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Rep. Keith Ellison (D.-Minn.), the first Muslim in the House of Representatives, has weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy, and in the process defamed the 70% of Americans who oppose the mosque.
After the November elections, Ellison predicted, the controversy will "die down" but not "go away," because "the people who are struck by fear and who are creating a climate of fear with the thought of this Islamic center are not going away."
He compared this "climate of fear" to "people scapegoating Catholics" in the early 1960s, and added: "We have a long history of racial discrimination and scapegoating," naming Jews, welfare queens, black men and Latinos as victims of this scapegoating.