There has been of late a lot of wringing of hands about freshman Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's accusations that American Jews have dual loyalty.  Her tweets were seen as odiously anti-Semitic even by such knee-jerk ultra-liberals as Thomas Friedman of the New York Times; they pushed the Democrats into some soul-searching, they caused Republican legislative ire — and they made me wonder: where do Ilhan Omar's own allegiances lie? After all, she herself is not exactly a descendant of the Mayflower pilgrims, steeped exclusively in American history and culture.  She is a first-generation American, a Muslim immigrant who had come to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia.  So is she herself as wholeheartedly American as her accusations that American Jews put America second imply?  Is she indeed the true-blue American patriot uncovering and sniffing out the hidden treason, as her tweets would make us...(Read Full Post)