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Rep. Keith Ellison ‘Sanitizes’ Radical Verses of the Koran in Bill Maher Interview

03/14/2011 Leave a comment

“Matthew Shaffer of NRO (as noted here by Ethel Fenig) exposed Keith Ellison’s mendacious taqiyya (Koran-sanctioned Islamic dissimulation) theater during the Congressman’s testimony at Thursday’s Homeland Security Hearings on American Muslim radicalization.

The next day, during a 3/11/11 interview with Bill Maher (on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’), responding to Maher’s complaint that, ‘[Islam] comes from a hate-filled holy book, the Koran, which is taken very literally by its people,’ Ellison invoked a deceitfully redacted extract of Koran 5:32, and the ostensible Koranic paean to ‘tolerance,’ verse 2:256.

Ellison’s disingenuous response was predictable.

Following the murderous acts of jihad terrorism committed on September 11, 2001, Ibn Warraq highlighted the tragic irony of many apologists quoting selectively from Koran 5:32, ‘whoso slays a soul …shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether; and whoso gives life to a soul, shall be as if he has given life to mankind altogether’, attempting to demonstrate that the Koran disapproved of violence and killing. Here is the entire verse (5:32), quoted in full context, with the intimately related verse, Koran 5:33…” Read more.