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August 27, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Stanley Kurtz observes that “[o]utgoing New York Times editor Bill Keller has kicked up a controversy by placing on the table a series of religious questions for the Republican candidates for president.” I want to get in on the act and pose a set of questions for Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison, America’s first Muslim congressman. I summarized my research on Ellison just before he was elected to Congress
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April 14, 2011 — Scott Johnson
I think I’ve had Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison’s number for quite a while. I took a shot at sizing him up for Weekly Standard readers in “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman,” just before Ellison was elected to Congress in 2006. What Rep. Vito Marcantonio was to World War II and the Cold War (a Communist tool), Rep. Keith Ellison is to the war on terrorism. One of Ellison’s best
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March 11, 2011 — Scott Johnson
It’s weird watching Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison take his place on the national stage in opposition to Peter King’s hearing on homegrown Islamic extremism this week. Yesterday he played his role to the hilt in his testimony at the hearings, turning on the waterworks in the conclusion of his testimony. The Star Tribune was duly impressed. Today the Star Tribune reports that “Ellison could not fight back the
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March 8, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison embodies the superficially odd alliance between Islamist forces and the left. He is not useful for much, but he is useful to illustrate the phenomenon. He is also useful to those who seek to minimize the threat posed by radical Islam to Americans. Americans probably don’t need to be persuaded that the threat is real. The Christian Science Monitor reports that in the years
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October 24, 2010 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison made his name as the first Muslim elected to Congress. It was therefore all but obligatory for him to weigh in on the firing of Juan Williams from NPR as a result of Williams’s expression of his feelings on Fox News about seeing air passengers dressed in “Muslim garb,” as he did last week on Ed Schultz’s MSNBC show. It’s always illuminating to hear
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April 19, 2010 — Scott Johnson
In today’s New York Times Andrea Elliott traces the Obama administration’s efforts to “reach out” to American Muslims. Elliott’s story covers ground that we have gone over here at some length, such as John Brennan’s mind-boggling talk to Muslims at NYU Law School and the appointment of Rashad Hussain to be the administration’s representative to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. If I do say so myself, readers wanting to
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January 31, 2010 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Keith Ellison has written a letter to President Obama urging him to use diplomatic pressure to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza. 50 members of the House have signed the letter, including Ellison’s fellow Minnesotans Betty McCollum and James Oberstar. The letter pays lip service to the security needs of Southern Israel, which had been subject to repeated attacks from Gaza — attacks which, to my knowledge, never prompted Ellison
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September 29, 2009 — Paul Mirengoff
On September 18, Rep. Keith Ellison spoke at the annual fundraising dinner for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). He did so even though, as the American Islamic Forum for Democracy notes, the FBI has broken all formal relations with CAIR because it is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial. The Holy Land Foundation and five of its
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January 7, 2009 — Scott Johnson
…on Al Jazeera English. He speaks to Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi about the Israeli offensive in Gaza “and why he feels so few US politicians understand the Middle East.” Ellison represents Minnesota’s Fifth District in Congress. I wrote about him here in a series of posts titled “Who is Keith Ellison” from his nomination by the Democratic Party at the Fifth District convention in May 2006, to the Democratic primary
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October 31, 2008 — Scott Johnson
After Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination this past June, I set out a comparison between Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison and Barack Obama. (Minnesota’s Fifth District covers Minneapolis and its inner-ring suburbs.) I think the comparison remains both valid and illuminating. I am taking the liberty of revisiting my argument this morning. Watching the emergence of Barack Obama this year I have experienced at least a slight
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June 30, 2008 — Scott Johnson
Watching the emergence of Barack Obama this year I have experienced at least a slight sense of deja vu. With modifications and variations, the Obama phenomenon was anticipated by the rise of Minnesota Fifth District (Minneapolis) Rep. Keith Ellison in 2006. I didn’t know anything about Ellison when he won the endorsement of the DFL (Democratic) Fifth District convention in May 2006. The endorsement kicked off a competitive four-way primary
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June 14, 2008 — Scott Johnson
The Iranian press features Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison in “Congressman slams US Iranian policy.” The article notes that Ellison is “critical of the US and Western mass media, which generally offer a prejudgmental image of Iran and a negative view of Islam.” Given the mullahs’ appreciation of Rep. Ellison’s good works, I’m sure theyd be willing to use a more flattering photo of Ellison than the one above
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June 8, 2008 — Scott Johnson
From the moment Minnesota Fifth District (Mineapolis) Rep. Keith Ellison first arrived on the scene from Detroit and started making a name for himself as a law student at the University of Minnesota, he was a mouthpiece for the Nation of Islam and its revolting ideology. Over the imprecations of his Jewish classmates, for example, Ellison helped bring raving anti-Semitic Nation of Islam speaker Kwame Toure to the the University
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April 9, 2008 — Scott Johnson
Tom Bevan expresses puzzlement over a passage of the keynote speech given by Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison at the Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium this past weekend in Illinois. According to a report of his speech, Ellison touted the virtues of Islamic illumination for an enlightened understanding of current events: Ellison went on to say if more people knew of what Islam had to teach, the controversy created by
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November 3, 2007 — Scott Johnson
I believe we ran 21 posts in our “Who is Keith Ellison?” series last year before Ellison was elected Minnesota’s Fifth District representative last November. I summarized the Ellison research in the Weekly Standard article “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman” and the companion post “Keith Ellison for dummies.” This week’s Star Tribune report on Ellison’s new cause prompts me to resurrect the series for part 22: A campaign to free a
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October 27, 2007 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this week Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison took to the floor of the House of Representatives to speak in anticipation of the anniversary of the death of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. Ellison recalled: It was a long night, Mr. Speaker, when we heard back the reports as the news reports said that a plane has gone down in Ely, Minnesota, and it was thought to be
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July 16, 2007 — Scott Johnson
Mark Levin kindly invited me on his radio program this evening for a segment to talk about Keith Ellison and his “Bushitler” remarks. The segment is accessible here. Hot Air has posted video of Ellison’s remarks here. Listeners visiting for the first time may want to check out my Standard article “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman” and the companion post “Keith Ellison for dummies.” Most recently I wrote about Ellison’s “Bushitler”
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