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By Elizabeth Tenety
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) broke down during his remarks at Congressman King's (R-N.Y.) hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community.
Ellison was talking about Mohammad Salman Hamdani, the American Muslim firefighter who died on 9/11. Because Hamdani, Ellison said, was a Muslim, he was the subject of conspiracy theories for months after his death. A NYTimes editorial later clarified: "Mr. Hamdani's remains had been found near the north tower, and he had gone there to help people he did not know."
YouTube - Ellison breaks into tears explaining story.
Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The district centers on Minneapolis. He was re-elected again in 2010.[1]
He is the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota.
At age 19, while attending Wayne State University in Detroit, Ellison converted from Catholicism to Islam, later giving the following explanation: "I can't claim that I was the most observant Catholic at the time [of my conversion]. I had begun to really look around and ask myself about the social circumstances of the country, issues of justice, issues of change. When I looked at my spiritual life, and I looked at what might inform social change, justice in society... I found Islam."
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) broke down during his remarks at Congressman King's (R-N.Y.) hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community.
Ellison was talking about Mohammad Salman Hamdani, the American Muslim firefighter who died on 9/11. Because Hamdani, Ellison said, was a Muslim, he was the subject of conspiracy theories for months after his death. A NYTimes editorial later clarified: "Mr. Hamdani's remains had been found near the north tower, and he had gone there to help people he did not know."
YouTube - Ellison breaks into tears explaining story.
Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The district centers on Minneapolis. He was re-elected again in 2010.[1]
He is the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota.
At age 19, while attending Wayne State University in Detroit, Ellison converted from Catholicism to Islam, later giving the following explanation: "I can't claim that I was the most observant Catholic at the time [of my conversion]. I had begun to really look around and ask myself about the social circumstances of the country, issues of justice, issues of change. When I looked at my spiritual life, and I looked at what might inform social change, justice in society... I found Islam."