[Man50D]

The JihadWatch.org website, however, asked: "How can we be sure he will be telling the truth if he swears on the Quran? The Quran tells Muslims that they may utter unbelief if 'under compulsion.'"

The website cited the Quran, verse 16:106: "Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief – except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith – but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful Penalty."

Deception under what Muslims consider compulsion is called Taqiyya and kitman . The term compulsion as considered by a Muslim leaves a very loose interpretation to justify lying in any situation.

[Androcles]

Storm in a teacup. Allow all religious books or none. If a scientologist wants to swear on'Battlefield Earth' that's fine to me. People who are going to lie will do so whether they have a bible or a menu in their hands.

[Sherman Logan]

As far as I know all states allow the option of "affirming" that you will tell the truth rather than swearing, on the Bible or anything else.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What's the value of having a muslim swear on the Bible anyway?

(Although having them swear on the Quran doesn't really gain anything as it tells them to lie to "infidels".)

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I guess they can now use Mien Kamf as well???

[Sherman Logan]

The whole idea of swearing an oath, especially on a holy book, is a hangover from a belief system in place at the time the Constitution was written.

Hardly anybody today, even quite religious people, believe their soul is doomed to eternal hellfire if the swear falsely on a holy book. A couple of centuries ago, an oath like this actually meant something beyond making one "liable to the penalties of perjury."

Anybody know the procedure in Muslim countries or under Sharia?

[BuffaloJack]

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