Socialist, Nanny-Stater, Islamist and a Black Panther Party aligned, Rapper Thug

Meet Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, a Democrat from St. Louis. She's been in the news of late for a verbal brawl with another legislator, ironically, a fellow Democrat at a rap concert.

From KPLR11, St. Louis, April 11:

"She clearly threatened me," said Nasheed, who represents part of St. Louis city. "She threatened me, she said 'If I had a knife I would cut your throat, your f-ing throat.' That's what she said to me."

But Chapelle-Nadal denies it, saying that Nasheed came into the corporate suit where the senator and some friends were watching a concert by hip-hip star Lil' Wayne at Scottrade Center.

"I tried to ignore her," said [Sen.] Chapelle-Nadal, whose senate district covers a part of St. Louis County. "She had said I was mentally unfit, so I turned around and said listen, if I was as mentally unfit as you say I am, then I would have done something as criminal as you did when you stabbed someone."

Nasheed has often spoken about how she was a gang member in high school, and once went to jail for stabbing someone in a fight.

Former state representative Jim Avery, a friend of both women, was in the suite at the time, and supports Chapelle-Nadal's version of events. "Jamilah came into the suite where we were from an adjoining suite to confront Maria..."

At issue is a dispute over local control over the city police department.

But on a whole range of issues she is what you might call a libertarian Republican's worst nightmare.

Nasheed was the keynote speaker last Saturday at a Pro-Sharia Law rally for Muslims at the State Capitol in Jefferson City.

From ColumbiaMissourian.com "Eastern Missouri ACLU hosts first Muslim Day at Capitol" April 15:

Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis City, spoke at a press conference for Muslim Day. She greeted the crowd in Arabic and went on to encourage them all to be active as Muslims in state government.

"[Islam] is about peace and harmony," Nasheed said. "Exercise your right at the polling places in November of 2012 because we can no longer allow for individuals to attack Islam in the way Islam has been attacked at the state Capitol."

The rally was organized to protest a Bill by two Republican State Reps. to block the institution of Sharia Law in Missouri courts.

She is a staunch supporter of Public Workers Unions, Teachers Unions, and compulsory education. (Insider Politics TheSource). She has also been a solid "Yes" vote on socialized health care, minimum wage increase, and increases funding for social services (Project Vote Smart).

On civil liberties issues she has proved just as bad. Rep. Nasheed is the prime sponsor of legislative efforts to hike taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products statewide in Missouri.

Watch a video or YouTube video of Rep. Nasheed advocating higher taxes on cigarettes.

Photos of Nasheed at a rally with the Black Panther Party and with 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (MO Political News svc.)