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
I’m with you brad !! In this country you have the right to believe in wherever you want the longest you don’t mess with someone else rights….
U people r sick if u can swear in on the bible then she can swear in on the Quran this is America and its quite obvious that u don’t read the Bible and the tru meaning of Jihad is not wat your saying it is go really learn about Jihad and wat the Quran says justifys it and by the way your own bible says that Christianity was spread by the sword bett ha didn’t no that did you
If we believe in the Bible and what it says then how can we go along with ppl who believe in the Quran? As Christians we should stand up and defend God whenever possible. They do not serve the same God as us. When the Bible is being replaced by the Quran something isn’t right. It’s very hard to comment on things like this because not everyone will agree. But truth is truth if we believe in what the Holy Bible says.
Only 300 million Muslims have been radicalized, nothing to worry about, still 1.3 million good Muslims left…get that…300 million – almost the entire population of the US.
Jodie Staniforth
This should be against the law!
You CANNOT have religious freedom in this country and then force all citizens to swear to one particular god. How is it possible to NOT understand that?
Should not be allowed
Carlie that literally is the most closed-minded, xenophonic nonsense imaginable. There are over 2 Billion practicing muslims on the Earth…to casually call them all demonic terrorists says more about YOU than it does about them. Sad…
So totally wrong