Posted by
Billy on Friday, October 02, 2009 10:54:52 AM
Congressman Keith Ellison denounced Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, for warning that political Islam has a militant strain that's used to justify terrorism. (Congressman rebukes fellow Muslim for linking Islam to terrorism )
Jasser told a congressional briefing that terrorism won't be stopped until his Islamic faith goes through its own Reformation to separate mosque and state.
Ellison responded by accusing Jasser of giving people a "license for bigotry." The Minnesota Democrat said every religion has its violent extremists, and told Jasser, "I think people who want to engage in nothing less than Muslim-hating really love you a lot, because you give them freedom to do that.
(Not every follower of Islam is a backer of terrorism. However I have yet to see a Christian or Jew that has committed an act of terrorism and if they have others of those faiths have been quick to call it wrong unlike those in the Islamic faith.)