Rep. Ilhan Omars latest attempt to smear the United States on social media has once again exposed her shaky relationship with basic facts and responsible rhetoric.
The Minnesota Democrat, a prominent member of the far-left Squad, took to X on Thursday night as tensions with Iran escalated and a US strike on the regime appeared increasingly likely. According to The New York Post, Omar declared, Iraq was attacked by the US during Ramadan and it is sickening to know that the US is again going to attack Iran during Ramadan, a claim that was swiftly flagged with a community note for spreading misinformation.
She doubled down in the same post, insisting, The US apparently loves to strike Muslim countries during Ramadan and I am convinced it isnt what these countries have done to violate international law but about who they worship, attempting to recast US military actions as driven by anti-Muslim animus rather than national security or international law. Users quickly responded with basic historical facts, noting that the US invasion of Iraq under President George W. Bush began on March 20, 2003 roughly seven months before Ramadan that year.
They also pointed out that President George H.W. Bushs Operation Desert Storm, the air campaign against Saddam Husseins Iraq, began on Jan. 17, 1991 about two months before Ramadan and resulted in the liberation of the Muslim-majority nation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. Omars narrative, built on the claim that America chooses Ramadan to target Muslims, collapsed under the weight of the calendar alone. Claiming America chooses Ramadan to attack Muslims is not advocacy, it is a deliberate lie meant to inflame anger and divide Americans, charged Dalia al-Aqidi, a Muslim Iraqi-American and Republican challenger seeking to unseat Omar in the midterms.
This is hardly the first time Omar has been accused of bending reality to fit a grievance-driven storyline. Earlier this year on Capitol Hill, when pressed about the staggering $9 billion social services fraud scandal that unfolded in her own district, Omar tried to blur the numbers by conflating annual federal funding with the total amount allegedly stolen over nearly a decade.
Your brain has told you that it is possible for half of the resources for our public service to have disappeared? Listen to yourself, she snapped at a female reporter, dismissing legitimate questions rather than addressing the substance of the scandal. Her pattern of deflection resurfaced last fall when she turned to TikTok to answer growing scrutiny over how her familys reported wealth appeared to skyrocket from almost nothing to as much as $30 million in a single year.
Instead of offering transparency, Omar blamed journalists, claiming they had misread her financial disclosure forms and insisting that the figure listed for her husbands business represented the companys total value, not just his ownership stake a claim at odds with how those disclosures are designed to work. Learn to read before you post misleading st, she raged, attacking the press rather than clarifying the numbers for her constituents.
Omars latest outburst came as the State Department instructed US Embassy staff in Israel to leave the region while commercial flights are available, signaling concern that airspace could soon be closed amid strikes or anticipated retaliation from the Islamic Republic in Iran.
At a moment when President Trumps second administration is confronting serious threats from a hostile regime, Omars fact-challenged accusations and incendiary rhetoric underscore a broader problem: a member of Congress willing to inflame sectarian resentment and undermine American credibility abroad, even when the historical record and basic math prove her wrong.
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