Carson, a Muslim, has accused tea partiers of wanting blacks ‘hanging on trees’

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By BOB UNRUH

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., has declared that tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like “to see African-Americans hanging from trees.”

And he suggested that U.S. schools should be modeled after Islamic madrassas, where education is based on the Quran.

Now, he’s going to be privy to some of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced she will appoint him as the first Muslim lawmaker on the body’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Politico reported Tuesday.

A senior Democratic aide said Pelosi announced the move during a weekly caucus of minority Democrats.

It would make Carson the first Muslim to serve on the committee that receives intelligence on the threat of Islamic militants in the Middle East.

In a National Review column about Carson just weeks ago, Islam analyst Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, wrote that Carson represents the “Islamists’ choice for the House of Representatives.”

Pipes described Islamists as Muslims “who seek to replace the Constitution with the Quran and apply Islamic law in its entirety and severity.”

“Until now, their campaign contributions have been unknown,” he explained.

But now a Middle East Forum Islamist Watch project has provided a first look at the dimensions of thelobby. It revealed that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Society of North America, Muslim Alliance in North America, Muslim American Society and the Muslim Public Affairs Council contributed about $700,000 to federal candidates in recent years.

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The contributions include, he said, $430,000 from CAIR, an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a terror-financing trial in which the federal judge found “ample evidence” of CAIR’s links to Hamas.

“In Indiana, Democratic representative Andre Carson has received almost $34,000 from Islamist sources for his congressional runs since 2008. … That’s the same Carson who appeared at the 2012 annual ICNA-MAS convention, where he encouraged American schools to look ‘at the model we have in our madrasses … where the foundation is the Quran,’” Pipes wrote.

Politico reported in 2011 that Carson, identified as a top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a CBC event in Miami that some in Congress would “love to see us as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”

At the time, the report said Carson’s spokesman, Jason Tomcsi, stood by the comments, which were on tape….

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