OMAR, ERDOGAN, NEW ZEALAND, SOMALIA, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND MINNEAPOLIS FAITH LEADERS. THE TIES THAT BIND.
On September 18, 2017, Ilhan Omar flew to New York City to hold a closed-door meeting with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The press were banned from the meeting and it was almost entirely unreported. Since then, photos of the meeting surfaced on social media.
Erdogan is the defacto head of the Muslim Brotherhood Party whose self-proclaimed goal is to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and install totalitarian Sharia law throughout the world. The extremist Muslim Brotherhood Party was the inspiration for al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's attack on 9/11. Why would Erdogan be meeting with a relatively unknown politician from Minnesota back then?
One local Minnesota paper that covers the Somali community did receive access to the Erdogan-Omar meeting. That publication is the relatively obscure Tusmo Times, a Somali paper that covers the Twin Cities metro area. Abdirahman Mukhtar, its founder and editor, wrote a story in the Somali language discussing the meeting. For reasons unknown, the piece has since been deleted by the Tusmo Times. However, a copy of the report was obtained from
archive.org’s Wayback Machine.
Speaking to the Tusmo Times, Omar said that she met with Erdogan for about an hour and that the two discussed issues involving Omar’s native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota. The two also discussed investment and trade between Turkey and Somalia. The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Erdogan. Omar not only met with Erdogan, but also with the Turkish prime minister and other senior Turkish officials.
The day the story was posted, Omar tweeted about her meeting with Erdogan, linking to the now-deleted Tusmo Times piece.
When news of the meeting surfaced, she immediately received fierce blowback on several social media platforms for propping up Erdogan, considered a ruthless dictator:
“Did you ask Erdogan about the jailed journalists? How about the 100 thousand innocent people he jailed in Turkey. Did you discuss the atrocities of the Armenian Genocide and his refusal to recognize them? What the hell is wrong with you?? He’s a DICTATOR,” critics replied.
The Erdogan-Omar meeting came on the heels of a major incident in Washington, D.C. involving the Turkish delegation. A few months earlier, Erdogan appeared to order his bodyguards to brutally attack protesters outside a Turkish diplomatic compound in the U.S. capital.
A similar incident occurred in New York just days after the Omar-Erdogan meeting, when Erdogan’s security detail roughed up demonstrators protesting Erdogan’s crimes against the Kurds.
The Erdogan-Omar meeting occurred one year following a supposed failed coup attempt, in the summer of 2016, against Erdogan. Critics, like me, believe that Erdogan faked the coup in order to round up and imprison all of those who were opposed to his extremist regime.
Erdogan weaponized the coup attempt to fire or imprison thousands of academics, police, military, faith leaders, journalists, students, and democracy activists. Over the course of Erdogan’s presidency, Turkey has abandoned its secular founding and has transitioned into an aspiring Islamist theocracy that supports terrorist groups throughout the Middle East and greater Islamic world.
Although Omar has not spoken out much about the politics of her homeland, Somalia remains a ruthless dictatorship that abuses the rights of its citizens. Omar, however, continues to endorse candidates for president there, as if the largely failed state is representative of a liberal democracy. While at the same time she fundraises for terrorist groups and blames America for all of Somalia's problems.
One month after her meeting with Erdogan, Omar thanked Turkey for delivering aid to Somalia after a series of bombings in Mogadishu by the home grown terrorist group call al-Shabaab. Somalia's Al-Shabaab has attacked neighboring Kenya so often that Kenya is building a WALL along the entire border of the two countries.
Erdogan’s administration has continuously bailed out the corrupt dictatorship in Somalia, providing its leadership with military support, economic aid, and even food rations when necessary. In late 2017, Turkey opened up a large military base in Somalia and has since given weapons and aid to Somali soldiers.
After the New Zealand shooting, while the world was told to destroy all video footage of the massacre, Turkey's President Erdogan did just the opposite.
Within 24 hours, Erdogan had compiled the footage into a number of campaign ads to air 24/7 on Turkish TV. He used the horrific footage at his campaign rallies to rile his extremist base ahead of elections on 3/31. He inspired a Turkish citizen to launch a terror attack on a Netherlands' tram. Later, we learned that the shooter was a friend to Turkey and Pakistan and had spent weeks there in 2017. Why? To rehearse? Was this all a planned event in order to re-elect Erdogan and give the New Zealand PM an excuse to confiscate guns?
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar spent the day tweeting about how America is the cause for all of the terrorist acts committed by Somalia's al-Shabaab group and that Obama & Trump have both targeted innocent Somalians with drone strikes. Then she calls a meeting of her faith leaders and posts a picture of them "in these trying times." Know who else was at that meeting? The same Shiekr she brought to meet Erdogan in 2017. What exactly were they discussing? What will they be preaching to their followers this weekend? The same lines Erdogan is preaching to his in Turkey?
There are no coincidences in my world.
