Muslim Democrat Ducks Interview After Learning He Would Be Questioned About His Past


Hillary’s loss to Donald Trump obviously sent shock-waves through the DNC, not to mention the major media.  This wasn’t supposed to happen.  In fact, it was thought by pundits and pollsters to be virtually impossible.  Now the DNC has to deal with a reality they certainly never wanted nor expected.  Part of that is selecting a new chair.

Congressman Keith Ellison has support from powerful senators such as Schumer, Warren, and Sanders.  He’s opposed by the White House.  And he has his own problems to deal with, not the least of which is his support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Aides to Mr. Ellison were going to make him available for a telephone interview, but then declined when informed that he would be asked about his past comments on Mr. Farrakhan. They emailed a list of his links to the Jewish community and a statement that said, “Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.”

What comments of Mr. Ellison’s are they referring to?

Some top Democrats had hoped to pre-empt a contest by backing Mr. Ellison’s bid. Mr. Schumer, Ms. Warren and an array of House members and unions were lining up behind him even before he formally entered the race.

But along with his inability to do the job full time and his links to Mr. Sanders, Mr. Ellison’s past criticism of Mr. Obama and praise for Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, worry some Democrats looking for a figure to lead the opposition to Mr. Trump.

Mr. Ellison, a Muslim, defended Mr. Farrakhan in the 1990s, saying he was “not an anti-Semite,” and has positioned himself on the left flank of congressional Democrats on Israel.

Mr. Farrakhan is hardly a force for unity in out country.  Example?

…he calls for an army to rise up and kill people…and he gets away with this act of complete terrorism without so much as a smidgen of rebuke from our government.

His recent incendiary speech called for the 10,000 men to “kill those who kill us”.

If this is someone Congressman Ellison has supported, he has several problems — and he richly needs to be defeated in 2018 should he choose to run for re-election.

While on the subject of Muslims making comments threatening to “take over” America, we find Congressman Andre Carson who seems to be allied with Nancy Pelosi.

Last year, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Andre Carson (D-IN) to a highly sensitive House intelligence committee that deals largely with classified information and activities. This appointment was met with great public outcry from those concerned about exposing a Muslim to our nations secrets – a man who has been known to associate with terrorist front groups.

Not only has Carson been fundraising for terrorist groups, the man has made very overt statements regarding this nation fundamentally adopting Islam and the Islamic plot to destroy our nation.

Why is this man even in Congress?  Does anyone doubt that his avowed desire to see Islam overthrow America implies that he is using his access to classified information against us?  And this has been allowed by Nancy Pelosi?  The word “traitor” is none too strong to be used in referring to both Pelosi and Carson.

Talk about needing to “drain the swamp.”  We’re not talking about a swamp here, but a cesspool filled some of the most offensive creatures ever to afflict our republic.

“It’s almost as if there’s this intangible resistance to Keith, from what I read in the media,” Steven Belton, the head of the Minneapolis Urban League, and a friend of Ellison’s, told me. In November, Jonathan Weisman, the Times’ deputy editor in Washington, tweeted, “Defeated Dems could’ve tapped Rust Belt populist to head party. Instead, black, Muslim progressive from Minneapolis?” In a Washington Post column that appeared in December, Garrison Keillor suggested that a “black Muslim Congressman” had as much chance of connecting with “disaffected workers in Youngstown and Pittsburgh” as a ballet dancer or a Buddhist monk.

Source:  New York Times, New Yorker



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