Ellison himself denies that he was ever a member of the NOI,6 then as now under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan, an anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-establishment demagogue.7 In a letter sent in May during the 2006 congressional campaign to the Minnesota Jewish Community Relations Council, Ellison claimed that his association with the NOI had lasted for only eighteen months about the time of the Million Man March in 1995.8 However, there are problems with this assertion. The NOI was widely condemned within the orthodox Muslim community, which considered Farrakhan 's organization to be so far from doctrinal truth, it could not even be regarded as Islamic.9 While NOI converts have often later moved into normative Islam, there seems to be no evidence of Muslim converts moving the other wa...
I think it's time for the United States to see a moderate Muslim voice, to see a face of Islam that is just like everybody else's face," [Keith Ellison] said. "Perhaps it would be good for somebody who is Muslim to be in Congress, so that Muslims would feel like they are part of the body politic and that other Americans would know that we're here to make a contribution to this country. "His strength has always been among the party leadership, if he had any strength whatsoever," [David Schultz] said. "And if you couldn't get the endorsement with the party leadership, I don't think he's going to get it among the rank and file." "I think it would be huge, no questions asked - particularly for a community that feels very much like its presence in the United States is being questioned," [C...
Mr. [Keith Ellison], who is also the first African-American sent to Congress by the state of Minnesota, sounded optimistic about the current political atmosphere, speaking of how the United States was founded and governed at first by only white men "and now we may well have the first African-American president." He spoke of "a new politics of generosity and inclusion instead of fear and division and throwing people off the island."1 When it comes to dealing with anti-Muslim defamation, he said, "How do you defeat bad ideas? You don't ban it. You get good speech out there." He added there is no "clash of civilizations" between Muslims and Christians, citing the many Muslim achievements in math and medicine that we use routinely. Mr. Ellison finished off his morning visit to Harlem with a...
At the historic hearing on the Jena 6 case, after much discussion Rep. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Chair, referred to Rep. Keith Ellison as the "clean up hitter. Many people have asked me whether this new generation has the stuff to take the legacy of the Jena 6 mobilization and build a new movement. But these answers tell us that it needn't be that dramatic. If we would just make sure that the door of opportunity is open when we go in, if we would just take the Civil Rights movement into the building and seek to maintain "fidelity to a set of ideas" of determination to receive just treatment, fair access to opportunities, intolerance of oppression, and others, we could truthfully be faithful to the legacy. These ideas are at the heart of this extensive and his...
Prager made the manifestly obvious point that the first Muslim congressman, Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison, should take his oath of office not on a Koran, but on a Bible, in recognition of "the value system [that] underlies American civilization." [...] yet the ADL viciously attacks conservatives, implying that there is some genetic anti-Semitism among right-wingers in order to hide the fact that anti-Semites are the ADL's best friends: the defeatists in Congress, the people who tried to drive Joe Lieberman from office, the hoodlums on college campuses who riot at any criticism of Muslim terrorists and identify Israel as an imperialist aggressor, and liberal college faculties calling for "anti-apartheid" boycotts of Israel.
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WAL-MART is the biggest retailer in the world. It boasts of having 1.2million Americans on its payroll. Its reported annual profits are around $13 billion. So it's safe to say since it is so big - and so ubiquitous - and so obviously successful - the government can now stop subsidizing it. Let me explain: I was covering the first stop for the Progressive Caucus' "Speak Out for Good Jobs Now" listening tour held in Minneapolis attended by Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., among others.
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