Posted on 12/25/2006 7:21:42 AM PST by Princip. Conservative
Here we go. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, has yet to take office, and already the ugliness begins.
Mr. Ellison plans to bring his Koran with him on Jan. 4 when he takes the oath of office. The Koran is the Muslim holy book. If Christians and Jews can bring their Bibles, why shouldn’t Mr. Ellison be able to bring his Koran?
The answer given this week by Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode was simple enough: Because Mr. Goode doesn’t believe in the Koran, Mr. Ellison doesn’t have any right to either. I kid you not.
What could be less American? Or less Christian?
In a letter sent to constituents, Goode wrote: “When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing-In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way.”
It gets worse.
“The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.”
More Muslims elected to office? More Muslims seeing our government as representative and fair? Is this a bad thing?
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Mecca is a muslim only city. All muslims pray to Mecca 5 times a day. Jews cannot even enter Saudi Arabia.
Is Italy or The Vatican City so segregated?
Islam puts non-muslims on a lower rung of society's ladder with fewer rights and fewer protections under the law.
Islam itself is bigoted.
I wonder if any of Farrakhans boys have ever tried to get in?
President John Adams didn't take his presidential oath on the Bible.
Just saying. He had a selection of documents, say the Constituition, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, ect. that he used instead.
None of them explicitly permitted lying for personal advantage or the propagation of a false religion, as does the Quran.
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We do little good here unless we respond.
The Democratic Party at every political level will disappoint the majority of voters plenty of times prior to the November '08 elections. Right now, I don't see the Democratic Party maintaining their political majorities for too long, but I also don't see the Republican Party even starting to do everything that they truly need to do to greatly improve upon their relationship with the majority of conservative voters throughout the U.S. Many things will depend upon how illegal immigration issues and judicial activism issues are handled at the federal level.
The formal swearing-in is done on the floor of the House and none of the members use a Bible or anything else. However, it's not uncommon for members to take the oath again in private with photographers present recording the moment for posterity and the folks back in the district. I assume that's the swearing-in that Ellison will use the Koran in.
So if each and every Muslim is our sworn enemy then what the hell are we doing in Iraq?
Why are the "truly moderate Muslims" throughout the U.S. staying so silent for so long on this issue? The moderate American Muslims could greatly help themselves out on this issue by being fully against all forms of terrorism. An entire religion shouldn't be labeled as evil and the enemy of the entire free world just because the "extremist fringe" practices terrorism.
"how long before Ellison demands to be called by his Muslim name?"
Hey wait a sec! I thought those NOI culties didn't have to have Arab Muslim names! You mean, he ran under an `assumed' name?
Hillary Clinton-Rodham-Clinton, anyone?
The entire religion will be condemned by most people around here regardless of what Ellison or anyone else says.
I know. This has been going on at a greater intensity since 9/11 happened, and there's no end in sight. Religious, racial profiling is absolutely necessary during the continuing War on Terror, but political correctness keeps getting in the way of doing everything necessary to the best of abilities.
Sure. And the beautiful thing about it is we're allowed, Virgil Goode included, to treat it as silly, disloyal, or whatever.
We may yet see a day when some district, one that like Ellison's is not representative of the U.S. as a whole, elects someone who takes the oath on something Wiccan, and we'll probably see the same outcry.
>>What could be less American? Or less Christian? <<
I don't know about less American, but regarding "Christian": The most religiously intolerant man that ever lived was Jesus the Christ. He said "I am the way, the truth and the live. Nobody comes to the Father but through Me".
"Had they known he would not of been elected even in this district."
I doubt it.
After the last election I'm convinced most Americans are simply too stupid or apathetic to trust with a Democracy.
Your post makes me seriously think that Minnesota residents should be forced to emigrate to Canada!
Her voice would be enough to make me want to get out of any room she's in. Achhh.
"I don't know about less American, but regarding "Christian": The most religiously intolerant man that ever lived was Jesus the Christ. He said "I am the way, the truth and the live. Nobody comes to the Father but through Me"."
AMEN!!
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