{"id":26990,"date":"2019-03-07T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26990"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:29:16","slug":"more-on-ilhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26990","title":{"rendered":"More on Ilhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/Ilhan_Omar_01.jpg\/1200px-Ilhan_Omar_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am pleased that the new Congress members have stuck up for Ilhan Omar and added Islam to Judaism in a resolution opposing unfair criticism. My initial defense of Congresswoman Omar could similarly be amended. So today when an old friend &#8220;M&#8221; emailed me out of the blue and asked for my Minnesota perspective on the subject I replied by sending him my colunm as well as an even more nuanced critique from Minnesotan and New York Times reporter, Tom Friedman. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s M&#8217;s Query:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Original message &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFrom: M<br \/>\nDate: 3\/7\/19 6:42 AM (GMT-06:00)<br \/>\nTo: Harry Welty <harrywelty@charter.net><br \/>\nSubject: Ilhan<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your perspective on Ilhan Omar?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOmar sparked a new firestorm one week ago for criticizing what she called &#8220;the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,&#8221; again comparing organized political support for Israel to lobbying efforts for &#8220;the NRA, or fossil fuel industries or Big Pharma.&#8221;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inquiringly,M<\/p>\n<p><strong>I sent this reply to my old friend:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:03 AM harrywelty <harrywelty@charter.net> wrote:<\/p>\n<p>M _ _ _ _,<\/p>\n<p>This is a column I sent in to our local tabloid immediately after the firestorm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/15\/16051_you_have_my_sympathy_ilhan\">http:\/\/m.duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/15\/16051_you_have_my_sympathy_ilhan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Friedman had a more nuanced critique at the Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2XHiybp\">https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2XHiybp<\/a><br \/>\nBloviatingly, H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased that the new Congress members have stuck up for Ilhan Omar and added Islam to Judaism in a resolution opposing unfair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26996,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions\/26996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}