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Laura Loomer speaking at an image of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

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“I really do believe in IQ science”: Laura Loomer, Trump ally floated for a potential White House position, goes on wildly racist rant against Rep. Ilhan Omar

Loomer says that it's “inappropriate for Islamists to hold elected office in this country,” calling it “a national security risk”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 02/01/24 2:21 PM EST

Only months after Donald Trump Jr. floated Laura Loomer as a White House press secretary, Loomer used her platform on Rumble to launch into a half-hour long racist screed against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Somalis living in America, birthright citizenship, and Muslims.

Loomer begun the show by referring to Rep. Omar as a “black dog” whose “district is literally Somalia,” and claimed that Omar's constituents are “breeding like rabbits. I guess they've never heard of something called birth control. Unfortunate for us. Unfortunate for Western civilization” and “modern-day jihadi welfare queens.”

After claiming that Rep. Omar's relatives “sleep in caves and have sex with goats in Al-Shabaab,” Loomer declared “I really do believe in IQ science,” “some of the people that have the lowest IQs are Somalis,” and claimed that Rep. Omar is “so inbred that they have an IQ that is legally classified as mental retardation”:

Loomer also ran with a blatant mistranslation of Omar's speech about the Republic of Somaliland. Later, she also used line taken blatantly out of context of Omar speaking about 9/11.

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From the January 31, 2024 edition of Loomer Unleashed, streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): As we talked about tonight in the monologue, we have a serious crisis in this country as it relates to Ilhan Omar. And, look, everybody knows why I was originally banned on all social media sites. OK? I was banned everywhere because I exposed Ilhan Omar. I exposed her for being the jihadist infiltrator that she was. Oh, what does that say? What does it say? OK. That's so cute. We put a hat on the dog. Now he has some glasses and a hat on. Isn't he so cute? Wow, look at that. Look how cute you are. He's adorable.

Derek – well, the media told me that I wasn't able to talk about Ilhan Omar unless I had a person of color, a Black individual per see, on the show tonight. And since Evan Power has canceled, we now have Derek, Derek the dog, our black dog, to come in and talk about another black dog, Ilhan Omar.

So, we're gonna talk about her tonight. Ilhan Omar, as we all know, from Somalia, wasn't even born in this country, hates this country. She's a jihadist, she's pro-Sharia.

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She – her district is literally like Somalia. Okay? Ilhan Omar, pretty much represents Somalia. They call Minneapolis Somalia or Little Somalia because when you go, you go down the street and all you see are people from Somalia with ten kids. Right? Because these people are breeding like rabbits. I guess they've never heard of something called birth control. Unfortunate for us. Unfortunate for Western civilization. Unfortunate for every single person who doesn't subscribe to the Islamist ideology because these people are having ten, fifteen children a pop, and they're teaching their kids to hate Christians, to hate Jews, to hate Americans, and to just really, you know, be leeches on our society. All these people end up being on welfare, and they don't really sustain themselves. And if you go to little Mogadishu as they call it, You'll see all these people. Right? Like, with their EBT cards and their Escalades, and it's like, how does a a woman in a hijab and a, like a full-blown niqab drive an Escalade, and then she has a, you know, she has 10 kids and, like, EBT cards and food stamps. How does that work exactly? Right? They're like modern-day jihadi welfare queens, and this is – her district is really ground zero for this.

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She's American in name only. There's nothing American about this woman. She hates America.

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We're going to play this clip and you can just see for yourself what a Trojan horse this woman is, and why not only should we make a law in this country that says that you can only serve an office if you were actually born in this country, and that you are a naturalized citizen, not a birthright citizen anchor baby like Nikki Haley, but you actually need to be born in this country and be a naturalized, a natural born citizen, not a birthright citizen, a natural born citizen.

Also too, I'm firmly in favor of -- I don't give a shit who this pisses off. They're gonna call me an Islamophobe. I just don't care anymore if you can't tell. I just don't care for the optics cucking. I just don't care for anybody's feelings anymore. Because at the end of the day, they're never gonna say anything nice about me, so why should I care about what they think about me? I just don't care. I don't want people who practice this ideology of Islam being able to serve in office. I think it's inappropriate for Islamists to hold elected office in this country. It's a national security risk. This is a Christian country. I say that as a Jew. Jews represent less than 2 percent of our population, but, I think that the only thing you should really be taking your oath of office on is the Constitution, which is derived from the Bible. Okay? Whether you are a Christian or a Jew, I think that we can all agree that our values are the same.

Okay. We may have a few discrepancies, but at the end of the day, right, our values and our love for this country is rooted in the fact that we are not a savage people. Okay? And we don't subscribe to Sharia law. So I campaigned on this. I really think that it's important for the Quran to be banned from being used as some – a book that you can actually take your oath of office on as a member of Congress. I think that they should ban the ability of lawmakers to take their oath of office on the Quran.

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LOOMER: I think we need to send her back to the Somali war zone she said that she wanted to escape. I think we need to deport her, and she needs to be expelled from Congress. She's a national security threat. I mean, in the clip there, she said she's working on behalf of the Somalis and that she's gonna force America to do what Somalia wants. Why do we wanna have our country do the bidding of Al-Shabaab? Like, what are we gonna do? We're gonna take orders from all these, from all these people that sleep in caves and have sex with goats in Al-Shabaab? I mean, honestly, is this is this what we're gonna do? I mean, I know it's personal, right? Because these people are likely Ilhan Omar's cousins. Right? They're Yeah. I'm not trying to – I'm not trying to be disrespectful when I say this, but you actually can pull up the IQ.

So, I really do believe in IQ science. I do believe that, you know, there's a lot to be said about people of different backgrounds with higher and lower IQs. Right? Like, they often say that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQ out of any group of people. You can look this up yourself. And, some of the people that have the lowest IQs are Somalis, okay? And it's because there's a problem with inbreeding in Somalia. And the average IQ in Somalia, if you look it up, is actually 70.

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So, these are – this is the average IQ, from people, I guess in that region. Whatever. In Somalia, the average IQ is 68. In the United States of America, okay, doctors consider a child or an individual to be, clinically mentally retarded, you're actually considered to be eligible for a diagnosis of mental retardation by U.S. health care standards if your IQ is below 70.

And so, you know, when you look at the fact that Ilhan Omar comes from a country where the average IQ is below the medical definition of mental retardation, okay? This is what we're dealing with. Okay? This is what – this is what Ilhan Omar and her supporters represent. Right? Like, we're actually talking about mental retardation here. And so why do we have somebody like this in Congress?

I mean, honestly, is it really acceptable to have somebody who's so inbred that they have an IQ that is legally classified as mental retardation, a woman who, spews blood libel against Jews, who hates our country, who hates Donald Trump, who openly supports Hamas, who is endorsed by Islamic centers like, Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center, where, where they have had the most recruits of ISIS out of any mosque in the entire country according to the FBI stats? Is this really somebody that we want in Congress?

After declaring “I want Ilhan Omar expelled out of Congress,” Loomer told Republicans to stop “being so scared of the woman with the rag on her head” and told her audience that “When a Muslim terrorist blows up a building, and we have another 9/11 on steroids, go blame the Republican Party”:

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From the January 31, 2024 edition of Loomer Unleashed, streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): I want these invaders out of our country. I want Ilhan Omar expelled out of Congress. No more jihadists. It's time for the Republicans to grow a pair of balls and stop, you know, being so scared of the woman with the rag on her head, you know, calling everybody an Islamophobe.

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I am watching my country by invaders and I have been screaming at the top of my lungs for years now about this.

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Shame on the Republican Party. Honestly, shame on these people for sitting back and allowing it to happen. And they get what they deserve. You know what? When a Muslim terrorist blows up a building, and we have another 9/11 on steroids, go blame the Republican Party. Okay? Because these people are the people you should be blaming because they sat around and they wanted to optics-cuck everybody because they were too scared to call out these jihadist Muslims when they had the chance to do so. And it's gonna happen. Okay? We have Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS coming across our open border. It's gonna happen. Some crazy Muslim is gonna kill somebody. It's gonna be really bad. We're gonna have a massive attack. It might take out our power grid.

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