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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has accused Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) of having a "long record of being associated" with the Hamas-linked Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Evoking the days of McCarthyism, a common charge being leveled at Bachmann these days, Ellison responded: "I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood." He accused Bachmann of religious bigotry:
"I think she has a very narrowly prescribed definition of who belongs and who doesn't. And there's a whole bloc of people she don't like. I think she thinks that we're evil because we don't understand God the way she does….It's also about marginalizing and alienating a certain group of Americans who she does not view are American enough."