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
Get her out. She is not a legal judge
Get the hell rid of her now!
might as well make it a satanic bible
Muslims Swear on the Quran
I believe that the Bible is the Word of The Only True GOD! Jesus Christ died and came back to Life that all who Believe should have eternity with HIM in Heaven!! I Believe without a shadow of a doubt ….. period!!!
Dana no it’s not special treatment. There is NO REQUIREMENT to use a religious text to sworn it…it is at the discretion of the person taking the oath. As you yourself pointed out…only some presidents have used a bible. So using a book of any kind is voluntary. That is NOT special treatment…that is freedom.
David Schlueter Thanks for the info, but this seems way out there for me.
Donna muslims, hidus, and jews hold their religious beliefs just as strongly as you do. How hard you believe in something has NO impact on whether it is actually true or not.
She is satanic…MECA is where she turned and prays to…tower of babel where all false religions were made.
You are confused by the quaran. You know the Muslim followers that actually do that.