More on this story. "Group That Funded Rep. Ellison's Pilgrimage to Mecca Called a Front for Extremism," by Joseph Abrams for Fox News, January 8:
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.
A Muslim advocacy group, and unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to fund Hamas.
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.
Care to elaborate? What of the Ikhwan's mission to wage "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions"?
The Department of Justice has never taken action against MAS and declined to comment on whether it was investigating the group's ties.
"As a general rule, the Justice Department does not comment on whether or not a particular group or individual is under investigation or has been under investigation," said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for DOJ.
Ellison gave the keynote address at MAS-Minnesota's conventions in 2007 and 2008, and one of the organization's directors took time off his job to campaign for Ellison during his run for the House in 2006. Ellison was also the first guest on an MAS radio show launched last month.
Representatives for MAS-Minnesota did not return calls or e-mails requesting comment. But Mahdi Bray, the national director who campaigned for Ellison, denied his group had funded the congressman's pilgrimage, calling the story a "myth" and "urban legend" that needed to be laid to rest.
"Keith Ellison is a member of Congress who knows that congressmen don't take trips sponsored by nonprofits. That would be a breach of congressional ethics," said Bray, executive director of the MAS Freedom Foundation.
But Ellison's office told FOXNews.com that MAS had indeed paid for the congressman's hajj.
"The trip, funded by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, was fully reviewed and approved in advance by the House Ethics Committee," Ellison's office said in a statement to FOXNews.com
The office, which did not say how much Ellison's trip cost, defended MAS as a highly regarded interfaith organization with many ties in Minnesota. [...]
The MAS magazine, "The American Muslim," has printed articles defending "martyrdom operations" to wrest control of Gaza and the West Bank from Israel.
The Minnesota chapter at one time featured writings from Islamic clerics praising Hamas and urging Muslims to "wage Jihad until death." The postings, which were active as late as June 2007 -- one month after Ellison first addressed the group's convention -- have since been removed.
Though the MAS Web site has been washed of the religious texts that critics found offensive, Emerson says the group's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood remain intact.
"Their founding ideologues are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood," Emerson said. "I don't think you can get more radical in the United States without crossing the line to incitement." [...]
This report reminds me of a kid's game played at birthday parties: pass-the-parcel.
Except it's pass-the-parcel-loaded-with-a-heap-of-taqiyya. "Yes, we were funded", "no, we didn't fund you" etc etc.
Of course these Islamists funded Ellison. They're just lying to protect themselves and advance the cause of Islam.
Trust good old Ibrahim to make an appearance in this report. As usual, he reeks of tons of taqiyya.
"The trip, funded by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, was fully reviewed and approved in advance by the House Ethics Committee," Ellison's office said in a statement to FOXNews.com
"Is noone above bribes?",to quoteThey arr Cicero. I do not think so. These people would rather sell our souls for money as long as it did not bring them too close to danger.They are acting already like dhmmis or more like dummies than Americans.
Just a personal view.
sorry for my bad typing. Just angry I guess.
It should read to quote Cicero.
"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.
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He means WORLD-WIDER.
Sieg allah
Muslim Brotherhood, MAS, no really difference and they want islam to rule and dominate the U.S. from the inside out. Of course they paid for Ellison's hajj. Who is telling the truth here?? Not too hard to figure out and Steve Emerson is someone I am familair with and I have read alot of his articles and go to his counter terrorism blog every day. The MB and MAS are doing all they can to topple our country via stealth jihad. Nothing but a bunch of polite islamofacists trying to say and do all the "right" things to disarm us and put us at ease with islam and islamofacism. They are one and the same. Keith Ellison should be investigated and lose his seat in congress if at all possible. He represents islam and we do not need islam in congress or the USA, period! Pathetic; Ellison and Franken. Thanks Minnesota.
Bah. If the MAS had gone pious-hardcore, they'd have ponied up for a misyar marriage too. Just to complete the positive Hajj experience for the abeed Congressman, you know.
HUH? Is Ellison a musselman? Last time I checked, you had to BE a muslim to enter Mecca. At least that was true back in the 80's when my travel agency had to book a certain director there for a movie he made. He even converted to islam for it. Though I don't know about the cast for the movie. HINT: the title ended with X.
Isn't it death for infidels if they're found out? Like break out the scimitars and off with their heads? If not, I can just see the Egged tour buses rolling in from Jerusalem now... What a sight for sore eyes...
America is my home, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I refuse to allow some 7th century throwbacks to destroy my home. America has come a long way, and still going. If we dont stand up we will be enslaved by a cult built by a man who hated Jews and everyone so much that he made the Muslims promise that Islam would be the only religion in Arabia. A religion that supports pedophilia, murder, lying, wife beating, and any thing to protect the superiority of the Arab man over all men. WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA, WAKE UP AMERICA. useful idiots they call us, while using our hard earned freedoms to be the best country in the world. Ellison knows he is wrong, but he ggets a kick out of his status. He never told the people of Minnesota that his god and prophet called them apes and pigs, and said if their kids ate a pork chop, they would turn into a Christian. He is helping to destroy American from Congress. The connection in Chicago with the leaders is Islamomarxist from the Bosnian Governor to the mosque on the Muslim on the corner selling the bean pie, the bow tie, and the big lie- THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL, yet Muhammad called the black man the DEVIL. Make up your mind, Mr. Musselman. Remember, AMERICA IS MY HOME, LOVE IT AND ME, OR GO HOME AND DROWN IN YOUR OWN MISERY.
Ellison and MAS either know less about Islam than Jamal al Banna, brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna, or they choose to be as vile as the "brotherhood" itself.
Jamal al Banna has written about 653 murderous, hateful hadith (verses) that he says inspire Muslims worldwide to commit mass murder and crimes against women and children.
http://stfrancismagazine.blogspot.com/2008/12/gamal-al-bannas-critique-of-bukhari-and.html
These verses are direct, specific threats against members of communities. They are not vague; they are like a loaded gun held to our head. They are a plan for a Nazi-like "final solution." They don't constitute freedom of expression, much less passibly religious doctrine. Interpretations of threats are done all the time by judges and juries. It is not hard if one has a rational and educated mind. It is time to put Islamic verse-spouting theateners under the same legal microscope as other unhinged psychotics.
Ellison and Franken. Thanks Minnesota.
Posted by: PatriotUSA at January 9, 2009 1:23 AM
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They should really apply to join Canada with those two!
Sieg Heillah!
Ellison and MAS either know less about Islam than Jamal al Banna, brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna, or they choose to be as vile as the "brotherhood" itself.
Jamal al Banna has published a book listing 653 murderous, hateful hadith (verses) that he says inspire Muslims worldwide to commit mass murder and crimes against women and children.
http://stfrancismagazine.blogspot.com/2008/12/gamal-al-bannas-critique-of-bukhari-and.html
These verses are direct, specific threats against members of communities. They are not vague; they are like a loaded gun held to our head. They are a plan for a Nazi-like "final solution." They don't constitute freedom of expression, much less passibly religious doctrine. Interpretations of threats are done all the time by judges and juries. It is not hard if one has a rational and educated mind. It is time to put Islamic verse-spouting theateners under the same legal microscope as other unhinged psychotics.
lorfalcon, yes Keith Ellison is a Muslim. He converted at age 19 from Catholicism and is part of Louis Farrakan's Nation of Islam. Ellison's wife, Kim, is not Muslim, but their four children have been raised in the faith. Ellison was sworn into Congress using Jefferson's Qur'an instead of the Bible, as has been traditional since the founding of the Republic.
Errata sheet:
Ellison, the only Muslim in Congress
should read:
Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress.
Andre Carson is the second Muslim congressman. He won in a special election after his aunt died last year and then he won the general election, despite the fact that Dr. Woody Myers, an incredibly respectable human being and black Democrat, ran against him in the primary. Woody Myers pressed the school board to allow Ryan White into school after he was diagnosed with AIDS. He was from San Francisco but he stayed in Indiana after that.
Tilly, Blagojevic is a Serbian-American.
"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."
I can well understand that the Muslim world would welcome more "religious diversity" in Amereica. "Religious diversity" are code words for marginalizing the Judeo/Christian influence and culture in our country, just as "racial diversity" are code words for marginalizing white/European influence in our country.
I know that that statement will earn me the label "racist", in many circles, but it's the truth nevertheless. The tragedy is that White/European Americans -- especially the young -- have bought into the ideology that we are the problem with the world, and if we are marginalized, and "people of color and other religious traditions displaced us, the world, and America, will be so much more beautiful places to live.
I don't know why Rome fell, but when the history of America is written a thousand years from now, racial and religious diversity, along with contempt for ourselves and our own great achievements, will take top honors as the reasons for our fall.
Now that Barack Obama and his ideologues are in in the drivers seat, we can look forward to the breaks coming off the runaway diversity train.
Don't be suprised if Ellison's future trips to the Hajj aren't paid for by American taxpayers. What better way to prove to the Muslim world how committed we are to religious diversity than that?
What does Keith Ellison have to do with JIHAD?
This just seems like another hate site to me. Fascists can't argue, so they kill others and incite others to do so. This site breeds the same hatred for muslims, as Al Quaida does for us.
And the thing is, al quaida and ann coulter, or michlle malkin supporters are both RIGHT WINGERS.
Same personality, same mentality, DIFFERENT RELIGION.
And religion...well..ha h ah ah...religion is a TOOL created to divide EASILY MANIPULATED people and get them to war against each other.
Why would MAS care for Kuffar House of Ethics? And how can House of Ethics stand in the way of a Muslim's 'religious duty'?
You see, the path of Islam, under the cover of a 'religion', however murderous and blood-thirsty, is wide open.
Here's a counter protest for San Francisco for this Saturday.
Last weeks counterprotest came real close to violence. I pray the SFPD learned their lesson.
I doubt they did.
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Upcoming Event: January 10, 2009 - SF VOICE FOR ISRAEL TO COUNTER: "WRONG ANSWER's ANTI-ISRAEL DEMONSTRATION"
Date & Time: Saturday - January 10, 2009 at 11am
Location: San Francisco at the Civic Center Plaza (we will gather on Polk between Larkin and McAllister Sts, directly in front of City Hall)
Description: Once again, the streets of the Bay Area are filled with hate when Israel defends itself. International ANSWER and other anti-Israel groups in the area are claiming Israel's actions in Gaza are "genocide" . Groups protesting against Israel last week chanted "Itbach al Yahud" (slaughter the Jews) and "Falastin balad'na w'al Yahud qalab'na" (Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs), clear anti-Semitic hate speech.
The groups sponsoring these demonstrations demonize Israel, endorse Israel's destruction, and justify the terrorist acts against Israel that caused the current situation. In particular, International ANSWER is the group that forced its own racist, anti-Semitic propaganda on those who wanted to march just to oppose the war in Iraq. While SF Voice for Israel takes no position on the Iraq war, we oppose ANSWER's manipulation of the antiwar movement and its demonization of Israel. Previous ANSWER demonstrations have been notable for vicious anti-Israel, anti-Semitic and pro-terror signs, speakers and chants.
San Francisco Voice for Israel/Stand With Us will stand against the anti-Israel/ pro-terrorism voices. Our presence at these events has proven highly effective at countering their message and making sure that the anti-Israel activists can not push their propaganda on the public unopposed! In addition, when the local media cover these demonstrations, they always film our presence so that the public can see that supporters of Israel are willing to stand up for the truth. (Those of you who were there with us last week even had your presence noted on CNN!).
We know that many in our community will be unable to join us because this is on Shabbat. While we will never schedule our own events on Shabbat, we are standing up against the anti-Israel hate groups that usually schedule their protests for Saturdays, specifically to try to minimize the Jewish community response.
We will meet at 11 AM and stay until ANSWER leaves Civic Center Plaza to march through the streets. We do not encourage anyone to march near them in counterprotest once they leave the Civic Center area, as we cannot assure adequate police protection should elements in their rally decide to start a rampage.
Please bring your noisemakers, flags, and signs, AND please wear BLUE and WHITE. As always, feel free to make your own signs but please no signs or graphics offensive to any racial or ethnic group including but not limited to Arabs, Islam, or Palestinians in general. Signs in violation of our policies will not be allowed.
Demand an end to Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli civilians! Demand Cpl. Gilad Shalit be returned home safely!
Demand Hamas put an end to terror attacks!
Demand an end to the deligitimization and demonization of Israel!
Demand that Hamas choose peace so that the Palestinian people can have a future!
San Francisco Voice for Israel/Stand With Us
www.SFVoiceForIsrael.org
www.StandWithUs.com
For further information or questions: e-mail us at sfvoiceforisrael@ yahoo.com
Join the SF Voice For Israel group on Facebook!
what goes with people from Minn who voted for this Ellison? and now the comedian freaky franken! we can thank the money from Soros and with the help of the yes we can Acorn people.
So we now have the sight of a United States congressman travelling to a place that the vast majority of US citizens are not allowed simply because they are not Muslims. This is religious discrimination at the most basic level. He should be called on it and shamed into denouncing any ideology that promotes religous discrimination and pledging not to go to such a place again until they change their policy and allow people from any religion to visit Mecca. Right - like that's going to happen.
What does Keith Ellison have to do with JIHAD?
This just seems like another hate site to me. Fascists can't argue, so they kill others and incite others to do so. This site breeds the same hatred for muslims, as Al Quaida does for us.
And the thing is, al quaida and ann coulter, or michlle malkin supporters are both RIGHT WINGERS.
Same personality, same mentality, DIFFERENT RELIGION.
And religion...well..ha h ah ah...religion is a TOOL created to divide EASILY MANIPULATED people and get them to war against each other.
Posted by: amir meshkin at January 9, 2009 5:47 AM
Let's just take this one step at a time.
Keith Ellison is a Muslim and all Muslims are expected to support the jihad either directly or indirectly. This statement is supported by the Qur'an, numerous hadiths and the Sira. It is also supported by the 1400 year Islamic exgesis. It is particularly supported by MAS, an off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The props for swearing into the Brotherhood include a Qur'an and a pistol.
This is not a hate site, and I can tell you from personal experience, that the only fascists I have run into are of the Islamic variety. Comparing it to Al Qaeda is an incredible display of ignorance.
Again, comparing Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin to Al Qaeda is an insult to all people who can think and reason.
I do not know what religion either lady belongs to, but the comparison between Islam and other religions is false. Islam is not a religion, the most you can say is that it is a cult.
Your statement about religion being a tool to divide people is much more applicable to the cult of Islam, that it is to religion.
Glad I could clear that up for you.
A case of "liar said, liar said."
Of course, the truth does exist.
"Keith Ellison is a member of Congress who knows that congressmen don't take trips sponsored by nonprofits. That would be a breach of congressional ethics," said Bray, executive director of the MAS Freedom Foundation.
Congressional ethics? He Brayed?
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
"What does Keith Ellison have to do with JIHAD?"
amir meshkin,
I wonder if you would ask the same question if someone accepted travel money from the Klu Klux Klan. I suspect that you would assume that the person was sympathetic to the Klan's ideology. You would be a fool not to. And we would be fools not to believe that the Islamic society is sympathetic to the ideology of Islam and Jihad.
I think that your statement "Fascists can't argue, so they kill others and incite others to do so" is the perfect discription of Islam.
And by the way, Islam is not a religion. It is a primitive cult.
From brilliance above: This site breeds the same hatred for muslims, as Al Quaida does for us.
Just exactly who do you think 'us' is? You ain't one of 'us' so you must be one of 'them'.
'Them' always say the same things, like clones of each other. The whole of 'themhood' has only one group brain to think with, and Allah is in charge of it...
'Them' are not too smart, and attempt to cover their own hate by accusing others of it.
'Them' are usually trolls...
Ellison:...Did we expect something better out of his election? For those paying attention, and know how to read between the Islamic lines, his actions are a given...
In case anyone doubts the statements above that Islam is a cult rather than a religion, the following desription is particularly apt:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina50218.htm
No matter what, we have laws in the US against hate specch and subversive actions and I believe that they even apply (albeit occasionally and very selectively) to elected representatives. Federal law enforcement should be very interested in this Ellison fellow and his apparent terrorist links.
Also, maybe the good people of Minnesota could wake up from their decade-long mockery of the American political system (Jesse "the Body", Ellison, Franken) and start taking the future of this country seriously.
"...And the thing is, al quaida and ann coulter, or michlle malkin supporters are both RIGHT WINGERS." -- amir meshkin
Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin supporters RIGHT WINGERS? Oh my god, no way! Quick, Ma, get the kids inside and lock the doors!
Emir, your associating Coulter and Malkin supporters with Al Quaida shows you have a serious problem understanding the true nature of things (not to mention your being confused about how to employ enumeration properly in a sentence). You apparently live in that alternate universe, created by LEFT WINGERS, where "RIGHT WINGER" is used as an epithet, and you undoubtedly receive much support from your deluded fellow travelers for so brilliantly and daringly employing the term. Well, my friend, you are certainly not brilliant, and about as daring as a child sticking out his tongue behind the teacher's back. Most of us here would classify ourselves as RIGHT WINGERS in a positive conservative sense, and are proud to be so labeled.
I used to live in your alternate universe but grew out of it. I originally attributed this change of heart to what Churchill allegedly said "If you're twenty and not a liberal you have no heart. If you're forty and not a conservative you have no brain." However, this was misguided. Coulter and Malkin, both of whom I greatly admire, as well as several brilliant posters here, seem to have managed to arrive at a proper understanding of things much earlier in life than did I. May you be so fortunate as to find it, too, from whatever place you currently are.
I wonder how many "sermons" were given ,in Ellison's hearing, about "America the great Satan"?
He believes it, never doubt that.
I think amir is a moslem troll, trying to make us feel guilty for resisting the RoP®
"I wonder how many 'sermons' were given,in Ellison's hearing, about 'America the great Satan'?"
Posted by: interestinconundrum
Now, that is a very good question! Does anyone know of any YouTube evidence that might shed some light on this?
For those who might be interested, there is an Al Jazeera interview with Ellison on the Gaza situation that was broadcast several days ago, and posted on YouTube.
Greetings:
Too bad no one asked Congressman Ellison how he enjoyed his time in a segregated city.
Why aren't you Yanks doing everything you can to expose Ellison? Kick the bum out of ongress.
'ongress'= the back door to Congress, cf 'egress"
Nice save, jewcat.
Am I the only one in this comments section to question his going on this trip in the first place - that is paid for by someone else?
The original article says that Ellison was approved by the House Ethics Committee to receive money from this radical Islamic group and go to Mecca. Excuse me???? The law is clear, Congressmen can NOT receive gifts and especially gifts from people that could be considered as lobbying for their benefit. If this is not Islam BUYING Ellison to represent them in Congress, what else could it be? This isn't some trade trip, it couldn't even be called a cultural trip! And as someone above already said, imagine a Congressman getting a trip paid for to the national Klu Klux Klan yearly convention - the left would go berserk. And can anyone say that hate for Israel and hate for America was not preached constantly while he was in Mecca? Of course it was.
So the leftist Democrat House Ethics Committee says that a leftist Democrat hating America Moslem named Ellison, one of their buddies, is not breaking the strict gifts law by accepting this trip and that makes it OKAY? Who investigates the House Ethics Committee for corruption and blatantly violating the laws that have been made to keep our Congress free from corruption?
Why have a law, if the people the law was created to keep honest, are given the power to decide if they are breaking the law or not? Sounds like we are being scammed again.
"Keith Ellison is a Muslim and all Muslims are expected to support the jihad either directly or indirectly"
I grew up as a muslim, and no one ever told me to kill for my religion. There are over a BILLION muslims, and you don't see them killing people on a daily basis.
Ann Coulter once said "we should kill their leaders, and convert all of them to christianity"
Funny, because that's what bin laden wants to do to us, except conversion to Islam.
In the Talmud, and the jewish old testament, it talks about RAPING and PILLAGING
And I don't need lessons from any of you idiots about conservatism. Apparently, none of you know anything about the teachings of Jesus.
How does it make you "right wingers" in here feel, knowing that Clinton is more fiscally conservative than Bush?
And it was no surprise that you people would come out of the woodworks, and insult me, and assume I'm a liberal.
Fascists can't argue, so they insult, incite violence, and KILL.
Just like Coulter, just like Bin Laden, and just like you people.
Oh yeah, and by the way. Something FOX NEWS will never show you, is the mass pro palestinian protests in TEL AVIV and JERUSALEM going on RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK.
But then again, why would they show you that? They have an agenda. "Fair and Balanced" ha ha ha
If anyone actually believes that, then you should see a Doctor immediately.
And for the people who are trying to say that Islam is a cult, well...you are by definition a fascist.
Islam and Judaism have much more in common than any Jew would like to admit.
And before you call me an anti-semite, just know, that I've had jewish girlfriends and I'm talking to one now. And I have persian jews in my family...guess what, all of them are Pro Palestinian too.
Because they know about the Irgun, Stern Gang and the Lehi. They know that before Israel was a state, the jews created TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS to attack the British and the Arabs.
They have the common sense to know that they didn't attack us "because they hate freedom."
They are smart enough to realize that living 60 years under OCCUPATION, has created terrorist organizations like HAMAS.
Apparently, no one on this HATE site wants to talk about the Israeli occupation of lands promised for a Palestinian state, or the ethnic cleansing campaigns of the Lehi, and Irgun.
In fact, I doubt any of you idiots in here know what the Lehi or the Irgun was.
You're just a bunch of extremely biased right wing fascists, that are the tool of the Israeli right.
If anyone thinks Islam is evil, or the Koran is evil, then you should read the Talmud.
You would be amazed of what the right wing jews think of you. And might as well read all the rape, murder, and ethnic cleansing that Abraham and Moses did in God's name.
Or do we just hide and deny all those facts?