When Thomas Jefferson obtained a Koran (spelled Quran by the pretentious set) he was looking to see what it was all about. Before he became President, Jefferson was an ambassador along with John Adams. America at that time, was beset by some Islamic radicals your history books sometimes refer to as the Barbary Coast pirates.
They met with an ambassador from Tripoli and this polite chap informed them:
“That’s what we do. We are commanded to do so by Allah.” Jefferson later wrote that the Tripoli ambassador told him, “It was written in their Koran that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman (Muslim) who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to Paradise.”
Things were so much different then.
Speed up this hyper-enlightened post 9/11 era and we can’t get enough of officials getting sworn in on a book that Jefferson once obtained to learn about extremists murdering our sailors.
Rep. Keith Ellison was sworn in on Jefferson’s own Koran, as if this was some latent dream of the Founding Fathers. Most well read people were in on the joke and understood the moxy Rep. Ellison was showing by swearing in on the one book that was used to craft our defense of the first American attacks from Jihadists.
No one knew better except a few Glenn beck listeners and who cares anyway? The Koran is just like the Bible, etc…
Now we have an actual judge showcased just to provoke a reaction.
See page two for the Koran swearing judge
Not a america judge until she swears to God’s bible in america.
That’s not right!!!
Hey dumbasses your founding fathers were Freemasons. They can use the bible, Qur’an, or other holy books. Looks like that books been with us since the beginning!
I’m sorry I guess you’ve been in a Rip Van Winkle 240 year sleep but last time I looked we’ve been using a Bible for that long regardless of your atheistic Madelyn Murray O’Hara b.s. views.Oh I’m sorry that you’re a minority Get over it.
You do realize the Qur’an can be used by Freemasons. Guess what our founding fathers were? Keep believing those f**e history books. The Qur’an has been apart of American politics!
You clearly aren’t seeing my point. Due to separation of church and state I don’t see the need for either.
A person has the option to swear on any religious book of choice or the Constitution. No one religious book is preferred because we have a separation of church in state. If you don’t agree with that you’re an unAmerican$#%&!@*
Undermining the Oath of Office Underhanded, sneaky of introducing new doctrine to change American laws. NO.
Stop with these facts that might force me to do research NOOOO
Our founding fathers were freemasons. You do realize the Qur’an is used by this group if one so chooses? That book has been in the shadows of American history since day one!