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Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress
The Telegraph ^ | July 15, 2007 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 07/15/2007 9:58:56 AM PDT by Xing Daorong

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: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 110th; appallingdems; keithellison; looneyleft
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To: Xing Daorong

There should me minimum standards of intelligence required before being granted a seat in congress.


41 posted on 07/15/2007 11:25:25 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Xing Daorong
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress

Liberal Peter Mehlman of the Huffington Post would disagree. Bush is not like Hitler because Hitler meant well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856077/posts

42 posted on 07/15/2007 11:28:38 AM PDT by lowbridge (If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
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To: Brilliant

And this jackass is my representative.


43 posted on 07/15/2007 11:35:09 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Trinidad&Tobago: Proof that a Muslim minority (5%pop) causes a majority of a country's problems.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
WASHINGTON (AP) - Keith Ellison made history Thursday, becoming the first Muslim member of Congress and punctuating the occasion by taking a ceremonial oath with a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

This is from a foreign newspaper--do American papers allow someone to refer to the Nation of Islam as "extremist"?

I don't read most of the Dinosaur Media's BS. I'm trying to help them become dinosaur's.


Test...

Do you recognize who this is in the picture?


44 posted on 07/15/2007 11:38:00 AM PDT by Issaquahking
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To: Xing Daorong

Way to go, Minnesota...;(


45 posted on 07/15/2007 11:39:00 AM PDT by Libertina (FRee Republic - The most prestigious address on the WWW!)
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To: eleni121

And remember:

The Nazis were SOCIALISTS...like core democratic party values are.


46 posted on 07/15/2007 12:01:24 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Xing Daorong
Also here, but a repost of this scum's rantings is warranted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865310/posts

47 posted on 07/15/2007 12:07:43 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Xing Daorong

If Bush is really like Hitler, where on the White House web page can you order a Keith Ellison lamp shade?


48 posted on 07/15/2007 12:17:08 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Xing Daorong
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress

Now and then I'm sorry he isn't. If he were a-holes like this guy would be swinging on nooses.

49 posted on 07/15/2007 12:22:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (My heart is like a china shop. No bull s#%t allowed.)
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To: Dogbert41; Xing Daorong; JLS

**Well with a Muslim, comparisons to Hitler might be a compliment?**
**Because he’s just saying Bush is like Hitler.**

Check out this web site.

http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html


50 posted on 07/15/2007 12:37:13 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Polybius
***If Bush is really like Hitler, where on the White House web page can you order a Keith Ellison lamp shade?***

Does it have tattoos?

51 posted on 07/15/2007 12:38:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Xing Daorong
pffft.... you can be appalled all you want - just as long as you are not bigoted or hateful.

Remember "Islam is a religion of peace" and "Diversity is our Strength"

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

52 posted on 07/15/2007 12:40:26 PM PDT by expatguy (Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: steelyourfaith

Ah, look at the qualifications for a learership position, intelligence is not one of them just being able to live off the fat of the tax payers for the longest time.


53 posted on 07/15/2007 1:45:14 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: claudiustg
Because he’s just saying Bush is like Hitler.

The poster's point seems to have gone over your head.

54 posted on 07/15/2007 1:57:02 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Perhaps my comment went over your head.

The original poster said that if the Congress jerk thought Bush was like Hitler, that he (the Congress jerk) should be Bush’s biggest fan.

I indicated that the Congressjerk didn’t really believe what he was saying, but that he was only saying it to appease some empty headed atheists, that he probably perceives as slow-witted children. And yes, I am well aware of Hitler’s popularity among many Islamic headjobs.


55 posted on 07/15/2007 3:47:49 PM PDT by claudiustg (You know it. I know it.)
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To: claudiustg

Whoops — I skipped over the word “just” in your comment and missed your meaning.

Apologies for doubting you.


56 posted on 07/15/2007 5:01:25 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

I tend to be little short somtimes.


57 posted on 07/15/2007 5:05:15 PM PDT by claudiustg (You know it. I know it.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

What the hell happened to the voters of Minnesota?

Are they insane?

Yes, however are Chuckie and Hildabeast anything to spout off about? I am afraid the same idiots that voted in New York are some how related to those insane voters in Minnesota. People better wake up....SOON!


58 posted on 07/15/2007 5:16:42 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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To: SergeiRachmaninov
I think everyone on all sides is aware how the anger has built up around politics and culture. I really don't know why this has happened although I certainly feel the anger.

at these obscene assaults against our country and our culture,

I believe you have just answered your own question. These people are selling their country down the river. But it is not just real estate no. A country is really its people. So your outrage addresses the way the left will sell their friends and neighbors down the river to a hell we can only vaguely imagine. The evil and injustice of it, the duplicity of the people who should guard the gates, their contempt for that thin sheet of parchment that protects us from tyrants, and their siding with the vilest of murderous regimes just because they have the same philosophy. That of destroying the United States (you and I and others like us)and replacing it with their socialist / communist utopia. Yes you have reason to be angry.

I often feel the anger you describe when the libs, the media, the muzzies attack our nation with impunity. Some advice if I may, I am a Christian. When I really get irritated I remember the admonition of Jesus...Love thy enemies. I'm not quite to love yet. Maybe never! However, it is calming.

59 posted on 07/15/2007 5:32:26 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Nuc1

Wise advise, I am sure. Thnak you, Nuc1.


60 posted on 07/15/2007 6:20:51 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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