Interesting choice of words, in light of this from Ellison’s holy book: “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows” (Qur’an 8:60)

In 2008, Ellison accepted $13,350 from the Muslim American Society (MAS) to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Muslim American Society is a Muslim Brotherhood organization: “In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation’s major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.” That’s from the Chicago Tribune in 2004, in an article that is now carried on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb.