In Truth Revolt today I discuss some associations of Keith Ellison of a kind that would have gotten any non-Muslim Congressman under media fire, with calls for his resignation.Representatives Keith Ellison (D-MN) and André Carson (D-IN), the nation’s two Muslim Congressmen, and a host of Muslim leaders have published an open letter condemning Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, as un-Islamic, and calling upon the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, to release the girls the group has kidnapped.
The U.S. Muslims’ argument is based on the claim that Boko Haram kidnapped the girls because they were seeking an education, while in Islam both men and women are enjoined to get educated. This neatly avoids the real objection that Boko Haram has to girls (and boys) getting educated: that the education they were getting was Western in style and orientation, rather than based on the Qur’an and Islam.
Once again we see Muslim leaders condemning the kidnapping of these girls without even mentioning the Qur’an’s allowance for a man to have “captives of the right hand” with whom he can have sexual intercourse (4:3; 4:24; 33:50. etc.). It would be refreshing if even once these “moderate” Muslim leaders would address these passages and explain how Boko Haram and other Muslims who kidnap girls and use them as sex slaves are misunderstanding and misusing the Qur’an. But it hasn’t been done yet.
Also noteworthy is the company that Ellison and Carson are keeping. Following their names are those of thirty Muslim leaders in the U.S., many with statements and associations on record that normally would give any Congressman pause before he allowed their names to be associated with his. Indeed, the rogue’s gallery joining Ellison and Carson in signing this letter would be enough to topple any politician in other circumstances – but when it comes to Leftist politicians and Muslim leaders with unsavory ties, the rules that apply to conservatives fall by the wayside.
Topping the list is the Imam Mohamed Magid of the ADAMS Center in Sterling, Virginia. Magid is the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has admitted ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, which was once the largest Islamic charity in the U.S. and was then shut down for funneling money to Hamas.
Next is Oussama Jamal, who, according to Investor’s Business Daily, “once headed the notorious Bridgeview Mosque in Chicago. One of that mosque’s leaders was arrested and jailed for funneling millions to Hamas. And one of its most honored guests was bin Laden’s spiritual mentor, the late Palestinian cleric Abdullah Azzam….‘The walls were covered with Hamas posters and recruiting literature showing masked gunmen brandishing automatic weapons. . . . You could see daggers plunged into Jewish hearts wrapped up in American flags,’ said Steve Emerson, describing the mosque in his book ‘American Jihad.’ ‘They even had a library filled with terrorist videos.’”
Also signing from the Bridgeview Mosque were the Imams Jamal Said, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial, and Kifah Mustapha, who was denied a police chaplaincy in 2010 because of his support for Hamas, including a video in which he sings: “O Hamas, teach us the rifle … O Hamas, raise the banner of Jihad.”
Mazen Mokhtar of the Muslim American Society is also a signer. The Muslim American Society is the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief operating arm in the U.S. A 2004 Chicago Tribune piece that is now carried on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb, states: “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.”
Among the signers are at least two Muslim leaders who have expressed disdain for American Constitutional government. A convert to Islam, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf of Zaytuna College, said in 1996: “I became Muslim in part because I did not believe in the false gods of this society whether we call them Jesus or democracy or the Bill of Rights.”
And the Imam Suhaib Webb of the Islamic Society of Boston, who last November dismissed secularism as a “radical lunatic ideology.”
Then there is Hatem Bazian, a professor of “Islamophobia” at (where else?) the University of California Berkeley, who has equated the Boston jihad bombings with “Islamophobia” and, several years ago, called for an “intifada” in the U.S. A supporter of the bloody intifadas in Israel is Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), another unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial. Awad has said: “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.”
Shaykh Yasir Qadhi of the Al-Maghrib Institute in Memphis is recorded on video calling Jews and Christians filthy and saying that their lives and property can be taken in jihad by Muslims, quoting Muhammad’s statement: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” (Bukhari 1.2.24) So if they don’t become Muslim, their lives and property are not safe.
Opponents of the American system, unindicted co-conspirators, supporters of bloody uprising and religious warfare in the U.S., and of terror groups abroad – if the context of all this were anything but Islamic, the mainstream media would be in an uproar, and calls for the resignations of Ellison and Carson would fill the airwaves. As it is, this letter has passed unnoticed, except for plaudits to the Congressmen for their “moderation.” One wonders if any of these politicians’ unsavory associates ever laugh up their sleeves at this suicidal naivete.
john spielman says
I hope that the next US administration will have the courage and moral resolve to call out Islam for what it is an EVIL FASCIST RELIGIOUS POLITICAL JUDICIAL AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM THAT OPENLY DISCRIMINATES AGAINST NONMUSLIMS, WOMEN AND OPPOSES ALL THAT IS TRUTH BEAUTY GOODNESS MERCY AND JUSTICE!
BlueRaven says
Don’t hold your breath, JS. It looks like Islam is well and truely rooted into our rotting society. It is really difficult to talk to people about Islam who are forward thinkers because they can’t imagine Islam can interfer in their trajectory of life.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
… but when it comes to Leftist politicians and Muslim leaders with unsavory ties…
Hey, what about Leftist politicians with unsavory ties? Show some respect: they’re crooks, too.
Kasey says
Surely it’s about time all Jews, Christians, Hinduhs, Muslims and other theists realized that all this religious/ideological lethal rivalry could lead to the destruction of the human race and other species as well, and it’s all over recognition of a mythical god no one has ever seen or heard, that ancients speculated had to exist for the creation of the universe and Earth and life on it. That concept has been perpetuated by indoctrination of immature minds, and even now, despite all the scientific evidence for evolution of all species and the universe, which all factually contradicts ancient beliefs, it is ignored for ego-centic and ego-identification reasons as much as anything else.
Uri says
Tell it to the muhammadans
Sam says
Evolution? Science? Wow! That is why you can’t trust human brain. You have to believe in the CREATOR=GOD
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Surely it’s about time all Jews, Christians, Hinduhs, Muslims and other theists realized that…
Huh? The only religion (actually, it’s a 3-legged belief system) that needs to realize anything is Islam. In other words, the Moslems. But they don’t give a damn about peace. Unlike the others, they’re belief system is predicated on correction through hate, threats and war, and their goal is world takeover.
Rojm says
Hamza Yusuf believes that Islam is one god religion. It is not and never was one. The three gods of Islam is the Koran, State Religion, and finally Allah as after thought. The child in the story the king has no clothes would easily identify this religion as a three god religion. Touch a Koran the wrong way – riots. Convert to another religion in an Islamic dominated country – the death penalty awaits you. Hamza keep looking because Islam is not a one god religion and it never was.
Beth says
There is not one single sentence that exists in the New Testament that teaches humans to be violent with each other. Not one. In fact, quite the contrary is found:
Do not lie
Do not steal
Do not cheat
Do no murder
Do not covet
It is wisdom for any society to teach these peaceful laws to their children. In peace – a nation prospers. Everybody wins.
And, unlike the Koran, the New Testament teaches humans:
Mat 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels [NOT HUMANS] shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just
Koran (chapter and verse given for proof)
047.004 – Beheadings
033.052 – Gang Rape of female ‘infidels’
005.033 – Crucifixions
008.067 – Treason
033.061 – Genocide “without mercy”
005.041 – Racism….
005.041 O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: whether it be among those who say “We believe” with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie [[This is Racism – It is hate speech]]
These sickening teachings lead to war. In war – a nation faces destruction. No one wins.
To sing Kumbaya while muslims gear to gain forces and attack (to carry out those carnal commands of their Koran) is foolish Kasey. I have no doubt that all of the victims of those sickening Koran teachings agree.
Wellington says
Evolution does not contradict religion or certain “ancient beliefs” unless one is devoid of the capacity to think metaphorically.
logdon says
Nicely put, Wellington.
I’d add abstract to that also.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes….the capacity to think metaphorically…..or creatively.
gravenimage says
Kasey, pious Muslims want to oppress and slaughter agnostics and atheists just as they do Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and other non-Muslims.
Islam represents a threat to *all* of us—you cannot say that about any other faith.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
… this letter has passed unnoticed, except for plaudits to the Congressmen for their “moderation.” One wonders if any of these politicians’ unsavory associates ever laugh up their sleeves at this suicidal naivete.
I’ve always wondered what political moderation is. If the discourse framework shifts a little to the left with every round of high school class graduation (they inculcated by the union brothers and sisters of the NEA and AFT), then isn’t dividing by two a half-assed move to make?
There is right and wrong. There is true and false. The esteem paid to the notion of moderation then is promotion of the half-right and half-truth. And, given that each year the culture shifts ever leftward, half-assed policies become increasingly against the right and true, against what the people, against common sense.
The next time you see a moderate reaching across the aisle, with opinion programmers Diana Sawyer and Jon Stewart cooing in the background, reach for your electric cattle prod and shed some light on the situation.
bettina says
With respect, APF —
These generalities about Right and Truth are too broad to encompass without placing these values in any context that makes sense to all, or to most.
Does your notion of Right apply to personal morality and ethical conduct, or to the messy, messy areas of politics, religion, and social issues — or to both?
And how do you define Truth, where does it exist?
Dichotomous thinking and behaviors only lead to war, each side imbedded to the gills in its own uncompromising beliefs, each side sure as hell that they’re the only righteous one.
And for me to claim that the above is Truth is also incorrect. I cannot aspire to holding ultimate Truth in my hand. Instead, I hold personal beliefs or views until the time I need to refine them, or modify them, or change them entirely, or abandon them.
Carol Schlismann says
It’s a pretty low bar for “moderation” to oppose mass kidnapping! What an excuse for a religion.
Uri says
Did something happen in Brussels?
somehistory says
“By their fruits you will recognize them (Matt. 7:16).” And, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks (Matt. 24:34).”
These two truths spoken by Jesus tell us what we need to know when determining what kind of character is a man (or woman).
Champ ✞ says
“By their fruits you will recognize them (Matt. 7:16).” And, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks (Matt. 24:34).”
These two truths spoken by Jesus tell us what we need to know when determining what kind of character is a man (or woman).
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Exactly, Somehistory! …great point; as this scripture reveals Ellison’s poor character. Thank you for sharing.
somehistory says
Thanks, Champ, for the encouragement! Have a great Sunday.
Beth says
Ditto
jihad3tracker says
Keith Ellison and Andre Carson are sculpted in bacon on top of a Useful Idiots totem pole… but useful idiots for counter-jihadists.
They are the two morons who came up with this “cover our treasonous behinds” letter idea, signed by a whole corral of imams who, by allying with Ellison and Carson, exposed their vids and writings to examination by Robert Spencer, the NSA and FBI agents that refuse to swallow politically correct hogwash.
Yes, believe it or not, there are still many who keep their mouths shut and just proceed with investigations.
GOOD WORK, CONGRESSMEN !!! You both are reading this post because you keep track of everything here at Jihadwatch. BTW, Mr. Ellison, the close-up picture of you in deep-weep ( above ) really deserves a cartoon balloon caption, and I am sure we commenters have already doozies…
Final words to KE and AC, plus those imams : take time to wave to a seagull circling your mosques and homes. Relax & take a deep breath. The Audubon Society has merely been training birds for a cheaper version of Google Earth.
Bezelel says
Let’s see them write a letter disclaiming ALL the atrocities and conflicts of interest with the civilized world. By omitting FGM,pedophilia,stoning for sharia,in fact disclaiming sharia as being uncivilized and violates the US Constitution. By not doing so they are silently in agreement with the anything not mentioned.
IQ al Rassooli says
Bezelel
You do not realize how CORRECT you are
Muhammad told his followers: Silence means CONSENT!
The same Mass Murderer, Child Rapist, Plunderer And Predator upon women who bragged that:
“Allah made me (Muhammad) victorious with TERROR!
The two Muslim senators -all ALL those leaders of Islam listed or unlisted – who were described as ‘believing Muslims’ by the news media, cannot possibly be LOYAL to the MAN MADE American Constitution because it is NOT from Allah nor can they be loyal to 98% of American Infidels because they are NOT Muslims!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Bezelel says
Thanks, at first I was inclined toward optimism,that maybe it was a sign of the fabled “moderation” but then what of these obviously atrocious acts? Are they not worth mentioning? To me they are,why not to them? We’re not talking about a frivolous difference of opinion of semantics.
Champ ✿ says
Shaykh Yasir Qadhi of the Al-Maghrib Institute in Memphis is recorded on video calling Jews and Christians filthy and saying that their lives and property can be taken in jihad by Muslims, quoting Muhammad’s statement: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah.” (Bukhari 1.2.24) So if they don’t become Muslim, their lives and property are not safe. — headline
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Jews and Christians are *filthy*? …hey that’s mean and hateful; and then he quotes muhammad to justify theft, rape and murder against Jews and Christians …
Wow now that’s what I call rabid hate speech! …and then we get pegged being an ‘islamophobe’ for pointing this out.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, wow! Muslims seem obsessed with filth in others while overlooking their own iniquities. I am still in a state of amazement after learning about the practice by many Muslims of drinking camel urine. This disgusting practice could lead to the outbreak of a serious epidemic (MERS) and the loss of many lives worldwide. However, due to the fear of being branded “Islamophobic” people in the health services field seem to be reluctant to bring this to the public’s attention. To me it’s absolute proof that Muhammad was a false prophet and exemplifies how he could tell people that something supposedly good for them was in reality bad. I hope it doesn’t take a global plague to convince the world but Ramadan will be coming up soon and the filth will have an excellent opportunity to spread.
CogitoErgoSum says
Sorry, my brain must be needing more rest today. Let me revise one sentence above to say this: To me it’s absolute proof that Muhammad was a false prophet and exemplifies how he could tell people that something was good for them when in reality it was actually bad.
Bezelel says
Of course muslims don’t stop at drinking urine, they have all sorts of uses for their live stock.
D.C. Watson says
Just a reminder
D.C. Watson says
Boo frickety hoo. Here is Ellison bawling again while dishing out more of the seemingly endless supply of jihadi apologist bullshit that the pissant media continues to try to feed to the American people and the West…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHqKp_V93pg
Boo frickety hoo…
jihad3tracker says
MEGA-THANKS, D.C. —
We must keep Ellison’s words and actions under observation relentlessly and continuously. Your first video posted here brings up many others on the right sidebar also with him.
Let me include in this reply a stunning vid that has been up for a while. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH IT… ALSO TELL FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
NOTE — some readers said a few weeks ago that they cannot get picture to play or sound to play. I never have trouble with either. Check player settings / try a different download protocol until everything works OK.
Yes, the video is THAT important : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9mZCRX2mg
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PRCS says
Violent extremism? WTF is that?
It’s the literalism that Allah expects of Islam’s every slave–amputations and all.
So, we should make sure to not impede Muslims from practicing Islam as they see fit?
Really?
Well, look what letting Anwar al Awlaki, Nidal Malik Hassan, and so many other Muslims practice Islam “as they see fit” got us.
That is the kind of crap that comes with the failure, the refusal, of western leaders and journalist to admit that practicing Islam “as they see fit” would include the literalist interpretation of Allah’s perfect and eternal word in Islam’s perfect book.
Brian Hoff says
What you hater forget is that many people in america didnot like that brave america muslim who die on 9-11 saveing other people live at the twim tower in New York City. How dare you racist bigot smear that muslim firefighter or this congressman. Peter King is now busy kissing muslim ass in his new dirict as 40% of the voter are muslim and 20% are liberal voter who donot like republician he just won in 2012 by a few hundred vote against than unknow democrate woman with hary any money to run on and he know he needed to do better or he out of office.
gravenimage says
“Brian Hoff” wrote:
What you hater forget is that many people in america didnot like that brave america muslim who die on 9-11 saveing other people live at the twim tower in New York City. How dare you racist bigot smear that muslim firefighter or this congressman.
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Where to start with “DefenderofIslam’s” bs?
Firstly, despite his claims, Salman Hamdani has been lauded many times—he was declared a hero by Congress and was mentioned by name in the Patriot Act. He has a street in Queens named after him.
What “DefenderofIslam” hopes you will miss, of course, is that Hamdani was murdered by his own more devout coreligonists on 9/11—along with almost 3000 other victims.
And notice DoI’s bizarre implication that if you have any criticism for the appalling Keith Ellison that you are—somehow—being a “hater” to Salman Hamdani.
More:
Peter King is now busy kissing muslim ass in his new dirict as 40% of the voter are muslim…
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The laughable “Brian Hoff’ would have you believe that New York’s Suffolk County—District 2—is 40% Muslim. Ludicrous.
According to Wikipedia, the county is 59% Catholic and Protestant, 7% Jewish, and 21% “not affiliated”—generally, agnostistics, atheists, and those who don’t consider themselves part of any organized religion. Islam isn’t even mentioned.
More:
King might have to call upton the two muslim congressman to campiaque for him to win.
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Dream on, “DefenderofIslam”…
Brian Hoff says
King might have to call upton the two muslim congressman to campiaque for him to win.
D.C. Watson says
That is an important video as well. As it is plain to see, the media is right there to wipe this charlatan’s chin every time he spits out something that exposes him.
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” ~ Clint Eastwood
gravenimage says
Here’s Keith Ellison’s whole iffy letter to Boko Haram:
http://ellison.house.gov/media-center/news/ellison-carson-lead-letter-to-boko-haram-with-american-muslim-leaders
Of course, this has nothing, really, to do with Boko Haram at all—this is just him and his fellow Muslim congressman pretending to stand against Boko Haram while whitewashing Islam.
But you can metaphorically drive a truck through the weasely phrasing of this letter. Yuck.
Myxlplik says
Keith Ellison caught red handed misleading the American public regarding the Islamic verse “There is no compulsion in religion” as espoused by Keith as an example of Islam being peaceful and tolerant
Video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTK_XffAvk
Robert Spencer debunking the lies, from “The Complete Infidels Guide to the Koran” page 204.
http://books.google.com/books?id=goxCABkGZZYC&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=there+is+no+compulsion+in+religion+%2B+robert+spencer&source=bl&ots=cQllx5FY0j&sig=PxtGzYTKhkxyNveG-Kx8RzFtYd4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KLyCU77NCMP2oATS9IKwAQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ
The sad thing is Keith Ellison knows the real meaning and is purposely misleading people. You can’t force people’s hearts to believe but you can force them to follow the sharia… and this is the point of the verse… And in the same breath Keith complains about Jihadists using verses out of context. Too bad Bill doesn’t read Roberts books…
David says
Good news from France, le pen doing well in the election. Maybe Europe can be saved yet , it seems to be waking up.
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2014%2Fmay%2F25%2Fmarine-le-pen-confidence-proves-vindicated-front-national&ei=ARaDU625AcqhkwXvp4GIBA&usg=AFQjCNEGKwi0r-9Bkd7EciAJlGPTtsbbng&sig2=X0hVWnfCUvkyiTwKmk6HIQ