Keith Ellison: Muslim Representative

The Detroit Free Press writes the following on newly elected Congressman Keith Ellison's recent speech:

Speaking in Dearborn late Sunday night, the first Muslim elected to Congress told a cheering crowd of Muslims they should remain steadfast in their faith and push for justice. (read the rest)

If this article is accurate, Ellison is flat out delusional.

According to the story, Ellison addressed a Muslim conference in Detroit by saying, "Muslims, you're up to bat right now [...] How do you know that you were not brought right here to this place to learn how to make this world better?"

Aside from Ellison's ironic and ridiculously in-apt use of a baseball metaphor in this speech, this comment seems halfway reasonable.

But according to the reporter, paraphrasing Ellison, the Congressman-elect also said that "Muslims can help teach America about justice and equal protection."

That's preposterous. If the reporter's paraphrase is even close to being on target, then Ellison's perception of reality and/or veracity is way, WAY off. As the Middle East has shown for years and years now, Muslims with a persecution complex have nothing to teach anyone, anywhere, about justice or equal protection.

He's trying to manufacture Muslim's supposed "plight" into the Next Great Civil Rights Cause. That's mendacity with a capital M.