Keith Ellison Confronts Muslim-Bashing Opponent

Keith Ellison Confronts Muslim-Bashing Opponent

A Minnesota attorney is using virulent attacks on Islam in an attempt to unseat one of just two Muslims in Congress. Benjamin Sarlin talks to Rep. Keith Ellison and his challenger about a campaign that's raising eyebrows.

As America's first Muslim congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison has been a target for anti-Islamic sentiment from the moment he took the oath of office. Scratch that--from before he took his oath of office, when Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) criticized Ellison for planning to use a Koran for the ceremony and warned that "in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America."

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