Posted on 12/04/2006 6:02:53 PM PST by jdm
WASHINGTON: An Islamic civil rights group wants a columnist removed from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council for criticizing Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's decision to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in next month.
Democrat Ellison, who won his seat in the Nov. 7 elections, is the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday that comments by Dennis Prager, a columnist and conservative talk radio host, displayed an intolerance toward Islam that makes him inappropriate to serve on the council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
President George W. Bush appointed Prager in August to fill the remainder of a five-year term, which expires in January 2011.
In his column last week, Prager wrote: "Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible. If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in Congress."
Nihad Awad, CAIR's executive director, sent a letter to the council's chairman, Fred Zeidman, that said, "No one who holds such bigoted, intolerant and divisive views should be in a policymaking position at a taxpayer-funded institution that seeks to educate Americans about the destructive impact hatred has had, and continues to have, on every society."
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It has been noted on a couple of FR threads about this
that Congresscritters don't take an oath on any book, Bible included.
What difference what book he uses? He is a Muslim and Islam teaches that he can lie to an infidel without consequences.
whatever oath he takes will be a lie anyway.
As if any of the representatives actually believe in enforcing the Constitution.
God, I just LOVE the idea of Americans ,their way of life, and their existing institutions coming under fire from these Ahmed-come-lately A**HOLES from CAIR. Not a day goes by when they don't seem to get more and more emboldened.
If the jihadis in CAIR have their way, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, would be the replacement for Dennis Prager. Ahmadinejad denies that The Holocaust occurred (after all there still some Jews left alive). He hopes to be able to complete the job himself, after declaring himself The Mahdi.
The 5th District of Minnesota has dumber voters than NJ. I didn't think that there were such things.
"Why do these people feel like they can tell Americans how to act, what they can say or do??"
They believe that, as Allah's chosen, they are superior to us and that our position is to serve them.
I find it sheer chutzpah that CAIR would want Dennis Prager removed from the Holocaust Museum Board when Arab muslims in history supported Adolf Hitler. Perhaps this call should be left to the "infidel pigs and dogs."
I must give you some credit, however: you let your women speak.
Sincerely, [TSR]
Perhaps I should have said "some muslims" in general, in stead of Arabs, because I'm not sure in which countries there were the muslims supporting Hitler.
I just send the Holocaust Museum an email telling them that if they removed Prager, I would consider them dhimmis.
They don't believe the Holocaust ever happened, so.....why should they care???
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