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Keith Ellison met in Saudi Arabia with jihadi cleric and bank that funds jihad bombings

Nov 30, 2016 3:12 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’s Saudi Arabia Trip Included Meetings With Radical Cleric, Bank That Funds Suicide Bombings,” by Brent Scher, Washington Free Beacon, November 29, 2016:

Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) during a 2008 trip to Saudi Arabia met with a radical Muslim cleric who endorsed killing U.S. soldiers and with the president of a bank used to pay the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Ellison, now a leading candidate to head the Democratic National Committee, was brought to Saudi Arabia for a two-week trip by the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood to act as its “overt arm” in the United States.

Details of Ellison’s religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia are scarce, but photographs discovered by the Washington Free Beacon show that Ellison met with controversial figures during the trip.

A photo album of Ellison’s hajj trip posted by MAS’s Minnesota chapter includes a picture of the congressman meeting with Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, who was vice president of a Muslim Brotherhood-created group that in 2004 issued a fatwa urging “jihad” against U.S. troops in Iraq and supported the Palestinians’ Second Intifada against Israel.

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Keith Ellison with Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah

“The Jihad-waging Iraqi people’s resistance to the foreign occupation … is a Shari’a duty incumbent upon anyone belonging to the Muslim nation,” the fatwa said, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Bin Bayyah’s group, the International Association of Muslim Scholars, issued the fatwa after a conference in Beirut, Lebanon.

The group was founded by Yusuf Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who was banned from visiting the United States because of his calls to kill Jews and Americans.

Bin Biyyah issued an additional fatwa in 2009, shortly after his meeting with Ellison, “barring all forms of normalization with Israel.”

Ellison also took time on his trip to meet with Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, the president of a Saudi Arabia-based bank that funnels millions of dollars to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel.

Ali’s bank, the Islamic Development Bank, maintains the Al-Quds Intifada Fund and the Al-Aqsa Fund, which were established in 2000 to fund Palestinian terrorism and provide money to the families of Palestinian “martyrs.” The funds were established with an initial investment of $200 million.

Ali said his bank—which is referred to as the “Bank of the Intifada” by Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust—is responsible “for the smooth functioning of the two funds” and that there is “no delay” in paying families of “martyrs.”

“There was no delay in paying financial assistance to the families of Palestinian martyrs,” Ali said in 2001. “We have started paying them soon after receiving the money.”

Ellison’s congressional office has not responded to numerous requests for comment on his trip.

Ellison told congressional investigators on the House Ethics Committee that he did not have any “meetings of an official nature” on his trip and “instead undertook only the more personal itinerary scheduled by the Muslim American Society.”…

Kyle Shideler, director of the Center for Security Policy’s threat information office, expressed alarm when told of Ellison’s meetings.

“The notion that a sitting congressman would meet with a man whose organization only four years earlier had issued a fatwa calling for fighting Americans in Iraq once again illustrates the truly outrageous depth of Rep. Ellison’s affiliation with Islamist groups,” Shideler said….

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  1. Paul N Silas says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Ellison is monkey scum.

    Have a friend who sent his daughter to St. Cloud State Collage in Minnesota. She lasted 2 weeks of the Freshman semester as she was constantly harassed by the largely Somali Faculty and Student Body. She was often told ” White Girl, you don’t belong here unless you convert to Islam and take a Muslim bed partner”.

    Her Mom and Dad removed her for her safety. This girl was a straight A student in High School!

    • john spielman says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 4:26 pm

      My mother went to St Cloud state college. This sexual harassment should be reported to the universitie’s board of directors and to the Minnesota Human rights commission

    • Margaret says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 7:31 pm

      I have a Christian friend who was a professor there and was so harassed by lesbian co-workers that she finally left. The professors there have caused so much division in the St Cloud community along with the left-wing “news” paper. Now the paper has had to cut staff and bring in new editor because they’ve lost so many customers. People get tired of being called “racist, bigot, Islamophobia, xenophobes.”

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    18 U.S. Code § 2381 – TREASON – Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

    • Troybeam says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 6:30 pm

      Yes, that is the law, just needs to be enforce it 100%.

      Ellison is in so deep with the Islamic groups that he ought to be removed from his position in elected office for treason as well as conflict of interest in the welfare of our nation. John McCain is another person who should be removed as well as all elected officials who favor the welfare of Islam over the Constitution.

  3. Buford says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    This Moolem traitor needs to be in the slammer for the rest of his miserable worthless life he has committed an act of Treason & needs to be arrested & prosecuted.

  4. Champ says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Jihad Watch is such a vital resource for news and information pertaining to islam and company–like this one, since the MSM doesn’t cover these important stories–along with countless others.

    Jihad Watch: “Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts” …

    And exposing stealth jihadists like Keith Ellison, too!!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 10:13 pm

      Hear, hear, Champ!

      • Champ says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 1:05 am

        🙂

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Like I said, let him be the next leader of the Democratic party. Once his shady past is exposed for all to see, the Democratic party will not win an election in the next 50 years.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 10:14 pm

      I don’t want to see this Muslim thug leading *either* American party, Angemon.

      • Angemon says

        Dec 1, 2016 at 7:59 am

        Think of it as a step back required to go two steps further. The Democratic party is rotten to the core, and they could use a spell in the sidelines to do some soul searching.

        • Steve Newark says

          Dec 1, 2016 at 9:47 am

          Don
          t the people of Minnesota deserve truth!

        • Vyx says

          Dec 1, 2016 at 10:41 am

          If the party did not do any soul searching after Hillary, their Queen in Waiting was defeated, they are not going to do any in the future.

          I predict they will simply keep doubling down on their stupidity/evil, identifying themselves as the party of deviants, criminals and islam.

  6. Guy Macher says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    Shush! Let the Democraps elect him chair of the DNC, then we reveal his past,

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 30, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      I say expose him *now*.

  7. Don McKellar says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    Incredible.

  8. Darryl Kerney says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    is it any wonder that Minneapolis has a section called Little Mogadishu ?

  9. Wellington says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    Keith Ellison is an enemy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and equality under the law. Whether he actually knows this or not is essentially immaterial because EVERY Muslim is an enemy of what I just named and each Muslim knows this or should know it.

    Islam is incompatible with freedom. Sick of those, who for whatever stupid or deceptive reason, don’t get this.

  10. PRCS says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Wonder if he had a “temporary marriage” while there?

  11. somehistory says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    Snakes live in pits. Sometimes, they slither out. But they are still snakes.

    Anyone ever been to the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup? (TX) The rattlesnakes are killed in large numbers…not because they have bitten, but because they can. And in large numbers, they tend to increase in population.
    And a snake is a snake.
    Snakes cannot be trusted not to bite.

    moslims cannot be trusted not to be wheeling and dealing in things that will advance islam. Even when it’s just “personal.”

    Revelation 13

  12. Tjhawk says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    The U.S. Presidential election and the Brexit vote seems to have taught the DNC exactly nothing.

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 30, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    Keith Ellison met in Saudi Arabia with jihadi cleric and bank that funds jihad bombings
    ……………………

    This should surprise no one.

  14. Charles says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 4:02 am

    I would bet that President Osama knows all about this, just another of his Islamic handlers!
    All these TRAITORS need to be plucked! For the obnoxious WEEDS they are.
    A long PRISON term is in ordet for all these Agents of Satan!

  15. Florida Jim says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 9:47 am

    Ellison pretends to be a patriot while under the table vowing jihad-ism.Minneapolis is a hot-bed of Islam and america hatred even after being allowed to move here from the hellholes they left. Gratitude is unknown in Islam.

  16. davej says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    You cannot remove the jihad from the Muslim without removing the Muslimism. They are so tightly entwined as to be inseparable.

  17. Denise Ward says

    Dec 1, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    Keith Ellison is a NO-NO –I knew this from the very beginning when he was being sworn -in by putting his hand on the KORAN, instead of the bible. He is an example of the way Muslims want to worm their way into United States authorities offices and positions –so they can get their foot in the door, and have some say about America—POISONOUS !!!!

    I hope Republicans HOWL in protest !

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