Muslim Keith Ellison seeks House seat

AP ^ | 29 June 06 | Patrick Condon

[ArrogantBustard]

Islam is not a religion, it is a way of life,
So? My religion is a way of life, too. I don't leave my faith behind when I walk out of Church on Sunday. It goes into the voting booth, and the marketplace, and the worplace, and everywhere else.

and that way of life is at direct odds with everything that America is.
That's the problem. My Faith is at the root of Western Civilisation. Their faith is an assault on Western Civilisation and has been ever since Mad Mo and his deranged followers came roaring out of the desert with fire and the sword.

[George W. Bush]

Are the prisons so crowded that the only place we can send a Calypso Louie impersonator is to Congress?

[AmishDude]

If you take Criminal Defense Attorney and remove the word "Defense", it is correct.

[CubaninMiami]

I don't recall any episodes in this country's history where Catholics, blacks, or gays barraled airplanes into office buildings full of thousands of people. Perhaps I didn't read those chapters, please enlighten me.

[Jorge]

I don't think I could vote for any Muslim EVER..but I have to admit in this country where freedom of religion is a founding principle, he does have the right to run for office.

[teawithmisswilliams]

...have to admit in this country where freedom of religion is a founding principle, he does have the right to run for office.

...only if you think the Founding Fathers meant to include islam, which they viewed as alien, violent, and anti-Christianity and western civilization--for very good reasons.

[Jorge]

...only if you think the Founding Fathers meant to include islam, which they viewed as alien, violent, and anti-Christianity and western civilization--for very good reasons.

Actually they included freedom of religion from their experience with violent and oppressive versions of CHRISTIANITY taking power in European Govts to persecute those of other religions and even other Christian denominations.

[sport]

My money says yes,Fishrrman.

To my knowledge, no one has ever gone broke betting on the stupidity of the American public.

[sport]

It is called hatred for the United States.

[teawithmisswilliams]

Yes, they didn't want to establish a national church of any Christin denomination. The notion that they somehow therefore wanted freedom for islam is ludicrous. Islam was a menace to freedom then, too--and our Founding Fathers knew it.

[HansGygi]

Ellison would have cohorts in Washington. Cynthia Mckinney and Barack Obama.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts

[lionheart 247365]

I'll bet the N Y Times will endorse him .