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| Rep. Ellison now Haji Ellison, courtesy Muslim American Society |
| 2009-01-09 |
| Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison's groundbreaking pilgrimage to Mecca last month was paid for by an American Muslim organization that has ties to Islamic radicals and is "the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party," his critics say. Ellison, a Democrat, became the first U.S. congressman ever to make the hajj pilgrimage when he visited Islam's holy city in December. The trip was funded by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, a non-profit interfaith group that is one of 55 branches of the MAS nationwide. The pilgrimage was hailed by Muslim activists in the U.S. "A U.S. congressman going on hajj sends a very positive message to the Muslim world about America and the religious diversity in America," said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy group. But Ellison, the only Muslim in Congress, is coming under fire for his ties to MAS, which one terrorism expert called "the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party." "It is the de facto arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.," said Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. "The agenda of the MAS is to ... impose Islamic law in the U.S., to undermine U.S. counterterrorism policy." The MAS was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement created in Egypt in 1928. Radical members of the Brotherhood founded the terror group Hamas and were among the first members of Al Qaeda. The Muslim American Society's former secretary general has acknowledged that the group was founded by the Brotherhood, and in 2004 he estimated that about half of MAS members were in the Muslim Brotherhood. "Ikhwan [Brotherhood] members founded MAS, but MAS went way beyond that point of conception," Shaker Elsayed told the Chicago Tribune, explaining that the group had expanded to include a wider viewpoint. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The Star Tribune and the Mn & St Paul local TV coverage of Ellison covered up or minimized his ties to CAIR, Farrakan, etc. (as well as the unpaid traffic tickets, etc.) I'll bet he won a majority of the Jewish vote in the district. Notice that this article is a Fox News article. |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-01-09 12:10 |
| #2 What in thee F**k is going on there in the northern frontier. Is this a collaboration of fools or what ? Maybe we can't afford to wait on them to secede. Better kick them out now. Act more Canadian then American. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-01-09 09:46 |
| #1 Hell, that will probably get him an additional 3% margin of victory in Minnesota. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-09 09:13 |