U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison again faces questions about Louis Farrakhan relationship
Source: StarTribune
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison faced new questions this week about his relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, the black nationalist notorious for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Ellison, a congressman representing Minneapolis since his election as the nation’s first Muslim representative in 2006, acknowledged this week attending a 2013 dinner meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York City to discuss negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. In attendance were a group of a few dozen prominent Muslim-Americans, including Farrakhan.
“As part of the 2013 U.N. General Assembly, and as negotiations were underway for what would become the Iran deal, I attended a meeting with President Rouhani and nearly 50 American Muslim leaders. This was not a private dinner, I didn’t know in advance who else would be there, and my decision to attend was not an endorsement of the political views of other attendees,” Ellison said in a statement this week.
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As a law student at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s, Ellison defended Farrakhan on the Op-Ed page of the Minnesota Daily. He helped organize buses from the Twin Cities for Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” in 1995. Farrakhan has frequently embraced the criticism that he is an anti-Semite. He once said “the satanic Jews that control everything and mostly everybody — if they are your enemy — then you must be somebody.” During Ellison’s failed race to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he repudiated Farrakhan, as he has since his 2006 race for Congress. But Farrakhan said in a December 2016 Facebook post that Ellison and U.S. Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana visited his hotel suite during a trip to Washington.
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State Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, a prominent Jewish elected official and longtime supporter, said Ellison is a trustworthy ally on issues of racism and anti-Semitism. The congressman has “repeatedly repudiated the Nation of Islam and its message, and his actions on the ground affirm that,” Hornstein said.
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I do remember YODA
I'm a total Star Wars dork (I know, you'd never have guessed...) so the Yoda avatar was the obvious choice. 
all you people in the 5th are communists. Of course there are wing nuts who post on Erik Paulsen's Facebook page accusing anyone who disagrees with Paulsen of being a commie so I guess you and I could be called "fellow travelers".
I wonder what the Trumpsters will call us if they ever figure out it's not the 1950s. 
You're absolutely right. I have no values.
Voters of Steve King's district in Iowa keep electing him despite his well documented white supremacist views. That says something about them.
Am I saying that every voter in Kings district is a white supremacist. No. Just like not every resident of Minneapolis in an antisemite.
I am sure many of their respective supporters are unaware of this.
But there are those who are and still vote for them despite this. Do all of them share their beliefs. No. But they aren't deal breakers either.
As Edmond Burke said "all that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
Choosing the practice his choice of MUSLIM Faith as Freedom of Religion is a RIGHT In this Country, I.E. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself with the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
Add to Representative Ellison's right to practice the religion of his choice, to the fact he is a DEMOCRAT and ATTACKING DEMOCRATS on D.U. is a violation of this Board's Term of Service:
I.E. Core Principles of D.U.
With that, have a great afternoon.
Repeat: "The left seems to have a real bind spot about this." <---- Do you REALIZE YET this is Democratic Underground? Obviously not. 
worked with Franken, right?
