Omeish regrets Iwo Jima

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It is highly unlikely that Omeish would have won had she run in a primary. For one thing, teens under 18 would not have been allowed to vote.

Actually 17 year olds that will be 18 on Election Day can vote in a primary in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It is highly unlikely that Omeish would have won had she run in a primary. For one thing, teens under 18 would not have been allowed to vote.

Actually 17 year olds that will be 18 on Election Day can vote in a primary in Virginia.

DP. From what I recall, the FCDC didn't require teens to be 17 to participate in the endorsement process in 2019. There were lots of teenagers who signed up late in the spring and were responsible for Omeish getting an endorsement. She got more votes than both Sizemore Heizer and Moon, which in retrospect is just crazy absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It is highly unlikely that Omeish would have won had she run in a primary. For one thing, teens under 18 would not have been allowed to vote.

Actually 17 year olds that will be 18 on Election Day can vote in a primary in Virginia.

DP. From what I recall, the FCDC didn't require teens to be 17 to participate in the endorsement process in 2019. There were lots of teenagers who signed up late in the spring and were responsible for Omeish getting an endorsement. She got more votes than both Sizemore Heizer and Moon, which in retrospect is just crazy absurd.

I live in Fairfax and am not at all surprised she was elected over others. The majority of parents here prefer equity etc over education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why in the world is she on the school board?

She should never have been elected in the first place.

You can decide, later this year, if she stays on the Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Military historians do debate in hindsight whether the Battle of Iwo Jima was of sufficient strategic importance to have justified the many casualties.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/2020/02/25/was-iwo-jima-worth-the-cost/

Of course when Omeish makes her comments she rarely provides such context because she’s been surrounded her entire life by people who think you get extra credit in class for criticizing American policy. It goes over well at Yale, but not so well in other places. She’s wildly out of touch with most people in the county and got lucky in 2019 due to the FCDC’s lax endorsement process and voters willing to vote for any candidate endorsed by the Democrats.

That's different than saying it was "evil." That was an incredibly bloody battle on both sides. Apparently both sides thought is was worth fighting the battle.

[Anonymous]

Do you think she got Iwo Jima mixed up with Hiroshima? Then I could see her point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think she got Iwo Jima mixed up with Hiroshima? Then I could see her point.

Nope. I thought that, too--because it was logical. But, she was asked and doubled down on Iwo Jima.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think she got Iwo Jima mixed up with Hiroshima? Then I could see her point.

Nope. I thought that, too--because it was logical. But, she was asked and doubled down on Iwo Jima.

Note that even the excuse that supposedly gets her off the hook is polemical and would indicate she gets easily mixed up. Yale apparently admits a lot of people who are just not that bright.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SO this is what I found, but it's not the media and she doesn't seem to be asked if she meant Hiroshima. She appears to clarify her thoughts:
In an email response to a concerned community member obtained by Parents Defending Education, Abrar Omeish stated: “There is no reason to warp what was said and reading more into it merely reflects biases forced in by the listener.” She then added:

Iwo Jima happens to fall on the same day as Executive Order 9066, which was issued 80 years ago now and today marks Japanese Day of Remembrance, recognized by the White House a few days ago. Japanese Day of Remembrance is a painful moment that commemorates when our government decided to detain some 120,000 innocent, unassociated Japanese Americans by kidnapping them from their homes and forcing them into incarceration on the mere basis of their identities.

Abrar Omeish then stated: “Japanese Remembrance Day reminds us of the evil human beings are capable of, the diverse emotions and complex meanings February 19th has for a variety of members of our community, and the importance of recognizing each of these varied realities in forging a narrative of US, not a narrative of some—as we commit to building better for the next generation and a future that honors all.”

So she didn’t double down. There’s nothing here.

Gosh, you’re so exhausting. The sun is out. Go outside and enjoy your Sunday.

Wtf? She exactly doubled down. She did not say that she misspoke and meant to reference Hiroshima as some people thought may have happened. She made it clear she intentionally referenced Iwo Jima.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do the people freaking out know anything about the battle of Iwo Jima? It was brutal and deadly for the Japanese--almost 20K lives lost and later, too many American lives lost trying to keep it.

In the end, the island was basically never used and had no utility during the war. It was used for emergency landings only.

So yeah... a lot of lives lost brutally for a completely useless arena.

So don't start a war!

Yes, war sucks. I am sad for the 60M who died in WW2, including Americans. But if you start a war, it must be ended.
Thousands of Russians are dying in the war in Ukraine, but you know what? um....

This Japanese have no leg to stand on when they provoked America here. War is chaotic. Hindsight is 20/20. I'm sure at the time this island seemed important.

[Anonymous]

Frankly I don't know from watching the video what she was trying to say. Humans are capable of doing some bad things. Like bombing Pearl Harbor in an unprovoked sneak attack, that kind of thing? She does know that Iwo Jima was a battle during a declared war, right?

Really, I don't blame her for saying it as much as for her inability to make any kind of coherent point. Does anyone understand what she was trying to say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly I don't know from watching the video what she was trying to say. Humans are capable of doing some bad things. Like bombing Pearl Harbor in an unprovoked sneak attack, that kind of thing? She does know that Iwo Jima was a battle during a declared war, right?

Really, I don't blame her for saying it as much as for her inability to make any kind of coherent point. Does anyone understand what she was trying to say?

A typical Omeish comment is a word salad that has two elements:

* First, a relatively banal thought with which few would disagree (for example, students should get involved in their communities, the conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank are abysmal, the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was wrong).

* Second, a weird twist that pushes it over the top with odd word choices and unnecessary hyperbole (for example, students should wage "jihad," asserting that Israel "desecrates the Holy Land," and throwing Iwo Jima into the mix when discussing the Day of Remembrance (which is about the internment of Japanese-Americans) and declaring it a "record" for "human evil").

It's intended to be attention-grabbing and to demonstrate to Omeish's allies how progressive she is. But as often as not she seems to be making it up on the fly and it just comes across as ignorant and obnoxious.

The problem for the rest of us is that we gave her a platform to spout her nonsense, and that needs to come to an end this fall.

[Anonymous]

I'm happy every time she opens her mouth. With each utterance, she makes herself more unelectable and more toxic. She's going to grad school for public policy, if not for this stent, she might have gotten herself on the ballot for higher office than school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly I don't know from watching the video what she was trying to say. Humans are capable of doing some bad things. Like bombing Pearl Harbor in an unprovoked sneak attack, that kind of thing? She does know that Iwo Jima was a battle during a declared war, right?

Really, I don't blame her for saying it as much as for her inability to make any kind of coherent point. Does anyone understand what she was trying to say?

A typical Omeish comment is a word salad that has two elements:

* First, a relatively banal thought with which few would disagree (for example, students should get involved in their communities, the conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank are abysmal, the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was wrong).

* Second, a weird twist that pushes it over the top with odd word choices and unnecessary hyperbole (for example, students should wage "jihad," asserting that Israel "desecrates the Holy Land," and throwing Iwo Jima into the mix when discussing the Day of Remembrance (which is about the internment of Japanese-Americans) and declaring it a "record" for "human evil").

It's intended to be attention-grabbing and to demonstrate to Omeish's allies how progressive she is. But as often as not she seems to be making it up on the fly and it just comes across as ignorant and obnoxious.

The problem for the rest of us is that we gave her a platform to spout her nonsense, and that needs to come to an end this fall.

+1. Well stated. Everything Omeish says is ideological and calculated to demonstrate her progressive political position, but it comes out as incoherent and leaving everyone scratching their heads trying to figure out what she meant. Her contributions to the FCPS school board and the excellence of FCPS as a school district are non-existent. She does not belong on a school board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the people freaking out know anything about the battle of Iwo Jima? It was brutal and deadly for the Japanese--almost 20K lives lost and later, too many American lives lost trying to keep it.

In the end, the island was basically never used and had no utility during the war. It was used for emergency landings only.

So yeah... a lot of lives lost brutally for a completely useless arena.

You’re trying to cover for Omeish. She’s not weighing in on whether, in hindsight, the battle was strategically unnecessary and led to unnecessary deaths. She’s commenting on it in a way that clearly is intended to cast the US as a distinct purveyor of “human evil.”

Coming from a woman whose family’s mosque hosted 3 of the 11 hijackers from 9/11, I do not need this spoiled woman-child giving us public lectures about what constitutes a “record *** for human evil.” If the Democrats refuse to de-platform her, the voters should.

Oops. Missed this little but of overt racism. Do you have the same problem with churches that hosted Jan 6ers (southern baptists et al) , Timothy McVeigh (catholic churches)?
I am done with you because you obviously don't have any arguments, just petty grievances, bigotry, and a smooth brain.

The point is that she’s in no position to speak to what constitutes a “record” for “human evil” when her own father consorted with some other strong contenders for the title. Sorry if you’re too addled to figure that out on your own.

I don't know anything at all about this argument, and I don't really want to, but suggesting someone loses the right to participate in public discussions because their parent "consorted" with someone is a little ridiculous. Does every member of the Trump family have to shut up forever because they "consorted" with the Saudis, who funded the 9/11 hijackers and dismembered a US citizen with a bone saw? I mean I would like that but I don't actually think that's how it works.

Correct. No need to judge her based on her her father’s actions. Abrar Omeish does have a mind of her own:

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/opinions/a-call-to-censure-and-remove-abrar-omeish/article_0dbc68f6-172c-11ec-8fa9-03928393c39b.html