Keith Ellison, Speaking in Dearborn late Sunday night, the first Muslim elected to Congress told a cheering crowd of Muslims they should remain steadfast in their faith and push for justice.
"You can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim," Detroit native Keith Ellison said to loud applause.
"Allahu akbar" — God is great — was the reply of many in the crowd.
"Muslims, you're up to bat right now..." he said. "How do you know that
you were not brought right here to this place to learn how to make this
world better? How do you know that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,”
(meaning praised and exalted is he) “did not bring you here so that you
could understand how to teach people what tolerance was, what justice
was?… How do you know that you're not here to teach this country?"
Never mind the Constitution, here comes sharia law.
"On Jan. 4, I will go swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the
United States. I'll place my hand on the Quran," Ellison said while
placing his hand on the lectern, to loud applause and cries of "Allahu
akbar."
It's odd how the left has embraced the most intolerant, violent, backward religion in the world as their latest cause. The Quran says that women are worth half as much as men, must cover themselves in public , and are basically stupid. Every Muslim nation in existence today lags far behind it's democratic counterparts on human rights issues.
But what if Ellison is a moderate Muslim?
JIhad Watch: (He belongs to) The Muslim American Society has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and does not deny a report published in the Chicago Tribune in 2004 that it hopes to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Qur'an. According to terror expert Steven Emerson,
the Islamic Circle of North America "Another individual who was quoted
in the New York Times was an official of the Islamic Circle of North
America, again portrayed as a mainstream group. What they didn't reveal
is the Islamic Circle of North America "is a Jamad Islamia group, which
is on record as calling for jihad in the United States, to promote the
notion of an Islamic world. ICNA also published something very recently
saying that they are against suicide bombings, except when it comes to
killing Israelis."
Hugh Fitzgerald asks the tough questions the press avoids;
Is Keith Ellison a real Muslim? Does he believe that "Islam is to
dominate and is not to be dominated"? Does he take Muhammad as the
Perfect Man, uswa hasana, al-insan al-kamil? And so does he therefore
endorses the attack on the Khaybar Oasis, the murders of Abu Afak and
Asma bint Marwan, the consummation of that "marriage" to little Aisha
when she was aged nine, and the beheading of the bound prisoners of the
Banu Qurayza, and so much more? Either he does, or he doesn't. Either
he is loyal to the American Constitution, or he is loyal to Islam,
which in every important particular flatly contradicts both the spirit
and the letter of the American Constitution, as it does both the spirit
and the letter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What does Ellison think of the Danish cartoons? What about his connections to CAIR and Hamas? What does he think of polygamy as prescribed in the Quran? Will he denounce sharia law and dhimmitude? Or will he be allowed to practice taqiyya by a press that is amazingly uninquizative on this issue.
Other blogging this subject, Always on Watch, Big Dog's Weblog
