With Islamic supremacists, it’s always someone else’s fault. They never take responsibility for anything.
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.
“Keith Ellison Fails to Defend Anti-Israel Statements, Blames ‘Bad Reporting,’” by Brent Scher, Washington Free Beacon, December 14, 2016:
Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) was given numerous opportunities to answer questions on both his anti-Israel statements and his past praise for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, but instead blamed “bad reporting” for making his past an issue as he campaigns to head the Democratic National Committee.
Ellison appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday morning and was asked to defend his previous support of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
Asked by Joe Scarborough whether he believes that Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite, Ellison said “sure” but then fought against the fact that he was being asked the question rather than elaborating on why he decided to disavow his support for the Nation of Islam leader.
“Sure, but what does he have to do with anything going on with this race or this country at this time—absolutely nothing,” Ellison said.
“I think that it is bad reporting because I have a ten year record in the Congress, a four year record in the Minnesota State House, I practiced law for sixteen years,” Ellison said. “I just think that, you know, it’s just that kind of reporting that, you know, just that sort of is not quality and doesn’t help people understand the real issues.”
Scarborough followed up by asking him why he called Farrakhan a “role model for black youth.”
“Here’s the thing Joe, we’re talking about something that happened in 1995,” Ellison said, calling the questions part of a “smear campaign.”…
The Nation of Islam has fought against Ellison’s attempts to dissociate himself from the group, saying that there is “no question” that the Minnesota congressman was a devoted Farrakhan supporter.Ellison appeared earlier in the morning on CNN and was asked by host Chris Cuomo about his 2010 complaint that U.S. foreign policy is “governed by what is good or bad” for Israel.
The congressman had initially ignored questions on the comment, stating that it was “selectively edited and taken out of context,” but now that the group released the full transcript of his remarks during a private fundraiser he has been forced to answer questions….
“Who doesn’t use the system to advance its own agenda?” asked Cuomo. “That’s what people do, that’s what constituencies are.”…
Ellison also presented himself as a friend of Israel, pointing out that he has voted for “aid to Israel to the tune of $27 billion.” In 2014, Ellison was one of only eight members of Congress who voted against military aid to Israel that was needed to repair its Iron Dome missile defense system.Haim Saban, a major financier for the Democratic Party, said recently that Ellison is “clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual.”