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Rep. Keith Ellison is known as the first Muslim congressman, but what is less known are his close ties to groups like the Muslim American Society, Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, three Muslim Brotherhood fronts. The latter two were actually labeled as “unindicted co-conspirators” in a Hamas financing trial by the federal government! The groups’ attempts to get the designation lifted have failed, with a judge ruling in 2009 that the government had “ample evidence” connecting them to Hamas.
This spring, CAN will go to Minnesota to force Rep. Ellison to defend his relationships with these groups and accept or reject the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia-based governance. For those of you unfamiliar with the Brotherhood’s agenda, their own documents state they are waging a “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.”
Lynne Torgerson, a candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge Ellison next November, plans on making these ties a central issue in her campaign. She is particularly critical of his “close friendship” with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which was founded by Muslim Brotherhood operatives linked to Hamas.
She has released a video about these ties, which can be seen by clicking here.
In an interview with CAN, Torgerson mentions how she asked Rep. Keith Ellison if he felt the U.S. Constitution or Sharia law is supreme. She said that he “evaded the question” and instead bashed the opponents of Sharia law as conspiracy theorists. The encounter landed her a spot on Reverend Al Sharpton’s MSNBC television show, where he tried to make it look like she just doesn’t like Muslims.
“If Muslims want to worship Allah, I will protect that right,” Torgerson told CAN. She explained that she is worried about a Muslim Brotherhood-led Islamist faction that is “wholly different” from patriotic Muslims who have American values.
In her segment with Sharpton, Ellison is seen saying, “I believe in the U.S. Constitution,” calling it the “bedrock of American law.” She responded that “he doesn’t answer the question of what should be supreme…that’s a very different question.”
“It should be a simple answer. If he thought the Constitution is supreme above Sharia, he’d just say it,” Torgerson told CAN.
You can watch the segment by clicking here.
This won’t be the first time that CAN and Rep. Keith Ellison butted heads. On September 7, Rep. Allen West held a screening of our film, Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mosque, in Congress.
Ellison responded by promoting an event in Congress on September 13 about “Islamophobia.” The event was based around the allegations contained in a left-wing-funded paper titled, “Fear Inc.,” which criticized CAN and Tom Trento of The United West for the event. Rep. Allen West was called a “loyal foot soldier in the misguided campaign against Sharia.”
“Of course, they’ll try to say we hate Muslims, because that’s what they always do,” said Martin Mawyer, President of CAN. “We’re fighting the Islamist ideology, not patriotic Muslims who value separation of mosque and state.”
Ellison regularly speaks at CAIR and ISNA events, which helps to raise them funds. The Muslim American Society, which the U.S. government says was “founded by the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” paid for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008. His campaign has received donations from key players in the Muslim Brotherhood network in America and attacks the integrity of Zuhdi Jasser, a reformist Muslim who is a foe of the Brotherhood and Islamist ideologues.
Stay tuned for details!
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