The left and Islamists--a case study from The Grand Jihad

Andrew McCarthy in his book The Grand Jihad highlights a sad development in this country -- an election that made Keith Ellison the first avowed Muslim member of Congress. According to the author, Ellison is the embodiment of Islam and the left, which he warned about earlier in the book.

Ellison, like Barack Obama, emerged out of leftist culture. In his case, Ellison was a shock trooper for Louis Farrakhan, the head of the racist, separatist Nation of Islam. He defended Farrakhan's anti-Semitism, which is pretty disgusting stuff. Remember, it was Farrakhan who said Judaism was a gutter religion. It was Farrakhan who said Jews were bloodsuckers, that they controlled the slave trade, that they have no claim to the land of Israel. His rants dealt with spaceships, homosexuals, and whites as devils. While at the University of Minnesota Law School, Ellison wrote a column demanding reparations for slavery. Does this sound like a wise public servant who should go to Congress to represent the American people?

Ellison became a lawyer in 1990, but he apparently had a hard time dealing with the law himself. He scoffed at income tax laws and campaign finance laws. His drivers license was suspended numerous times because he contemptuously ignored parking and moving violations. He became a community activist (does this sound familiar?). How did he spend his time then? He used his time and position to become a fixture at anti-police protests and rallies in favor of thugs and cop-killers.

Ellison has another strike against him, according to McCarthy. Ellison has become quite cozy with CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations). This organization strongly backed him when he ran as a Democrat for the House of Representatives in 2006. He appears regularly at their functions even though the Justice Department identified CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in one trial and later proved the organization had been formed by members caught on a wiretap discussing the need to derail the Oslo peace accords and to somehow support Hamas without being labeled as terrorist.

So, Ellison acts as a living illustration of a connection between the left and Islamists. This is a point that McCarthy tried earlier in his book to warn us about. It’s tough enough to defend against Islamic extremism without being double-teamed. Let’s keep awake. McCarthy’s book can be a big help.