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ERLANDSON ATTACKS ELLISON FOR APPEARING WITH HAMAS SUPPORTER
By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 1, 2006
"Erlandson also accused Ellison of appearing recently with a supporter of the Palestinian group Hamas, which the United States considers a terrorist organization. Erlandson's aide said he was referring to Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington D.C., who attended an Ellison fundraiser last Friday in the Twin Cities sponsored by a group of Muslim businessmen.
Ibrahim Hooper, the council's spokesman, denounced Erlandson's remark: 'It is unfortunate that a candidate for public office would stoop to anti-Muslim bigotry … by using long-refuted smears. Neither the council nor Mr. Awad supports any terrorist group anywhere in the world.'" Source: Star Tribune, September 1, 2006
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September 1st, 2006 at 9:04 AM
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22352_Wolf_in_Sheeps_Clothing&only
“Video capture of Steve Emerson on the Hannity & Colmes show, featuring faux moderate Maher Hathout raving about Israel in 2000. Standing next to Hathout onstage: CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad.”
September 1st, 2006 at 9:40 AM
Isn’t Hammas the democratically elected leadership of the Palestinians?
You all make such a big stink about the need for democratic elections in the middle east. Does this only apply to elections where you are allowed to select the winners? Maybe we should bomb the Palestinians until the allow us to hand select their democratically elected leaders.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:49 AM
Roving. Too stupid to merit a response.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:09 AM
Holly shit Roving. You aren’t really serious are you?
September 1st, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Lawrence-
I am not at all suprised that you are too stupid to respond, and I appreciate your honest self-asessment.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:27 AM
We pushed for elections, and guess what? Hezbollah and Hamas got elected in those countries. Same damn thing in Iraq and their extremists.
You can’t force democracy on people who are ready to fight for it themselves.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:30 AM
We can all hope that if Br. Keith Hakim-Mohammed Ellison gets elected to the U.S. Congress, Roving Reporter will be tapped as his Press Aide. That should abbreviate what otherwise would already be a short-term stint in office.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:44 AM
Roving
Yes, moving towards democratically elected governments is a preferable progression away from despots such as Saddam, etc.
No, Hamas is not a good organization, democratically elected or otherwise.
How can you seriously be so completely ignorant?
Just a piece of advice. You can be a good, honest Lefty without defending Hamas, hitting women, lawlessness and the racist tendancies of the Nation of Islam.
But you choose otherwise. . .
Hmm.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:47 AM
How dare Palestineans elect leadership unacceptable to Israelis and their dupes here in America. Let’s bomb them to smithereens and teach em a lesson they won’t forget.
Oh…I almost forgot…the Israelis have no negotiating partner do they??
September 1st, 2006 at 10:48 AM
The issue is not who the Palestinians elected. The issue is whether or not you consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
Is or is not Hamas a terrorist organization?
September 1st, 2006 at 10:52 AM
I’ll just copy-paste my response from the previous thread……
If Bush opposes a fundamentalist Nazi government that wants to exterminate the Jew, and the liberals/Democrats in the U.S. support that government, then I’m proud to be a conservative Republican Bush supporter.
There’s been several letters to the editors in Minnesota papers saying the same thing. Bush haters say we should support the Jew haters in the mideast.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:01 AM
There is a big need for democratic elections in the ME. No argument. A voice in self-determination is one of the most basic, foundational rights every human deserves.
And so they voted, and elected Hamas. That was their right. You’ve heard no one on the conservative side now saying, never mind, they really SHOULDN’T have been able to vote. You have heard many of us say what complete idiots we think they are for having chosen as they did. Big difference. Just because they did it democratically doesn’t mean we have to act like the idiot leaders they’ve chosen are now wise and good and un-evil.
If Hitler were elected in Germany today, would we argue that we had to treat with him simply because he was democratically elected? Nope. You’re conflating two separate issues in the hopes that they’ll sound good. They actually mostly just sound silly.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:11 AM
roving reporter:
i’ll respond, you sanctimonious idiot. i’ve monitored you’re posts here now for about a month. you need to go spend some time in one of your emulated third world countries. go live for a while under conditions other than which you enjoy here. stop trying to imagine what it’s like…go live it for a while first hand. or if that’s beyond your capabilities, just get out of your mommy’s basement and face reality in a harsh unforgiving world where people don’t fit into the lofty idealistic pegs and holes you’ve manufactured in your safe little mind.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:39 AM
It’s no wonder Roving Idiot can support a Con Man like Keith Ellison.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:52 AM
RR – Adolph Hitler was democratically elected too you know. Are you against what we did in WWII?
September 1st, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Ooh. An attempt at wit. You’re branching out. Don’t hurt yourself.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:30 PM
Roving Retard, You a funny guy – you make me laugh – HA HA
Now go lay down by your water dish.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:18 PM
Roving Repeater, do you know nothing about Hamas? Please move out of America, you are a threat to my family. You are simply the stupidiest writer of thoughts I have ever encountered.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:55 PM
Lady-
Nice try, but Hitler was not ever deomcratically elected.
In 1933 following a terrorist attack on the Reichstag,Hitler asked President Hindenburg to issue a decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties. Then, a few weeks later, he demanded that the members of the Reichstag temporarily grant power to him, which they did, making him dictator.
Lets look at this in terms of our current situation here in the US.
Terrorist attack: Check.
Decreased civil liberties: Check.
Bush as dictator: Still to come?
September 1st, 2006 at 2:01 PM
Here are a couple of quotes from Keith’s allies at CAIR:
“What has happened in Somalia, for the majority of Somalis inside and those who are abroad, is a positive change.”
Ahmad Al-Akhras
CAIR Vice-Chairman
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the uture…But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
Ibrahim Hooper
CAIR Spokesperson
I see now why Keith Hakim-Mohammed Ellison wants immediate surrender in Iraq.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:06 PM
Wow Roving. I try to learn from the other side, but comparing Bush to Hitler…that’s pretty fucking retarded.
Keep defending Hamas. I can’t imagine people on the left really appreciate being associated with them.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:15 PM
Mr. Roving Ranter should read the post on Powerline about Bush and Trotsky. CAIR is a dangerous organization and anyone tied to that same organization is not worthy of holding office or protecting us from the terrorist.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:52 PM
“Decreased civil liberties: Check.”
What can’t you do today that you could do five years ago?
You can still spew your crap without fear of the government calling on you.
You can still worship satan as usual.
You’re free to travel to any local Communist meeting you’d like.
You’re free to lie about G.W. any time you want.
I’m not seeing any loss in your freedoms. I see just rhetoric.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:57 PM
I’d like to address a statement I see being made frequently here and on the City Pages Blotter about Ellison’s involvement with the Nation of Islam. Roving “Britt Robson” Reporter and others with his mindset keep claiming that Ellison was not a member of the Nation of Islam, and his only involvement with them was his work organizing the Minnesota contingent of the Million Man March in 1995.
Well, that’s just not true. Keith made his admiration for the NOI and Farrakhan apparent in his many columns for the Minesota Daily, where he went by the name Keith Hakim. And furthermore….how believable is it that the guy who ORGANIZED the entire Minnesota contingent for the Million Man March (which, despite my loathing for Farrakhan, did have some admirable goals, such as trying to empower black men to take control of their lives and do something positive in their communities) but wasn’t intimately involved with the Nation of Islam organization? Not believable at all.
Then there’s Ellison’s statements this year to the effect of “I didn’t realize how anti-Semitic the Nation of Islam was”. Um, yeah, right…anti-Semitism is the fuel that fires that Nation of Islam, and it’s evident in virtually everything they espouse and preach about. To believe that Keith didn’t know or recognize the full extent of the NOI’s anti-Semitism is to believe in the tooth fairy. Of course he knew.
But, the thing that I think has gotten lost in all the back and forth of this whole debate is, what does the Nation of Islam really stand for? What have they said publicly that demonstrates their vile anti-Semitism?
Well, read up people…read the hell up…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam_and_anti-semitism
(Note the “Jews are Bloodsuckers” quote from Khalid Abdul-Muhammad, a quote that comes from roughly the same time period as when Khalid shared a U of M podium with Keith Ellison)
Does somebody who belonged to an organization that spouts hatred like that belong in the US Congress representing Minnesotans?
If you answered “yes,” please, please, go have your head thoroughly examined. You might be suffering from LJS (Latent Jew-Hater Syndrome). Ask your doctor if a brownshirt might be right for you.
September 1st, 2006 at 3:55 PM
Hahahaa! This is absolutely the best stuff I’ve seen all year! Raving and the DFL Dink playing “the meaning of is” with Hitler and Hamas!!
Keep playing out that rope MDE…the hook is set plenty deep enough, put it is just too much fun to watch you play these left wing morons to boat ‘em just yet.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Roving Retard,
“Nice try, but Hitler was not ever deomcratically elected.â€
By the way you spelt democratically wrong.
You’re your attempt at knowing something – falls flat on your face again!
Like your spin on the rise of Hitler – it is so typical of you Left Wing Trolls (Moonbats)
to leave out bits and pieces to the facts and twist the truth were ever possible in your failed attempts to win any argument or to defend one of your LOSER political clowns running for office.
Regarding Hitler’s gain to power Started In the presidential election held on March 13, 1932,
There is more here: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp
So Hitler and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party did gain a foot hold into power through German elections – they gain seats in the Reichstag (the national congress) through democratic elections.
This leads to your next argument:
“Terrorist attack: Check.
Decreased civil liberties: Check.
Bush as dictator: Still to come?â€
Response:
Total nut job Moonbat mentality.
Now go lay down by your water dish.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:07 PM
For Roving Reprobate, there is no comment too idiotic to state on this blog. Anyone who seriously thinks a comparison can be drawn between Nazi Germany and America in 2006 with George Bush as president (I didn’t vote for him, but he is the president) is really not even worth engaging in an argument. That idea is so absurd, so utterly obscene, so positively offensive to all the people who suffered and died under Nazi rule, that I have to hope that Roving Reporter and those who feel the same way as he does on this particular issue get a chance someday to experience what it’s like to really live under a brutal, repressive dictatorship. Odds are good that Roving Reporter wouldn’t be “roving” much more in that kind of political environment. ‘Nuff said.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:15 PM
Erlandson is only pissed that he didn’t get to stand on stage with fellow jew haters.
Lets face it, the DFL has gone so far to the left (radical left at that) so as to be indistinquishable from those that sponsor and fund terrorism.
Time to juice up the mother wheel that Ellison and NOI claim to be piloting between the earth and the moon.
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Terrorist attack: Check.
Decreased civil liberties: Check.
Bush as dictator: Still to come?
RR – you are funny! What civil liberties have been lost? As many before me have already reminded you, there have been none. Opponents of the administration are free to spread their lies and spew their venom and hate without retribution. Again what civil liberties have been lost? Bush as Dictator? HA! Did Congress get dismantled last night? The Senate? The Judiciary? Until such time comes (which will not happen any time soon regardless of your fantasies) the dictator meme is shot full of holes!
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:51 AM
c’mon rover…give us some more!!
September 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 PM
Isn’t this that guy that has George Bush’s ear? So is W a supporter of Hamas?
September 3rd, 2006 at 9:58 AM
No, DJZ, this is not that guy (nice choice of words!) that has Bush’s ear. But nice try anyway.
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:08 PM
DJZ-
your attempts to claim some kind of moral relativism between CAIR and Awad being invited to the White House and Keith Ellison having Award speak at his fundraiser are laughable. Though I’m not a big fan of Bush, there is no doubt in my mind, given his past statements and behavior, that he supports Israel and opposes Hamas. Thus, if Bush invites Awad to the White House, I’m disappointed, but it doesn’t make me suddenly think GW Bush approves of worldwide jihad. But Keith Ellison’s past contains many shady connections to the Nation of Islam, a group which, as explained 5,000 times now, is rabidly anti-Semitic. So, thus (following my logic? I know, it’s very complicated for a deep thinker like yourself) when Ellison, who HAS a questionable past on this issue, invites Awad to speak at his fundraiser, it’s far more troubling.
Now sit back from your computer for a while, put on your “thinkin’ cap”, and mull this over. I’m marginally confident you are intelligent enough to make this important distinction, now that I’ve explained it in the same way I would have explained it to a third grader.
September 4th, 2006 at 12:23 PM
Roving,
Hitlers party the National SOCIALISTS were elected to a minority status in the German parliment. They then used events to be given more power through the parlimentary process. So yes, Hitler obtained power through a democratic process.
As far as George Bush being a dictator. As of January 21, 2009 he will hand over the President’s office to the person who has been elected.
September 4th, 2006 at 7:20 PM
Wow. You all really need to unbunch your panties. I wasn’t the one who compared Bush to Hitler. In post #15, Lady Logician raised the point. I just pointed out her error, that Hitler was never elected to office. Y’all did your best to protect her with your spin, but the fact remains that my grasp on history appears to trump yours.
As to civil liberties lost, I would call the ability to make phone calls without wondering if they are being listened to a loss of civil liberties. The use of sneak and peak warrants also smacks of unconstitutionality. I wasn’t a big fan of the administration’s decision to collect search data from Google, MSN and Yahoo, as I don’t see how that is any of their business. Section 802 of the Patriot act allows the government to charge non-violent protesters with domestic terrorism if they commit a criminal act deemed “dangerous to human life” that appears to be aimed at changing government policy.
I could go on, but I am sure you have already started typing a response that says as long as I don’t think for myself, these lost rights won’t matter, so I will let you get on with that.
September 4th, 2006 at 7:41 PM
If Roving Reporter had his way, we’d all be dead – but hey, we’d still have our rights!
September 4th, 2006 at 9:35 PM
…and if John had his way, we would all be alive, and living in cages.
September 4th, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Evil: // What can’t you do today that you could do five years ago? //
Talk on the telephone, as a ME reporter or researcher, without having your conversations wiretapped illegally.
Sell cookies as a Grandmother for Peace, without being investigated and infiltrated by the FBI.
Donate to charities supporting Afghanistani children, without being accused of direct support for terrorism.
There has been a determined ramp-up of radical, hard-line rhetoric on the right over the past five years. Starting with “with-us-or-against-us” blather, it has progressed to accusations of “aid and comfort to the enemy”, “emboldening terrorists”, and questioning the patriotism of anyone who questions the decisions of the Bush Administration.
I seriously heard one caller on talk radio ranting that “Bush is our president, and he should get to do whatever he wants to until the next election!” That’s not America, that’s temporary monarchy.
It’s long past time for some balance in government, and the American people get it. A new wind is blowing, and Republicans can smell change in the wind.