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No Goode: Congressman's Hateful Comments Demand Response (Liberal attacks on Virgil Goode)
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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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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aliens; congress; ellison; goode; immigration; islamiclawmaker; islaminamerica; muslimsraus; photoop
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To: sgtbono2002

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.


81 posted on 12/25/2006 5:43:07 PM PST by weegee
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To: weegee

I wonder if any of Farrakhans boys have ever tried to get in?


82 posted on 12/25/2006 7:34:28 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Basheva

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.


83 posted on 12/25/2006 8:31:15 PM PST by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: Princip. Conservative; All

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We do little good here unless we respond.



84 posted on 12/25/2006 9:21:08 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Princip. Conservative

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.


85 posted on 12/26/2006 12:43:34 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: cripplecreek
Actually the fact that Ellison feels the need to be sworn in on any book is interesting due to the fact that it isn't required or even common as far as I can tell.

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.

86 posted on 12/26/2006 4:03:46 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Apocalypto 2012
The issue is that Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode has specifically identified Muslims, their war creed Islam, and their war manual the Koran as such an existential threat.

So if each and every Muslim is our sworn enemy then what the hell are we doing in Iraq?

87 posted on 12/26/2006 4:04:42 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


88 posted on 12/26/2006 6:22:32 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: webheart

"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?


89 posted on 12/26/2006 6:33:42 AM PST by elcid1970
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
An entire religion shouldn't be labeled as evil and the enemy of the entire free world just because the "extremist fringe" practices terrorism.

The entire religion will be condemned by most people around here regardless of what Ellison or anyone else says.

90 posted on 12/26/2006 7:13:08 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


91 posted on 12/26/2006 7:45:19 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: Basheva

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.


92 posted on 12/26/2006 9:35:02 AM PST by arroyo run
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To: Princip. Conservative

>>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".


93 posted on 12/26/2006 9:37:40 AM PST by RobRoy
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To: bilhosty

"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.


94 posted on 12/26/2006 9:42:19 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: bilhosty

Your post makes me seriously think that Minnesota residents should be forced to emigrate to Canada!


95 posted on 12/26/2006 4:31:51 PM PST by rocksblues (Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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To: VOA

Her voice would be enough to make me want to get out of any room she's in. Achhh.


96 posted on 12/26/2006 4:39:11 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: rocksblues
I would settle for Minneapolis ans St Paul. The Star and sickle today was sold. To an investment group that says they are going to leave it just the way it is. Many of the scumbag papers have the same type of ownership. I wonder why we keep giving them so many tax breaks. They are also the ones that bring in illegal immigrants.
97 posted on 12/26/2006 4:45:59 PM PST by bilhosty (to hell with ABCNNBCBS)
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To: RobRoy

"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!!


98 posted on 12/27/2006 4:56:49 AM PST by Princip. Conservative
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