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December 7, 2006
First Muslim Member Of Congress Linked To Radical Islamic Ideology That Requires Loyalty To Quran Over U.S. Constitution
Topics: Political News and commentariesRep.-elect Keith (Hakim-Mohammed) Ellison, D-Minn., has drawn fire for asking to take the constitutional oath on the Quran rather than the Bible at a swearing-in ceremony next month. Now it appears that we are beginning to find out why:
Critics argue he has conflicting loyalties, while Ellison insists he's a patriot.So it appears that the voters of Minnesota have voted in a Congressman that at the very least supports radical islamic ideology, or is a radical Islamist. One would think that Minnisota's voters would have had a clue of what Ellison was really all about since he was backed by the radical Islamic group (or supporter of radical Islamic ideology, at the least) CAIR whose founder has argued the Quran should replace the Constitution as the highest authority in the land.But within days of being elected, Ellison held a workshop on politics for a group closely affiliated with a radical Islamic school that preaches no Muslim can pledge loyalty to the Constitution or make laws outside the laws of the Quran, which the school's leaders assert is the "supreme law" of the land, trumping all man-made laws including the U.S. Constitution.
A black convert to orthodox Sunni Islam, Ellison spoke to the North American Imams Federation, or NAIF, at the group's Nov. 19 conference in Minneapolis.
His talk flowed into a breakout session listed on the agenda simply as "American Open University," according to the conference program. It turns out the university is a "distance-learning" center based in Alexandria, Va., and known to local law enforcement as "Wahhabi Online."
Later that day, Ellison met with NAIF's president, Omar Ahmad Shahin, who lectures at the same American Open University. (He also met at the time with New York imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.) The radical Islamic school trains many of NAIF's more than 150 members, who control mosques across America.
American Open University supports Sharia, or Islamic law. And its founder and chairman, Jaafar Sheikh Idris, has denounced the U.S system of democracy as "the antithesis of Islam" and argued no man has the right to make laws outside Allah's laws expressed in the Quran.
"There is a basic difference between Islam and this form of democracy," he says. "The basic difference is that in Islam it is [Allah's] law as expressed in the Quran and the Sunna that is the supreme law within the limits of which people have the right to legislate.
"No one can be a Muslim who makes or freely accepts or believes that anyone has the right to make or accept legislation that is contrary to that divine law," Idris adds. "Examples of such violations include the legalization of alcoholic drinks, gambling, homosexuality, usury or interest, and even adoption."
Its most unfortunate that the first Muslim in Congress turns out to be either a supporter of radical Islamic ideology or a radical Islamist. There are many good, honest, patriotic, freedom-loving, Constitution-supporting Muslims throughout America, and instead of one of them paving the way for the way Muslims for others to follow, with the blessing of other Americans of different faiths, a radical Islamist steps into the seat and behold - Americans have yet another reason to be concerned about followers of Islam in America.
For more on this, Flopping Aces offers a sound perspective on the issue in his Swearing in on the (Fill in the Blank). As usual, many liberals, as well as some conservatives, are missing the Queen Mary as it passes right over them at full speed.
Posted by Richard at December 7, 2006 8:45 AM
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