+1 I cannot stand Omeish but what her parents did or her parent's mosque did is entirely irrelevant. We shouldn't be doing this guilt by association thing. She says plenty enough things herself that disqualify her from serving again. |
Wait, when there is a crime committed by a black person I am supposed to judge their character and how they got there by their upbringing and what their mother or father did or did not do correctly. Hmmm, but in this woman's case, we should put that aside, even though her father's beliefs OBVIOUSLY determined her beliefs. Okay, go it. |
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I am a democrat, I am so over this nonsense. School board's job is to focus and work on issues pertaining to schools, not trying to drum up attention by making charged statements. I especially don't like people like Omeish, she is constantly in the news trying to raise her political profile, just do your damn job.
Next time, I am voting republican. So, done with this sh** show. |
Sure. Because those folks aren't trying to drum up attention with charged statements about CRT and other nonsense /s |
The apple didn't fall far from the tree. Her father was involved in hiring Anwar al-Alwaki at a Falls Church mosque, and she opposed a resolution to honor the victims of 9/11 on the specious grounds that it "ignored a holistic understanding of the American experience" and would somehow "elevat[e] a traumatic event without sufficient cultural competence." She seems to believe targets of unkind remarks after 9/11 were just as much victims of 9/11 as the people who actually lost their lives following the terrorist attacks. Sorry, but the two things are not the same. Sick of her posturing, pandering, and utter stupidity. She has no business on a local school board. |
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Vote her off the school board and pray she doesn't run for some higher office.
She is not worthy of being an elected official. Not even dog catcher. |
To be sure, the USA is pretty effing evil. We haven’t exactly done a lot of good in the world. Our origin story is is steeped in genocide and human trafficking, we fought a war over the right to keep that slavery, we are the only nation in the world to use nuclear weapons and used them twice … against civilian population centers. We have already capitalism everywhere. And we beat our chests and yell about freedumb to countries that have far more personal freedoms than we enjoy. |
Your uncle’s life was worth less than a Japanese civilian’s. Sorry. |
It's good to see that Abrar's people have showed up and let us know what they really think about our country. She implies the same thing but it's usually word salad so it's good when one of her crowd just cuts with the crap and spews their unabashed hatred of the United States. |
I am okinawan. Your uncle's perspective is not uncommon for tjose of us from those Japanese islands. Ryukyu women threw their children off cliffs into the ocean because they would rather do that than surrender to the Americans. They were told that the American soldiers would brutalize the population just like the Japanese did in parts of China. I promise that many who survived were horrified at that act once the Americans arrived and were basically kind teenagers from farmlands and cities handing out chocolate to the kids, including my parent who was very young at the time. War is horrible, but sometimes there is Just War, which you must win at all costs. WW2 was one of those times. Omeish is practically a teenager, and a poster child of the recent failures of FCPS to teach history and critiql thinking skills. |
I fully agree her 9/11 position was appalling. But there is still no reason to drag her parents into this. Just because my mom or dad may have done something bad does not make me bad. Now being a crappy person MYSELF - that is what makes me bad. |
Can you point to a country who’s history you do approve of? |
+100 |
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https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/abrar-omeish-battle-of-iwo-jima-calls-it-evil-fairfax-county-school-board-member-virginia-japanese-day-of-remembrance-history-us-marines-condeming-parents-association
The spin in her response to WJLA is quite the achievement. What she says has almost nothing to do with the remarks she made at the SB meeting. |