Posted on 08/20/2007 12:58:08 PM PDT by SJackson
Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress, has just returned from his second trip to Israel – where he said he doesn’t understand Muslim "crazies” who see the Koran as a license to murder.
"The murderers and the extremists are into something I don't know about," the first-term Minnesota Democrat told the Jerusalem Post.
"I don't know how they read what they read and come out with what they do. They wouldn't consider me a Muslim because I'm American, because I believe in the unity of people and that we are all on the planet to work together.
"The people who did 9/11 are hostile to everyone, and in fact if you are not the type of Muslim they want you to be, they would be happy to kill you too. I am not a Muslim in their eyes because I am for tolerance and inclusion, and they don't want an Islam that is inclusive."
Ellison is also not "crazy” when it comes to local politics – his district has a large Jewish population and the Jewish newspaper in Minneapolis endorsed his candidacy, so trips to Israel sit well with the electorate.
"The people in my district don't know me as a Muslim congressman, they know me as Keith,” the former state legislator told the Post.
"I don't see myself as a religious leader or a religious scholar. I don't represent a religion. I don't represent the Muslims. I represent the Muslims and Jews and Hindus and Christians and those who don't follow anything in my district. "When you get to the bottom line, the main reason I'm here [in Israel] is to be able to talk to the people of the 5th Congressional District about something a lot of people care about - what happens here in Israel" and in the Palestinian Authority.
Ellison was part of an 18-member Congressional delegation, brought to Israel by the American Israel Education Foundation, that met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad
That’s the trick with democrats.
“I don’t see myself as a religious leader or a religious scholar. I don’t represent a religion. I don’t represent the Muslims.
But I do insist on taking my oath of office on the Koran.
Is a Nation of Islam kind of Muslim? If so, then he’s a black nationalist and not really a Muslim at all.
“I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no crazy arabs.”
I agree, and I agree.
It’s in the Koran. Lie to the infidels is a must for any good muslim.
I don’t either. He once belonged to Louis Farrakhan’s racist group.
Gee. The rest of us know about it. Where has he been?
He did say all the right things, but politicians are very good at lying.
There is NO third possibility.
Ya, sure.
Can he call them ‘crazy’ because he’s muslim?
But their Holy Quran teaches that it is not a sin to lie to an infidel.........
So is Ellison telling the truth or doesn’t he care?
If you have to deny it, it's probably true.
I don’t trust him either, there is something about him that is just wrong.
If he’s muslim, he IS crazy. It has to be a condition to make anyone want to claim adherence to that madman.
“The murderers and the extremists are into something I don’t know about,” the first-term Minnesota Democrat told the Jerusalem Post. “It’s something called “Islam”. I guess I’ve just been a silly poser putting on silly Louis Farrakhan hats, clothing, and attitudes to spite The Man. I guess the chip-on-shoulder, inner-city-boy “Nation of Islam” that I joined has no real connection to Islam.”
Perhaps we should go Baysian here: the probably of him lying, given that he is a Muslim is a really high number. The probability of him lying given that he is a dhimmicrat is an even higher number. Homework: Calculate the probability of a non lying Muslem dhimmicrat. (Hint: it’s a number really, really, close to one.
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