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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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 [b]woman whose family’s mosque hosted 3 of the 11 hijackers from 9/11[/b], 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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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
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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. [/quote]

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 [i]who actually lost their lives following the terrorist attacks[/i].  Sorry, but the two things are [i]not [/i]the same.

Sick of her posturing, pandering, and utter stupidity.  She has no business on a local school board.  [/quote]

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