Imam Asad Zaman keeps his “ceremonial Qur’an at the Muslim American Society.” The Muslim American Society has Muslim Brotherhood roots. It was founded in 1992 “for the purpose of promoting ‘Islam as a total way of life,‘” and has “stated that American foreign policy is to blame for the 9/11 attacks.” More HERE.
Hamtramck, Michigan is the first American city to be led by an all-Muslim government; its mayor, Amer Ghalib, recently stated that “noble Islam promotes doing good and abandoning evil.”
Special interest Muslim groups which are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are infamous for screaming “Islamophobia” and making anyone out to be “Islamophobic” who criticizes, questions Islam and/or warns about Sharia. These special interest lobbies (and individuals) are also infamous for promoting hostile attitudes toward America and its history, as well as antagonism toward the state of Israel, and the promotion of antisemitism. Pro-Palestinian jihadist interests are all the while advancing.
“A special Qur’an holds the signature of almost every Minnesota Muslim elected to office. At a historic swearing-in ceremony, three Minneapolis City Council members added their names to the list”, by Hibah Ansari, Sahan Journal, January 3, 2022:
When Representative Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2016, Imam Asad Zaman ordered the largest Qur’an he could find for her swearing-in ceremony. Afterward, Ilhan signed the holy book. Zaman recruited earlier Muslim officeholders to sign the Qur’an, as well. He’s been collecting signatures ever since.
“This one Qur’an has been used by more than a dozen Muslim elected officials,” Zaman said. The list, which now runs two pages, includes Ilhan, state Senator Omar Fateh, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and others. “Each time they take their oath of office from the Qur’an, they get to sign it,” Zaman said.
On Monday morning, Jeremiah Ellison of Ward 5, Jamal Osman of Ward 6, and Aisha Chughtai of Ward 10 used the ceremonial 14-by-20–inch Qur’an when they took their oath to serve on the Minneapolis City Council. After a contentious election season in November, the swearing-in marked a historic moment for the city’s Muslim community: The council has never seated this many Muslim officials.
Aisha Chughtai, an organizer for the Service Employees International Union, became the first Muslim woman to join the Minneapolis City Council. She represents the city’s Uptown neighborhood.
“It’s really exciting and really historic to have been elected alongside two other [Muslim] council members,” Chughtai said. “Pretty soon we’re going to run out of space in this Qur’an because of how many new folks are getting elected.”
While Chughtai was the only newcomer to the Minneapolis City Council, Jamal Osman of Minneapolis’s Sixth Ward also signed the ceremonial Qur’an for the first time. Jamal won a special election to the City Council in August 2020. Because of COVID-19 protocols at the time, he brought his own Qur’an from home for his swearing-in ceremony.
In an oath-of-office ceremony, an elected official pledges to uphold the Constitution of the United States, as well as the Constitution of the state. Elected officials across the state and the nation typically make this pledge by resting their hand on a Bible. Attorney General Keith Ellison first used a Qur’an when he was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. Ilhan and Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan also utilized Qur’ans for the 2017 ceremonies that marked their entry to the U.S. House.
Zaman keeps the ceremonial Qur’an at the Muslim American Society. Originally printed in Lebanon, the text of this particular Qur’an includes eight pages in the front matter that feature decorative geometrical designs. The first page of signatures includes a box with a similar pattern.
After Jamal took his oath of office Monday morning, he sat down at a table in the Minneapolis City Hall library. With Chughtai and Ellison leaning over his shoulder, he signed his name and picked a short verse from the Qur’an to recite out loud.
“We’re making great progress and we’re following the steps of the elected officials that have come before us,” Jamal said. “Growing up, I was in high school on September 11. Being a Muslim was like, I don’t know, a bogeyman kind of thing. But now it’s something that our kids will be proud of.”
Muslim political issues in Minneapolis? Start with ‘public safety, housing, jobs.’
As representatives of the two wards in the city with the highest percentage of renters, Jamal and Chughtai both stressed the importance of increasing affordable housing in the city and passing ordinances to protect renters.“The Muslim community also has the same issues and struggle: public safety, housing, jobs, youth,” Jamal said.
He also noted that a stronger Muslim cohort on the council opens up the possibility of passing local laws that make sense for Muslims. He looks forward to discussions about putting Muslim holidays and prayer times on the council calendar.
Many council members—beyond Chughtai, Jamal, and Ellison—have brought Muslim staffers to City Hall. “We might have to start some kind of committee,” Jamal said with a laugh……
Wellington says
The Islamic cancer is spreading.
mortimer says
Sharia supremacism is an intolerant, expansionist ideology of hate emanating outwards from Muslims towards the dirty kufaar ‘for the sake of Allah’. Muslims who do not adhere to this authentic teaching of religious hatred will not be admitted to Islamic paradise. Good Muslims spread this hate because they are canonically required to do so.
Sharia supremacism is not benign.
Fitna says
Mortimer, all of Islam is the problem, not some aspects of it. This article unequivocally proves the goal for Muslims is to invade western nations and convert them into Islamic states.
Muslims are excited about throwing out our laws, freedoms, doing away with women/gay/infidel rights and dragging the world back to the 7th century and turning everyone into raving lunatics like we see in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington.
Islam is analogous to cancer.
That being said, the spread of islam to the West should be considered to be a cancer – and approached as such:
The best approach is, of course, primary prevention. Prevent essentially all muslim migration like Poland and Hungary.
The second best approach would be early detection. Being very vigilant regarding muslim migration, and deporting people who have infiltrated.
Further down the line, we look at treatment. If islam is localized in a Western country, it needs to be contained and subject to all of the laws of the host country in order to prevent metastasis. Also, muslims who break significant laws of the host country – including being here illegally – should be prosecuted and eventually deported.
Once metastasis occurs in a Western country and it becomes islamized with strict sharia law, it’s game over unless the host country decides to take military action.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Can one uphold both the Constitution of the United States and obey the Qur’an? How does the EquaL Protection of the Laws (14th Amendmnt) square with the claim that Muslims are “the best of peoples” and non-Muslims “the most vile of created beings”?
mortimer says
All these Muslim politicians know what Mr. Fitzgerald points out. However, they use TAQIYYA in public in order to deceive the dirty kufaar.
Taqiyya permeates almost all the relations of Muslims with non-Muslim societies.
Their taqiyya is wittingly, carefully and intentionally employed in order to deceive Americans.
gravenimage says
So true, Hugh.
Wellington says
+1
Michael Copeland says
Promoting ‘Islam as a total way of life‘ is misleading.
Islam does not present itself as “a” way of life.
It emphatically states that it is the ONLY way of life.
“If anyone desire a religion other than Islam never will it be accepted of him”
Koran 3:85
mortimer says
Exactly … they deceive us with the indefinite article ‘a’. They know that Sharia supremacism is their hidden agenda, and conceal it from Americans and deny it when they are caught.
Their exercise is one of TAQIYYA. They clearly see themselves as the MUSLIM FOUNDING FATHERS of the future ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AMERICA.
gravenimage says
True, Michael–and this is not just for Muslims. Everyone on earth is to submit to Islam, by violence if necessary.
Emilie Green says
Is his Qur’an bigger than this one,
https://muslimvillage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Unveiling-ceremony-of-the-worlds-largest-Holy-Quran-8.jpg
Regardless of how big or how small, it’s filled with hate and cruelty.
CogitoErgoSum says
They have signed their names to a book that asks them to fight all Infidels until all religion is for Allah. They have agreed to carry on the fight in any way they can to kill, convert or bring to humble submission all who are not already Muslims. They commit themselves to working to bring the U.S. Constitution into accordance with the Koran, to destroy freedom of religion and to make Islam the supreme religion of the land. That makes them special because they can somehow preserve, protect and defend the rights guaranteed by the Constitution while at the same time working to take those rights away. I say they are all liars and hypocrites.
libertyORdeath says
We know where their true loyalties lie.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Local laws that make sense to Muslims, Muslim Holidays and Prayer times. Here we go- Muslims are special.- We have had large groups of imingrants in the past: Irish, Italian, German, Polish, Swedes, and especially Meicans and our Indian brethern. One special holiday foir each of these and more andwe’ll run out of dates, Note. They are onlky a minority oin the City Council and already they are thinking of specialk treatment . KEN
CogitoErgoSum says
Now we even have two Independence Days – June 16 and July 4. Joe Biden did that.
CogitoErgoSum says
Sorry. I meant June 19. OMG – I feel like such a racist now.
Wellington says
And the stupidity of all this Juneteenth nonsense, CES, is that June 19th, 1865 did not end slavery in America. Slavery still continued in Kentucky and Delaware, two of the four slave states out of fifteen that sided with the Union (the other being Missouri and Maryland), until the 13th Amendment, ending slavery everywhere in America, became part of the Constitution in December of 1865.
How ironic that one of the last two holdouts in America of slavery was Joe Biden’s own Delaware. Fitting since present voting restrictions in Delaware are still far more extensive than they are in Georgia and Texas which Biden and his ilk have cited as states repressing the vote. Just can’t make this up and all part of the reason why Joe Biden is a POS, an ignoramus, a liar and full of it.
gravenimage says
All true, Wellington.
gravenimage says
‘Special Qur’an’ holds signatures of almost every Minnesota Muslim elected to office
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Good grief–this is pretty much proof that electing Muslims in Minnesota is a coordinated effort–in other words, *a conspiracy*. I should not be shocked, but I still am.
OLD GUY says
Unfortunately Islam and all other religions can’t coexist together as diversity is not part of Islam. Allowing islamic migrants to enter your country is the same as allowing a foreign invading army in. Islam wants total domination of everyone.
Peter Burrows says
The #1 guru on Muslims in public office is probably Dr. Stephen Kirby. I find his scholarship to be stunning. Check him out; https://islamseries.org/islam-and-the-u-s-constitution/
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the link, Peter.
Proud Islamophobe says
Of course they take their oath on the quran. I’m surprised this article didn’t cite the part(s) of the quran (or hadiths, etc.) that say that the quran overrides all non-islamic law. So when they take their oath on the quran, they can disregard the Constitution “legally.”
JHL says
I am a Minnesota resident, and I didn’t vote for any of them. I would hope Candice Owens would run against Ilhan Omar. No intelligent person wants to cower under Sharia Law.
Steve Sarchett says
Any Muslims out there who would like to comment? writing in a Qur’an is “shirk” against Islam. Will he be punished? Islam is two faced, you can break all the rules if it advances Islam. More of a cult than religion