Posted on 06/09/2008 4:01:59 AM PDT by Doctor13
From the moment Minnesota Fifth District (Mineapolis) Rep. Keith Ellison first arrived on the scene from Detroit and started making a name for himself as a law student at the University of Minnesota, he was a mouthpiece for the Nation of Islam and its revolting ideology. Over the imprecations of his Jewish classmates, for example, Ellison helped bring raving anti-Semitic Nation of Islam speaker Kwame Toure to the the University of Minnesota Law School itself in February 1990.
As a public figure in private practice Ellison befriended the gang leader whose minions committed the most notorious cop killing in Minnesota history. Ellison's contributions included leading a mob chanting "we don't get no justice, you don't get no peace" outside the courthouse in support of one of the defendants subsequently convicted of the murder of the police officer. Ellison made himself a low-rent Louis Farrakhan (if that's possible), even going through a phase during which he appeared in public with the trademark Farrakhan bow tie in the mid-1990's. There was nothing original about his act.
When Ellison sought to remake himself as a potential national figure, he took to dissembling and prevaricating about his long-time Nation of Islam involvement. Fortunately for Ellison, the Minneapolis Star Tribune cooperated with his makeover by airbrushing his public record in Minnesota. That is the story I told here throughout the summer and fall of 2006 as Ellison ran for Congress, summarizing my research in the Weekly Standard article "Louis Farrakhan's first congressman" and in the companion post "Keith Ellison for dummies."
Ellison cast his Nation of Islam act aside after he failed to secure the Democratic nomination for a state legislative seat in 1998, though he was still plying some of the old-time religion in the course of defending cop killer wannabe Kathleen Soliah/Sara Jane Olson at a National Lawyers Guild fundraiser for Soliah in 2000. By that time Ellison was working Marxist shtick on his path to power in the local Democratic Party.
Elected to Congress in 2006, Ellison now embodies the Democratic Party's alliance with radical Islam. How Ellison reconciles his Islamic faith with the party's devout belief in homosexual rights, leftist feminism, abortion, and every other element of the party's most radical agenda is a subject that the Minnesota media have somehow left unexplored. But it should come as no surprise to find Ellison peddling his shtick as a media critic this weekend at the far-left National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis (video no longer available).
As Charles Johnson notes, Ellison talks about how Ronald Reagan made him sick, but not as sick as George W. Bush makes him (applause), he calls America an “imperial power,” and then he suggests that the country should get rid of “hate radio” and Fox News. Note the tepid audience response to Ellison's inquiry at 8:00 regarding the employment status of the assembled multitude.
And yet a majority of Jews in his district voted for him...over a fellow JEW!
Makes it more difficult to sympathize with people who do that.
Signs throughout Saudi Arabia read, "An Islamic World." As one Saudi once said, "The reason Allah gave Saudi Arabia the oil was to go out and spread Islam," which they are doing very nicely, thank you.
If I am not mistaken, hasn’t another Muslim been elected to Congress since Ellison?
Powerline has a great series of articles on Ellison.
“Who Is Keith Ellison?
The LGF link to the you tube video is no longer with us. Does anyone have a copy of the video at the Charles Johnson link?
Yup. Keef X has been followed up by Andre X in Injunapolis...
Know your enemy.
“And yet a majority of Jews in his district voted for him...over a fellow JEW!”
The Jews who voted for him are uninformed jerks, who will vote for anyone with a (D) after their name.
The problem is not Islamic fascism, Islamic radicals or the Islamic fanatics/terrorist. The problem is Islam the Religion. The fascism, radicals and terrorist are practicing Islam as it is taught by their sacred literature, there most respected “theologians†and the founder, Mohammad himself. Therefore as long as our government and fellow citizens continue to insist on drawing some distinction between the “moderates†who give overt support through their financial contributions and dissemination of misleading information and tacit approval by their appalling silence as their counterparts perpetrate horrors reminiscent of the Assyrian empire jihad will continue as it is today and we will go on dealing with the symptom and not the problem. Every American has a duty to learn all that they can about Islam so this suicidal naivete that engulfs our elected officials and many of our fellow citizens about the real Islam can be dispelled and it can be seen for what it truly is, the enemy of mankind every where.
It must be the water in the 5th District.
Yes his name is Carson from Indiana he replaced his Mother.
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