Tolliver should have known from the outset that this would happen. It has long been established that in the hierarchy of politically correct causes, Islam trumps homosexuality. When AFDI ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such as Theresa Sparks and Chris Stedman attacked us for daring to call attention to the institutionalized mistreatment of gays under Islamic law.
Tolliver said of Ellison: “His being a Muslim is precisely why DNC voters should not vote for him. Muslims discriminate against gays. Islamic law is clear on the subject, and being gay is a direct violation of it. In some Muslim countries, being gay is a crime punishable by death.”
That is quite correct. But in response, instead of challenging Tolliver on the facts, which they couldn’t do in any case, the Democrats rallied around Ellison. Said interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile: “The Democratic Party welcomes all Americans from all backgrounds. What we do not welcome is people discriminating against others based on who they are or how they worship.”
So noting correctly that Islam discriminates against and persecutes gays is now “discriminating against others based on who they are or how they worship,” at least according to Donna Brazile (and, no doubt, many other enlightened Leftists). And Ellison’s spokesman, Brett Morrow, declared that it was “disappointing that a fellow DNC candidate would fan the flames of intolerance.” He didn’t say anything about Sharia states fanning the flames of intolerance against gays.
Morrow added: ““Keith has shown first-hand his commitment to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, organizing tirelessly against the Minnesota anti-marriage equality amendment in 2012.” That’s not the same thing as saying that he rejects Islam’s teaching that homosexuals should be put to death. Many Islamic groups supported same-sex marriage solely for tactical reasons: they knew it would open the door to the legalization of polygamy.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to note that The Hill, which is reporting here how the DNC has become Sharia-compliant and is prohibiting criticism of Islam, is itself also Sharia-compliant.
“DNC boots candidate from chairmanship race for criticizing Ellison’s Islamic faith,” by Jonathan Easley, The Hill, January 31, 2017:
The Democratic National Committee is kicking a candidate out of the chairmanship race after he told The Hill that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) should not be the party’s next leader because he is a Muslim.
In a Jan. 5 email to The Hill, Vincent Tolliver, a former House candidate in Arkansas, said that Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, should not be chairman because of Islamic positions on homosexuality.
“His being a Muslim is precisely why DNC voters should not vote for him,” Tolliver wrote. “Muslims discriminate against gays. Islamic law is clear on the subject, and being gay is a direct violation of it. In some Muslim countries, being gay is a crime punishable by death.”
“Clearly, Mr. Ellison is not the person to lead the DNC or any other organization committed to not discriminating based on gender identity or sexual orientation,” Tolliver continued. “I’m shocked [the Human Rights Campaign] has been silent on the issue. A vote for Representative Ellison by any member of the DNC would be divisive and unconscionable, not to mention counterproductive to the immediate and necessary steps of rebuilding the Democratic Party.”
A spokesperson for Tolliver said he stands by the statement.
The Hill did not report on the remarks in early January because it was unclear whether Tolliver would be an active candidate for chair.
However, on Saturday, Tolliver participated in the DNC-sanctioned candidates forum in Houston.
The DNC announced on Tuesday that Tolliver would also be one of 11 candidates participating in the next forum in Detroit on Feb. 4.
But Tolliver is no longer invited to participate in the event.
“The Democratic Party welcomes all Americans from all backgrounds. What we do not welcome is people discriminating against others based on who they are or how they worship,” interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile said in a statement to The Hill.
“We expect candidates for Chair of the Party to conduct a respectful campaign based on issues. To assure that, we ask all our Chair candidates to pledge ‘to uphold the interests, welfare and success of the Democratic Party of the United States,’ and to participate in the process ‘in good faith.’ Mr. Tolliver’s disgusting comments attacking the religion of a fellow candidate fall far short of that standard. Accordingly, Mr. Tolliver is no longer a candidate for DNC Chair.”
Ellison’s spokesman, Brett Morrow, responded to Tolliver’s remarks in an email to The Hill:
“A few days after Donald Trump instituted a racist and unconstitutional Muslim ban, it’s disappointing that a fellow DNC candidate would fan the flames of intolerance,” Morrow said, although Tolliver made his statement weeks before President Trump signed his Friday executive order temporarily banning refugees and citizens of seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States.
“Keith has shown first-hand his commitment to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, organizing tirelessly against the Minnesota anti-marriage equality amendment in 2012, which led to a resounding win for love at the ballot box. Trump is taking away health care for millions of people, separating families, and alienating our allies. Keith will continue to focus on uniting the Democratic party to fight back against division and hate, and to fight for the core Democratic values of tolerance and inclusion.”…

Bill says
The DNC has a problem with the truth. The hate it and bury it, even if one of their own is the messenger.
Rob Porter says
Bill, they’re a useless lot of liars and deceivers, just the ticket for serious Muslims. I confess to always finding Donna Brazille the most nauseating, brainwashed, drivel-parroting fool imaginable, and now her words here show her for what she is, a politically correct nincompoop and opponent of truth. This silly woman who CNN used to drag out for almost every occasion disappeared once she fell out with Hillary Clinton, but it was no loss. It’s almost amazing to watch the total dishonesty and avoidance of truth from from the Democrats.
A Harris USA says
Bill, just a heads up.. Two snakes are joining the circle to infiltrate the DNC.. Hispanic and Islamic illegals are pushing to join forces.. If this does not finish the Dems, then I do not know what does.. Islamic deception is using those they hate, Hispanics, Gays, or who ever to push their agenda.. Get ready for more of this.. Truth has no place in the DNC.
Oliver says
Many Hispanics are Rep. Especially in Precedential races. Also many are conservative in areas. They are not a mass of all are alike.
Most of the Hispanics I know are Trump lovers
And support a wall. Legal immigration but some leeway and common sense.
RickMT says
When the shooting starts, there will be more illegal muslims coming out of neighborhood mosques. For years, they have been leaving Arabic written trash along our southern border and then disappearing on our side.
Jaladhi says
DNC in cahoots with Islam – plain and simple!
john spielman says
YUP, the more the idiots at DNC push this agenda, the more irrelevant they become to the majority of Americans
no_one says
Many Americans are ignorant and don’t want to hear a bad word about democrats. If you tell them something against HRC or the women’s march they scream hysterically and stop being friends with you. They are too brainwashed to notice anything. They would much rather be Sharia compliant than thinking.
Angemon says
Citation needed.
john spielman says
I find it refreshing to see the comments about this article on THE HILL,
the DNC is getting hammered as is pro sharia supporters!
gravenimage says
Great to hear, John!
Guest says
I looked for Tolliver’s treatment in the MSM – crickets!
Oliver says
Perhaps Mr Tolliver should consider joini g the Repubs. At least some of them can think clearly.
The senator from West Virginia should do the same
By the way.
By the way. Are Ellison and other dem leaders aware that Trump Lost the majority vote in 60 counties. Out of 3,144.
Does that say something.
Francis Merde says
Guys, these are the death throes of a political party that is circling the drain. My advice is to sit back with some popcorn and enjoy the show.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
Guest says
“sit back with some popcorn and enjoy the show.” Considering the MSM ignoring this treatment, we’ll have to be a bit more active, spread the facts around. Then enjoy the show.
efoc says
What a great comment, had a great laugh. Thanks Francis Merde.
gravenimage says
DNC boots candidate from chairmanship race for criticizing Islamic law’s discrimination against gays
…………………………
F*cking insane. Kudos to Vincent Tolliver for speaking out, though–*and* for his recognizing that Islam is murderous in its hatred of gays.
By the way, Joe Biden is backing Tom Perez for DNC head. Not great, either, but at least not a stealth Jihadist like Ellison.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
My sympathies with Mr Tolliver. It has always been my understanding that the American civil war was primary as a result of the Democratic Party reluctance to end slavery and in opposition to the Republican party who not only abolish slavery, but sought to give slaves. full American citizenship.
So it is perplexing why Mr Tolver and John Lewis are members of the Democratic, where free speech is still denied to them, although it is enshrined in the the Constitution of the U S A
gravenimage says
Things have shifted since the 1960s, Malcolm. It used to be that most southern Blacks did indeed belong to the Party of Lincoln. But with Johnson, the Democrats started to promise more and more entitlements such as welfare, and the balance of power there has changed.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Thanks
gravenimage says
Sure. I wish it were not so.
Wellington says
Just to add to graveniage’s response to you, Malcolm, if you were to go back a hundred years to 1917 you would find that almost all American blacks who were registered to vote were registered as Republicans because, as gravenimage correctly noted, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln, the party that freed the slaves, the party that opposed a score of secessionist Democrats. Also not to be overlooked is that the Democratic Party from 1866 onwards was the party that produced virtually all members of the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, the KKK hated Republicans back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Well, the Republican Party from around WWI onwards began to take the black vote for granted, much as the Democratic Party does today. By the 1930s FDR, when running for President, against Hoover in 1932 and Landon in 1936, was able to say to black Americans, “It is time to turn Lincoln’s picture to the wall.” And blacks in droves did so because the Republican Party had lost touch with its black base. So the “shift” began in the 1930s and just accelerated in the 1960s because of LBJ’s civil rights measures (e.g., the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but steeped in great irony here is that this sea-changing act was actually supported by a greater percentage of Republicans in Congress than by Democrats because southern Democrats in huge amounts still wanted Jim Crow to persist——this is NEVER mentioned by liberal outlets like The New York Times).
But I now say, emulating FDR, “It is time to turn FDR’s picture to the wall.” The Democratic Party has failed black Americans HUGELY so over the last half century. As with the Republican Party a hundred years ago, it just takes the black vote for granted. And Democratic policies (e.g., the monumentally stupid giving of more relief to unwed black mothers for every out-of-wedlock child they have, thus destroying the black family far more than Jim Crow ever did). The Democratic Party over the last half century has been a disaster for black Americans and this is why I have said many times that were 99% of black Americans to wake up tomorrow committed Ronald Reagan Republicans, this would do more to help black Americans in a single decade than a thousand years of Democratic policies would.
Black Americans would be best served by becoming Republicans AGAIN. Way overdue. No group of Americans knows this better than do black conservatives like Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Niger Innis, Larry Elder, Jason Riley, et al., who have to suffer from the Left that they are “Oreos,” just fools sucking up to whites. No, they are not. They know far, far more about what has to be done and why Herman Cain, another black American conservative, has said, “It is time to get off the Democratic plantation.” Oh yeah, time for black Americans to turn FDR’s picture to the wall. Way overdue indeed..
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Interesting history.
Build that wall.
Thank you
gravenimage says
All true, Wellington. Great post.
Larry says
It doesn’t merely take the black vote for granted, it pushes stereotypes and policies that make blacks worse off but addicted to the money being funneled their way by Democrats.
The Democrat position that blacks can’t look after themselves, or progress by themselves, is just as racist as their 19thC position that blacks were an inferior race only suited to be slaves.
Wellington says
I agree. The Democratic Party is bad for black America and the Black Congressional Caucus is a national disgrace. No one is more aware of this than black conservatives.
Kay says
Thanks. I hadn’t known that history.
Kay says
And that also explains why my dad was a Republican. He had his formative years before the switch.
efoc says
Wellington, if I lived locally I would definitely come around for a daily history lesson! Thanks heaps for this, really enjoyed reading it. Greetings from Australia.
Wellington says
You’re welcome, efoc, ditto to Kay and Malcolm as well. Glad to be of some help.
John says
Very well stated Wellington!!
My Shari'a Moor says
Wellington:
THANX!
Cheers!
Walter Sieruk says
Actually Islam’s laws against people who are “gay” only starts in the form of discrimination . Islamic laws become very cruel and deadly against homosexuals to the point of murderous persecution against homosexuals As for example , brutal , malicious and homicidal ways “gay ” people are treated in Shi ite Iran and Sunni ISIS controlled lands .
To illustrate this by making a “joke” that is not really meant to be funny but to make a point is the following “joke.” There is something to the semi-joke about the different t kind of negative kind of behavior of a Fundamentalist Baptist Christian male and the kind of behavior of a Fundamentalist Salafist Muslim male when they encounter, at different times, a homosexual man. For when a Fundamentalist Baptist Christian man meets a “gay” man, that type of Christian will say many very ignorant things to him and as a result of those ignorant things said that “gay” man will end up with a headache. In contrast, when a Fundamentalist Salafist Muslim man encounters a homosexual man, that type of Muslim will cut that “gay” man’s head off.
Guest says
That shows that we need a bit more clarity to the words ‘homophobia’, ‘bigotry’ and ‘misogyny’. Perhaps add ‘violent’ in front of those words to specify how they feature in islam.
Someone not liking women much is one thing. Someone wanting to kill women because they control their own sexuality and/or are hijab-less quite another!
Vew3456 says
Please Dems Keith Ellison for DNC chair, put that nail in the coffin!!!!
gravenimage says
I don’t want to see Muslims take over *either* major party–and if you are a patriotic American, you shouldn’t, either. You might like to think it would lead to the election of nothing but Republicans in perpetuity, but it won’t–instead, it would lead to further Islamized Democrats once they are back in power–which is bound to happen eventually as is borne out by history. *No one* should want that.
I am no fan of Tom Perez, but he is much less dangerous than is Ellison.
Wellington says
Actually, gravenimage, I hope Ellison does become DNC in order to clarify even more just how out of touch the Democratic Party has become. Perez as DNC will only cover over the many idiocies that now characterize the Democratic Party while the vile Ellison will not. Vileness is ordinarily preferable to obfuscation because truth manifesting itself is far more at risk with the latter than with the former.
As of late, I have very much inclined to wishing the modern Democratic Party, which is ad nauseam leftist and, frankly, anti-American, goes the way of the Whig Party. It is so deserving of this fate I would argue. Oh, I am all for a two-party system, far more so than a one-party system which only insures total control and a multi-party system which often insures instability, but my preference here for the two-party system is predicated on the condition that both parties in a two-party system have not lost their collective mind. As I see it, the Democratic Party has lost it collective mind and Ellison as DNC will only expose this truth all the more while Perez will only hide things here. Again, I favor the non-obfuscation choice.
ElderlyZionist says
“By the way, Joe Biden is backing Tom Perez for DNC head. Not great, either, but at least not a stealth Jihadist like Ellison.”
I hear there’s a knife fight going on between the Clinton loyalists and an Ellison/Sanders even-more-extremely-progressive faction for control of what’s left of the Democratic Party. I wonder if Tolliver is on Team Clinton?
Angemon says
Kudos for him.
Richie says
This is a clue Keith Ellison will be made head of DNC, if mere criticism of Islam is verbotten.
It will spell the end of the Democrap party!
abad says
Frankly I am not surprised by this.
Look at what George Takei has been saying lately about Muslims – he is an openly gay man, too.
Are liberals so self-loathing that they support Islam to the degree of condoning Sharia against gays?
The cure for self-loathing is accepting Jesus Christ as one’s Lord and Savior.
NOT by wanting Islam to be the “final solution” for homosexuality.
Richie says
I think its ignorance. Many of the leftist women in the vulgar vagina march did not believe women were oppressed in Islam
Rev g says
But being pro-life, forget it.
Oliver says
There was an item-NOT SURE IF ON JW or elsewhere- DNC did NOT want a white chairman.
Were pushing for Ellison or Castro ( formerly of HUD-at least, I think that is his name)
Gen Jones says
Ellison is a token used by the DNC for them to seem relevant. (As if going further left was a good reaction to losing to Trump… ) He’s only known for being the first Muslim blah blah blah. What else has he done other than cry at some hearing. Of course Ellison would support gay marriage because Islamists can use it as a wedge to eventually legitimize polygamy. I’m kind of glad this is happening because I’m so ready to drop any friend who’d throw gays under the bus to support this bullshit.
davej says
Islam has been murdering gays for 1400 years, I don’t think that has or will change.
The BS about Ellison’ tolerance is obviously a short term tactical measure, sure to be reversed once the sharia is enforced. The DNC has completely lost it’s way. Instead of wearing a hajib for a day they should wear a dunce cap for a year.
frederick King says
I think the DNC morons have out-done themselves with this one.
melancholy observer says
is this the same party that Sam Harris thinks we should vote for?
mortimer says
THE TRUTH IS THE ENEMY of the Democratic Party.
John A. Marre says
The Democrat party is the party of death.
Oliver says
I disagree. My father told me many years ago ( early 1960’s) THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THE PARTY OF TREASON. Truer today then it was half a century or more ago
John Wolff says
I heard a gay man tell how voted for Trump because he feared Islam a greater threat.
As an atheist, I cherish religious freedom and tolerace because it’s what keeps me from being beheaded, burnt at the stake, or stoned to death, as the Koran and Deuteronomy command. I don’t want my Islamophobia become Muslimphobia. But am I required to welcome and tolerate a religion that explicitly calls for my death?
marc says
The capital punisment dictated in Deuteronomy was formally abandonded 2000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_and_corporal_punishment_in_Judaism
No such ruling on the koran though
Kay says
Thanks for this marc.
False equivalency slanders our heritage and confuses the religiously ignorant.
Oliver says
Back right around 2,000 or more years ago, a Jewish court sentenced a man to death for something. THE FIRST DEATH PENALTY IN SOME 70 YEARS.
Another judge was critical- THEY WERE TOO HARSH.
I think the man was jsut exiled.