely no effect on the majority of the world’s Muslims, and now Dan McLaughlin is pointing out some more revisionist history with her take on the founding of CAIR.

1. Illhan Omar to a CAIR fundraiser: “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

False. CAIR was founded in 1994. How can she not know this?https://t.co/GKUDPninYd

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 10, 2019

That had caught our ear too, and sure enough, it took less than 5 seconds on Google to disprove it.

Mark Moore reports:

In a speech last month at a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar urged Muslim Americans to “make people uncomfortable” with their activism and brought up the al Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” said Omar, one of two Muslim women serving in Congress.

2. CAIR was heavily involved in American Muslim politics in 1997-2000, was part of a group that backed George W. Bush, & did media outreach with surveys of Muslim voters in 2000 https://t.co/FCPXmsTNMw pic.twitter.com/gouDDvBv78

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 10, 2019

4. It's one thing to be ignorant of people & groups outside your own tribe or your own corner of the world, but it is really staggering to be that wrong about the recent history of the very organization you're speaking to, which you see as a representative of your own community.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 10, 2019

Looks like she was still morally right, even though she was factually wrong. Wikipedia even says CAIR was founded “partly in response to the film True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which Arab and Muslim groups condemned for its stereotyping of Arab and Muslim villains” — you know, some people did something and Muslims were offended.

You're asking how is it that an ignoramus does not know about something? ????

— Mr. Aye Dee (@MrAyeDee) April 10, 2019

Revisionist history.

— ☆Abe Froman☆ (@Coalguy1992) April 10, 2019

Facts are hard.

— John Thorsson (@thorsson_john) April 10, 2019

Doesn't fit the narrative..

— Goldens Rule (@jamesbranch3) April 10, 2019

Maybe it’s like when Hillary Clinton or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak in front of a black audience — things change.

She has a different experience in the use of words.

— Jason (@jasonhsv) April 10, 2019

And she could carefully choose her words to not offend Muslim extremists but doesn’t know better when it comes to anti-semitism

— Paige Sullivan (@PaigeSully88) April 10, 2019

“some people did something… “

— Charlene ???????????? (@CharleneGPB) April 10, 2019

Stop inciting violence against her.

Occam's razor suggests that people say dumb things because they are dumb.

— アーケットシスターズ (@ArquetteSisters) April 10, 2019

We’re actually less concerned with when CAIR was founded than we are with why Linda Sarsour’s CAIR-affiliated aides were so intent on physically blocking a journalist from entering Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s office. Is that part of CAIR’s job too?

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