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Keith Ellison headlined fundraiser for Muslim activist who called for “Palestinians” to embrace “The Jihad Way”

Nov 22, 2016 5:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Ellison has spoken at a convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Yet ISNA has actually admitted its ties to Hamas, which styles itself the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Justice Department actually classified ISNA among entities “who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood.”

It gets worse. In 2008, Ellison accepted $13,350 from the Muslim American Society (MAS) to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Muslim American Society is a Muslim Brotherhood organization: “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.” That’s from the Chicago Tribune in 2004, in an article that is now carried on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb.

Also, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) raised large amounts of for Ellison’s first campaign, and he has spoken at numerous CAIR events. Yet CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

This is today’s Democratic Party.

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“Keith Ellison Headlined Fundraiser For Muslim Activist Who Called For Palestinians To Embrace ‘The Jihad Way,’” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, November 21, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the favorite to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, campaigned in 2009 for a Libya-born activist who once called on Palestinians to embrace “the jihad way” in order to get free of Israeli control.

The activist, Esam Omeish, a former candidate for Virginia state delegate, has also praised one of the founders of Hamas and commended the work of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Omeish’s positions had been publicized when Ellison, the first Mulsim [sic] ever elected to Congress, headlined the July 2009 fundraiser for Omeish, who served as president from 2004 to 2008 of the Muslim American Society, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group.

“The very fact that you have ran a honorable campaign in this heated primary shows victory. Don’t stop working, lay it all on the line,” Ellison said at the event, according to Omeish’s campaign website.

Photos from the event show Ellison chatting with Omeish and other activists, such as Nihad Awad, the founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Progressive liberals, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, have pushed for Ellison to be named as head of the DNC. But Ellison’s critics have pointed to his links to extremist organizations such as the Nation of Islam — he first ran for office in 1998 under the name Keith Ellison-Muhammad — and his comments regarding Israel as cause for concern.

The Washington Free Beacon reported further on Monday that Ellison, who entered Congress in 2007, also took a trip to Mecca, the Islamic holy site, in late-2008. The junket, which cost $13,500 and sparked a House Ethics investigation, was paid for by the Muslim American Society (MAS).

It is unclear if Omeish was in charge of MAS when Ellison took the trip.

A year before, Omeish was forced by then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to resign his position on a state immigration commission after video footage from 2000 surfaced showing him condemning Israel and endorsing “the jihad way.”

“We the Muslims of the Washington metropolitan area are here today…to tell our brothers and sisters in [Palestine] that you have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land,” Omeish told the crowd, which included protesters holding signs equating the Star of David to a Nazi swastika.

“Dr. Omeish is a respected physician and community leader, yet I have been made aware of certain statements he has made which concern me,” Kaine said in 2007, after announcing that Omeish would be replaced at the Virginia immigration commission because of the video.

Omeish, who ended up losing the Virginia delegate contest, spouted fiery, anti-Israel rhetoric again at a rally held in Oct. 2000 in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. There, he praised an intifada the Palestinians were waging against Israel.

“We need to congratulate our brothers and sisters in Philistine [Palestine] for their bravery, for their giving up their lives for the sake of Allah and for the sake of Al-Aqsa.”

Omeish was referring either to the Al-Aqsa intifada, a deadly campaign in which Palestinian suicide bombers carried out attacks against Israelis, or the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a terrorist group that formed in the West Bank in 2000.

In 2004, after he took over at MAS, Omeish praised Ahmed Yassin, one of the founders of Hamas, the terrorist group.

“Bullets and bombs are going off upon our brothers in Philistine [Palestine] and we are sitting here and saying [Arabic phrase], instead of feeling that this is our tax money and it is our dollars that killed our beloved Sheikh Ahmed Yassin,” Omeish said during a speech in Overland Park, Kan….

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  1. David says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    These muslums are worse then NAZI’S.
    Why would anyone want a NAZI in Congress? ?????

    • JOHN SPIELMAN says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 7:31 am

      apparently, the FOOLISH people of Minneapolis Mn also known as the Mecca on the Mississippi

    • Ron says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Not just anyone would want a Muslim in Congress, and the Democrat Party,largely composed of socialists. globalists, big government advocates, open borders advocates and starry-eyed social engineers, have shot themselves in the foot big time. They are well on their way to becoming seen as a fringe group of radicals.

      • Oliver says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 6:30 pm

        Ron– The party is (or fast becoming) what you describe. HOWEVER, IN MY OPINION, there is a problem- with people.

        MANY still think the Democratic Party of today is the Democratic party of Harry Truman; Scoop Jackson: even JFK ( whom I despised); Estes Kefauver (Dem. Sen. for many years form Tenn., went after organized crime; crooked unions; etc. Was a very honorable man; great Senator.—(I lived in Tenn., years after he had passed away, and older people still spoke of him as if he were a combination of Moses, Aaron & Jesus Christ, with that kind of awe).

        The people don’t want to face the reality of what the party has become- and still vote for any “D”.

  2. Oliver says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    He -with Hillary not winning, probably try and hire Mrs. Weiner. For her foreign affairs knowledge. (Regardless if he becomes DNC head)–

  3. Guy Macher says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    Let this barbarian get the DNC chair first, then we publish this evidence.

  4. Angemon says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    Keith Ellison Headlined Fundraiser For Muslim Activist Who Called For Palestinians To Embrace ‘The Jihad Way,

    Can you imagine the reaction from the media if it were Trump?

    • Oliver says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 11:16 pm

      Forget if it were Trump. If it was some fringe group that endorsed him. The media would have their pink panties twisted around their genitals.

      Look at the crap against Sen. Sessions and the Breitbart man. Bannon I think is his name.

      Cries against both on trash. Sessions. In a letter in the New York Times. Would a DOJ under Sessions investigate when a white policeman shoots an unarmed black man. Question.

      Regardless that Sessions was the lead US attorney to integrate Birmingham schools. And got the death penalty for a top klansnan.

      30 or so years ago he said something racist. In a private conversation
      The media sucks

      • Angemon says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 2:24 pm

        Oliver posted:

        “Forget if it were Trump. If it was some fringe group that endorsed him. ”

        Indeed. The media were desperate to find anything to prove their narrative correct.

  5. Judi says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    What is even more ridiculous is the factthat he was nominated and endorsed by two Jews, namely Chuck Schumer and self-hating Jew Bernie Sanders.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 7:20 pm

      Boggles da mind. Must be Satan controlling this idiots!

  6. gravenimage says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    Keith Ellison headlined fundraiser for Muslim activist who called for “Palestinians” to embrace “The Jihad Way”
    …………………….

    Gee, what a shocker–not. I hope the Dems have enough residual sense to pick someone else–pretty much *anyone* else–as DNC head.

  7. JOhn Doe says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Oh, please, democrats, Choose Him.
    He’ll be a perfect choice!!

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      Oh ditto John. I mean I’ll contribute to Ellison’s campaign!

      PLEASE elect this POS. Pretty please, with sugar on top!

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 23, 2016 at 10:08 pm

        I don’t hate Democrats *this* much. They may hate themselves this much, though…

  8. Northern Virginiastan says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Esam Omeish ran in the Democratic primary for the 35th district seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. I braved heavy rains to go to the polling station and vote for Mark Keam in the primary.

    I viewed the pictures on Flickr and spotted Shaker Elsayed, iman of Dar al Hijrah aka 9/11 mosque, In addition to Ellison and Nihad Awad. I also noted the paucity of women.

  9. Undaunted says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    Oh, geeeeeez. Who’s up for kickin’ this pussy dead-center in the crotch?

    I got the love of Jesus in my pretty blue eyes but I’d drop him like a bad habit if he got in my face with his so-called god and prophet.

    Icky.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 11:30 pm

      +1

  10. Dan Nowotarski says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 3:03 am

    Any politician who supports Muslim organizations in the United States who’s known to have ties to Terrorist organizations should without a doubt be considered a direct threat to our National Security and our way of life. For too long have we witnessed, allowed, and ignored elected leaders give their support to Terrorist organizations, attend banquets of known Terrorist organizations, support known Terrorist supporters, attended services at Mosques known to support Terrorism and the destruction of the United States, and who have helped Terrorist supporters get positions in the U.S. Government. This has been a disgraceful period in the United States and I hope we have seen the last of those days, I hope to see all politicians removed from office who supported known terrorists and terrorist supporters, those elected candidates who attending banquets of those known to have ties to Muslim Terrorist organizations, and finally those politicians who had accepted funds from the same with the unspoken deal of pushing through a bill supporting their agenda and/or to get politicians support in helping to get known terrorist supporters elected. The Muslim Brotherhood and the many Muslim organizations under their umbrella for the safety of our way of life and our National Security must be shut down in this country if we are to truly want to stop their goal of replacing our Constitution with sharia law. These Muslims have proven they are capable and well organized as they have entered the highest offices of the land, which should anger those in office enough to immediately stop and shut down these Muslim Organizations in the United States from ever again getting as close as they did in dismantling this country as we know it. I hope to see these Terrorist supporting organizations, terrorist supporting Mosques and politicians, and all known individuals with ties to Muslim Terrorist organizations to be either shut down, removed from office or deported in 2017. We American’s should take a look and be honest with ourselves and see how we allowed this to happen and what we need to do to make sure it never happens again. God Bless America.

  11. SweetOlBob says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 7:18 am

    Ellison is just as much a terrorist as any homicide bomber ever was. He just does his filthy work disguised as a servant of the people of Minnesota.
    It’s no secret that he serves only muslims from Minnesota as a Senator and to hell with the rest of the population. He is the end product of Obama’s sneak transplanting of hordes of knob headed Somalis
    in that State.
    Ellison is just the first visible flag pointing out how rotten and dangerous to our Country Obama is.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 8:47 am

      Ellison is not a Senator. He is a Representative in The House Of Representatives. One of 435.

      I agree with much of the rest. But. Without checking. I think that Ellison pre dates Obama presidency

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