Don't Cry for Mohammad Hamdani Rep Keith Ellison

American Thinker ^ | March 12, 2011 | Ethel C. Fenig

[jazusamo]

Realizing the election of the nation's first black president and his election as a black representative to Congress from Minnesota makes playing the perpetual black victim card difficult, Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) has chosen to play the Muslim victim card.

Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, and who is black, was in full Muslim victim mode speaking -- or trying to speak--before Rep Peter King's (R-NY) Thursday hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims. Choking back tears, covering his face, Ellison quaveringly spoke about a Pakistani Muslim, Mohammed Hamdani, who dashed to the World Trade Center that horrible September 11 to rescue people but was killed when the building crashed down. For Hamdani's efforts Ellison sobbed

After the tragedy some people tried to smear his character solely because of his Islamic faith. Some people spread false rumors and speculated that he was in league with the attackers only because he was Muslim. It was only when his remains were identified that these lies were fully exposed.

How terrible! How bigoted! How politically incorrect!

And also, how absolutely wrong!

Ellison shed crocodile tears for a brilliant television sound bite effect--not truth. Matthew Shaffer of National Review reports on the real aftermath of Hamdani's death on September 11, 2001.

[S]ix weeks after the September 11 attacks - before Hamdani's remains were identified, which Ellison implies to be the turning point of public perception - Congress signed the PATRIOT Act into law with this line included: "Many Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have acted heroically during the attacks on the United States, including Mohammed Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old New Yorker of Pakistani descent, who is believed to have gone to the World Trade Center to offer rescue assistance and is now missing." That is, Hamdani was actually singled out for particular high honors among the thousands of victims of the September 11 attacks.

There's little evidence of the "rumors" of which Ellison speaks, either. Poke around yourself on Google.

(snip)

You'll discover two discordant sets of returns: none for sites and news reports accusing Hamdani of being a terrorist, and many thousands of pages honoring him as a hero while claiming that he was "widely accused" of being a terrorist.

(snip)

[H]e was eulogized by the New York Times, had scholarship funds named after him, was honored by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (both of whom went barefoot to honor Muslim practice) at his funeral, and has been celebrated over and over again by the media.

Ah, but Bloomberg and Kelly, who removed their shoes, didn't convert to Islam.

Bigots! Boo! Hoo!

[jazusamo]

Ellison is a fraud.

[screaminsunshine]

A blubbering Muzzie.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

At least, he’s the only fraud politician./s

[Mr. Mojo]

Ellison used the koran when taking his oath of office, so his lying isn’t at all a surprise. That cult book gives permission for Mohammedans to lie to us infidels.

[jazusamo]

Good point, he’s just being true to his cult.

[spodefly]

Taqiyya.

[Jeremiah Wrong]

TAQIYYA ALERT

[troy McClure]

Americans For A Muslim Free America

Learned All We Need To Know About Islam On 9-11.

[jazusamo]

I sure hope no one fell for his tripe.

As I recall Ellison never said one word about the murdering Major Hasan being a muslim.

[cruise_missile]

Is Taqiyya Islamic for Teleprompter?

[machogirl]

Remember this? His trip to mecca paid for by group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/unethical-congressman-keith-ellisons-pilgrimage-to-mecca-paid-for-by-islamic-nonprofit-claims-didnt-.html

[jazusamo]

Yep, no surprise that Pelosi and the Ethics Committee said no harm, no foul.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Tammy Faye Ellison. Heartbreaking!!!

[screaminsunshine]

Poor Muzzie Communists. Awww.

[opentalk]

The Tears of a Clown

[opentalk]

MSM using the footage, to push Political correctness.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Poke around yourself on Google. (snip) You'll discover two discordant sets of returns: none for sites and news reports accusing Hamdani of being a terrorist, and many thousands of pages honoring him as a hero while claiming that he was "widely accused" of being a terrorist.

My favorite tidbit in the book, Treason is in the last paragraph of an early chapter, where Ann Coulter quotes a 1954 description of "McCarthyism" to the effect that

From all across the country come loud cries saying,

"I am cowed. I am afraid to speak out."

And from all over the nation come even louder responses saying,

"Look, he is cowed. He is afraid to speak out."

Same phenomenon here - only now it's possible to challenge those voices to use Google to prove their (false) case.

[jazusamo]

Good point...It seems the first Muslim in Congress uses the same tactics as lib leftists as well as Obama. Put on a good show, say whatever you think will further your cause and don’t concern yourself with veracity.

Google and the Internet will prove them wrong, I’m sure that’s why the concern on their part and the push to control cyberspace.