Ellison Uses Jefferson’s Qur’an
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 10:07 am
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Can all of the naysayers who declared Congressman-elect Keith Ellison un-American for using a Quran take this as a sign that the controversy is over?
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he’d take his oath of office on the Koran — especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Yet the holy book at tomorrow’s ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We’ve learned that the new congressman — in a savvy bit of political symbolism — will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.
8 Comments
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 11:11 am
Jefferson was a Deist Jefferson was a creature of the Enlightenment and a Deist to boot. TJ is one of several inconvenient facts to those who proclaim that the US was founded as a Christian nation.
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 11:16 am
go figure – the National Review online is anti-founding fathers NRO
Maybe they decided it’s easier to attack Jefferson since he’sdead and can’t respond. they seem to lik their fights one-sided…
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
What he takes his lie of office on is a distraction. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…Ellison is free to take a picture of himself with his hand on a stack of ignored parking tickets..who cares?
We also shan’t be distracted by what he says; it’s clear that he suffers from the lefty uncertainty factor “what is the meaning of “is” today?).
What is important are his actions.
He has appeared on behalf no fewer than three, count ‘em three organizations with ties to radical Islamists and Muslim terrorists.
And all that before he even pulled out the stack of paper of his choice to take that picture with.
Even brain dead Barbara Boxer has enough sense to put some distance between herself and Keith X’s pals!
It is inevitable that sooner or later Keith X will do, or say something that will make him and his supporters an anathema to Americans.
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 10:08 pm
Thomas Jefferson’s Congressman Keith’s move is particularly appropriate because if Thomas Jefferson were allive today, his Congressman would be Virgil Goode (whose district includes Charlottesville). Somehow I doubt that TJ would be a Goode supporter.
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 5:11 am
Jefferson was a Deist Jefferson was a creature of the Enlightenment and a Deist to boot. TJ is one of several inconvenient facts to those who proclaim that the US was founded as a Christian nation.
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 5:16 am
go figure – the National Review online is anti-founding fathers NRO
Maybe they decided it's easier to attack Jefferson since he'sdead and can't respond. they seem to lik their fights one-sided…
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 6:17 am
What he takes his lie of office on is a distraction. I've said it before, and I'll say it again…Ellison is free to take a picture of himself with his hand on a stack of ignored parking tickets..who cares?
We also shan't be distracted by what he says; it's clear that he suffers from the lefty uncertainty factor “what is the meaning of “is” today?).
What is important are his actions.
He has appeared on behalf no fewer than three, count 'em three organizations with ties to radical Islamists and Muslim terrorists.
And all that before he even pulled out the stack of paper of his choice to take that picture with.
Even brain dead Barbara Boxer has enough sense to put some distance between herself and Keith X's pals!
It is inevitable that sooner or later Keith X will do, or say something that will make him and his supporters an anathema to Americans.
Comment posted January 3, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
Thomas Jefferson's Congressman Keith's move is particularly appropriate because if Thomas Jefferson were allive today, his Congressman would be Virgil Goode (whose district includes Charlottesville). Somehow I doubt that TJ would be a Goode supporter.
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