With friends like these....

Gary Gross pointed me to this article by Parvez Ahmed and Nihad Awad wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune today. Basically, they prop up Keith Ellison, and admonish anyone who criticizes Ellison's ties with CAIR, as being hateful islamophobes. After, all, their article states:

At the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), we are proud of our record of promoting interfaith understanding. We are also proud of our commitment to peace and our repeated condemnations of terrorism in all its forms, whether carried out by individuals, groups or states.

Well, with all due respect Mssrs. Ahmed and Nihad, others would tend to disagree. And,

Parvez Ahmed is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties group. Nihad Awad is CAIR's national executive director.

Hmmm... where have I seen that name before... Parvez Ahmed... Ohhh yess!

And Mr. Awad... hmmm... seems that name is familiar as well. But he doesn't support terrorists, does he?

Nope--he just supports that group of boy scouts known as "Hamas". Oh yeah, and that nice little group of jihadists that tried to bring the twin towers down in 1993:

Awad wrote in the Muslim World Monitor that the 1994 trial that resulted in the conviction of four Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who had perpetrated the previous year's World Trade Center bombing was "a travesty of justice." Notwithstanding the confessions of the terrorists, Awad said: "There is ample evidence indicating that both the Mossad and the Egyptian Intelligence played a role in the explosion." (emphases mine)

But that's okay, Mssrs. Awad and Ahmed. Just keep on with your support of Mr. Ellison. It's good to let voters of Minnesota's 5th CD get the chance to know just who they're dealing with.