Posted on 11/13/2016 4:07:26 PM PST by ColdOne
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday thew his support behind Rep. Keith Ellison to be the next Democratic National Committee chairman.
"My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done," Reid said in a statement. "Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith."
Reid's show of support comes after incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Friday endorsement.
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They will run Ellison for president, and what do you want to bet that for additional status points, he will claim something else, for extra reasons to call opposing voters sexist or bigoted.
So will the DNC be sharia compliant?
Best to ask their DNC advisory board, known as CAIR.
Ellison represents a co-opting of the DNC by the USCMO via an abdication of Democrat Party leaders sponsoring him to Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the USA. Schumer, Clinton, Reid et al are abdicating the Democrat Party to the Muslim Brotherhood which also has political aims within the Republican Party also:
Executive leadership from some of the most prominent American Muslim organizations announced the formation of the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The eight founding Muslim organizations participating at the press conference were immediately joined by two additional U.S. Muslim organizations. Key Muslim leadership representatives spoke about the vision and mission of the USCMO and appeared in the following order:
Ousama Jammal, Secretary General USCMO and past President of The Mosque Foundation
Naeem Baig, President, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
Nihad Awad, National Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Mazen Mokhtar, Executive Director, Muslim American Society (MAS)
Imam W. Deen Mohammed II, President, The Mosque Cares (grandson of the NOI founder)
Khalil Meek, Executive Director, Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA)
Imam (Name), American Muslim Alliance (AMA)
Osama Abuirshaid, National Board Member, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Deputy Emir, Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA)
Mahdabuddin Ahmad, Director of Community Affairs, Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA)
The USCMO is described as an umbrella organization – and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad inferred that and more, with his assertion regarding the USCMO that “This is the dream of every American Muslim, to unify the approach, agenda and vision of the Muslim community. In the past, many people have tried to unite on a limited agenda, but this is a broad agenda for the American Muslim community.” Awad stressed the need for a “platform to coordinate, to communicate, and unify the vision on critical issues both to the Muslim community and the society at large,” because he believes that “Muslim voters can be swing voters in key elections, especially 2016.” The formation of the USCMO marks the first U.S. Muslim Brotherhood political party, and indeed the first religious identity political party in the history of this country.
USCMO founding members CAIR and ICNA were previously identified as front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood during the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial in 2007. Sheikh Kifah Mustapha, who has worked with Ousama Jammal (current Mosque Foundation board member) at The Mosque Foundation, was listed by name as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. According to documents entered into evidence at the HLF trial, he was a “registered agent for HLF in Illinois” who acknowledged fundraising for the HLF from the mid-1990s until 2001. Mustapha has also raised money for MAS and ICNA initiatives during their annual conferences in Chicago.
It is important to note the geo-political influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Illinois, as this relates to the oversight of USCMO’s founding member organizations.
USCMO member organizations with headquarters in Illinois include the following:
The Mosque Foundation (7360 W. 93rd Street, Bridgeview IL 60455)
American Muslims for Palestine (10101 South Roberts Road, Palos Hills, IL 60465)
The Mosque Cares (929 West 171st Street, Hazel Crest, IL 60429)
USCMO member organizations with regional offices in Illinois include the following:
Islamic Circle of North America (6224 N. California Avenue, Chicago, IL 60659)
Council on American Islamic Relations Chicago (17 N. State Street, Suite 1500, Chicago, Illinois 60602
Muslim American Society (9210 South Oketo Avenue, Bridgeview, IL 60455)
Muslim Legal Fund of America (15255 S. 94th Ave, 5th Floor, Orland Park, IL 60462)
During the press conference, Nihad Awad indicated his organization CAIR was “proud to join this historic organization, because today is a historic one. We have been meeting for at least one and a half years.” However, the information absent from this discussion by Awad and his colleagues was that the development of the USCMO not only predates the eighteen month time frame, but finds its origins in the Chicago metropolitan area, where the Muslim Brotherhood has successfully built a strategic organizational network for almost six decades.
On 20 January 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gifted the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood a key opportunity when she signed the Exercise of Discretionary Authority under Section 212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna, now could finally enter the United States for the first time since the Department of Homeland Security revoked his visa in July 2004 during the administration of President George W. Bush.
Less than four months later, on 5 May 2010, Project Mobilize (also known as Project M), which included board members with ties to multiple Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, was founded by M. Yasser Tabara in Summit, Illinois. USCMO Secretary General Ousama Jammal was a founding Board Member of Project Mobilize. M. Yasser Tabara, Project Mobilize President, was former executive director for CAIR Chicago. Project Mobilize board member Safaa Zarzour, Esq. is former Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America. Two Project Mobilize board members, Dr. Mohammed Zaher Sahloul and Safaa Zarzour, Esq. were appointed to the American Muslim Advisory Council on 30 August 2011 by Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn.
In April 2010, Tariq Ramadan returned to the US where he was keynote speaker for both the Council on Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) fundraising dinner and the 6th Annual CAIR-Chicago Banquet. In July 2010 and July 1011, Ramadan was a keynote speaker for both the 47th annual ISNA and the 48th annual ISNA conventions in Chicago. In December 2012 and December 2013, Ramadan was a keynote speaker for the 11th annual MAS-ICNA and 12th annual MAS-ICNA conventions in Chicago, where he has communicated the need for Muslim American integration and participation in the political process and society.
At the Project Mobilize website, its stated mission included the following:
To Develop the political capital existing within the Muslim American community;
To Organize the Muslim American community around issues determined relevant; and
To Advocate on behalf of the Muslim American community to elected officials and persons with political clout so that they act upon the concerns and desires of their Muslim American constituents.
In the Company Overview from their Facebook page, Project Mobilize described itself as “Based in the Chicagoland area, Project Mobilize or Project M is a non-profit political action and civic engagement organization dedicated to the education, development, and political advancement of the Muslim American community locally, statewide, and across the country.”
In April 2011, Project Mobilize successfully fielded its first candidatesfor political office: Asif Yusuf was elected as Oakbrook Village trustee; Ahmed Aduib was elected to the Bridgeview library board; Nuha Hasan was elected as a Village of Justice park district commissioner. Four years earlier in 2007, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs sponsored a study about political and civic participation, which included the Muslim American community. Project Mobilize stated that “among the top three recommendations of this diverse task force was to increase the civic participation of the Muslim American population beyond its current scope. This principle mirrors the fundamental objective of Project M and its three-pronged mission.”
In the Project Mobilize website section “Why Us? Why Now?” it is clear that Project Mobilize was the genesis for the formation of the USCMO: “There is political talent in the Muslim American community that needs only direction and resources in order to gain substantive footing.” Project Mobilize leadership intended for itself to be a catalyst for political action: “The long and extensive history of mobilization by several local Muslim-membered organizations has adequately laid the foundation for more strategic and consistent organizing efforts in the future.”
In President Barack Obama’s first term, the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States began to experience a political climate more conducive to their advancement of “Phases of the World Underground Movement Plan” in accordance with the framework articulated by influential Muslim Brotherhood theologian Sayyid Qutb in his book Milestones. Project Mobilize affirmed this reality on their website: “And finally, the political climate is ripe for an organization that will pave the way for concentrated advocacy efforts in the name of the Muslim American community.” The Project Mobilize leadership tactically positioned itself looking long term with the eventual formation of the USCMO coming to fruition in March 2014.
As the 2016 presidential election cycle heats up, the USCMO initiative to fortify Muslim citizenship rights “by conducting a census of American Muslims to create a database that will be used to enhance civic and political participation in upcoming elections,” shows all the outward signs that the Muslim Brotherhood actively is working to create the equivalent of the Republican Party’s GOP Data Center, formerly known as Voter Vault.
Also, Obama popularity with Muslims....EOM
I saw Ellison on the Sunday morning shows and thought, “Supermajority, 2018.”
Did Dingy get another concussion?
Is Reid trying to help the Republicans and Trump? Making Ellison the DNC Chair would pull the party even further Left. By 2018 (midterm elections), the Democratic Party will look even more like it belongs in 1917 Russia.
Hakeem Ellison is a two bit grifter, who has learned from the best...Al and Jesse. He’ll trip over his own misdeeds soon enough. I say to the DNC...”put him in charge!”
... and I, for the first time, back Harry Reid in this endeavor. Just what the Democrats need now, a “leader” who was sworn in on 1 bible and 2 korans ... believing in Sharia law. This is a wonderful choice. And the next time there is a terrorist attack? The wooden stake will be finally driven into the Democrat party’s heart. Thank you Harry.
Keeps them extreme...good!
Finish the party by turning it over to Islam , ya good idea
Harry Reid is a vindictive POS. When things don’t go his way, his knee-jerk response is to burn it down. At this point in his life, I don’t think he cares whether or not Ellison would harm the DNC. He’s looking at 8 years of Trump without him being in a position to make life miserable for either the President or the GOP. Ellison could be a real nasty piece of business, however. Good ol’ Dingy Harry won’t live to see another Dem in the White House. Supporting Ellison with his minority Muslim agenda to pursue during the Trump years is akin to setting a flaming bag of manure at the door of the White House, ringing the doorbell and running away - every night for 8 long years. Childish payback, but that’s Reid’s style.
I'd like to ask that question to a boatload of people in the government who should following and enforcing OUR laws.
FMCDH(BITS)
Couldn't get past that part without a smile.
“I see these idiots want to double down on what got them defeated.”
Let them have this moron call the Democrat’s shots for the next couple of years. Their party leadership needs a tactician. This guy is the opposite of a tactician. He’ll make Terry McAullife look like General Patton! They need another Howard Dean right now (joke about his scream all you want ... the man was brilliant running the DNC ... Obama should worship the ground he walks on).
The 1960s all but ended last Tuesday ... the Dems will be signaling that they’re still living there if this guy runs the DNC. They’re going to try mighty hard to play the trite victim/racism cards for the next two years. I don’t think they comprehend how sick and tired people are of that frigging divisive garbage.
All Trump has to do is deliver on a few promises between now and the midterms so that his base and the “new” red states are happy. That is by no means and easy feat, but it is certainly one that is possible given the overall disdain for a lot of Obama-era big gubbamint programs that are failing (like Obamacare).
Should he deliver, Dem idiocy and massive support for President Trump will result in a filibuster-proof Senate in 2018. That’ll put an end to any new 60s liberalism for a generation or two IF AND ONLY IF Trump delivers on his promises and doesn’t make excuses. The Dems will also more than likely implode should the Republican party secure 60 senate seats.
The Democrats in their shortsightedness have set Trump’s bar so low that anytime he has a success it’ll make them look ridiculous. When he wins major political fights, the left will look beyond braindead even to their sycophants in the press.
I saw Ellison on the Sunday morning shows and thought, “Supermajority, 2018.”
Yep. Me too. But what I thought was Walter Mondale. Dems are gift wrapping 8 years to Trump. What a Christmas present! LOL.
Excellent !
and here it is.
CAIR, Saudi Arabia backing?
Let’s face, Harry, time for you to return, permanently, to Searchlight, NV, and maybe restart your mom’s laundry business.
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