Ellison Dances to CAIR’s Tune
Charles Johnson
Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 7:57 am PST • Views: 299
As we noted Tuesday, one of the people who attended the Islamic victimhood conference with the six airport imams was none other than Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Now Ellison is getting right to work—doing the bidding of radical Islamic front group CAIR and capitalizing on their latest staged controversy: Ellison seeks meeting on removal of clerics. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Congressman-elect Keith Ellison wants to meet with executives of US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission to discuss the removal of six Muslim clerics from a flight on Monday.
Ellison sent the letter to US Airways CEO Doug Parker and Jeff Hamiel, executive director of the MAC, late Wednesday. As of Friday, no meeting had been scheduled.
The pilot ordered the imams off the flight after their praying, conversation and behavior alarmed several passengers and flight attendants on the Phoenix-bound flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The incident drew national attention. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has said it will review the incident.
Ellison won election to represent the Minneapolis-centered Fifth District earlier this month, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress in the country. The airport is within his district.
“While some constituents have understood the fears of the passenger who reported the clerics’ prayers as suspicious activity, many more have expressed shock and surprise at what they perceive as discrimination,” Ellison wrote.
Ellison, a two-term DFL state representative from Minneapolis, said he wants to hear about the airport and airline’s policy on removing passengers from a flight. He said he would bring other legislators and community members to the meeting.
This is an effort to delegitimize the efforts of US citizens to protect themselves from Islamic terrorism. By staging these incidents and then dramatizing them way out of proportion, CAIR and their tool Ellison are trying to build the impression that people who notice and report suspicious behavior on airplanes are bigoted and/or crazy.
Frank says: