The founder of a messianic Jewish ministry is troubled at a report that Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison's recent pilgrimage to Mecca was paid for by a group that has been compared to neo-Nazis.
In December, Ellison, who represents Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, became the first American congressman take a hajj -- the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, which Muslims consider to be a holy city. Fox News reports that Ellison's trip was paid for by the Muslim-American Society of Minnesota, which claims its mission is to promote "interfaith understanding." But Jan Markell, founder of director of Minnesota-based Olive Tree Ministries, says the group allegedly has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that has been described as "the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party." "I think what's troubling is that this Muslim-American Society of Minnesota is considered a radical group...by various people who are really into the whole terror issue -- including Steve Emerson, whose word I just take as sort of a final authority on these issues," she notes. Emerson, author or co-author of six books on terrorism and national security, frequently briefs Congress on groups such as al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Markell disagrees with a comment told to Fox News by a spokesman for the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations that said anti-Muslim "hate" websites refer to every Muslim as the devil incarnate. "The goal of the Islamic community in America is to Islamize this entire country, so we have to keep ourselves informed. But I recommend going to the more respected websites that are doing that, and none of them are hateful," she concludes. "But we are trying to save America, which is getting more and more difficult everyday."
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