Muslims

Rep. Keith Ellison is part of a group of Muslim leaders that sent a book of resumes of highly skilled Muslim Americans to President Obama for consideration to key government jobs. The list of names includes carefully vetted Ivy League graduates, representatives of Fortune 500 companies and public servants, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Barack Obama’s election with the middle name Hussein (invoked to rile Republican crowds during the presidential campaign) should inspire Muslims to pursue public service and other work, even if they speak with accents or their names are perceived as foreign-sounding, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison told the recent annual meeting of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Ellison, the [...]

The Virginia lawmaker, who expressed disdain with the election of a Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, and connected that to the tide of illegal immigration in the U.S., refused to apologize for his remarks on Wednesday.

An aide to Rep. Virgil Goode, who’s a former Democrat-turned-Republican, said that “he stands by the letter