Rep Keith Ellison Breaks Down in King’s Witchhunt Hearings
Rep. Keith Ellison is the only Muslim member of Congress. Today he spoke before Peter King’s hearings about radicalized Islam in America. This is the conclusion of his remarks, he tells a moving story of a Muslim-American being posthumously demonized.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cgh0P8Dr9k[/youtube]
I find it inconsistent that Muslims are oversensitive when leaders paint them and their religion with broad brush strokes, but somehow Christians are victimized when someone says “Happy Holidays” to them in December.
And lest you think that Peter King is just an anti-terrorism crusader, he has a not-so-spotless history in terrorism sympathizing. But remember, inconsistency is a feature, not a bug, in the modern Republican.
Tags: Congress, Islam, islamaphobia, Republican Hypocrisy, War on Terror
Did u watch any of this hearing? I did and it was pathetic how the Dems ackted up towards the witnesses.
ackted? Seriously?
That video is moving. I don’t recognize my country. What the hell are we doing?
The FBI arrested the guy they think was responsible for the attempted MLK Day bombing in Spokane. This was an attempted bit of domestic terrorism, done by the usual suspects — middle-aged white guys.
Any word from Peter King when he’ll be having hearings on the terroristic radicalization of middle aged American white guys? Really, people, I would *really* enjoy seeing American white men subject to this kind of demonization. Especially since (in terms of numbers) there are more of them.
When I meet middle class white guys who act like the game is rigged against middle class white guys, I just have to laugh to keep myself from kicking them.
The game is rigged against them — by upper-class white guys. So who better to take it out on that everyone except their oppressors? After all, their oppressors are big and powerful and might hurt them. The nice thing about beating up on the poor, minorities, women and the middle class is that white middle-class whiners have a chance of winning those fights.
i wish the game was rigged against middle class white guys… than id have an excuse for being a loser.
hey Rwnj, those uppity dems needs to stop ackting so much like they are peeple!
fork u autotistic ben!
What the hell is autotistic? Keep ’em coming, Rwnj.
you know, the word that rimes with farted and starts w/a “R”
Rwnj
You are very Patheticized—That’s a word I just made up (like yours) that means you don’t even realize how pathetic you are.
i think he means i like cars. or am able to automatically make him look like a fool….. keep steepin’ teabag
Islam’s ultimate goal is world domination. The terrorists like al qaeda and the recent shooter in Germany are fundamentalists. They follow Islam to the letter which is filled with hate. These moderate muslims need to take what they like from the Qur’an and form a new sect. kinda like all the different sects of christianity.
I know you are gonna come down on me and call me a bigot and such, but that doesn’t make it any less true. It’s a religion that condones rape, slavery, murder (well they don’t call it murder if you kill a non-muslim), and female oppression. Hell, there are more verses telling men they can keep women sex slaves than to pray 5 times a day.
Oh, and don’t take the tired argument about violence in the bible or the crusades 800 years ago. That’s up there with Godwin’s law.
“Islam’s ultimate goal is world domination”
and that is the point you all need to stop reading because you know the rest is just the ranting of a racist piece of trash.
Evangelical Christianity’s ultimate goal is world domination. The terrorists like Timothy James McVeigh, the recent would be bomber in Seattle and the abortion clinic bombers are fundamentalists. They follow Christianity to the letter which is filled with hate. These moderate Christians need to take what they like from the Bible and form a new sect.
I know you are gonna come down on me and call me a bigot and such, but that doesn’t make it any less true. It’s a religion that condones rape, slavery, murder (well they don’t call it murder if you kill a non-Christian), and female oppression. Hell, there are more verses telling men they can keep women sex slaves than to pray 5 times a day.
Tears Help Radical Rep. Ellison Deflect Scrutiny of His Own Record
Accuracy In Media ^ | March 10, 2011 | Cliff Kincaid
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) got some headlines for breaking down in tears during the Homeland Security Committee hearing on Thursday, but another witness, Abdirizak Bihi, Director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, offered something more newsworthy—an indictment of Ellison himself.
Although he didn’t identify Ellison by name, Bihi’s criticism of local leaders, religious and political, was seen as partly a reference to Ellison being an obstacle to finding out what happened to 20 Somali young people who had disappeared from Ellison’s congressional district and showed up in Somalia as terrorists.
No wonder Ellison had called the hearing a “witch-hunt.” He was the witch.
As noted in advance by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, “Bihi has been publicly critical of Ellison’s handling of the disappearance of some 20 Somali youths recruited by a Jihadist group in their native country.” Bihi’s nephew Burhan Hassan was killed in Somalia after traveling there to join Al-Shabbab, a terrorist organization working to overthrow the Somali government.
But it wasn’t just Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. The Star-Tribune previously reported that Bihi had “accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter of discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI” in trying to find out what happened.
The FBI had cited CAIR’s links to terrorist groups. But Ellison has worked with CAIR and has spoken at their events.
as soon as we start investigating radicalized militant christians…. of which there are MANY more in this country than all muslims, i’ll look at these hearings as something other than a racist shameful act of anti americanism.
screw peter king and any unamerican theocrat who defends him. As for people of the Islamic faith that were called to testify against their own religion, they should know that some Jews were given special titles by the Nazis in the Camps to keep order…. those folks wound up just as dead as the people they were betraying.
Azra Nomani should know that Peter King hates her too, and she needs to brush up on her Constitution…. what happened in that dog and pony show was a direct violation of the document the Tbags claim to love so much.
Peter King is himself a terrorist. I IRA is responsible for many many deaths of innocents… they have trained other terrorist groups including AlQueda and he has public monetary links to them. what more proof do you need that this a christian vs muslim crusade?
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