Every “moderate” Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a “moderate” Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith.
Ali Sini
Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.
But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.
“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.
“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”
Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.
But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.
“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”
It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”
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it must be too tough....too demanding an intellectual and physical and emotional effort....
Ellison baby...you didn't leave because you didn't agree with Catholic teachings...you left because you couldn't live up to the expectations....
its so much easier to belong to an entity that claims ownership over women and encourages violence....
AMERICANS FOR A MUSLIM FREE AMERICA.
WE LEARNED ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAM ON 9/11
If you are a “black”, and also a “Muslim”..are your therefore automatically a BLACK MUSLIM? Does he wear bowties?
Not to mention that Christianity does not proclaim the death penalty for people who leave it, whereas Islam does... What if he decides to drop out of Islam and try yet another religion in his obviously nomadic religious life?
Excuse me, Rep. Ellison: according to revered Islamic sources, Mohammed personally took part in beheading defenseless prisoners. Why do you venerate this man?
Every “moderate” Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a “moderate” Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith.
Ali Sini
People have free will, they can choose to defy God, and his will, as Ellison has, and they will reap their eternal reward.
I am a convert to Catholicism, I don’t hold the church responsible for Ellison choosing to leave the church and become a Muslim. That was his decision.
Evangelism requires that a person’s heart be open towards God. Not everyone is open to him.
He became a Muslim because he felt Catholicism was too Dogmatic????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s like saying I turned out all the lights in my house because I felt it was too dark.
I do not consider it a failure of the Church, but a failure of the individuals. The comfort I speak of is not that souls are lost, but that the Church remains the beacon of truth and light and facilitates a path to Salvation for those who seek it. I am comforted in knowing that the Church does not and will not compromise its message for the sake of headcount.
. . . and Islam is what?
No kidding...
Hoss
I do not.
First off, the Church did not kick any of these folks out. They chose, for whatever reasons, to remove themselves.
That's their fault.
But in many cases, they did so because the Church did a hideously poor job of teaching them the Faith.
That's "our" fault.
Approximately 85% of Mosques preach against Americans & violence is acceptable. They all should be closed down immediately.
He became a Muslim because he felt Catholicism was too Dogmatic????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s like saying I turned out all the lights in my house because I felt it was too dark.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
Seems to me . . . if we merely
‘returned the favor’
1. we’d close them all down;
2. pour pig fat throughout them an burn them to the ground;
3. pour salt and Round-up all over the Muslim land.
4. post a permanent marker in heavy stone about why such was done.
But then, we don’t want to be like them.
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