Rep. Keith Ellison's emotional testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee's hearing on Muslim radicalization as he recounted the tale of a 9/11 first responder who died in the attack was powerful stuff. But some conservatives had a different reaction -- suggesting Ellison was putting on a show and even that there were not false rumors about the 9/11 first responder in the heated period after the attacks.Mohammed Salman Hamdani was, as Ellison testified, "a 23-year-old paramedic, a New York City police cadet and a Muslim American. He was one of those brave first responders who tragically lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost a decade ago." Ellison testified that some people "spread false rumors and speculated that he was in league with the attackers only because he was Muslim."
"Ellison's crocodile tears are in service of a deception," wrote Robert Spencer on his blog Jihad Watch. "The existence of Muslims who truly accept American Constitutional freedoms does not mitigate or refute the existence of jihadists, jihad sympathizers, and Islamic supremacists among Muslims in the U.S., and vice versa. This would be an elementary point taken for granted by everyone were it not for the determined efforts of Congressman Ellison (D-Muslim Brotherhood) and his allies to obfuscate it."
Ellison, wrote Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, was "drawing sympathy from the same liberals and pundits who had taunted the speaker of the House for his tears" -- comparing Boehner's tears over not being able to visit schools anymore to Ellison crying about attacks on a Sept. 11 victim due to his faith.
"Yes, Muslim Ellison shed big tears for a Muslim who died on 9/11, but not for all the almost 3,000 'infidels' who died on that day," writes the blogger "Robert" on the Patriot Action Network.
"Ellison crying over a Muslim killed on 9/11," Chris Plante, a former Pentagon correspondent for CNN who hosts a radio show on D.C. radio station WMAL, wrote on Twitter. "I assume he cried harder for the U.S. Airmen shot in Germany & our troops at Ft. Hood."
"Pardon me while I hurl" Kevin Eder of the Media Research Center wrote on Twitter in response to Ellison crying "when he said people shouldn't be identified by their religion or ethnic group." Clarifying his quote, Eder wrote in response to an inquiry that he thought "left-wing politicians regularly identify ppl by their race/ethnicity. Amusing to see them all of a sudden decrying it."
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