The First Muslim In U.S House

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An Effective Legislator: Keith's Work at the Minnesota House
During the 2005-2006 session, Keith worked on initiatives to make Minnesota a better, safer, cleaner, more just place to live. Some of his work during the last session includes:

Human and Civil Rights
Keith is one of the Minnesota House's most effective legislators.

Keith authored and passed a repeal of vagrancy laws which criminalize homelessness. He also secured a $400,000 appropriation for homeless outreach.
Keith fought against measures intended to stigmatize members of GBLT community, including the anti-marriage bill.
Keith authored a bill to restore voting rights to ex-offenders.
Keith also authored a bill to expunge criminal records for certain non-violent offenders.
Public Safety
Keith fought against the deep cuts to Local Government Aid (LGA) to Minneapolis and Hennepin County by Governor Pawlenty and the House Republicans. This year, he authored a bill to restore that aid so more police could be hired.
Keith authored and passed the Gasoline Drive-Off Bill (30-day license suspension if convicted).
Education
Keith fought for and helped pass the largest increase for our public schools in two decades.
Minneapolis schools will see an $11.8 million increase in funding this coming year. This increase follows previous years of flat funding and the first direct cut to our schools passed in 2003.
Environmental Justice
Keith authored and passed a bill to protect Minnesota kids from the threat of lead poisoning by lowering the mandatory case threshold in lead poisoning cases from 20 to 15.
Keith passed a bill that reduces the property tax assesment on homes with lead paint to assist with clean-up.
Keith introduced legislation to restrict and control the use of dangerous pesticides, including Atrazine, a common pesticide that is believed to cause deformities in frogs. As part of that effort, he organized a hearing with testimony from Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a world-renowned endocrinologist.
Keith continued his leadership role with the Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota to bring awareness to the issue of environmental hazards and their effects on communities of color.
Economic Development
Keith helped pass a dollar increase in the minimum wage, the first increase in over eight years.
Keith secured $2.9 million in state bonding for the completion of the Heritage Park project.
Keith co-authored bills to construct a planetarium at the new downtown Minneapolis Library and restore the Shubert Theater.
Keith authored a bill to help construct a hydroelectric facility on the Mississippi River.
Follow the links provided to see the complete record of bills authored or co-authored by Keith in the 2005-2006 session legislative session.

http://www.keithellison.org/about.htm

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The first Muslim elected to the United States Congress is a Democrat from Minneapolis with ties to an Islamic group that supports terrorism and a radical cult whose leader says God will destroy the entire white race and establish a paradise nation ruled by blacks.

Minnesota’s new Representative in the House, Keith Ellison, was endorsed and partly financed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a massive U.S.-based organization that avidly defends Osama bin Laden and other militant Islamic terrorists and considers U.S. action against terrorists anti-Islamic. In fact, the group demanded the removal of a Los Angeles billboard describing bin Laden as “the sworn enemy” because it was “offensive to Muslims.”

Ellison, who converted to Islam as a 19-year-old college student, also has strong ties to the Nation of Islam, the black cult led by renowned anti-Christian and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. The group’s doctrine states that black people created white people in a genetic experiment 6,000 years ago and that “Judgment Day” means that the Gods will destroy the entire white race (devils) and establish a paradise nation ruled forever by blacks.

As if this weren’t enough to question the choice of Minnesota voters, as a state legislator Ellison supported and defended a convicted cop-killer and leader of a violent gang. Ellison used thug-like language to attack law enforcement officials as racists saying “we don’t get no justice, you don’t get no peace.”. Ellison also supports and demands freedom for another convicted cop-killer named Assata Shakur, who lives in Cuba and remains on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Perhaps having Ellison in the House, represents a victory for violent criminals worldwide. Little Green Footballs says they’ll be celebrating in Gaza tomorrow.

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Keith Ellison, The Wahhabist Choice For Congress

November 5, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Keith Ellison [aka Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad] the DFL candidate for Minnesota's 5th Congressional district, presents a revealing insight on his website.

Under the heading "Crime and Safety" Ellison states that, "I have been to too many funerals of young people to be anything but a strong supporter of law enforcement, but I also believe it must be balanced by other factors."

Perhaps by "balance" Ellison was referring to his call for the release of Sara Jane Olsen aka Sister Soliah, a member of the urban guerrilla Symbionese Liberation Army [the group which kidnapped Patty Hearst] who had pled guilty to placing bombs underneath two LAPD police cars .

Or maybe it's Ellison's support of cop killers Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal?

Is Ellison's committment to "balance" the root of his agreement with Nation of Islam bigot Joanne Jackson's statement that Jews are, "the most racist white people" or his work with gang-leader Sharif Willis who murdered Minneapolis Police Officer Jerry Haaf?

Balance is really at the heart of the "Keith Mohammed X Ellison" candidacy, since the Minneapolis and national press have studiously avoided any semblance of it, refusing to tell people the honest truth about Mr. Ellison.

If they won't, we certainly will, try this on for size Mr. Ellison.


Ellison was not only a member of Louis Farrakhan's rabidly anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, friendly with people who murdered policemen and those who have been engaged in domestic terrorism but he is the choice of the Saudi Wahhabist lobby in his run for Congress and has actively courted groups with Islamist sympathies, with ties to organizations like Hamas and those who believe that the U.S. Constitution should be replaced with Sharia law.
The one word which is glaringly absent from Ellison's campaign website is "terrorism."

This should not be surprising since Keith X is being financed and endorsed by a group which aids and abets it; the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], a Saudi funded front group for Hamas which Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has characterized as "'moderate' friends of terror."

Last year CAIR was named as a defendant in a 9/11 terror lawsuit by the family of FBI agent John O'Neill, who died in the WTC attacks.

Members of CAIR and some of its officers now reside in jail on terror related charges.

CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper supports the abolition of the U.S. Constitution and the imposition of Sharia law. Towards that end, this year alone CAIR received $50 million dollars to launch a nationwide PR campaign for polish the rather tattered reputation of Islam.

According to the Arab press:


"A US delegation led by CAIR officials yesterday held discussions with Al Habtoor group chairman Khalaf Al Habtoor and other businessmen in Dubai about a $50-million public relations campaign that the US group has launched in the US to change negative public perceptions about Islam.
"It is the most ambitious public relations campaign anywhere in the world that the Muslims have thought about to change perceptions about Islam," Ahmad said, calling on Arab businesses to make contributions towards the campaign that will run for five years.

"Do not think about your contributions as donations. Think about it from the perspective of rate of return. The investment of $50 million will give you billions of dollars in return for 50 years," the CAIR official said."

Eager to show their Saudi handlers that they are getting a return for their investment, CAIR executive director Nihad Awad [who personally gave $2,000 to Elison at a Florida fundraiser which netted him a total of $50,000 in Islamist money] and board chair Parvez Ahmad lashed out at Ellison's critics dismissing them as "a handful of right-wing bloggers, agenda-driven commentators and political operatives," while declaring:


"We are proud of our personal donations to Ellison's campaign. He has proven himself to be an effective legislator and his commitment to social justice is worthy of admiration. We believe his election will send a powerful message to the world about America's commitment to religious inclusion and tolerance."
In addition to the being supported by the Saudi funded Council on American Islamic Relations, Ellison has another wealthy and influential Arab endorser, the Arab American Leadership Council PAC, whose treasurer James Joseph Zogby [the brother of the pollster, John Zogby] is also the founder and president of the American Arab Institute.

The AALC PAC is the political arm of the AAI which received Saudi funding to promote the interests of the "Wahhabi Lobby."

Indicating the tight relationship between the two, the Arab American Leadership Council PAC is located in the same building as the AAI. Zogby is regarded as one of the most high profile members of he Arab American Community.

In 2003 the AAI received a $300,000 donation from Prince Alaweed bin Talal, one of the Saudi kingdom's top Wahhabist money-men. Talal also donated $20 million to Harvard University and $20 million to Georgetown University to endow Islamic centers.

Talal's attempt to donate $10 million to New York City after 9/11 was rejected by then mayor Giuliani because as CNN stated at the time:


"the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks."
Why is Talal's support of AAI so important?

Because in addition to his inability to blame the terrorists for September 11, he also supports suicide bombing.

Talal gave $27 million to the Saudi Committee for the Support of the al-Quds Intifada. As the London Times stated in April of 2002, "The committee will continue to provide direct assistance to the families of Palestinian martyrs and those wounded while resisting the occupation."

Of Zogby's Islamist associations Front Page Magazine writes:


"Meanwhile, in Riyadh, James Zogby (who is even slicker than al-Jubeir) appeared as representative of his Arab American Institute (AAI), in a joint presentation with Saleh al-Wohaiby, secretary of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY, an official arm of the Saudi government).
They announced that AAI and WAMY will "take up the cases of some 13,000 Arabs and Muslims, some of whom have been targeted by the U.S. government for possible deportation."

A year after this appearance, the WAMY offices in Virginia [which were registered under the name of a brother of Osama bin-Laden] were raided as part of the Treasury Department's anti-terror funding strike force, Operation Greenquest and closed down.

These are the types of people that Ellison is accepting support from. More importantly this apparently is Mr. Ellison's brand of Islam.

Calling it moderate is simply untrue

Because the media has observed its strict code of multiculturalism, refusing to report on Ellison's beliefs, support groups and odious ties, he has been allowed to run one of the most dishonest campaigns in Minnesota history.

Ellison's most basic denial, that he was not affiliated with Farrakhan's Nation of Islam after 1995, is an obvious lie since the above the above image clearly shows him at a 1998 protest march holding multiple copies of the Nation of Islam's newspaper, "The Final Call" and the image to the right shows him speaking at a Nation of Islam event.

Ellison's dissembling in that regard casts doubt on everything that he says.

Minnesota's voters deserve at minimum to be informed about a candidate's character, the positions he has taken and the nature of those who finance his candidacy.

Mr. Ellison is no exception and we believe that he is running a stealth campaign in which his true self will only be revealed if the state's voters are so unfortunate as to send him to Congress.

If that happens the public will soon observe him reverting to true form, free to pursue his racist politics and anti-Semitism while being in the pocket of foreign funded Wahhabist groups who are committed to advancing the cultural jihad one major step further, promoting their radical Islamist agenda in Congress.

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that was in time!

[mike435]

endorsing doesnt relly mean anything

if kkk supports bush it doesnt mean that bush is a kkk supporter

if say cummunist support the democrats it does not mean that democrats a communist

but it was finally time for a muslim repersentative very nice

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Lawmaker Goode urged to reconsider


An Illinois Democrat yesterday called on Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. to meet with Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, whom the Virginia Republican criticized for his intention to take the oath of office using the Koran rather than the Bible.
"If he meets with Keith, he'll see what I saw: a good American with good values of a different faith who's trying to do right by the people he represents," Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish, said of Mr. Ellison, Minnesota Democrat, who is the first Muslim elected to Congress.
Earlier this month, Mr. Goode sparked a controversy when he told constituents that if Americans "don't wake up" and strengthen the country's immigration laws, more Muslims will be elected to Congress and will demand to use the Koran when they take the oath of office.
"I will not be putting my hand on the Koran," Mr. Goode said at a press conference yesterday at the Franklin County Courthouse.
Mr. Goode made the comments in a letter he wrote responding to an onslaught of e-mail complaints he received from constituents who were angered by Mr. Ellison's decision to use the Koran during the swearing-in ceremony.
"The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of the district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran," he said in the letter. "We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country."
Mr. Goode said he is receiving more positive than negative comments from constituents.
"One lady told me she thinks I'm doing the right thing on this," he said in a Fox News interview yesterday. "I wish more people would take a stand and stand up for the principles on which this country was founded."
Mr. Ellison was born in Detroit and converted to Islam in college.
In the letter, Mr. Goode also wrote, "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."
Franklin County Sheriff Quint Overton said he had extra officers at the courthouse yesterday because Mr. Goode had received several threatening phone calls.
Asked whether he had received any death threats, Mr. Goode responded, "No comment."

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