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
This is still America isn’t it? No bible no job.
Donna – No, they did not.
If they did – then why are these words entirely absent from the Constitution: “god”, “jesus”, “christian”, “holy spirit”, “bible”?
Your god is made up, same as the other 4000 gods humanity has worshipped throughout history.
You mean if following the bill of rights and the constitution bothers you? Nope, following the law doesn’t bother me at all.
What bothers me are the folks who think we should subvert the constitution to please their xenophobia and racism.
Disgusting
Because there’s nothing wrong with this.
Public officials are not required to swear an oath. Just to affirm one. There is no law requiring a “holy book” to swear upon, and in fact – many officials swear upon the Constitution.
We have freedom of religion in this country. That means no religious test is required for public office, there is no state religion, and members of any religion may hold public office.
Pretty sure your Christian bible advocates selling one’s daughter into slavery, and forcing women to marry men that rape them.
Might want to adhere to that bit about glass houses and stones, though.
Same thing.
Now I’ve seen everything!!!
No, I mean letting our country fall into the hands of people who would destroy it, if they were given the option to do so. The teachings of Islam are not compatible with our Constitution.
“Can a Muslim be a good American?This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply:Theologically – no, because his allegiance is to Allah.Religiously – no, because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Qur’an 2:256).Scripturally – no, because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Qur’an.Geographically – no, because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.Socially – no, because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.Politically – no, because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders) who teach the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of America, the great Satan.Domestically – no, because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat his wife when she disobeys him (Qur’an 4:34).Intellectually – no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to becorrupt.Philosophically- no, because Islam, Muhammad,and the Qur’an does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist! Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.Spiritually – no, because when we declare ‘one nation under God,’ we are referring to the Christian’s God and not Allah.Therefore, after much study and deliberation, perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannotbe both ‘good’ Muslims and good Americans/Canadians; they cannot and will not integrate into the great melting pot of America.The religious war is bigger than we know or understand. Muslims everywhere have said they will destroy us from within.” share as possible as you can for save future of America and our children from terrorism ,, if we not open our eyes today there must be worst results in future of our children and united states