Ellison: Terrorists Struggle for Democracy Like We Struggle for Income Equality

Dem Rep. Ellison: Islamist Terrorists Stuggle For Democracy Like We Struggle Here For Income Equality (NewsBusters)

Whatever the question, politicians have a way of working their issue of the day into the answer.  Dem Rep. Keith Ellison took that tendency to new heights today.

Asked on Morning Joe to explain the disproportionate amount of terrorism against the United States that emanates from the Islamic world, Ellison, the first Muslim Member of Congress, asserted that it is the struggle for democracy, not the Islamic faith, that motivates the terrorism.  In a giant leap, Ellison then compared people in Islamic countries "who don't want to yield power to the vast majority" . . . to the struggle in the United States over . . . "income inequality."