Muslim joins anti-Semitism panel

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Muslim congressman joins anti-Semitism panel
Move follows his comparison of President Bush, Hitler

September 5, 2007

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Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

A civil rights group is questioning whether U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Muslim who has compared President Bush to Adolf Hitler and has spoken for a group that endorses the death of Jews, should be serving on a congressional committee dealing with anti-Semitism.

"It is highly offensive for a congressional task force on anti-Semitism to allow a man that willingly speaks in front of anti-Semitic groups to be associated with its organization," said Joe Kaufman, president of Americans Against Hate, which also calls itself a terror watchdog organization. "[The Congressional Task Force on Anti-Semitism] needs to end its relationship with Ellison immediately."

On his website, Ellison has announced his decision to join the task force for the 110th Congress.

"The Taskforce promotes religious tolerance throughout the world, and brings a strong voice in the United States Congress to those whose basic religious rights and freedoms have been persecuted," he said.

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"I am honored to join the Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force because it embodies the ideals and principles that have guided and shaped my life," he said.

Kaufman, however, noted that Ellison has spoken several times for the Muslim American Society's Minnesota chapter, which promotes the Quran on its website, including statements such as: "Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, an (sic) seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)."

"I contacted the congressman's office; they won't give me the time of day," he said.

A WND message left with the congressman's office seeking a comment also was not returned.

"As far as I can tell, he refuses to condemn this organization. I guess I understand," Kaufman told WND. "Why would he condemn a group he supports?"

But he said having someone who supports a group that appears to advocate for the death of "pagans" on a congressional panel dealing with anti-Semitism "certainly is beyond the bounds of any type of decency."

"When Keith Ellison ran for office, he denounced the anti-Semitism of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, a group that he was previously affiliated with. We demand that he do the same to the Muslim American Society," said Kaufman. "It is not only improper for a United States representative to participate with such groups, but it is a danger to national security."

Other statements found on the MAS Minnesota site include: "Give tidings … of a painful doom to those who disbelieve" as well as the instruction to "fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you."

Ellison's announcement of his addition to the panel said he recognized that the task force's charge will include "to bring to light numerous acts of anti-Semitism occurring around the world."

Other panel members are U.S. Reps. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., Ron Klein, D-Fla., and Mike Pence, R-Ind.

As WND earlier reported, Ellison told a group of atheists the actions of the Bush administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks reminded him of the Nazis' use of the burning of Berlin's Reichstag parliament building in 1933 to expand their power.

Speaking of the destruction of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon, Ellison said, "It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."

On Feb. 27, 1933 – one week before elections in Germany – the Reichstag building in Berlin was burned. Historians have disputed who set the blaze for nearly 75 years, although the Nazis have often been suggested as culprits who destroyed the nation's parliament building in an effort to discredit the communists and justify seizure of emergency powers.

The day following the fire, Chancellor Adolph Hitler pushed for an end to many personal, political and property rights and used powers granted to him to crush political opposition and come to power.

As WND also has reported Ellison used a Quran for his swearing-in ceremony, and allowed his election supporters to shout, "Allahu Akbar!," the same phrase allegedly used by the 9/11 suicide pilots.

"In terms of political agenda items, my faith informs these things," he said.

It was in 2000 that Ellison joined Bernadine Dohrn, one of the founders of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground, and several other speakers at a fundraiser for then-recently arrested Kathleen Soliah, a.k.a. Sara Jane Olson of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Soliah and other members of the 1970s domestic-terrorist group were later convicted for placing bombs under police cars and murdering a woman during a bank robbery.


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