Atlas Shrugs
February 26, 2010 Friday 11:24 PM EST

Muslim Congressmen Ellison Won’t Call Armenian Genocide Instead Calls
On America to Recognize "Its Own Genocide"

by Pamela Geller
Feb. 26, 2010

In today’s , Hurriyet Turkey’s English Daily, Keith Ellison, the
only devout Muslim member of Congress, was asked about how he would
vote on Armenian Genocide Resolution. An interesting question to pose
to a Muslim considering it was a jihad against millions of Armenians.
It was the genocide that preceded the Holocaust.The Mufti of
Jerusalem, practiced genocide first, in the Armenian genocide — the
systematic genocide of the Armenian population under the Islamic
Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. The use of
massacres and deportations involving forced marches under conditions
designed to lead to the death of the deportees led to a total number
of Armenian deaths of one-and-a-half to two million. Mufti Amin
Al-Husseini swore allegiance to the Ottoman Empire during the
Armenian genocide [i] .

[ii] He was an officer stationed in Smyrna and participates first-hand
in the Armenian genocide. One and a half million Christians were
slaughtered under the sword of Islamic Jihad by the Ottoman Army.
Allegiance to Ottoman Empire and Islamic world take-over was echoed by
Osama Bin Laden in his post-September 11 declaration. Osama Bin Laden
makes direct reference to end of Ottoman Empire and thus proclaims his
allegiance to its notion of Islamic dominion. Ellison’s answer to
the question of how he would vote on the House Foreign Relations
Committee’s , Armenian Genocide Resolution, H. Res. 252, e on March
4th, is particularly disgusting – not because he slithers out, "I am
still developing my position. I would like to know how this affects
Turkey and Armenias relationship. Is it going to help the
relationship, improve it or degrade it? I need to know the answer on
that before I decide on this resolution…." What difference does that
make? A genocide is a genocide, no matter what. Period. What contempt
the devout Ellison has for the Christian dead. It was jihad and
Ellison is a believer.But wait, it gets worse. He spreads taqiya and
hate and lies for America. He goes on to equate America, the best of
humanity with the worst of humanity, "America still has not recognized
its own genocide or genocides that it committee."He then goes on to
extol the plurality and tolerance of the newly fundamental Islamicized
Turkey. I kind you not. Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo??an
rejected attempts to call Turkey the representative of moderate Islam.
"It is unacceptable for us to agree with such a definition. Turkey has
never been a country to represent such a concept. Moreover, Islam
cannot be classified as moderate or not," Erdo??an said, speaking at
the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

It astounds me that this first time Congressman sits on the House
Foreign Relations Committee. Now that’s frightening.
Congressman Keith Ellison: ‘Turkey is a country on the forefront’

I had a chance to have a conversation with Congressman Keith Ellison,
the first Muslim congressman in the history of the United States, this
week at the U.S. House of Representatives. Ellison won the open seat
for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in 2006 and is also the
first African-American elected to the House from Minnesota.

In addition to being the first and still-only Muslim congressman, Mr.
Ellison is also member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, a key
committee that will take the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H. Res.
252, to vote on March 4.

I was both curious to hear his story so far as a Muslim congressman,
but also wanted to get in touch with him before the voting day and
hear about his position over the issue first hand.

I started the interview by first asking his position on the resolution
because of the urgency of the matter. He said: "I am still developing
my position. I would like to know how this affects Turkey and Armenias
relationship. Is it going to help the relationship, improve it or
degrade it? I need to know the answer on that before I decide on this
resolution… Is this resolution going to improve the well-being of
people in Armenia or Turkey or anywhere?"

Congressman Ellison also said America still has not recognized its own
genocide or genocides that it committed, yet tries to give lessons to
the other countries. Ellison said: "And you know, we have not
acknowledged yet the genocide that was committed against the Native
American tribes."

Congressman Ellison basically was telling me that everybody should
clean his or her own house first before telling others what to do.
Ellison was clearly uncomfortable with the situation he is in and it
was pretty obvious to see from his attitude while discussing the
issue. Furthermore, it was also my impression from his statements that
he does not find the U.S. Congress is suitable and qualified taking a
such decision over the events that happened nearly 100 years ago and
in a country that is half-way around the world.

I also asked him how he would describe serving in the U.S. Congress as
a Muslim congressman and if there was any particular difficulty to
that. Ellison said: "Being a Muslim in the Congress has been a very
interesting perspective. I have been very well treated by my
colleagues, other than some occasional bad behavior and some ignorant
things said about Islam."

There was a huge controversy in America when the congressman first got
elected and announced his intention to use the Koran instead of the
Bible at his photo-op at the swearing in ceremony and this drew some
criticism especially from some conservative columnists.