Thread by @JewhadiTM

.@IlhanMN Discovers the Real Victim of 9/11: Ilhan Omar frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/il…

Omar’s claim that after 9/11, Muslims in the U.S. had “their civil rights stripped from them,” and that now she herself was being treated “as a suspect,” is entirely baseless. Contrary to the prevailing myth, there was no wholesale targeting of innocent Muslims after 9/11.

FBI hate crime statistics year after year show Jews, not Muslims, as the primary victims of hate crimes. Muslims have not been stripped of any civil rights.

In fact, the whole claim of Muslim victimhood after 9/11 is a scam.

.@jonathans_tobin reported for the Gatestone Institute in 12/17 that “the statistics published by the FBI over the last 17 years refute both the Islamophobia narrative and the claim of a widespread backlash against Muslims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks by Islamists.”

The reality is that “the myth of a post-9/11 ‘backlash’” against Muslims is politically motivated and spread by groups such as @CAIRNational, which was founded to serve as a front org for the terrorist group Hamas (and the Muslim Brotherhood).

The effort to persuade the public that America is Islamophobic stemmed largely from the aim to shift the narrative about terrorism to that of an Islamist war on the West to one according to which Muslims are terrorized by and in the United States.”

The facts, however, never get in the way of the Left’s narrative, and in this case, no one in the establishment media dared to contradict Ilhan Omar’s fanciful claims, if they were even aware that they were false.

Many Leftist public figures before Omar have used the kinds of charges that she makes here to stymie counterterror efforts and stigmatize counterterror analysts, and they’ve had great success with that.

It is almost certain that that success will continue far longer than the public career of Ilhan Omar.