https://spectator.us/believe-ilhan-omar-autobiography/https://www.amazon.com/This-What-America-Looks-Like/dp/0062954210https://www.startribune.com/rep-omar-describes-a-bruising-life-in-her-new-memoir/570596252/So Ilhan Omar published an autobiography, now available on Amazon.
its got the slight issue that its historically inaccurate, with Ilhan whitewashing, ignoring and skipping over huge parts of her own childhood in order to avoid contradicting her lies about it
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Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somilia in 1982 in a relatively wealthy family. She was the youngest of seven children, none of whose names are mentioned. Her mother died when she was two. Her father was a teacher. Her grandfather was busy ‘helping to run the country’s network of lighthouses’. Or was he, as her Wikipedia entry says, the chief of Somalia’s National Marine Transport?
When Somalia collapsed into civil war, Omar’s family might have supported the Salvation Democratic Front, but we aren’t told who they are or what they were fighting for. Anyway, what happened there was ‘no different to what happened in Nazi Germany’. After the family compound was shot up by a militia, the family fled to a refugee camp in Kenya. It took four years, until 1992, for her father to obtain visas to the United States.
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The book offers a guarded account of a choppy romantic life that has become fodder for the tabloid press, Trump and her critics on the right. It says nothing about how her remarriage to Hirsi collapsed last year, shortly before she married Tim Mynett, a political consultant for her campaign.
She describes Ahmed Elmi, her second husband, as a man "whom I spent so little time with that I wouldn't even make him a footnote in my story if it weren't for the fact that this event turned into the main headline later on."
Omar writes no more about how she met Elmi or why they decided to marry. But by 2016, when she was running for state Legislature, she writes that the brief marriage was spun by a Somali blog into an allegation "that I had married a relative [reportedly her brother] illegally, to get him entry into the United States" — which isn't true, she writes.
Imagine writing an autobiography where you can't even admit who your family members are, or talk about your marriages or personal life.
There will be people buying this and reading it credulously.
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