My religion is a distraction, says Muslim poised to enter Congress

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | September 24, 2006 | Toby Harnden

[MadIvan]

Any comment from our friends in Minnesota?

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Khepera]

Don't think about my crappy backwards religion that wants to kill you just vote for me.

[Uncle Ike]

" Don't think about my crappy backwards religion that wants to kill you just vote for me "

Ummmm...

Would that be "muslim" or "democrat" ?

[endthematrix]

"President George W Bush's argument that there is a "clash of civilisations" between Islam and the West"

The leftist jump to that from GWB using the phrase "islamofacists."

[MAD-AS-HELL]

I am not from Minnesota, but the 5th district seems to outline a very liberal part of the state (Minneapolis). So either the dem party had no real prospects to begin with which explains Ellison's win or that the dems there are really a radical antisemitic bunch which explains why they voted for a Nation of Islam Muslim. Brain freeze from the cold winters could also be a plausible reason for such a pick.

On a positive note, the bar at he Sofitel hotel in Minneapolis makes the best hamburger I have ever had!

[Dallas59]

Black or African or White or Latino doesn't matter...ask him his opinion on Jews and Israel and Palestine....and you'll get a different stew.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Mr Ellison wrote to the local Jewish Community Relations Council
apologising for failing to "adequately scrutinise the positions"
of Mr Farrakhan and others. "They were, and are, anti-Semitic
and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did."

Mr Ellison: "Darn you caught me, I'm sorry" (that you caught me)

[Dallas59]

"real"

[Nextrush]

I don't know if "Nation Of Islam" is pure Muslim, its more like a racist offshoot.

Keith Ellison Hakim has a track record of being one of the Farrakhaners that he's trying to run away from.

Farrakhan and the Nation Of Islam favor racial separation and believe among other things that the world was created by God with only black people in it.

Then some evil magician came along and created the white race to mess things up. They believe that in the future the world will be restored and the evil white race will be dealt with.

For now NOI people are supposed to be good citizens and wait for the right moment to rise up and take what's rightfully theirs.

That's puts him in alliance with Islamofascists, though not exactly one of them. (I guess all those Arabs and Asians would be "white" in Farrakhan's book)

[Reform4Bush]

There's the slight hurdle called an election he has to clear before he gets annointed as the first Muslim elected to congress.

MN Dems were backing away from him last I heard. Martin Sabo (who's seat is the one being contested) distanced himslef from the guy.

I'd bet a focus on his Islamic roots will turn many voters away. It probably wasn't so much of an issue in the Dem primary. Under the spotlight of a campaign from the opposition party things could change dramatically.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

So convert.

[Lacey]

Go to http://www.powerlineblog.com to get the whole story on this guy. They've written about him extensively.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Not Minnesotan, but a lot of African American Muslims have a figurative axe to grind against the rest of the nation (particularly the European-descended part). A lot of their predecessors simply became Muslim because it wasn't Christian (which they erroneously supposed was a [European] man's religion).

[AbeKrieger]

Keith is proud to be a Muslim but he doesn't want to hold the banner so high that people see him only in that light.

I highly recommend his opponent hold it high for him, for all the voters to see. Stop this insanity now. Islam is not a religion, it is a hate group. Ellison personally has used the surname Muhammad. He's anti-Semitic and can try to run away from Farrakhan but he's chained to him for life.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Bad development. He should not be elected.

[tkathy]

How any self respecting black person could have anything to do with the religion that has been and remains front and center on the slave trade is beyond me.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Agreed. It could be that they didn't know about the extensive Muslim slave trade network across Africa (more than primarily West Africa), and only saw slavery as something nominal Christians did.

[caffe]

I live in the 5th district and it's always been extremely liberal and obviously now is a member of the looney left. If anyone is interested in the real story on Mr. Ellison; go to Powerline.com. and you can read all about the lies and law-breaking habits of Mr Ellison that are excused away by the insane people that surround me. I must admit I always enjoy by conservative signs and bumper stickers. I don't want anyone to think i'm a liberal. (the 5th district is generally the city of Mpls.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Not all liberals are wacky, irrational bafoons. Many are but not all. They are the 9-11 democrats. One good thing about Minneapolis is that the city gave us The Replacements. Can't fault them for that.