Posted on 02/21/2008 12:19:13 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Representative Keith Ellison (a Muslim Democrat from Minnesota) has been assigned to a Congressional Task Force on Anti-Semitism. That would be like assigning me to head a task force for universal suffrage. That wouldn't be a wise appointment.
Now some groups are calling for Chairman Joe Kaufman (a Democrat from Florida) to remove Ellison ... and perhaps with good reason.
It's ironic that a man with direct contact with radical Muslim organizations would be placed on a task force on anti-Semitism. Ellison has ties to both the Muslim American Society and our favorite Council on American-Islamic Relations ... both of which have been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood by the US government. And CAIR has been linked to Hamas. Ellison spoke at CAIR's national convention in November of 2006 as an honorary guest. He was the keynote speaker at a Muslim American Society event, which at the very time he was speaking boasted statements on its website calling for the murder of Jews. On top of which, the Muslim American Society is believed to be the political front in the U.S. for the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological basis of al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist organizations. And for a time, Ellison was highly involved with the Nation of Islam. As a law student at the University of Minnesota, he helped to bring speakers to campus who spoke against Jews, Israel and white Americans.
Ellison says that he has publicly denounced the anti-Semitism in these groups ... but we find no evidence to support his claim. Perhaps he's lying. Muslims, you know, are free to lie as long as they're lying to us dirty infidels.
This is the closest you will find to an "enlightening" moment from Ellison, a letter he wrote to the Jewish Community Relations Council claiming that he was unaware of the Nation of Islam's anti-Semitism. But actions do speak louder than words. Nonetheless, Joe Kaufman says that Ellison will stay on the task force.
Actually I don’t understand the term as is used Semitic—Semitic is actually a language family of which Hebrew and Arabic is both part of. When one uses the term anti-Semitic, it is rather euphemistic, it should be anti-Judaic.
Hmmmmm.
I do understand the common usage, but disagree with it because it is inaccurate.
That's right. I have disagreed with it for years -- but I gave up making an issue of it, when I got to thinking about the fact tht if I did that for every inaccuracy, I would have no time for anything else --and would die at the age of about 150 with the task still not completed.
Get right down to it, the Democrats alone would keep me busy longer than that.
The term arose as it does due to its European encounters with the Semitic people of Judaism.
People try to feign confusion about the matter today — sometimes to rationalize anti semitism. The term anti semitism as a matter of common usage is directed toward the bias against Jewish people. The usage should not be confusing nor should it be used to rationalize Semitic indictments of Jews that are clearly bigoted.
Much like the word 'liberal'.
Why is government wasting tax dollars on this to begin with?
“Why is government wasting tax dollars on this to begin with?”
you think it’s your money? where’ve you been?
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