The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 29, 2024


Ilhan Omar is a Far-Right Ethnonationalist!


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In this episode, we discuss Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's comments about Somali people and their "bloodline" in a video she posted on her social media account. We discuss the parallels between Omar and Adolf Hitler and her comments.

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00:00:00.000 So there's been a viral video going around of Ilhan Omar, American Congresswoman, Clayton Ming.
00:00:05.300 She is Somalian first, Muslim second. 1.00
00:00:09.100 American, we don't know where she fits on that spectrum, doesn't really care. 1.00
00:00:13.940 But she is very clear that her job in the American Congress is to lobby for Somalia.
00:00:20.280 Now, what you do not know is Ilhan Omar's comments are so much worse than you think they are.
00:00:26.020 And to break down why Ilhan Omar, I'm going to make the case, is basically Adolf Hitler.
00:00:32.060 She has the same motivations as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. 0.68
00:00:35.840 She is what you would call a far-right ethnic nationalist.
00:00:39.000 This is what she believes.
00:00:40.100 In order to explain why we have to go to one of the most neglected places in the world,
00:00:43.920 a place so neglected that political nerds who speak in front of maps often neglect it because our heads exist, it's East Africa.
00:00:50.520 So in order to get here, we need a bit of a background of what is she even talking about right now?
00:00:58.540 Because I promise you, it's worse than what you think it is.
00:01:01.380 All right.
00:01:02.100 We have East Africa.
00:01:03.500 Here is Somalia.
00:01:04.740 It's that little horn shape there.
00:01:06.640 Now, ethnically, Somalians aren't perfectly contained within that little country that is Somalia.
00:01:14.220 There's people who are a part of different ethnic tribes of Somalia, and they exist all throughout East Africa.
00:01:19.120 So you'll see some in Kenya, some in Ethiopia here.
00:01:22.280 We also have Somali land, which we're going to do, and then beside that, Djibouti.
00:01:25.780 And you'll go to see that Ilhan Omar claims all this territory as Somalia based on ethnic bloodlines, right?
00:01:32.080 Say we need Lebensbrough.
00:01:33.380 The reason why Germany needs to reincorporate Czechoslovakia, because there's German people in there.
00:01:38.020 So it's part of the Rhineland.
00:01:39.340 It's part of our blood and soil, right?
00:01:41.800 This is what helped start the Nazis push through Europe. 0.84
00:01:45.960 You know, this was the philosophy of pan-Arab nationalism, and, you know, Ilhan Omar has come out as a pan-Somali nationalist within East Africa through blood and violence.
00:01:55.740 We're going to get there.
00:01:56.420 So the current kerfuffle, let's say, is based off Somalia.
00:02:01.840 So Somalia, again, it sucks as a country. 0.96
00:02:04.620 It's a failed state.
00:02:05.240 And it's being terrorized by Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant unit, which is the most powerful faction in the country.
00:02:10.660 Breaking off from this, there is a one of the tribes or a sort of region of Somalia.
00:02:14.760 You see up here, just up on the horn, is Somaliland.
00:02:20.020 And they want independence from Somalia because it's a failed state.
00:02:23.420 Now, they're being backed by Ethiopia. 0.56
00:02:25.720 If you look at Ethiopia, Ethiopia here is landlocked.
00:02:29.240 On top of it is Eritrea, which is a nation that's like Black North Korea. 1.00
00:02:34.560 And they hate Ethiopia.
00:02:35.560 They've been through civil wars.
00:02:36.700 There was one in 1990.
00:02:38.120 And since then, Eritrea has turned into one of the most corrupt authoritarian regimes in the world.
00:02:44.660 And one of the big things is hating Ethiopia. 0.90
00:02:46.620 So they closed off the ports.
00:02:48.100 And Ethiopia is landlocked.
00:02:49.420 They want to be able to get port access.
00:02:51.520 They've been staying for a while.
00:02:52.340 So with the entire world occupied on Israel-Palestine, the Ethiopians have made a play for a port.
00:02:58.080 And this is backing Somaliland independence with a memorandum of understanding that they would get access to the ports and have financial trade running through Somaliland.
00:03:06.500 And that way, Ethiopia can take the burden off of it being landlocked.
00:03:09.760 Somaliland can get independence and then form some sort of government to counter Al-Shabaab in the region.
00:03:15.900 This has set Ilhan Omar into a tizzy.
00:03:19.660 All right, so let's get into what Ilhan Omar is saying here.
00:03:24.600 So we have, you know, the famous, you know, okay, here she is. 0.67
00:03:28.340 I'll play it for you and we'll make some commentary as it goes on because it's in Somali, so I'll copy it, right?
00:03:33.260 She's going to talk about it as small.
00:03:36.180 You see, she speaks in Somali.
00:03:37.180 We love each other.
00:03:39.200 You know, there are areas of friction that lead us to kill each other.
00:03:41.540 Okay, she's just talking about the fact that Somali is run by tribal warfare and it's a failed state.
00:03:45.740 But we're actually a very organized society, brothers and sisters.
00:03:48.320 No, they're not.
00:03:48.880 People have the same blood, right?
00:03:50.460 So this is the blood argument.
00:03:52.380 We know that people are Somali first, Muslims second, and to protect our countries, right, we'll go on and we'll fight for Islam in other countries, right? 0.98
00:03:59.560 This is a very Islamist pan-national statement, right?
00:04:02.100 Now, there's people who call themselves Somalis and they're Somaliland.
00:04:05.460 Again, so this ethnic tie to Somalia is great.
00:04:09.580 And everyone who is of Somali heritage as I see it or part of these Somali tribes is Somalian.
00:04:14.860 Well, except for these people of Somali heritage who want to break off from Somalia, which is a failed state because the real push of Somalia is not the benefit of Somalians. 0.96
00:04:23.600 It's a pan-ethnic Somali hodgepodge of whatever it is. 1.00
00:04:28.200 Okay.
00:04:29.580 Right now, she's talking about this memorandum of understanding Ethiopia, which I just explained, right?
00:04:34.240 So they have an agreement with Ethiopia and, you know, she doesn't really know how to say MOU in Somali.
00:04:40.400 Fine, whatever.
00:04:41.680 She's having a good time.
00:04:42.880 She's hanging out with the crowd.
00:04:44.120 That's what she is.
00:04:44.820 She's laughing herself.
00:04:46.440 But many Somalis have called her to speak with the U.S. government to thwart this MOU, right? 0.75
00:04:51.080 She wants to step in on geopolitics and have a thing. 1.00
00:04:56.080 Fine.
00:05:00.180 Here's her thing.
00:05:00.940 She's going to, Somalian, she's going to tell the U.S. government what to do.
00:05:04.480 Right.
00:05:04.760 My answer is Somalian.
00:05:05.780 So it's the U.S. government.
00:05:06.740 Like, Somalians will tell the U.S. government what to do on Somali policy. 1.00
00:05:10.040 Now, on its face, I don't mind people advocating for foreign policy in the United States.
00:05:14.700 But you should argue it based on an American perspective, not building some pan-Somali homeland for Iwan Omar, right?
00:05:23.300 Which is what we're talking about here.
00:05:25.440 Right.
00:05:25.800 They will do nothing else.
00:05:27.340 They must follow our orders.
00:05:30.640 We must call the shots in the U.S.
00:05:32.940 We live and pay taxes.
00:05:34.080 So we get a, I mean, the entitlement here is amazing.
00:05:39.180 And, okay.
00:05:40.160 Water in the U.S.
00:05:40.860 Stolen by Ethiopia. 1.00
00:05:42.040 Okay.
00:05:42.580 As long as I'm in U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger.
00:05:45.180 Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia. 0.91
00:05:47.640 Now, to blame all this in Ethiopia, again, what she is talking about is Ethiopia getting port access in Somaliland, which wants to separate from Somalia because it's a failed state.
00:05:58.840 And if you notice, it's interesting that Ilhan Omar, who loves Somalia so much, has never had this type of passion for the al-Shabaab terrorists who have been brutalizing and murdering, you know, Somali civilians for decades.
00:06:11.160 That's, you know, that's all par for the course.
00:06:14.120 It's really the fact that, oh, no, we cannot have Somaliland declare independence and then sign an agreement with Ethiopia to facilitate trade between the two of them.
00:06:24.160 That can't be.
00:06:25.420 That's the number of problems facing Somalia, not the aforementioned supreme ethnic warfare going on.
00:06:30.440 Right.
00:06:30.880 Blah, blah, blah.
00:06:31.520 Steal us.
00:06:32.240 Sleep covering.
00:06:33.140 I'm going to hear protect Somalia from the inside. 0.99
00:06:35.600 Like, she's full on Team Somalia.
00:06:37.120 Fine, fine, fine.
00:06:39.840 You know, protect your interest.
00:06:41.940 She'll know your play to that in Somalia.
00:06:43.500 Like, OK, again, all of this is fine.
00:06:46.560 But we're going to get to the big part here, which is she is eventually going to get into, OK, one, she loves the president, Somalia, who is a corrupt, I mean, lunatic. 0.55
00:06:59.260 You know, but she likes that she fights Ethiopia and Somaliland. 0.98
00:07:03.700 That's very good.
00:07:05.320 However, we speak Somalia as a failed state.
00:07:07.340 We are a civilian people who fight against all of us.
00:07:10.400 Like, Somalia, a so-called failed state.
00:07:12.360 No, Somalia is a failed state.
00:07:13.800 There's a reason why Somalia is a failed state. 1.00
00:07:15.920 And the failed state is Somalia, with the president who has no control over the country and hasn't done anything for people.
00:07:20.460 But Ilhan Omar now likes this guy because he's fighting at the Ethiopian Somaliland.
00:07:24.240 I mean, great stuff from Miss, like, peace at any cost.
00:07:28.240 Peace at any cost.
00:07:29.800 People steal our land.
00:07:31.420 Right?
00:07:31.740 It's her land.
00:07:33.020 She's not American. 1.00
00:07:33.620 You know, Somaliland can't have self-determination.
00:07:39.400 That's against Ilhan Omar's interest in Minnesota.
00:07:42.480 OK.
00:07:42.780 So she's rah-rah in the base. 0.99
00:07:44.280 We're going to get to the absolute kicker here very soon.
00:07:50.420 Because the Somalian president needs us.
00:07:57.000 OK.
00:08:00.480 OK.
00:08:01.000 That's interesting.
00:08:01.980 She said Somalia is for Somalia only.
00:08:04.080 Like, again, we're going to break that down.
00:08:06.900 Somalia is for Somalia only.
00:08:09.840 Again, we're going to show you.
00:08:12.980 There are ethnic Somalis in Somalia, but there are non-ethnic Somalis in Somalia.
00:08:16.300 Just so there are ethnic Somalis in Ethiopia and non-ethnic Ethiopians, but they became part of Ethiopia.
00:08:21.960 And Ilhan Omar is very, very upset with this.
00:08:25.560 We're going to get to the big thing right now.
00:08:27.340 Our land cannot be divided.
00:08:31.860 If you ever get him stolen, continue to occupy regions of Somalia which belong to Somalia. 0.97
00:08:35.180 There.
00:08:35.580 OK.
00:08:36.180 Here it is.
00:08:37.320 Here is the big one.
00:08:38.540 We're going to stop here and really hammer home on that.
00:08:42.140 OK.
00:08:42.260 This is what Ilhan Omar is.
00:08:45.280 She is a far-right ethnic nationalist who wants religious and ethnic conflict-based Africa to promote her own ethnic group supremacy. 0.64
00:08:53.860 This is, you know, hard-right, ethno-nationalism, expanationalism warfare to rule as an ethnic majority based on, you know, Islamic principles.
00:09:05.120 This is what she believes.
00:09:06.020 So, again, she's claiming that Ethiopia and Kenya have already stolen their lands.
00:09:13.040 No part of Ethiopia and Kenya were ever officially part of any Somalia.
00:09:17.140 For example, Ethiopia was, like, one of the last countries to be colonized.
00:09:19.960 It was only really colonized under fascist Italy when Mussolini took it over, which is superior air power.
00:09:26.460 But they resisted the Italians, like, 100 years earlier. 0.96
00:09:30.440 There are people within Ethiopia who come from certain tribes elsewhere, right?
00:09:35.080 This is part of human beings.
00:09:38.120 Like, this should make sense to anyone.
00:09:39.520 But she's claiming that because they're people of the current ethnic Somali heritage in India and in Kenya, and even though no Somali official government ever existed within those lands, because there are ethnic Somalis in those countries.
00:09:56.940 Again, even ethnic Somalis fight within each other.
00:09:59.160 Like, that's what we talked about at the beginning.
00:10:00.340 There's so much intertribal warfare.
00:10:01.400 But because there's some people that fall under some Somali umbrella in those countries, those lands are then stolen from Somalia, and they will be reclaimed through expansionist warfare to create a pan-Somali state.
00:10:14.860 Because the regular Somali state's doing so great. 0.99
00:10:16.920 So, all right, the history between Ethiopia and Somali can be summed up as this.
00:10:24.220 Back when Ethiopia had more pro-democratic government, like Haile Selassie type, there was a lot of Soviet shenanigans in East Africa. 0.58
00:10:33.240 The Soviets did much more, like, colonial shenanigans in East Africa, and the West kind of ignored it.
00:10:38.300 So, the Soviets were working to undermine Ethiopia and pushed up this ethnic Somali separatism, because the Somali tribes were more, were happy to sort of take money from the Soviets and kind of work together to undermine Western interests for their own tribal gains. 0.66
00:10:52.080 And they, but in the 70s, Ethiopia had a communist revolt and openly became communists, so the Soviets withdrew all their support for the Somalis, because they didn't need half communists when they had full communists, right?
00:11:02.520 This is where you then had Eritrea and, you know, members of the Tigray ethnicity fight against the communists to end the communist government.
00:11:10.060 Then you had the formation of Eritrea, which turned into an even worse government, and then they fought with Ethiopia in the early 90s in the Civil War, Djibouti gets involved.
00:11:18.380 Needless to say, that's sort of the background there.
00:11:21.620 And because Ethiopia is now a landmark because they lost Eritrea, they want port access.
00:11:25.660 And Somalia wants to break away, Somaliland wants to break away from Somalia, because Somalia is a failed state run by warring ethnic tribes who haven't been able to find any sort of basic coexistence at all.
00:11:38.320 And if you want to call me hypocritical, because I'll support Somaliland's independence, but not other separatist movements in nations like Iran or India, it's because the main problem with, you know, ethnic separatism is it can turn a country into Somalia.
00:11:52.200 Calistan will instantly become a failed state and will be a proxy for both Chinese and Pakistani interference, it will devolve into ethnic violence, great conflict.
00:11:59.920 That's the fear of ethnic separatism within somewhat functioning countries.
00:12:05.280 But Somalia is a failed state.
00:12:07.320 It is ethnic warfare. 0.68
00:12:08.460 It is that worst case scenario.
00:12:09.720 So if a country, if a region wants to break off, form an actual democracy, fight against the terrorists in Al-Shabaab, and form an alliance with Ethiopia, a regional neighbor for mutual prosperity, that the West doesn't have to get involved in.
00:12:19.620 This is a beautiful thing.
00:12:20.600 Do it against Ilan Omar.
00:12:21.560 We can be the isolationists.
00:12:23.200 I can say, great, I care about this.
00:12:25.080 Let's do nothing.
00:12:26.120 Let's let Ethiopia, Somalia, and Somaliland figure this out.
00:12:28.560 And if Somaliland can become a viable state with the backing of Ethiopian trade, and Ethiopia can be an even more viable and prosperous state now that they afford access, and that's, they can get into a mutually symbiotic relationship with Somaliland, great, great.
00:12:42.740 Everyone wins except Ilan Omar, which means she loses, which means I win and the world wins. 0.99
00:12:47.500 So that's what you need to know.
00:12:49.520 Ilan Omar is so much worse than you think she is. 1.00
00:12:52.100 This is not just another progressive, oh, woke, intersectional politics, just saying stuff for Somalia.
00:12:57.700 No.
00:12:58.640 In terms of, like, what she believes is Somalia, she is a Nazi.
00:13:02.700 She is a blood and soil ethnic nationalist.
00:13:06.040 Hard right. 0.99
00:13:07.000 Then this is sort of the hard left.
00:13:08.200 Like, she's hard left, too.
00:13:09.060 This is the horseshoe theory, where hard left politicians like Ilan Omar, when you get down to it, when they actually believe in things, and you just change the genders or races.
00:13:17.500 around a little bit, and you get it to her little in-group thing, she becomes Adolf Hitler. 0.96
00:13:22.920 And there it is.
00:13:24.120 So that's what you get for this channel.
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00:13:30.760 Thanks for being here today.
00:13:31.460 We'll have more videos out tomorrow.
00:13:32.940 Like, share, subscribe, push the buttons on the internet, donate to the links down below if you want to support us, the National Telegraph, and what we do.
00:13:38.920 And just keep in mind, anything Ilan Omar says, I will be there to counter and make sure that she cannot destroy the world.
00:13:46.760 Even for you.
00:13:49.800 That is, it is not possible.
00:13:51.140 That is not possible.
00:13:51.720 Thank you.
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