Muslims Have Nothing To Teach America

Update: Is Ellison a radical? I suppose the term could fit.

Newly elected Congressman Keith Ellison spoke to a large gathering of Muslims. His message and the response would be laughable, were they not so disappointing.

Speaking in Dearborn late Sunday night, the first Muslim elected to Congress told a cheering crowd of Muslims they should remain steadfast in their faith and push for justice.

“You can’t back down, you can’t chicken out, you can’t be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim,” Detroit native Keith Ellison said to loud applause.

“Allahu akbar” — God is great — was the reply of many in the crowd.

Can you imagine the reporting were another politician to speak to a crowd that responded: Hallelujah! Jesus is Lord? I doubt that it would be portrayed in a positive light. And the early signals from Ellison are very troubling for America and especially American-Muslims.

When he suggests Muslims can teach America about tolerance and justice, Ellison is stealing from the legacy of Blacks in America and attempting to somehow link Muslims to that struggle. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Given that it's Ellison who wants to inject Islam into politics, what Muslim nation is it that Ellison can point to as an example of a tolerant and just society? Which great Muslim leaders is it he can hold up as examples of an enlightened vision for peaceful co-existence with other religions? I see no great Muslim legacy at all when it comes to advancing human or civil rights.

The reality is that the mass of observant Muslims who came to America did so to be free from oppression and states where the populace shouted Allah Akbar in response to political speech. And they have, by and large, realized that dream.

Now this poseur, this snake oil salesman, more in tune with notorious race baiter's like Jackson and Sharpton, is attempting to build an allegedly oppressed power base all his own. And not once has he given a prominent speech denouncing terrorism, so linked to radical Islam.

The world, America, but most of all Muslims in America, don't need a Keith Ellison. His selfish attempts to inject law-abiding Muslims with a cause will ultimately do more to set Muslims back in America, than Osama bin Laden himself.

As individuals, Muslims certainly have as much to offer America as anyone else. But linked tightly as a religious group under a manufactured mask of victimization, they have nothing to offer, let alone teach, America at all.

 

Comments

[Joran]

I was there. He was fantastic! Charismatic as hell and really gets a crowd going. Word is, that a friend of Keith's wil also run for office. And guess what? He's a muslim. I know that's very scary to alot of you, but get over it. There everywhere and plan on making their themdselves known. Hear that Mr Prager and Mr Goode???

[Dan Riehl]

Charismatic as hell and really gets a crowd going

You morons would vote for a carnival barker you're so superficial and stoopid.

[Phoenix]

>told a cheering crowd of Muslims they should remain steadfast in their faith and push for justice.<

Hunh? The very second my eyes read those words, my mind automatically imaged Jackson and Sharpton.

What 'justice' is it exactly that they have to push for? Who is this ubiquitous 'they'? Fomenting, frothing wannabes?

[Darth Malice]

Liberals and muslims....a bad combo for America

[micah]

Yes, Muslims DO have something to teach America, and here it is:

If Americans sit around all fat 'n happy like zombies lost in a "Bed,Bath & Beyond", wandering through our McLives from paycheck to multiplex to drive-thru - "asleep at the wheel" - then we will get what we get!

Wake up! Stay alert and vigilent! Americans are honorable people, and our country is worth preserving and fighting for!!

[Darth Malice]

Micah the American people are fast asleep.Beer,sports and Social Security is what American care about.The preservation instinct has not kicked in.The people vote Democrat because it's like taking the blue pill.

[micah]

Darth Malice: Agreed!

Islamo-fascists are far more committed to their cause than we are to ours...

In this regard, we are our own worst enemy!!

[Darth Malice]

Hey Micah were you ever on confirmthem?......Well it has been a good week.I have been cheering on the Ethiopians,it is good to have good news.

[micah]

Confirm them?

[Darth Malice]

Confirm them is about judges....I swear I have seen your handle before.Maybe the old WBS chat,I was Mr. Gimgerbread man.Just seemed familiar

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Can you imagine the reporting were another politician to speak to a crowd that responded: Hallelujah! Jesus is Lord? I doubt that it would be portrayed in a positive light. And the early signals from Ellison are very troubling for America and especially American-Muslims.

If you'd ever seen Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton, giving a speech at an AME church, you couldn't say that with a straight face.

I think you mean "were a Republican politician".

[Darth Malice]

Charlie sad thing is the liberals own the media."Jesus" is hate speech in their eyes.

[seekeronos]

@ Micah:

Amen to that. We Americans need to wake up NOW to the evils of Islamist agitators who are creeping in unawares to spy out our liberty and destroy us. It seems that another sad day of reckoning may be in store for us all before we really get the message.

@ Darth Malice:

You nailed that right on the head. But turn around and have someone delivering some America-bashing/Christ-hating rhetoric geared at those "evil fundies" who are always jabbering about "that zombie god of thiers"... and that is not hate speech, but treated as "Holy and Invoilate Gospel" in liberal circles.

Makes one wonder if mass deportations or internments of the bible-believing Christians is not as far fetched as one might think, if Pelosi and her posse are unchecked... :(

@ Charlie:

And as for the AME preachers, I think you'd be hard pressed to see "Reverend Al" preaching a message in the same Spirit as many old time Baptist preachers; and besides, the liberal MSM wouldn't dare speak awry of an established black minister, especially such a race baiter as the "Reverend" Al.

Point taken though... any Republican politician preaching Christ and the power of His resurrection at a rally would be immediately classed by the MSM as a public menace (with the possible exception of the state of Texas, where some folks still look favourably on a Christian politician, such as the current governor there).

[Darth Malice]

President Ford died

[micah]

I am glad to see people take a stand rather than cowering in fear!

Re: President Ford, RIP indeed.