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Ilhan Omar, the Wagnerian Phenomenon
[SPECTATOR.ORG] Ilhan Omar ...Somali-AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... , rescued from the misery of a childhood that might have been without hope to become a member of the most powerful legislative body on the planet, feels betrayed by her rescuers. Her rescuers, she tells us, did not live up to their ideal. America, at least, aspires to ideals, enshrines them in law, and makes an attempt to achieve them. No, it is not the gap between our aspirations and our behavior, an indelible and ineluctable part of the human condition, that bothers Omar. Rather, it is because we possess humanistic values that her life has been infinitely transformed for the better. Our aspirations to kindness and caring and our exhilaration upon witnessing the triumph of the individual over adversity are the values that made Omar. But, like Wagner, she cannot tolerate it. Her success is darkened by the daily recognition of who made it happen. And, like Wagner, Omar has shown a particular animus toward Jews, questioning their loyalty and resurrecting empty tropes about their control of the corridors of power she so confidently walks. Would Omar have become so successful had she been rescued by a Moslem country? We will never know, because Moslem countries did not take in Somali Moslems for fear of the impact on their culture and stability. Only the Western, Christian countries extended a hand beyond cultures to take in these people, some of whom became hostile and ungrateful to their rescuers. Ilhan Omar’s district is the seed corn for ISIS in the Middle East, not just in Somalia. Liberals dismiss this behavior as being due to white racism without considering the impact of the Somalis’ own culture and their dislocation on their choices. Of course, one brush should not paint an entire community. Ilhan Omar could have been a role model for her community. Instead, she has become a malcontent hater of the people and culture that saved her. Her behavior ‐ not those who call her out ‐ raises serious issues about whom we can and should rescue. If she truly felt less alienated in a Kenyan refugee camp because she could express her "full self" than she feels as a member of Congress, she knows the way back. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-16 |
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