Ilhan Omar’s Father Served a Communist-Islamist Regime Before Becoming a Refugee in Minnesota – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Ilhan Omar’s Father Served a Communist-Islamist Regime Before Becoming a Refugee in Minnesota – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Socialist Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called her father “an educator.” According to the man’s obituary, he was a distinguished colonel in the army of communist Somalia, whom the United Nations described as having “one of the worst human rights records in Africa.” There is no evidence of her father’s direct complicity in any atrocities, but Omar has not confronted the legacy of the regime to which her father was loyal. (RELATED: The Melting …