Representative Keith Ellison was asked to go to Iraq this week by SecDef Robert Gates and we’ll have more on that as it gets reported, but Keith also wrote a great piece in the Washington Post about religious freedom.
The line “Whole days‚ even weeks ‚ have gone by without me being asked to speak on behalf of the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world.” was delivered without a hint of irony (‘cause I would have had field day with that “No one is asking Amy Klobuchar what it’s like be a Slovenian American — but yet whole days, and even weeks have gone by without me being asked to speak on behalf of 1.3 billion Muslims!”) and his unmitigated pride in and love for America is obvious throughout.
American Muslims are an asset to the country, not a threat. Unfair suspicion and profiling does not serve the national interest or honor our hard earned reputation as the beacon for civil and human rights around the world.
I can’t speak for every Muslim, but I remain confident and hopeful about the prospects for America’s Muslims because, in the end, America is about religious tolerance, inclusion, and fairness.
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Ellison did a good job to make himself sound pretty reasonable. It’s too bad Newsweek didn’t ask him about when he called the President a Nazi or some of the other vitriolic rhetoric he has used in the short nine months he’s been in Congress.
Chris,
You are the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to vitriol, pally.
There is a pretty fair amount of your archived insulting responses here on Publius, troll.
Nitro = permanent ignore.
Ditto.
LOLS permanent ignore. I laugh. Permanent Chris “duhhh” is more like it.
By the way my “ditto” was NOT intended to be toward Chris’ stupid statement. I was dittoing Nitro’s comment. However, to be truthful, they both come off in this case as children.
Anonymous,
You call me stupid for ignoring Nitro and that’s your right. Do you really support Nitro calling me names and insulting me?
No doubt old Keith can probably do us some good with his friends over there. But I hope he gets along better there than he does here.
It would have been so much more professional if he had been big enough to just comeout an apologize to Amy Alexander. Instead he gets a judge to order her mute on their on-again/off-again 12 year abusive extramarital affair. Bad idea. Would have been so much better to put all that behind him instead of intensifying it’s impact through more avoidance.
I have high hopes for Keith once he grows up and cleans up the wreckage of his past.
Drew Emmer,
How is Fred Thompson going to clean up the wreckage of his past?
Slowly but surely I am being drawn away from this blog, because the shit flinging is ridiculous. I find myself engaging it as well, which really pisses me off.
Chris: No, I will not feel sorry for you when people call you names. People call people names because they are unhappy with you. You constantly belittle people on this site and are openly racist toward Ellison, so I find no reason to defend you, unless it is an issue of freedom of speech.
Nitro at least seems to have a mind of his own. I have yet to see a post by you Chris that seems like you have actually thought it out critically, without first putting it through the “would this fly with other R’s” test, for lack of a better name.
You are a sheep.