First MUZI in Congress to Speak at CAIR Event


Washington, D.C. 10 Nov 06 ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that Keith Ellison, the first Moslem in Congress, will join other elected officials as a keynote speaker November 18th at the Washington-based civil rights group’s 12th Annual Banquet in Arlington, Va.

CAIR’s dinner, which in past years had sold-out crowds of more than 1,000, will feature addresses by Representative-elect Ellison (D-MN) and Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Albert Wynn (D-MD).
Other speakers at the event include a representative of the FBI and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Attendees will include many Moslem and interfaith leaders, diplomats from Moslem nations and American Moslem community activists.

Ellison won Tuesday’s election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District by a more than two-to-one margin. He will be the first American Moslem to hold elected office at the national level.

“We are honored to have the first American Moslem elected to Congress offer his first major address during our annual banquet,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.


This from Frontpage Mag:
Journalist Joel Mowbray has been virtually the only journalist who has pursued this connection, exploring in a recent column “Mr. Ellison’s seemingly tight connection with Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom he met almost two decades ago at the University of Minnesota.” Mowbray reports that “Mr. Awad headlined a fundraiser last month that the campaign estimates netted $15,000 to $20,000, and in July, and it appears that CAIR’s co-founder bundled contributions totaling just over $10,000. (The campaign issued a terse denial on the latter point, though it refused to explain away overwhelming evidence to the contrary.)” Faced with this evidence, Ellison’s backers have “attempted to paint attacks on the candidate as overtly partisan or even bigoted. A Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, for example, recently suggested that Mr. Ellison is under attack solely for being Moslem.”

What is so troubling about Ellison’s connection with Awad and CAIR? Mowbray quotes the assessments of two leading Democrats: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has declared that CAIR “is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its association with groups that are suspect.” New York Senator Charles Schumer, once said that CAIR “has ties to terrorism” and that Ellison’s supporter Awad has “intimate connections with Hamas.” Mowbray establishes the latter point from Awad’s own mouth, quoting his 1994 statement: “I’m in support of the Hamas movement.”

CFPA: This man is a Black Racist, Louis Farrakhan and Hamas supporter. He is up to his elbows in support of terrorists. He is now the head terrorist supporter in the United States Congress.
God help us!

The real CAIR: Congress of American Islamic Radicals

Posted: 10 Nov 06