Muslims seeking apology for letter

SacBee ^ | 21 DEC 2006 | Rob Hotakainen

[radar101]

A Muslim group is asking Virginia Republican Rep. Virgil Goode Jr. to apologize after he told hundreds of his constituents that more Muslims will follow Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to Congress if strict immigration laws aren't passed.

"The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran," Goode wrote.

The letter was written to constituents who contacted Goode after Ellison said he planned to bring his Quran, the Muslim holy book.

Goode, an attorney and former state senator who was first elected to Congress in 1996, said he wants to "stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country."

Corey Saylor, national legislative director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Goode's "Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office."

CAIR officials noted that Ellison traces his family roots in the United States back to 1742.

"There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry," Saylor said, adding that Goode should apologize.

Linwood Duncan, Goode's press secretary, said Goode sent the letter to hundreds of constituents who contacted his office after Ellison disclosed his plans. About the same time, the head of the local Sierra Club contacted Goode about a different issue, and the letter was accidentally sent to him in response. The Sierra Club official gave a copy of the letter to a reporter.

"The congressman is not apologizing," Duncan said. "He stands by the letter."

[TheeOhioInfidel]

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015415.php

Rep. Goode has nothing to apologize for, but Ellison does. No country in its' right mind would allow unchecked immigration of a warrior faction that openly avows the end of Western Culture. No, they can't swear in on a book of hate.

These facts have been posted before, but what the hell?

1989--Ellison publishes the first of two articles in the University of Minnesota Daily under the alias "Keith Hakim." In the first such article, Ellison speaks up for the Nation of Islam.

1990--Ellison participates in the sponsorship of the anti-Semitic speech by Kwame Ture given at the University of Minnesota Law School ("Zionism: Imperialism, White Supremacy or Both?"). Ellison rejects the appeal of Jewish law students to withdraw sponsorship of the lecture. Ellison graduates from University of Minnesota Law School.

1992--Ellison appears as speaker at demonstration against Minneapolis police with Vice Lords leader Sharif Willis following the murder of Officer Haaf by four Vice Lords gangsters in September.

1993--Ellison leads demonstration chanting "We don't get no justice, you don't get no peace" in support of Vice Lords defendant on trial for the murder of Officer Haaf. Ellison attends Gang Summit in Kansas City with Willis.

1995--Ellison supports Million Man March, appears at organizing rally with former Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Muhammed at University of Minnesota. Ellison acts as local Nation of Islam leader in march at office of U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis protesting indictment of Qubilah Shabazz for conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan. Ellison charges FBI with conspiring to murder Farrakhan. Ellison writes article under alias "Keith X Ellison" attacking Star Tribune for criticizing Louis Farrakhan. Here it is; click to enlarge:

1997--Ellison appears under alias "Keith Ellison-Muhammad" at Minnesota Initiative Against Racism hearing in support of Joanne Jackson. Ellison defends "the truth" of Jackson's statement that "Jews are the most racist white people." This is the Star Tribune's article on the controversy, which refers to Ellison's statement:

1998--Ellison first runs for DFL endorsement for state representative. Ellison identifies himself as member of Nation of Islam in Insight News article on his candidacy. Ellison runs for endorsement under alias "Keith Ellison-Muhammad."

2000--Ellison gives speech supporting Kathleen Soliah/Sara Jane Olson at National Lawyers Guild fundraiser. Demands Soliah/Olson's release. Asks audience to recall time when "Qubilah Shabazz was prosecuted in retribution against Minister Farrakhan." Speaks favorably of cop killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur.

May 2006--Ellison writes letter to JCRC asserting involvement with Nation of Islam limited to 18 months supporting Million Man March.

August 2006--Ellison appears at unpublicizied fundraiser with CAIR executive director and Hamas supporter Nihad Awad among featured guests.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060924-085114-9378r.htm

Only learned recently and far more troubling is Mr. Ellison's seemingly tight connection with Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom he met almost two decades ago at the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Ellison's campaign obviously has downplayed the affiliation with Mr. Awad. But here are the facts: Mr. Awad headlined a fundraiser last month that the campaign estimates netted $15,000 to $20,000, and in July, and it appears that CAIR's co-founder bundled contributions totaling just over $10,000. (The campaign issued a terse denial on the latter point, though it refused to explain away overwhelming evidence to the contrary.) The campaign has gone so far as to suggest that Mr. Awad did all this without having any contact with someone he's known since the late 1980s.
The Democrat's supporters have taken a different tack. Rather than defend Mr. Awad or downplay his connections to the candidate, Ellison partisans have attempted to paint attacks on the candidate as overtly partisan or even bigoted. A Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, for example, recently suggested that Mr. Ellison is under attack solely for being Muslim.
But it is top Democrats who have issued some of the most stinging rebukes of CAIR. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-leading Democrat, has said that CAIR "is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its association with groups that are suspect." Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has stated flatly that CAIR "has ties to terrorism." Mr. Schumer has special disdain for Mr. Awad and CAIR's other co-founder, Omar Ahmad, saying in a 2003 hearing that both men have "intimate connections with Hamas."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Omar one of the guys removed from the US Air flight? Small world.

[Disambiguator]

What has the muslim community contributed to society over the last 100 years other than death and destruction?

What has the muslim community contributed to society over the last 1000 years other than death and destruction?

[Taxman]

As far as I'm concerned, anything we can do to get the followers of islam out of our COUNTRY is good!

[Schnucki]

Don't forget this about Ellison from IBD: Tale Of Fibbing Imams

[TheeOhioInfidel]

Speak your mind to Rep. Goode:

If a Virginia resident, use this:

http://www.house.gov/goode/contact.shtml

Non-VA residents have to fax, phone, or send mail

1520 Longworth Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202)225-4711
Fax: (202)225-5681

[RobRoy]

I really hope this thing explodes. We need a SERIOUS public discourse on this. Maybe Islam could follow Dan Rather and Darwinism as the giants slain by the new open free exchange of ideas an information.

[MistOne]

What a disgusting racist this man is, I would be ashamed if he represented my community. The only reason America is a great county is that it is a free country, freedom of religion is a critical element of our freedom.

What if this bigot said the same thing about Jews? He would be getting slammed by the global community, Isreal, President bush and all others.

Racism, and Bigotry are apparently just fine with conservative American's as long it is directed to Muslims.

[monday]

"There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry," Saylor said, adding that Goode should apologize.

The constitution protects against the persecution of others for their skin color, religion or culture. The congressman wasn't persecuting Muslims, however. You cannot persecute anyone by speaking about them, even if what you say isn't true. Freedom of expression in the constitution also protects speech. Even provocative speech. In this case the congressman wasn't lying though. He was speaking the truth. Saylor can take his apology and go pound sand up his @ss.

[radar101]

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0807794.html Black Muslims Black Muslims, African-American religious movement in the United States, split since 1976 into the American Muslim Mission and the Nation of Islam. The original group was founded (1930) in Detroit by Wali Farad (or W. D. Fard), whom his followers believed to be “Allah in person.” When Farad disappeared mysteriously in 1934, Elijah Muhammad assumed leadership of the group, first in Detroit and then in Chicago.

Under his leadership, the black nationalist and separatist sect (then called the Nation of Islam) expanded, mainly among poor blacks and prison populations.

Although the group numbered only about 8,000 when Muhammad took over, it grew rapidly in the 1950s and 60s, particularly as a result of the preaching of one of its ministers, Malcolm X.

Tension between Muhammad and Malcolm developed, however, and Malcolm's subsequent suspension (1963) and assassination (1965), possibly by Muhammad's followers, caused great dissension in the movement.

When Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Wallace D. Muhammad (later Warith Deen Mohammed) took over, preaching a far less inflammatory version of Islam. He aligned the organization with the international Islamic community, moving toward Sunni Islamic practice, and opened the group (renamed the World Community of Islam in the West and later the American Society of Muslims) to individuals of all races.

In 1977 a group of Black Muslims, led by Louis Farrakhan, split off from the organization, disillusioned by the son's integrationist ideals and lack of allegiance to his father's brand of Islam. They named themselves the Nation of Islam and sought to follow in the footsteps of Elijah Muhammad. In the late 1990s the Nation of Islam began to embrace some traditional Islamic practices, and Farrakhan and Muhammad publicly declared an end to the rivalry between their groups in 2000. W. Deen Mohammed resigned as head of the American Society of Muslims in 2003.

SEE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416712/posts

[bannie]

This all reminds me of the Popeye movie in which Robin Williams played Popeye. No matter what happened, Olive Oyl's father whined, "You owe me an apology."

[Luigi Vasellini]

Goode is a great man!! You obviously have never met any muzzies or you are a muzzie in masquerade!!!

[TheeOhioInfidel]

http://www.house.gov/goode/contact.shtml


I just called Goode's office, and I was told he is not backing down, and that a public comment will be coming in the near future. This has to be a first that an anti-jihadist congressman has not backed down from a PIC comment.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

As usual, Robert Spencer nails it again.

http://jihadwatch.org/

"In my 2003 book Onward Muslim Soldiers, I observed that "September 11 was largely a problem of faulty immigration controls" and called, accordingly, for tighter immigration controls -- while noting the chief obstacle to such measures: "immigration controls on Muslim countries are supposedly racist, even though Muslims are not members of any single race or ethnic group." I also wrote that "the greatest amount of damage control...must be done with the Muslim immigrants who are already in the United States. Multiculturalism has relegated the idea of assimilation to the dustbin of history. But that is precisely what is needed. American Muslims need to become assimilated to the American ideals enumerated in the Constitution." (Pp. 297-298)

I've written about this problem, and what realistically can be done about it, beginning with measures that can reasonably be instituted given the current political situation, elsewhere as well. And in numerous addresses to audiences all over the United States I have called for a restoration of sanity in our immigration policies toward admission of Muslims -- starting at very least, but not ending, with the institution of mechanisms to screen for jihadist sentiments, with appropriate enforcement. I have met with several congressmen (not including Virgil Goode) about specific means by which this can begin to be done."

And this is important, as well,

"What neither Dennis Prager nor anyone else has addressed is the fact that the Qur'an is unsuitable for oath-taking in the United States because it allows Muslims to lie to unbelievers (3:28, 16:106). Whenever I have brought this up, people start talking about the Bible -- but the difference is that the Bible doesn't enjoin believers to lie to unbelievers, and problematic passages within it are not being acted upon around the world today in the way that problematic passages in the Qur'an are. I hope someday someone -- perhaps Virgil Goode -- will explain that in the public forum."

And on decit in Islam,

"Here is the relevant section on 3:28 from the Qur'anic commentary of Ibn Kathir":

..."unless you indeed fear a danger from them" meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, "We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.'' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, "The Tuqyah is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.''

[Aquinasfan]

"The congressman is not apologizing," Duncan said. "He stands by the letter."

Good!

Seconded. Anything else is cultural suicide.

[Ben Chad]

Sign outside the gates of a Plano, TX mosque reads: "Love for all, hatred for none."

Sign on Trojan Horse: "Gift from God."

[grammarman]

You owe us an apology


http://patrickhenrysongs.com/Apology/Apology-WindowsMedia-HiFi.html

[happygrl]

He's a convert to Islam, brought up as a Baptist, IIRC.

Someone claiming to be his mother phoned in on Michael Medved's radio show recently.

She claimed the family was devout Catholic, and that Ellison comes home for Christmas and celebrates it with his family, in addition to his Muslim holidays.

She sounded very sweet and intelligent.

I would be distraught if either of my children converted to Isalm.

I would feel that I had failed the most significant aspect of my parenthood, that of passing on the Great Gift of God, the conviction that Jesus is our Lord and Savior.

[VOA]

Remember that any place they have a mosque is, in their opinion, Muslim
territory and thus can be considered conquered territory,
even though there are (at that point) few or no Muslims in the area.

Back in the 1980s, a Muslim who was maybe the best thoraic surgeon
in Oklahoma City, led an effort to get a mosque built.

There was a concerted effort that stopped it, e.g., zoning, etc.

At that time I thought, "Man, how backwards we are in Oklahoma to
do that sort of thing to this good doctor and his co-congregant.".

The morning of 9-11-01, I realized what an ignorant fool I had been.
And everthing I've learned since has simply confirmed that I had
been an idiot.
When it came to trusting Islam.