Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) during a 2008 trip to Saudi Arabia met with a radical Muslim cleric who endorsed killing U.S. soldiers and with the president of a bank used to pay the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
Ellison, now a leading candidate to head the Democratic National Committee, was brought to Saudi Arabia for a two-week trip by the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood to act as its “overt arm” in the United States.
Details of Ellison’s religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia are scarce, but photographs discovered by the Washington Free Beacon show that Ellison met with controversial figures during the trip.
A photo album of Ellison’s hajj trip posted by MAS’s Minnesota chapter includes a picture of the congressman meeting with Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, who was vice president of a Muslim Brotherhood-created group that in 2004 issued a fatwa urging “jihad” against U.S. troops in Iraq and supported the Palestinians’ Second Intifada against Israel.
“The Jihad-waging Iraqi people’s resistance to the foreign occupation … is a Shari’a duty incumbent upon anyone belonging to the Muslim nation,” the fatwa said, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Bin Bayyah’s group, the International Association of Muslim Scholars, issued the fatwa after a conference in Beirut, Lebanon.
The group was founded by Yusuf Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who was banned from visiting the United States because of his calls to kill Jews and Americans.
The rest at the Washington Free Beacon
Since the demac-RATS are mostly a bunch of traitors,scoundrels and fiends in the first place a low life snake like ellison would fit right in
I remember liberals saying “Please please PLEASE let Donald Trump run”, and then “Please please PLEASE let Donald Trump get the nomination”, as they laughed their asses off.
I also think that Ellison would be the worst possible thing for the Democrats (assuming that Democrats genuinely do love their country). But I would not openly tease them about it – people would support him as a big “F-U” to the opposition, which is largely how Trump got elected.
Well, they just picked Pelosi to continue to be the visible proof of how stupid Democrats can be, so why not Ellison?
@Dreadnought:
Exactly
@Bill: Bill, surely you agree this is a great pick for the Dimocrats. Every since she has been their leader they have been losing seats in the house. This term should be good for losing quite a few more.
The democrats did not learn in 2010, 2012, 2014 and now 2016. As long as their leadership remains status quo, they will become much less of a national party than they are today and will become solidified as a regional party.
A big FU to working class democrats they will die the only important places are dc, NY and California the rest of you can just pay for their cushy retirement as the party goes down in flames.
@July 4th American: “The democrats did not learn in 2010, 2012, 2014 and now 2016.” Their reaction is always to go more extreme. Staying with the sock-eyed idiot Pelosi and even CONSIDERING Ellison as the leader of the DNC proves this. Only a party that considers protecting criminals, as in sanctuary cities and Black Lives Matter, would consider such miscreants as “leaders”.
@kitt: Now the Democrats REALLY need to get rid of the Electoral College.