Ilhan Omar Heads Down the Road to Islamofascism
Her “anti-Islamophobia” bill would do away with freedom of speech.
by Gary Anderson
February 1, 2022, 11:09 PM
I had a junior high social studies teacher who was fond of saying that if it reached its logical conclusion, liberalism would eventually become fascism. He was long dead before Ilhan Omar hit the scene, but he would be gratified to see his prediction in action.
Omar’s Combating International Islamophobia Act passed the House of Representatives on a narrow party line vote recently. If it becomes law, it will mandate a new State Department bureaucracy to report on anti-Islamic activity as a human rights violation. English is Omar’s second language, and the wording of the bill shows it. Its definition of Islamophobia is not precise. An example of the text includes “acts of physical violence against, or harassment of, Muslim people, and acts of violence against, or vandalism of, Muslim community institutions, including schools, mosques, and cemeteries, and instances of propaganda in government and nongovernment media that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people.”
This is broad enough to drive a truck through. Consequently, a zealot in the proposed State Department office could brand anyone who criticizes Hamas or Hezbollah as a human rights–abusing Islamophobe. But perhaps I’m wrong. Omar has shown a fondness for both organizations, and perhaps that is her actual agenda. Predictably, the White House is all in on the idea.
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