Keith Ellison is the first Muslim to serve in the US Congress. He is serving his second term in the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives and also serves on the Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. Representative Ellison has been an outspoken advocate for American Muslims and his trips to the Muslim World, such as a visit to Palestine in the aftermath of the Israeli attacks in 2009, have garnered international support for his outreach to the Muslim World.
Keith Ellison. Congressman Keith Ellison. (Photo: Ralph Alswang / Flickr)One might imagine the ties between Minnesota and the Horn of Africa are tenuous at best, but the Midwest state has one of the largest Somali diaspora populations in North America, ...
Rep. Keith Ellison is adding his voice to those of protestors demonstrating outside the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. The protestors—organized, in part, by Occupy Our Homes—argue that bankers haven't been held accountable for ...and more »
Rep. Keith Ellison said Sunday the Obama administration has nonmilitary options available to deal with Syria, despite the president's earlier warnings that the use of chemical weapons in the uprising there would constitute a “red line.” “Red line does ...
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison has written an autobiography that will be published Sept. 24 by Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" is the title of the book by the fourth-term Congress member, who is black, Latino and ...
REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MN): Well, I'm an American, and I'm concerned about national safety, public safety, just like everyone is. But I think it's ineffective law enforcement to go after a particular community. I think what we need to do is look at ...
TCguns_carry April 24, 2013 22:10 Keith Ellison, did you miss this? "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the injured suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has told interrogators that he and his brother, Tamerlan, were driven by hard-line Islamist views and anger ...
During a discussion on Fox News' 'The Five' about terror attacks committed by Muslims, host Eric Bolling claimed that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was a "Muslim apologist in Congress" and "very dangerous." According to MediaMatters.org, Bolling recalled ...
US Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Chief Deputy Whip, recently urged the US House of Representatives to work to prevent patient deaths. The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety ...and more »
Progressives loved seeing Rep. Keith Ellison smack down his GOP congressional colleague Peter King on “Meet the Press” Sunday, insisting that profiling Muslims in the wake of the Boston bombing is not only wrong but “ineffective law enforcement.
But despite his Catholicism, Bolling has no problem denigrating Rep. Keith Ellison (D), the first Muslim elected to the US Congress. Recently Bolling bore some false witness, on "The Five, by making the defamatory and unsubstantiated claim that Ellison ...and more »
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