Rep. Keith Ellison on ISIS: 'It's as Islamic as Ku Klux Klan is Christian'
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said on Wednesday that the Islamic State is "as Islamic as the Ku Klux Klan is Christian."
CNSNews.com asked Ellison: “The Atlantic magazine’s Graeme Wood recently wrote [1]that 'the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic' and that 'the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.' Do you agree that the Islamic State is Islamic?”
Rep. Ellison said: “I do not agree. It’s as Islamic as the Ku Klux Klan is Christian, right. It is, of course, you know, the Ku Klux Klan uses Christian rhetoric. They throw crosses around. But what person going to church on any given Sunday recognizes that as their faith? And so, that’s the same way that I believe that ISIS is Islamic.”
“I can tell you that I go to Mosque every Friday and I go all over this country and meet Muslims every day, and all of them look at ISIS with tremendous horror,” said Ellison, who is a Sunni Muslim. “And, by the way, ISIS kills Muslims more than anybody else.”
The congressman continued: “So Islam says murder is absolutely forbidden, like Christianity. In Christian societies there is such a thing as death penalty after law--I don’t believe in the death penalty, but in Islam it has been, Islamic societies have had it--as this country has it. But it is only according to very strict rules after somebody has been proven to be guilty for the most heinous crimes like murder.”
“And so, just killing people the way they do, beheading them, beheading noncombatants is the antithesis of what it means to be Muslim or is in the Quran,” said Ellison, who was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.
ISIS is the acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an army of Muslim jihadists who changed their name [2] to the Islamic State in June 2014.
Graeme Wood, a lecturer in political science at Yale University who lived and wrote in the Middle East from 2002 to 2006, and who is a contributing editor for The Atlantic, wrote an extensive story for the magazine in March 2015 entitled “What ISIS Really Wants [1],” which was cited widely by U.S. and foreign media.
In his article, Wood wrote: “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.”
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