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
Look for many appeals on ground of judicial bias – this should make many defense lawyers happy
That doesn’t count here.
then she’s not sworn in
No longer qualified as a judge I America
Conflict of interest.
In America we use the Bible not a Quran why was she allowed to get away with this? If she is an American you do the oath on the Bible
You got to be kidding me are we still in America I am I just dreaming
You’ve got to be kidding me are we still in America
I almost vomit when i see this piece of horse …..
Sabrina how do you put limits on Freedom of religion. That is not how Freedom works. And how in the hell do YOU know that she “came over here”. Carolyn Walker-Diallo is a LIFE LONG RESIDENT of NY. SHE IS A NATURAL CITIZEN! And her father was a Police Officer and a Community Activist. What have you done for YOUR Community?
Your religious intolerance and ignorance is DISGUSTING!!
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