Thomas Jefferson’s Koran to Be Used in Swearing-In
This guy gets the last laugh after coming under fire–From Bring It On!: Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he’d take his oath of office on the Koran — especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values. Yet the holy book at tomorrow’s ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We’ve learned that the new congressman — in a savvy bit of political symbolism — will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Link is here.
Janeiro 5, 2007 às 7:39 am
And since criticizing our second slave-owning president is illegal in the state of Virginia (certainly not for the minor *cough* pecadillo of owning slaves, much less for the heinous felony of owning a Koran, much less reading the Satanic book), Rep. Virgil Goode is pretty much looking like the goober is is to rednecks, good ole-boys and actual thinking people. Who’da thunk it?
Fevereiro 1, 2007 às 8:36 am
Well, TJ was a Renaissance man. Perhaps he was a Renaissance believer, too.
Foilwoman, I couldn’t put my sentiments about this story any better than you, so I’ll just say, “Ditto.”