Ilhan Omar has triggered the right wing once again, this time by drawing attention
through criticizing a Christian singalong that took place on a commercial flight.
Now this went viral, it was originally posted on TikTok and apparently this
group of religious influencers broke out into a Christian song on the plane.
We wanna show that video to you and
then we'll tell you why people are mad at Ilhan Omar about it.
>> [MUSIC]
>> Okay.
>> Amazing.
>> I just got to say, I'm the guy in the blue flannel shirt.
>> A lot of us are in the blue flannel shirt in the very beginning who's like
looking at the camera, like.
>> Okay, and then at the end to, so I have a slightly different take on this story,
but first tell us why they got mad at Ilhan Omar.
>> So listen at first, it was a little uncertain whether or
not this was a private flight or if this was a commercial flight,
if it's a commercial flight, which it is, by the way, that's been confirmed.
Listen, you've got a captive audience and
I have no problem with you singing Christian songs.
But you've got a captive audience and not everyone's digging your Christian music or
any, let me be clear about something, any music,
like I don't know if it's a, I like grunge music.
If it's a grunge band and they decide to like break out in song and dance,
there's no dancing and grunge.
But anyway, my point is like.
>> If they do a mosh pit on the plane, yeah, we're gonna have issues.
>> Yeah like just don't force a captive audience to listen to what or
have to consume what you're putting out there.
Okay, they have nowhere to go, they're stuck.
Yes, there's that added component of it being religious and
some people might be turned off to that as well, but for
me it's more about the fact that being on a plane is bad enough already, right?
It's uncomfortable enough, you're gonna put in there like a sardine to not be able
to escape the situation that's taking place right there.
I think it's crazy like don't don't do that to people.
So that's my take Ilhan Omar decided to jump in and make a point about,
look, I think my family and I should have a prayer session
next time I'm on a plane, how do you think it will end?
That's what she tweeted and the right one was like,
my God damn sure what's wrong with Christian music, just relax.
And by the way she's making a legitimate point if there's like okay let's do some
Muslim stuff.
>> Yeah. >> I'm looking at you.
>> So yeah, I'm looking at you okay, so we see a bunch of things first,
I wanna go to the bench pure tweet before I do that because I think it's so funny.
She says you can't whine about public practice of your religion and then demand
respect for the public practice of your religion, wait, I don't get it.
She said she if she did it probably people wouldn't be cool with it.
So that first part makes no sense and then, but this is the part I like as
a religious Jew, this country is better with more of this, not less.
Okay, like I'm Jewish, but I love you Christian right wing who are my audience,
my audience and I'll do anything.
I'll let you sing along songs next to me, I don't mind at all.
[LAUGH] okay, all right we got it Ben, we got it.
>> Let's sing walk.
>> [LAUGH] he's swinging walk next to him though.
You might not like it as much.
>> The point for
me isn't necessarily like the religious stuff is like an added component to it.
Just like, I don't even wanna hear you talk too loudly on the plane,
just shut up.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Okay, we're all stuck on this plane,
there's no where to go we can't wait for it to land.
So just don't make it even more unbearable for everyone who's stuck here.
>> Maybe this isn't why those evangelical preachers, the gospel preachers,,
get their private planes.
Remember they said, you didn't, you're stuck in there with the regular public and
they're all singing Christian songs.
>> Flying is like the single most uncomfortable thing that we need to do to
get to one place, like from point A to point B.
It's just, it's it's purposely made uncomfortable so
you spend money to make it a little less uncomfortable.
Imagine you're like you shell out the money for those upgrades, maybe you're in
business class or first class, you're like, maybe I'll have an enjoyable flight.
I shall, I decided to show up the money, I used all the points,
I've been accumulating for years and then that breaks out.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, so now my opinion, I don't care,
I would be highly amused by it, I wouldn't care at all.
I'm kidding that I'm the guy in the flannel shirt, I wouldn't even be cranky.
I would think that they were the biggest goofballs I've ever seen and
I would just laugh right?
But Ilhan Omar is of course correct, okay, now let's do what she said.
Imagine that you go on the plane and me and
a couple other Muslim dudes get up there, right.
I used to be Muslim, I'm atheist now, but we go [FOREIGN].
>> On plane.
>> On the plane they're pulling, putting the plane down,
they're rerouting their landing immediately.
The FBI is greeting me and you know it, you know it, Ben Shapiro and
everyone else.
>> Is that a real thing that you said though or were you just like.
>> No that's a real, it's not a song, it's a Muslim prayer, right?
I said it kind of loudly and a little bit more sing song, but
it's a it's the most common prayer.
>> What if we added a guitar, would it sound a little less intimidating.
>> [FOREIGN].
No, I'm not here for that, I'm not here for any of it, okay.
I don't care if it's barney, don't care if it's Christianity, don't care if
it's Muslims, don't care if it's Jewish people like just keep it to yourself.
>> By the way,
Shapiro says, I don't mind you can sing loud Christian songs next to me.
I don't mind now, sing loud Muslim prayers next to me was like, wait a minute.
Okay, I didn't sign up for this dude.
>> And you know what?
Actually, I just remembered something, have you guys ever been on like a hike or
even the gym and someone thinks that you wanna hear whatever music they like.
Like they don't put the earplugs in or the headphones in.
They decide like, no, I'm gonna take my personal bluetooth speaker and
I'm gonna play my music for
everyone on this hike because everyone loves the exact same music that I love.
People suck, you suck if you do that, you suck,
keep it to yourself not everyone wants your noise pollution, okay.
>> Noise pollution.
Okay, so these Christian folks,
they seemed relatively harmless to me on the plane and
I'm always amused by their big smiles, they're always so happy, right?
We talked about this on one of our shows, old school, if you remember checking out,
we just talked about it yes at TYT dot com slash join to become a member anyway.
And like I'm generally a happy dude, right but
I said being happy isn't like those weirdo fake smiles that you see
in cults where your people are always like, okay, that's not real.
They're not actually happy and as I saw them singing.
>> No they're like, hey, they're happy look at that guy, he's so happy.
>> I know he isn't.
>> Look at that, that's the thing again, nothing against that guy.
No he looks like he's genuinely happy maybe, but he loves that.
He gets to play that guitar and yeah, that's he's probably happy about that.
>> Trust me. >> They don't know where to go,
you got to listen to me.
>> Yeah, whether it's Christians or any other religion or any other cults or
whatever.
When you got the guys who are always like, hey, really,
when they go at home to cry and cry that's my guess.
>> This is a choice, you know this?
>> [LAUGH] Well, I agree with that actually happens.
But the final twist of the story is it turns out these same guys were
going to Ukraine and they went and sank to the refugees.
We have that video too and then I have a different take on that.
>> [MUSIC]
>> Yeah], so I think that's outside of Ukraine but
those are Ukrainian refugees that they're singing too.
Now, wait a minute, don't sing to them about how God is great when they just
had to flee their country and might have lost family members.
That's not the appropriate time to do it.
I'd rather have you do it on a plane and do it to me then do it to those folks then
then it's not fun anymore and come in here like, hey God is so great.
Really, I left my family and my home behind, I don't know where I'm going,
I don't know what I'm gonna do to take care of my kids and my uncle was murdered.
Don't this is not the time to talk to me about how it
sing to me with your smiley face about how great God is.
>> Jake I think you're being unfair,
there were some quotes from those refugees that you apparently didn't come across.
One of them was quoted as saying thank you for that,
this song slaps, I'm just kidding.
No, look at their faces they were like why is this happening to us?
Like why would you do this to us, we were already going through so much.
>> Let alone that you're seeing to them about how glorious Jesus is in
a different language.
A lot of Ukrainians know English, but not all of them do, so you came to sing them
obnoxious songs about how life is great in a different language.
Yeah, that's highly annoying.
Like I can't believe they didn't think like yeah this is not gonna play well
right because in their minds they think my God we're saving their souls were so good.
>> But like okay, so this part,
I'm a little less harsh because I think intentions do matter and
they should have thought it through a little better to be fair.
But they have good intentions, again shouldn't have done it but
whatever, they have good intentions.
>> Yeah I hear you, they're not bad guys, they look very harmless and I'm sure that
in their heart they're trying to do the right thing at the same time.
Just think it through a little bit right, it's not happy times for refugees.
If you came in by the way with the spirit of Christ and gave them food and
shelter and and other things transport to a place that they'd like to go.
That's mighty Christian of you and that would be wonderful,
that's the better way to go.