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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Keith Ellison’s Hamas Ties

Dec 22, 2016 7:08 am By Robert Spencer

He disavows Louis Farrakhan, but is speaking next week for the Hamas-linked Muslim American Society. My latest in FrontPage:

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has called his previous defense of Louis Farrakhan “the mistake in my past,” but those who are ready to proclaim him a “moderate” and anoint him head of the Democratic National Committee should consider carefully the fact that he is the keynote speaker for Muslim American Society (MAS)/ Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) annual convention next week. The ties to Hamas are numerous – not that Hamas ties are likely to give Democrats pause.

The Investigative Project’s John Rossomando noted that “the MAS convention Ellison will address will hear from radical speakers such as Ali Qaradaghi (alternately spelled Al-Qurra Daghi in the MAS-ICNA program), the secretary general of the pro-Hamas International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which is one of the world’s most influential groups for Sunni Islamist clerics. It counts former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as a member.”

Yet Ellison has longstanding ties to MAS: in 2008, he accepted $13,350 from MAS to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It isn’t surprising that he would have no trouble sharing the MAS stage next week with Hamas supporters, in light of the fact that he has been caught on newly-released audio of Ellison speaking at a fundraiser for his 2010 Congressional reelection campaign, saying that a vote for him was a vote against Israel’s supposed control of U.S. foreign policy. “The message I want to send to you by donating to this campaign,” he declared, “is positioning me and positioning Muslims in general to help steer the ship of state in America….The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of seven million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of seven million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right?”

Ellison also boasted that “there is a growing awareness in the US Congress and in the executive branch that everything anyone does, including Israel, is not fine. And there are real questions being asked.” He revealed that in meetings with his Jewish constituents, he challenged them to stand with Barack Obama against Israel: “Do you stand with the President on stopping settlements in east Jerusalem, because that is the policy of my president and I want to know if you’re with the President. Are you with the President?”

Ellison proposed that U.S. aid to Israel be tied to the Israeli building projects in East Jerusalem: “Why are we sending $2.8 billion a year over there when they won’t even honor our request to stop building in East Jerusalem? Where is the future Palestinian state going to be if it’s colonized before it even gets up off the ground?”

He offered an alternative aiding Israel: “We should be building the bilateral business relationships between the United States and the Muslim world….Morocco, we gotta build it up. Saudi Arabia, we gotta build it up. The Gulf countries, we gotta build them. Pakistan, we gotta build them.” (Saudi Arabia?) This would be done so that ultimately  Muslims in the U.S. would be able to make demands upon the government: “We need to have so much goods and services going back and forth between this country and the Muslim world that if we say we need this right here, then everyone is saying, OK. Understand my point? You’ve got to be strategic….These business relationships can be leveraged to say that we need a new deal politically.”

MAS has links not just to Hamas, but to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2004 that “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.” In a validation of the accuracy of this report, it is now carried on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb.)

The links between MAS and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are not simply the conjectures of “right-wing” counter-jihad activists. A Muslim scholar, al-Husein Madhany, wrote this in a 2010 email to fellow Muslim and Leftist activists: “When I said that I believe MAS halaqas [religious meetings] to be a national security threat, it was only part in jest. My caution comes from what I have personally heard said at MAS halaqas during my time in graduate school and based on what I know about their ideological (but financial) ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.”

It doesn’t end with MAS, either: there is abundant evidence of Ellison’s links to other anti-Semitic groups as well. 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.”

Also, 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.

Even as the evidence mounts of Ellison’s anti-Semitism and dalliances with Hamas-linked groups, however, he remains very much in the running for DNC Chair. That is telling in itself.

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  1. eur says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 7:56 am

    Ban all Islamics lobbies in the west. They are fascists.

  2. 762x51FMJ says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 8:40 am

    The best way to end the occupation of Israel, is for the Muslims to leave…Jews were there 2000 years before Christianity, which was 600 years before Mohammed was born. ..

  3. Mirren10 says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:16 am

    I do hope your Democratic Party picks this creep for DNC Chair. He reminds me of Corbyn; supremely unelectable. 🙂

    • awake says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:15 am

      I concur. I wish Robert would lay off Ellison until AFTER they elect him as DNC chair.

      • Mirren10 says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 11:43 am

        I shouldn’t worry, awake.

        I think most of your Democrats are as thick as our Labourites. Any criticism of boo-hoo Ellison will be water off a duck’s back. 🙂

    • Angemon says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 1:36 pm

      I know, right? 🙂

  4. IQ al Rassooli says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:24 am

    Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~

    Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of humanity

    Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough

    Every Muslim is therefore a Time Bomb primed to go off

    All other explanations are unnecessary and redundant

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • Benedict says

      Dec 24, 2016 at 5:35 am

      You do have a way with words. Very nice

  5. John A. Marre says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:02 am

    This explains why the Democrat party loves him so much: he hates this country, like the Democrats do.

  6. Troybeam says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:30 am

    Keith Ellison is an Islamic plant inside our government, he’s a known speaker at Islamic conferences. Well you know he’s a Muslim so what’s the big deal, this is the big deal:these conferences deal with all things Islamic including spreading Sharia law.

    Now the question one must ask themselves is this, why would an American Muslim elected official who was sworn in to protect, defend and preserve the Constitution attend these conferences that it’s soul purpose only to advance Islam within the United States. Simple really people:Ellison was sworn in on the Koran, with this action he’s sworn an oath to Islam not to our nation, in Islam it is permitted to lie to advance Islam even when serving in a non Muslim government.

    Best to do a full research on this person, especially if your a democrat.

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:39 am

    A friend of the Muslim Brotherhood is an enemy of Americans as we repeatedly saw in Baraq Hussein Obama.

  8. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:50 am

    Ellison simply ignores the fact that the West Bank was never assigned to any country in international law. Meanwhile, Jordan considered the West Bank to be simply an annexed region of Jordan and the unofficial goal appears to be to reunite the West Bank with Jordan.

    If Jordan had not started a war to invade Israel in 1967, the West Bank would still be an annexed region of Jordan.

    Ellison is just another anti-Semite who hates Jews. Ellison is a bigot.

  9. Don says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    The Hillary vs. Trump election was international with the Leftist/Sunni/MSM (Soros/Saudi) alliance on Hillary’s side and the Russian/Iranian alliance against Hillary. Nobody thought that Trump would win so the Russian/Iranian side just sought to weaken Hillary. Trumps victory is not really good for either of these alliances but is good for the West. One can clearly see the panic in the Leftist/Sunni alliance as the democrats and MSM attempt to turn up the anti-Russian volume not realizing that the west whom they had written off is back. I fully expect the denial to continue and thus for Ellison to win the DNC chair. I also fully expect a hot war between these alliances in the next few years. Let’s hope that the Donald and the new upcoming rational leaders of Europe can keep us out of this war until they are utterly destroyed. The West could get a second chance.

  10. Judi says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    What gets me is that two Jews, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, endorsed this muslim POS. The US is finally getting rid of one and replacing it with another.

  11. Eric Jones says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    Ellison took his oath of office on the Koran. To me this means he wants to bring Sharia to the USA. Ellison speaks of building up muslim countries but says nothing about building up the USA.

    As usual the DNC does not ask the Black community what we want. They just assume that putting a Black face up there will suffice.Many Black Americans are Christian, even when some may practice other religions for a time. I know I have been there myself.

    The DNC. Out of touce with Black Americans, out of touch with the USA.

    Eric

  12. eagle says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    Keith Ellison is a proud practicing Muslim, he then goes by the Koran,
    Allah is my lord
    Islam is my life
    The Koran is my guide
    The Sunnah is my practice
    Jihad is my spirit
    Paradise is my goal
    …and
    I will die to establish Islam
    If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the
    land. By Mustafa Carroll, Director CAIR Texas
    Is this something we need in the government of the American people? This is the enemy of the American people and the constitution of the United States. Keith has no allegiance to the American people or the United States. Keith is here to expand the Muslim presence and the Muslim Ideology here in America, essentially to kill and destroy all non-believers of the Muslim cult.

  13. sidney penny says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    “A region of 350 million all turns on a country of seven million.”

    the number of people does not make it right or wrong.

    that is seven million people can be right

    In a court trial, the number of witnesses does not make it right also.

    that is one witness can be right against a number.

  14. sidney penny says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    http://www.meforum.org/6440/ellison-withdraws-from-mas-icna-convention?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=8c0475a2a7-ELLISON_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-8c0475a2a7-33665189&goal=0_086cfd423c-8c0475a2a7-33665189

    has withdrawn, under pressure from the Middle East Forum and its allies, from an Islamist convention in Chicago on Dec. 27.

  15. Gee says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Robert – please shut up. Let the Dumbacraps elect Ellison to the DNC. It will finish those racists off and we will finally be free of their fascism.

  16. Benedict says

    Dec 24, 2016 at 5:33 am

    This guy is a muslim and will do all to help muslims. The DNC will make the biggest mistake if they elect this nut.

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