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
America isn’t a Christian nation. Swearing on the Constitution would make a lot more sense.
I’m not a bible thumper although I probably have more formal religious education than half these religious nut jobs. It really was more of a look at how dumb this is than anything.
Freemason websites will also talk about how similar they are to Islam. That’s what our country was founded on!
My foster dad is a pastor and I had 8 years of Christian schooling. I know the bible cover to cover
The Qur’an was used by Freemasons. Our founding fathers were these types. It’s not new doctrine. Read a book.
Brad Davis. You are absolutely full of yourself.
No we don’t. You want to believe we do. Just like the freemasons that founded this country could use the Qur’an, so can judges. God wasn’t introduced into the pledge until the late 50’s. American propaganda at its finest!
Null and void
Your country was founded by people who use the Qur’an in their dealings. They are called Freemasons. Read a book.
Lmfao, so we got that out of the way I guess. Now back to our scheduled programming