According to Rep. Ilhan Omar, her job in Congress is to represent the interests of Somalis.
That’s what Omar, D-Minn., a member of the rabidly left-wing group of House members known as “the Squad,” appeared to be saying in a translation of a speech she delivered in the Somali language at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis on January 28.
A clip of the speech with a translation was circulated on X, formerly Twitter, by Marina Medvin, an Alexandria, Virginia-based defense lawyer who boasts of being branded a “conservative firebrand” by Politico.
“We, as Somalians, we love each other,” Omar said in the translation posted by Medvin. “There are areas of friction … that led us to kill each other, but in reality, we are an organized society: brothers and sisters, people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second.”
Omar also assailed the Jan. 1 agreement between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi that gave Ethiopia access to the Red Sea in exchange for political recognition of Somaliland, a breakaway nation from Somalia that isn’t internationally recognized.
That doesn’t appear to be a case of the Minnesota congresswoman embracing Soma ...
