Like insufferable mother, like insufferable daughter.
Isra Hirsi, daughter of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, has taken to Instagram to express her disdain for “the colonial empire.” “From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor. Death to the colonial empire. Life for our children,” a widely circulated image from her Instagram story reads. Hirsi also posted a screenshot of an X post reading “FUCK ICE!”
.@IlhanMN’s adult daughter, who is a self-identified far-left activist, has been trying to incite insurrection against the U.S. She believes it should be destroyed along with Israel.
The U.S. settled Omar’s family and relatives, gave them citizenship and educated them and their… pic.twitter.com/thDyOAlBGR
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 10, 2025
Omar’s family was desperate to gain entry to that bastion of colonialism, Minnesota, not so long ago.
“It’s been 29 years since my family and I were given a golden ticket to start a new life in America as refugees,” Omar wrote in an op-ed for the Atlantic, calling for the United States to “open the door wider for refugees.” Omar credits “the generosity of the Kenyan people, the resolute efforts of UN workers, the help of resettlement organizations such as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and the welcoming spirit of the American people who gave me and my family a second chance at life.”
Omar’s daughter doesn’t have the political savvy to disguise her seething resentment for the country which took her in, gave her mother a cushy career bloviating in front of C-SPAN, and gave Hirsi herself an education at one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. (RELATED: Trump Quashes Elite University’s Endless Summer Vacation)
Hirsi said she’d “claimed the title of being the [politically correct] police” in a 2020 Ted Talk. “Eventually people got really annoyed of me being, I guess, hyper-woke.” No, really?
But Hirsi is qualified to speak about oppression. After all, her grandfather was a high-ranking military man in the Somali Democratic Republic, Somalia’s socialist regime. Ilhan Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, enjoyed a “prestigious career as a colonel,” leading a “successful regiment in the Somali-Ethiopian war during the late 1970s,” according to his obituary in the Sahan Journal.
A longtime friend of Omar’s father told the Sahan Journal: “[Mohamed] played a significant role in the war…He was one of the officers who were recognized for their work.” The outlet claims Mohamed led a regiment during the 1977-1978 Somi-Ethiopian war. His career ended in 1991, after President Siad Barre’s government collapsed. Barre faced mounting criticism for dictatorial policies — including the state-sponsored extermination of the Isaaq ethnic group, members of whom had mounted an insurgency against Barre. (RELATED: ‘Republicans Are Done Playing This Racist Game’: House Rep Says Democrats Will No Longer Intimidate Them)
“The government has been at war with the [Isaaqs] since 1981,” reads an Africa Watch Report from 1990. “Both the urban population and nomads living in the countryside have been subjected to summary killings, arbitrary arrest, detention in squalid conditions, torture, rape, crippling contraits on freedom of movement and expression and a pattern of psychological intimidation.” I’m sure Omar’s daughter can find some way to blame all that trouble on colonizers.
“Between 1987 and 1989, the regime of Somali dictator Siad Barre massacred an estimated 200,000 members of the Isaaq tribe,” according to The Nation.
What ever happened to that petition to deport Omar started by Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas? Perhaps Gill should enquire if her daughter would like to accompany her. I’d hate to subject Hirsi to another second spent in the heart of the colonial empire.
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