Oct 03 2006
Muslims in Congress??
I found this article posted at HumanEvents.com, CAIR, Hamas, and the House Candidate. It was posted September 27, 2006. Here’s the cruix of the article:
The Christian Science Monitor quoted Larry Jacobs of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota exulting: “You think of the stereotype of Minnesota — Garrison Keillor and white Norwegian farmers. The first Muslim congressman coming from Minnesota? It says a lot about the changing face of the United States and Minnesota.”
Interesting…… but there’s more……..
The Monitor doesn’t mention, however, a disturbing aspect of Ellison’s record: the support he has received from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Journalist Joel Mowbray has been virtually the only journalist who has pursued this connection, exploring in a recent column, “Mr. Ellison’s seemingly tight connection with Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom he met almost two decades ago at the University of Minnesota.” Mowbray reports that “Mr. Awad headlined a fundraiser last month that the campaign estimates netted $15,000 to $20,000, and in July, and it appears that CAIR’s co-founder bundled contributions totaling just over $10,000. (The campaign issued a terse denial on the latter point, though it refused to explain away overwhelming evidence to the contrary.)”
This article is interesting to say the lest and we need to keep our eye on this one.
I did a google search on “Keith Ellison” and I found his official campaign page. And his Minnesota House of Representatives page. And it looks like PowerLine has been on top of this since July…… 
NJ
