{"id":27760,"date":"2019-07-17T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27760"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:57:35","slug":"donald-trump-twists-ilhan-omars-comments-about-al-qaida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/07\/17\/donald-trump-twists-ilhan-omars-comments-about-al-qaida\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar\u2019s comments about al-Qaida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politifact <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2019\/jul\/16\/donald-trump\/donald-trump-twists-ilhan-omar-comments\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar\u2019s comments about al-Qaida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOmar criticized Al-Shabab for terrorizing communities, but she questioned why Somalis are expected to condemn an attack that they were not a part of.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further on in the article was this item.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt one point in her remarks, Omar said that &#8220;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,&#8221; according to the YouTube video of the event.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do remember that whenever these remarks by Ilhan Omar are discussed, that they are being  totally misunderstood.  I have a harder time remembering exactly what she said, and how twisted are the interpretations.  For that reason I am posting this on my blog so that I can easily look it up.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons why I write this blog is so that I will have reference material with which to rebut the comments that I know are going to arise over and over again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politifact has the article Donald Trump twists Ilhan Omar\u2019s comments about al-Qaida. Omar criticized Al-Shabab for terrorizing communities, but she questioned why Somalis are expected to condemn an attack that they were not a part of. Further on in the article was this item. At one point in her remarks, Omar said that &#8220;CAIR was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27761,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions\/27761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}