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Rep. Keith Ellison blasts hearings on homegrown radicalization

Here's a good example how some of the far-left media, in this case MSNBC's Ed Schultz, work with Islamists.  The interviewer spurred on the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representative, Keith Ellison, as he blasted Rep. Pete King's plans to hold hearings to help find the root cause of homegrown Islamic terrorism, which, by the way, threatens us relentlessly on an on-going basis. 

Think about it.  Why would any Islamic leader NOT want to find the cause???  

Congressman Keith Ellison shills for CAIR

Below is a video clip of Congressman Keith Ellison (i.e., Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad), the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, blasting concerns of conservative lawmakers about an internal CAIR document outlining their goals to influence Congress.

Funny, Ellison never mentioned CAIR's document.  It's no wonder he is standing with CAIR since he also called for Muslim lobbyists in the nation’s capital (scroll down) at a dinner held by CAIR California in 2008.

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Also see: CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more

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Congressman Keith Ellison's trip to Mecca paid by Muslim American Society

The first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, Keith Ellison, aka Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad, attended the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia earlier this month.  His wife, a Catholic, stayed home. Non-Muslims are not allowed in Mecca.

A Minnesota Star reporter, Mitch Anderson, wrote on December 18th the trip was paid for by the Muslim American Society, which he simple mentions (see page 2, 3rd paragraph from bottom: Minnesota Star).  Some experts believe MAS is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Powerline pointed out that three days earlier this same reporter wrote that Ellison's aide, Rick Jauert, said Ellison paid for the trip himself (last sentence).

Apparently, Ellison told the reporter MAS paid for his trip while his aide either covered for him or simple assumed Ellison paid for it himself.  Who knows.

In June, Ellison told the left-leaning National Conference for Media Reform that former President Ronald Reagan made him sick but not as much as Bush does now. He also made a few choice comments about American imperialism.

Screen shot of a video of Ellison giving the keynote address to the National Conference on Media Reform

In July, Ellison was also video-taped comparing President Bush to Hitler!  

And let's not forget, Ellison is currently featured in an article about Muslim activism in America on terror-supporter and Muslim Brotherhood supreme spiritual leader Yusef Qaradawi's Islamonline where I found the photo of him that I used above. 

Ellison was reelected to his second term in November.

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A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America  Chicago Tribune (see page 5)

"...In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.

Some wanted the Brotherhood to remain underground, while others thought a more public face would make the group more influential. Members from across the country drove to regional meeting sites to discuss the issue..."

Investigative Project Dossier of the Muslim American Society  (42 pages)

2007 article about the Muslim Brotherhood in the Dallas Morning News:

"...Mahdi Bray, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, which promotes Muslim civil rights, called the Holy Land documents "a throwback." ...He said members of MAS decided in 1993, when the organization was founded, that they would pursue political and nonviolent tactics.

"I wouldn't be candid if I didn't say there weren't some old-timers who want to hold onto the old way, who say that this is the way the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) did it, this should be our model," he said. "We said 'So what? It doesn't work here.' We've been very adamant about that."

Tampa mayor, Pam Iorio, proclaimed Nov. 15th "CAIR Day"

“By virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Tampa, I do hereby proclaim November 15, 2008, as ‘Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Day’ in the city of Tampa, Florida.”  -- Mayor Pam Iorio.

What is going on, when CAIR, an organization which is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America, gets a day named in their honor in Tampa Florida? 

The first Muslim elected to Congress, Keith Ellison attended the event (aka: Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison (page 4)  and Keith Ellison Muhammad also see page 5 & 6 of the Keith X link).  Ellison was part of the Nation of Islam but denied this in spite of evidence to the contrary (Keith X link).

In June, Ellison told the left-leaning National Conference for Media Reform that former President Ronald Reagan made him sick but not as much as Bush does now. He also made a few choice comments about American imperialism.

Screen shot of a video of Ellison giving the keynote address to the National Conference on Media Reform

In July, Ellison was also video-taped comparing President Bush to Hitler!  The first Muslim elected to the United States House of Representatives is definitely not without controversy.

And in the photo below, Ellison is leading a march holding several of the Nation of Islam

The Final Call newspaper in 1998:

 

   

Minnesota Daily photograph by Jayme Halbritter from January 19, 1998.

Oh, and check out Ellison's write up on Islamonline, a website located in Qatar and chaired by the Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader and designated terrorist, Yusef Qaradawi.  Qaradawi has issued fatwas approving of the killing of Israelis, including women and children.  He is banned from entering the United States.

Here's a photo of CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, speaking next to the Hezbollah flag in 2002.

 

Way to go Tampa.

Update 6/11/2009:  Iorio says she won't issue any more CAIR Day proclamations

Thank you Mayor Iorio!

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H/T Islam Review

Muslim dinner in Oklahoma featured Rep. Keith Ellison

The Edmond Sun published an opinion piece yesterday about a Muslim appreciation dinner where U.S Rep. Keith Ellison and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was a featured speaker.  The author, William F. O'Brien, an Oklahoma city attorney, also wrote about CAIR this past May.  I'm just a little curious here/  Is he the same William F. O'Brien who works for the Oklahoma Attorney General's office as an Assistant Attorney General and General Counsel, whom I confirmed still works there? 

The Texas Muslim Democratic Caucus - a first

FYI:

The last seven years have been strange ones for American Muslims in politics. That much was evident at this morning's first ever Muslim Democratic Caucus meeting. Aftab Siddiqui, a member of the Texas Democratic Muslim Caucus, walked me through the recent history.

...So now many Democratic Muslims are trying to organize within the Democratic Party: hence the morning breakfast, which was kicked off by a Koranic invocation (in Arabic, then English), followed by the presentation of the colors by a boy scout group and a quite beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Keith Ellison, who was elected to represent Minnesota's Fifth Dongressional District in 2006, and became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, was the headliner. "America, our great country, needs the Muslim community," he said. "The fact is we have achieved an amazing success simply convening this meeting."

The theme for the day was involvement: get involved in local politics, vote, run for office. "Where are our Muslim congresswoman hijab and without hijab," said Indiana Congressman Andre Carson --Syed Hassan, the incoming president of the Texas Muslim Democratic Caucus (the first of its kind in the nation) pointed out to me that from the beginning of the American republic, marginalized groups: the Irish, Jews, African Americans, have organized themselves and sought to achieve a measure of political power as means of mitigating the challenges they faced. "It's part of being American."

The Nation

Aftab A. Siddiqui:  A JIHAD AGAINST HUNGER IN TEXAS

Keith Ellison speaks to Michigan Muslims for Obama - volunteers visit mosques

"If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief - I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper - that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. 'E pluribus unum.' Out of many, one."”— Barack Obama Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention July 27, 2004

This was at the top of Barack Obama's Arab American page on his campaign website.  On this page, Muslims are openly discussing how hard they are working to elected Obama.  Obama volunteers man an arab-speaking phone bank while others visit mosques seeking their vote for Obama.

Congressman Keith Ellison: Ronald Reagan made me sick as a president

The first Muslim ever elected to Congress, Keith Ellison,  [aka Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad] ranted on yesterday at a far-left National Conference for Media Reform held in Minneapolis. Ellison said Reagan made him sick as a President but not as much as the gentleman in the White House right now (starts 5.40 mark). 

Ellison then rants on about American imperial power, includingthe high concentration of weath (he is correct, there)

Click here for the video.

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Backgrounder of Keith Ellison

 

Litigate, legislate, educate our case in a righteous manner, Keith Ellison tells Muslims

Are we seeing the infiltration of Islamists into the core of our government, including the Pentagon, as in the case of Hesham Islam?  Since I found out that Congressman Keith Ellison (aka Keith E. Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad) has been assigned to co-chair a newly formed anti-semitic task force who also speaks before the Muslim American Society, an anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood arm in the U.S., he has caught me attention.

I found this on Powerline today:

CAIR-LA headliners (l-r) Hussam Ayloush, Rep. Keith Ellison, Fouad Khatib and Massoud Nassimi (Staff photo S. Twair).

Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison is symbolic of the forces within the Democratic Party that line up with the Islamist enemies of the United States. Ellison, for example, has a mutally beneficial relationship with CAIR. I collected some of our reportage on Ellison's CAIR connection most recently in "Devil may CAIR."

Somehow the press hasn't gotten around to reporting Ellison's featured appearance at the annual benefit of the Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of CAIR this past November. For the record, here is an account of Ellison's November remarks:

...“Litigate, legislate, educate our case in a righteous manner,” he advised. “Make yourselves known. The next time the California legislature has an open house, form a huge Muslim delegation and go to Sacramento. Bring your youth, your seniors and women. Get your feet wet in the legislative process in your state capital before you lobby in Washington, DC.”

The freshman congressman called for an army of Muslim lobbyists in the nation’s capital. Tremendous obstacles are blocking American Muslims--- yet it is acceptable to publicly defame Muslims, he stated.

...CAIR’s national executive director Nihad Awad called upon the Los Angeles Police Department to cease its program of mapping communities with a high percentage of Muslims. “We can’t allow discrimination to become official,” he emphasized. “Enlist us, but don’t blacklist us...”

Whom Did Keith Ellison Call "The Crazies"?

In late July, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to hold the office of an U.S. Representative in Congress, went to Israel.  You should read what he said about the Muslims over there.  Was he pandering to his Jewish base in Minnesota or was he speaking sincerely?  You decide.

In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ellison said what few politicians anywhere are willing to say.

"I need to build up some knowledge and expertise," he said, when asked if, as a Muslim, he brought a perspective to the region different from that of the other congressmen in his delegation...But what he doesn't understand, Ellison said emphatically, were those - he called them "crazies" - who read the same Koran he did and came away with a license to murder.

"I'm in a learning mode like everyone else," Ellison said. "Until you reach a certain level of competence, it is not responsible to tell the world what you will do. I need to learn the dynamics of the region and understand some of the issues and personalities better."

The murderers and the extremists are into something I don't know about," he said. "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," Ellison said. "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."

Bush like Hilter? Congressman Keith Ellison says it

From the first Muslim in Congress, Keith Ellison, we here his comparison of our President to Hilter at a recent meeting of atheists in Minnesota the StarTribune reported:

"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted. The fact is that I'm not saying [Sept. 11] was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box -- dismiss you."

Ellison spoke of the Iraq war saying;  "It's not controversial to call it an occupation -- it is an occupation."