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jlf1961 -> RE: Dems Expel Black DNC Chair Candidate - TOO HONEST (2/7/2017 2:38:45 PM)
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Well, actually the story is BULLSHIT.
The reason he was dropped from the race was not because he made the statement about Islam and homosexuals, although in a round about way, it is sorta true.
He made the statement about Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison, who is Muslim,
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The Democratic National Committee is kicking a candidate out of the chairmanship race after he told The Hill that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) should not be the party’s next leader because he is a Muslim.
In a Jan. 5 email to The Hill, Vincent Tolliver, a former House candidate in Arkansas, said that Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, should not be chairman because of Islamic positions on homosexuality.
“His being a Muslim is precisely why DNC voters should not vote for him,” Tolliver wrote. “Muslims discriminate against gays. Islamic law is clear on the subject, and being gay is a direct violation of it. In some Muslim countries, being gay is a crime punishable by death.”
In point of fact Ellison has made anti gay statements in the past, has often been critical of the US ties to Israel, and has deep links to a radicalized group "the Nation of Islam" a group which has often told its members to prepare for a race war.
In fact:
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The group mixed the belief systems of Islam -- they read the Quran, worshipped Allah as their God and accepted Muhammad as their prophet -- with Black Nationalism. Fard believed that African-Americans should prepare for a race war and Christianity was a religion for slave owners.
FYI Ellison is also an African American, so race really is not the issue.
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