Posted on 01/03/2007 8:18:25 PM PST by Sam Hill
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it has already happened.
They're gathering in the basement already. I simply Googled this article; I don't know who the group is that posted this back in June.
At midday on Fridays, Muslims gather to pray in a basement room of the U.S. Capitol. . . . At first just a prayer group, later a Muslim support group, the association is now looking outward to change what [they] see as woeful ignorance about Islam on Capitol Hill and beyond, according to Jameel Aalim-Johnson, a Muslim and chief of staff for Rep. Meeks, D-New York.
Some 100 non-Muslim congressional colleagues attended an association luncheon and the showing of part of a documentary on Islam in America. Visiting Imams from the Middle East recently met with association members. The congressional chaplain's office consulted them about offering classes on Islam on Capitol Hill, said association member Nayyera Haq, daughter of Pakistani immigrants and spokeswoman for Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo. “We're excited and hopeful,” Haq said of the group's new mission. "It's nice to be Muslim and feel hopeful about the future.”
I must really be stupid... can someone please educate me?
I thought the whole point of taking an "oath" or "swearing" or "affirming" on the Holy Bible was because the Bible commands one to not bear false witness and to let yes mean yes and no mean no (tell the truth).
The koran has a couple of references about telling the truth as well, but very clearly allows lies and deception. They have "taqiyya" and "kitman" for gosh sakes... both doctrines based on the koran and in use right now.
It's not only okay to lie when needed, but obligatory if the ends cannot be gained by honest means!
So, what's the point on taking an oath on the koran? Unless of course this fellow understands that his allegiance is to Allah and Islamic law first and foremost and that it's okay to deceive the infidels to achieve his goals.
jw
According to Islamic tradition, a translation of the Koran is not a Koran, but a commentary on it. A Koran is real only if it is in the original Arabic. So those who didn't want him to swear on a Koran are actually getting their wish.
As it's not in Arabic, it doesn't matter since only Arabic Korans need to be protected as holy. A translation is not even considered to be a Koran in Islam.
You are so right on.
Jefferson had many qurans in his library. This was pre-SearsCatologue days.
Meeks! What a creep that guy is.
These articles are very depressing to me.
If the FBI hasn't opened a dossier on this clown already they're guilty of gross malpractice.
Only a matter of time before candidates take no oath of office at all, claiming it's a violation of their civil rights.
"Does he think because Jefferson owned it that's an endorsement of it? This is so in your face it makes me sick."
He must have thought it was the PR stunt from Allah.
Too bad it came from the minds of the Muslim Brotherhood -- a terrorist group that dates back to Conan Doyle.
How can a black muslim man bring himself to swear on anything owned by that slave owning white man who forced himself sexually on his poor slave Sally Hemmings and impregnated her?
/sarcasm
Oh oh...don't let that get out or there will be another Jihad declared!
Ah! But Keith Ellison's religion still embraces slavery, lo these many centuries after the rest of the world has rejected it...
Unless you're a Christian in an Arab country.
Don't forget that the religion also still believes in slavery...
LOL......oh, my .......you did that VERY well, friend.
Kind of scary, in fact...........LOL.
"Jefferson stated that the Koran was the cause of the barbary pirates"
And he wasn't talking through his hat. That is exactly what he was told by the Muslim leaders of the day:
Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!
The Barbary Pirates were Muslims. Those they preyed upon were exclusively Christians, and if not released through the payment of tribute, faced slavery or worse. Those few who converted to Islam escaped slavery, and were treated as equals. If any Christian dared to blaspheme Allah, he risked being impaled or roasted alive. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, serving at the time as European Ministers, asked the ambassador from Tripoli why his government sanctioned such savagery. He replied that the Koran stated that non-Muslims were "sinners," and Muslims had a "...right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners."
http://www.zianet.com/web/barbary.htm
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