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Bush Like Hitler, Says First Muslim In Congress (Ellison)
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-14-2007 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 07/13/2007 6:42:50 PM PDT by blam

Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 2:05am BST 14/07/2007

Keith Ellison, a convert to Islam, has cultivated a moderate image since being elected last November

America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.

Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.

"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because "you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you".

Vice-President Dick Cheney's stance of refusing to answer some questions from Congress was "the very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and dictatorship", he added.

Mr Ellison also raised eyebrows by telling his audience: "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists all you want."

A convert to Islam who was previously linked to the extremist Nation of Islam, Mr Ellison, 42, has cultivated a moderate image since being elected last November, concentrating on issues such as health and education.

He is an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq. But he angered his own anti-war supporters by voting for a budget bill that aims to end the war over the next 18 months. His followers want an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

After his speech was reported, Mr Ellison said he accepted that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. But his demagogic comments threaten to plunge him in controversy.

Mark Drake, of the Republican party in Minnesota, said: "To compare the democratically elected leader of the United States of America to Hitler is an absolute moral outrage which trivialises the horrors of Nazi Germany."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 110th; blackmuslims; bush; dhimmitude; ellison; enemywithin; givehimenoughrope; hilter; infiltration; keithellison; looneyleft; muslim; noi; reichstag
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

“MUSLIM = TROUBLE AND PROBLEMS. “

The learn to live with us, or we can live with out them.

It is like kindergarden. Play nice or you can not play here anymore. What is so hard to understand?


41 posted on 07/13/2007 7:28:58 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands..)
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To: blam

If Bush were really the next Hitler, this cretin would be a lampshade by now.


42 posted on 07/13/2007 7:30:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: blam

I have to give him credit for holding out this long. He is one of the few dems who hasn’t already used the Hitler line. Until now, that is.


43 posted on 07/13/2007 7:31:07 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I stay away from large cities as much as possible. Been to Chanhassen. Good folks there. Good fishing too. :O)


44 posted on 07/13/2007 7:31:18 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Pay a visit and I’ll take you fishing in Bemidji...


45 posted on 07/13/2007 7:34:54 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Great nations are never conquered. But they do commit suicide.


46 posted on 07/13/2007 7:35:49 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: blam
“Nation of Islam” is not islam. Ask any middle eastern muslim about “Nation of islam” and you will hear some not very nice things and a lot of snickering and laughing. I suspect this guy is “Nation of Islam”, which is a strictly american phenomenon.
47 posted on 07/13/2007 7:36:47 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: blam

Apparently:

Those that can do, do.

Those that can’t do, teach.

Those that can’t do ether, become a members of Congress


48 posted on 07/13/2007 7:38:08 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam

He compared him to Hitler? I didn’t know he liked George that much.


49 posted on 07/13/2007 7:39:01 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: blam

we have past our prime here in the U.S. the future is dim, and people will slowly become illiterate, we are so doomed,

it is all downhill from here.


50 posted on 07/13/2007 7:39:14 PM PDT by television is just wrong (If being against illegal immigration is racist, so be it.)
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To: hadaclueonce
If Christian were as “devout” as muslims,there would not be any muslims on earth.
51 posted on 07/13/2007 7:39:31 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands..)
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To: hadaclueonce
"It is like kindergarden. Play nice or you can not play here anymore. What is so hard to understand?"

It doesn't work that way thanks to the multi cultural wing nuts in this country. We are supposed to bend over backwards to accommodate them, respect their customs, religion. They know it, and use the PC card as often as they can. Slowly but surely, they are inserting Muhammad's insane ways into this country. When they have won enough concessions, then they demand Sharia courts for Muslim communities, after that, they riot when their numbers are high enough and demand sharia law throughout the sate. Then, one day they will take the whole state and make it an Islamic nation.

This is just the beginning, Minn is just one state of many northern states which are at various levels of infestation, with our wonderful, blind, or corrupt government bringing in more jihadi's 10,000 at a time.

Do you hear the call to prayer in your toen or city? If not, just wait a few years, it's coming.

52 posted on 07/13/2007 7:40:56 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: finnman69

Normally I would argue that no one, and I mean no one could be as nutty as McKinney … however, I think you are on to something.


53 posted on 07/13/2007 7:42:15 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam
Vice-President Dick Cheney's stance of refusing to answer some questions from Congress was "the very definition of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and dictatorship", he added.

Yeah, right.

54 posted on 07/13/2007 7:44:30 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: blam

ask the idiots in the minn-st.paul area...

Not really sure WTF is wrong with folks in this country.


55 posted on 07/13/2007 7:44:38 PM PDT by fhlh (Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
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To: ZULU

Muslim and moderate = oxymoron. When your goal is to rule the world, moderation is never part of the formula.


56 posted on 07/13/2007 7:46:46 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam

I hope Ellison continues to expand his use of our beloved First Amendment.

Because I really love how it helps us to “Spot The Looney”.


57 posted on 07/13/2007 7:47:47 PM PDT by VOA
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To: mamelukesabre

Brothers by a different mother. Aim is still the same.


58 posted on 07/13/2007 7:47:57 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: blam

“How did so many idiots get elected in the House and Senate?”

There is a simple one word answer: “Democrats.”


59 posted on 07/13/2007 7:50:16 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: blam

You already know the answer. (a bunch of idiots voted for him) LOL


60 posted on 07/13/2007 7:51:12 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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