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Two Washington State CAIR Events lined up Rep Ilhan Omar as their guest speaker. In Bellevue on Saturday, people turned out to protest.
She was also set to be the main speaker at a $40 per plate dinner at the SEA-TAC Hilton on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. in which the Press was banned. It’s the second time that CAIR has banned the press from a dinner with Omar.
The Saturday fundraiser for CAIR was called “Un-Apologetically US: Building MUSLIM POWER For 2020 & Beyond.” It was held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington. It also garnered a plethora of protestors on both sides.
The following tweets from Saturday’s events were made by Journalist Andy Ngo, from the Quillette, a Portland-based media. When Omar’s supporters found out that he was not a “pre-approved” media outlet, they tried to block him. Andy Ngo is Asian.
They continually called the Jewish protesters “racists” and “Nazis.” You’d think by now they’d find something else in their vocabulary… but no.
"We've seen this kind of rhetoric before in the 1930s & it led to a lot of horrific things." A woman explains why she is protesting Ilhan Omar's CAIR fundraiser in Bellevue, Wash.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
A street preacher went over to the pro-Ilhan Omar side & they began to scream & shove him out. @BvuePD immediately intervened to shut down the escalation. What a difference compared to @PortlandPolice.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
Jewish woman explains why she’s protesting Ilhan Omar: “I know what anti-Semitism is.”
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 26, 2019
You can watch my full vid from yesterday’s protest/counter-protest at Omar’s CAIR fundraiser. I was unable to interview anyone from the pro-Omar side. They treated me w/hostility & physically blocked me when I attempted to go near 
Mr. Ngo’s most crucial point was in is the first tweet. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was tied to international terrorism and Hamas during the Holy Land Foundation trial eleven years ago.
The fact Rep Ilhan Omar chose to spend much of Memorial Day weekend with people from CAIR instead of any of the millions of good Muslims in America demonstrates her disregard for those who we remember on this day, some of whom died at the hands of radical Islamist terrorists
