Beauty queen who fled Iraq War now proud American battling Dem wokeness  

She fled war-torn Iraq for a higher life in America, and now Sarah Idan is ready to do battle proper right here — in the direction of the woke Democrats she says have turned the nation upside down

“There’s a voice missing. There’s the immigrant who f—ing suffered and came here and lived the American dream,” Idan, 33, said this week on the 20 th anniversary of the Iraq War.

The one-time magnificence queen — who represented Iraq in Miss Universe in 2017 and confronted lack of life threats after befriending and snapping a selfie with Miss Israel -— targets to throw her tiara inside the ring for a California congressional run, she instructed The Post.

The political neophyte and Los Angeles resident said she has however to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.

Still, she already is conscious of what her first advertising and marketing marketing campaign shall be: rooting out “crazy far left and woke voices” in her private Democratic celebration obsessive about so-called “white privilege.”

“Shut up— because you have no idea how privileged you are,” Idan said.

The fiery feminist and human rights activist has spoken out in the direction of extreme left Dems, akin to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar,  blasting her for her incendiary suggestions about Jews and Israel.

“I don’t stand for your anti-American, antisemitic, Muslim Brotherhood agenda, using this democracy to further your…Islamic socialism goals of dividing and weakening our country,” Idan tweeted.

“I would just be the opposite of Ilhan Omar. I’m a Democrat and liberal, but I don’t think like you – I don’t hate this country,” Idan well-known.

Born in 1990 in Baghdad, Idan was the second youngest of 5 youngsters. Her father was a military engineer for Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, nevertheless lessons at residence hardly mirrored that celebration line.

She recalled the family “living as hostages under Saddam,” fearing accusations of “disloyalty” and well-known the restricted entry to meals, water and electrical vitality beneath the brutal dictator.

“We couldn’t say anything against him,” she said. “I learned everything I was taught by Saddam was a lie.”

At 18, she volunteered with the US Army in Iraq as a translator and left her family in Iraq behind for America about two years later, and have change into a US citizen in 2015.

After Iraq’s 45-year hiatus from the pageant, Idan represented Iraq inside the 2017 Miss Universe pageant as a twin citizen.

Because of the Israel flap, her citizenship there has since been revoked.

Her family was pressured to flee as correctly inside the aftermath and now dwell inside the Emirates.

Her tumultuous background presents her a novel perspective on what she sees as a result of the greatness of the American dream.

“They hate when I say anything good about this country, when I say I love it and have rights here,” she fumed. “They want to hear you say, ‘No, this is a horrible country, a horrible government, and we have no rights.’”  

“They’re bitching about everything and playing the victim all the time – just shut up.”

She recalled one argument with “hardcore Democrat” mates over the freedoms and liberties afforded on this nation, who instructed Idan to “go back to Iraq.”

“They couldn’t handle me saying good things about this country,” asserted Idan.

She sees firsthand the “evil” of the left in movement in her residence metropolis — the place indoctrination in schools by woke lecturers and administrators has led a couple of of her private mates to homeschool their youngsters, she said. Public safety is one different concern, with predominant crimes there up 11.6 p.c this 12 months over last. 

“The left isn’t doing enough,” she said, together with there are “scary” points all through the Democratic celebration. 

Los Angeles’ controversial new mayor, Karen Bass, who’s seen as a Castro-sympathizing communist, isn’t the reply, Idan said.

“We need fresh people in office to take out the communists, pushing crazy policies,” said Idan.

“I may have been born in Iraq, but my soul is American.”