Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution on Feb. 1 to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for allegedly pledging her allegiance to Somalia in a recent speech, although the initial translation of the speech has been disputed.
The resolution, a copy of which was obtained by The Epoch Times, would also kick Ms. Omar off the House Budget Committee and the Education and Workforce Committee. She lost her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year over her history of making antisemitic remarks.
Ms. Omar delivered a speech on Jan. 27 in Minneapolis to pay tribute to a recent election in a Somali region. In the speech, she also referred to a port agreement between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland, which would grant Ethiopia access to the sea.
Somalia is opposed to the agreement, with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud saying it threatens Somalian sovereignty, The Associated Press reported.
Viral Video of Speech
Ambassador Rhoda J. Elmi, deputy minister of foreign affairs for Somaliland, shared a video of a portion of Ms. Omar’s speech, which included an apparently inaccurate English translation.
According to this translation, Ms. Omar said the U.S. government “will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia.
“We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S. We live in the U.S., pay taxes in the U.S., and have a real voice. The U.S. is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interest. For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. … Sleep in comfort knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”
Ms. Greene’s censure resolution quotes statements from this first translation.
Abdirashid Hashi is a policy analyst and the founder of the Somali-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies.
In a post on X, Mr. Hashi said he’d received several requests for an accurate translation of Ms. Omar’s words. He shared what he described as a verbatim transcription of the speech.
“We should have this confidence in ourselves as Somalis. We live in this country. We are taxpayers in this country,” Ms. Omar said, according to Mr. Hashi’s translation. “This country is one where one of your daughters sits in Congress. While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea. The United States will not back others to rob us.”
She went on, adding: “I would like to tell President Hassan Sheikh that we are impressed with the great work you have done. You have made it known to those living in Somalia and other places that, in spite of the many challenges we face as Somalis, we are nonetheless competent people. People who believe in their country and will not allow it to be endangered.
“Thus, I want to congratulate the Somalis in Minnesota and everywhere on how united you are. How you all stood by our president, because he needs our solidarity. Somalia belongs to all Somalis. Somalia is one. We are brothers and sisters, and our land will not be balkanized. Our lands were taken from us before, and God willing, we may one day seek them, but what we have now will not be balkanized.”
Details of Censure Resolution
Ms. Greene introduced her censure resolution as a privileged resolution, and therefore the House will be forced to vote on it. No date has been set for the vote.
She called Ms. Omar’s remarks, based on the initial translation, “treasonous.”
She went so far as to cite President George Washington’s 1796 farewell address upon leaving office as America’s first president: “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. … Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
Ms. Greene said that Ms. Omar’s remarks make her “a foreign agent acting on behalf of a foreign government.”
The resolution makes no mention of Ms. Omar’s past anti-Semitic remarks.
Introducing the resolution on the House floor, Ms. Greene said, “Censuring Rep. Ilhan Omar of Somali, I mean, Minnesota.” Whether that was inadvertent is uncertain. The Epoch Times reached out to Ms. Greene’s office to ask if the congresswoman’s slip of the tongue was on purpose.
Ms. Omar blasted the resolution as an attempt to smear her.
“The attacks being lobbed against me are not only completely false, they are rooted in xenophobia and Islamophobia. This is a manufactured controversy based on an inaccurate translation taken entirely out of context. I’m no stranger to these types of misinformation campaigns targeting Muslim elected officials,” she told The Epoch Times in a statement.
“I categorically reject these disingenuous attempts to malign my character and question my loyalty to my home, America,” she added.
“As I said [in] the video—I support a unified Somalia, which aligns with longstanding US policy favoring a one Somalia approach. My stance remains consistent with the goal of a stable and unified Somalia,” concluded Ms. Omar.
” The Democrat Party Hates AMERICA, by Mark Levin With the ( Squad, ) representing – HAMAS, I mean America, President Jill Biden, Excuse me, I meant to say President Joe Biden, it seems ( WOKE, ) Has taken over the Government.
Hey, If the USA won’t do the right thing to support more Sub-African terrorists, just illegally send a legion of military aged Somali men and women across the border to take over a voting district to elect a Somali 5th columnist America hater to protect their interests and populate their squads of Congressional sanity destruction. The perfidy of the democrat party’s immigration treason is becoming more and more obvious each time one of their minions has an emotional breakdown, and the truth of their bad intentions is revealed. Just another example of their social insanity personified in not their Omar the tent maker, but Omar the tent invader who when the camel toe inserts itself into the Democrat American Big Top party circus, the geeks, freaks, pinheads and carnival barkers just get one more empowered useless mind of American illegality and destruction, that crowds out the law abiding sane from their peanut galleries of circus nuts and fruitcakes whose sole agenda is to make America Weak, not again, but for the first time in history. It all began with the first one, Socialist ALkinsky taught CHicago community organized Obama, who weaseled his way into the PResidency, disguised as a loyal American Democrat, not content to destroy just one Chicago city, or just one Congressional district but an entire nation. Biden and Omar are just Obama part 2, as the season of American treason goes on like a broken record of American betrayal.
The Socialist /Communist, Democrat party has revealed who they truly represent, and its not the American Citizens.
IF SOMEONE In govt, can’t or WON’T put AMERICANS FIRST, before their home nation/people, THEN THEY SHOULDN’T be in govt.. OURS AT LEAST.
The madwoman of Mogadishu, Omar herself, illegally married her brother to sneak him into the USA. Her/Joe’s armies of alien darkness are not legal aliens come to pick our crops for the benefit of THE PEOPLE,,, but finger licking, finger sticking, tongue stick-outs bent on picking clean, all the formerly financed now infinitely unfinanced social programs designed for the American lawful,,,Socialists disguised as American democrats, designed to be pick us clean to the point now that the Margaret Thatcher “Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money” thing is not just upon us, but actively and openly destroying our futures, in a democrat death throe spiral that runs like a bottom feeding submarine,,,runs silent, and deep. The time for action is upon us and if they are allowed to steal our cities, our courts, defund our protection in police, turn our black communities into alien hell holes of further overwhelmed lawlessness to embrace an influx of illegality over sane collective lawfulness, can the time of bullets for
brain washing be far behind them?
I screen froze the shot of that released w/o bail illegal alien cop beater, flipping THE PEOPLE the bird with his tongue stuck out at us, and wondered just where was a strong Anglo-American defender of two black cops, to deliver a good upper cut to the bottom of his jaw, that would slice off his tongue with his own teeth, and make mute his argument and make irrelevant the Biden’s and Omars that empowers his illegality.
The dempcrat party, the home of Communis Van Jones, K.K.K., has such former Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt who one said,” you know i am a juggller, i never let my right hand know what my left hand does. I may have one policy for Europe and one diametrically opposite for North and South America. I may be intirely inconsistent and furthermore i am perfectly willing to mislead and tell untruths…”
The democrat party, apparently hasn’t changed over the years that it’s been in existence, It’s still the home of of the Big Lie.
Democrat Socialists, the same side of a two headed coin where it’s “Heads I win, Tails you lose” that never contains a tails emblum lest THE PEOPLE start covering theirs up for protection. These days it’s hard to tell which is worse, their fake Democrat masked face or their real Socialist mug shots that belong on a post office wall near the “Wanted Dead or Alive” ,who vote for the crime families,soon to be covered over with illgal alien mugshots of the faces of former foreign Prison convicts, murderers and drug dealers released overseas and sent to America to empower Joe and the other democrat crime families who pay their freight to come in, and financially sustain them once here with honest taxpayer money, redistributed by people Like Omar who openly declare that “I’m from Somalia, just watch me beguile ya.” where lying is the native tongue, and “Incest is Best,” be it with your brother in marriage, or fellow Americans in incestuous Obama African inspired fundementally redefined social contracts.
And if as the news indicates, they ARE on busses fleeing to CA, WHERE ARE THE Patriots ON THOSE Busses, not doing citizens arrests??
I’d settle for a busload of American “Posse Comitatus” that with a few of the same kinds of headkicks, they doled out to the cops put the offenders all into a comatose state.
Hey, in case you’re not with it. We have more important task and issues challenging us rather than worry about someones opinion. The next year could see uprising violence if election event not addressed. Tails I win and heads you lose coming and that my friend could cause problems. Everyone entitled to an opinion.