Washington Times does some Muslim bashing, says Congress is terrified of Keith Ellison

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According to a (subscriber’s-only) article in Insight, the sensationalist newsweekly put out by the right-wing Washington Times, “both Democratic and Republican” members of Congress, unnamed in the story, “have been worried” that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) “would become the strongest advocate of extreme Islam in Congress.”

"He is a pleasant man, but his advocacy of the Saudi agenda is very worrisome," a senior House aide said. "This feeling represents numerous Democrats."

Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, has been a target of the far Right since his election last November. Talk show host Dennis Prager said he “should not be allowed” to pose with Koran after his swearing in, a sentiment echoed by self-described “defender of religious freedom” Jay Sekulow, and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore—who was removed from the bench for refusing an order to move a two-ton Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse—wrote that Muslims like Ellison are not fit for office. Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Virginia) warned his constituents that “if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.” Meanwhile, other right-wing commentators have attempted to link Ellison to American Muslim groups they purport to be somehow associated with terrorism.

Insight, citing anonymous “congressional sources,” claims that “no Democrat has gone public in fear of a Saudi-financed Muslim backlash, particularly by Ellison's biggest supporter, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/08/washington_time_2.html

Given the choice of Ellison and Prager, Goode, Moore, and Sekulow, it really sounds like Ellison is the more tolerant and pluralistic. The people we should be worried about are not Muslims like Mr. Ellison, but those four who are complicit in tearing this country apart and cheer leading for the Far Right.

[marmar]

1. No suprise coming from that right-wing nutso rag.....

It doesn't even deserve to be recycled as toilet paper.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. The Saudi Agenda? Is that the one where all the women have to wear burqas and all the men

bow down to Mecca 5 times a day?


Come on. Grow up, people. (Can't believe they are allowed to even print this nonsense)

[madrchsod]

3. moonbeam`s rival`s-the saudi`s?

poor moombeam is he afraid the saudi`s will have more influence than him in washington if the democrats take over? just why is he the second coming of christ anyway? could it be money and blackmail?

[peacetalksforall]

4. The colonization of what was to become the U.S. infused and infested this

country with a perpetual line of hate for others. Natives, African slaves, Irish, Italians, Asians. Now it's Mexicans (for them it means all of Central American as well) and Moslems.

For them, northern European xhristian descendents are acceptable.

I find it interesting, that some of the most rabid of the Islam haters, point the finger at Saudi Arabia and vote and pimp for the Bushes.

I also find it interesting, that they accurately referred to post photo-op for holding the Koran (instead of the real swearing in), but they use the word 'demanding' the Koran.

They are so good for introducing and manufacturing raw hate.

Have Christians ever been known to hate as vehemently as these people?