Ilhan Omar defends Qatar’s slavery while trashing America (again)
Zachary Faria
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hasn’t made the news for trashing the United States in some time, so she decided the World Cup was the perfect opportunity to return to her favorite habit. In the process, she decided to defend Qatar’s use of slave labor.
Omar, along with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), attended the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and spoke about the balance between human rights concerns and enjoying one of the greatest sports spectacles in the world. Murphy focused his comments on foreign policy, noting that Qatar is an “imperfect partner” but that “in many ways, they are our best partner in the region.” Omar took a noticeably different tact.
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“We are slated to host the World Cup next with Mexico and Canada,” Omar said. “I wonder what kinds of conversations will be had, and how many people will object to that happening with the history of indigenous people, of enslavement, of police brutality.”
That’s right. Because America had slavery 156 years ago, has a “history” with Native Americans, and has been wrestling with a fabricated narrative about police brutality, people need to stop complaining that Qatar used slave labor, resulting in the deaths of more than 6,500 migrant workers, to build massive soccer stadiums after bribing FIFA officials to give them the World Cup.
This is not a surprise from Omar, who last year compared the U.S. to the Taliban and Hamas. (To be clear, this comparison was meant to be negative. It is sometimes hard to tell given her propensity for parroting Hamas propaganda). If she is willing to compare the U.S. to terrorist organizations that target and murder civilians, why wouldn’t she compare it to a country that used slave labor to whitewash its human rights record by hosting some soccer games?
The U.S. is not comparable to Qatar in any real way when it comes to human rights. Aside from using slave labor, Qatar promotes antisemitism in school textbooks and punishes public worship by non-Muslims with up to 10 years in prison. The country’s track record on gay rights has been much talked about. You don’t have to dig hundreds of years into Qatar’s history to find its human rights abuses and open bigotry. Rather than address it, Omar chooses to continue with her anti-America tirades, whitewashing the actual, ongoing slavery that is used by the Qatari government.
At this point, Omar’s comments are as stale as they are immoral. Her entire shtick is obnoxious, tunnel-visioned hatred and disdain of America, to the point that she must coddle regimes such as Qatar to pretend that it is the U.S. that is the true problem in the world. Omar is a mindless drone filled with anti-American rhetoric, with no impact on our politics other than being the most useful idiot for authoritarian regimes, terrorists, and other human rights abusers.
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