Ellison: Quran influenced America's founding fathers, WHICH IS NOT TRUE !

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Ellison: Quran influenced America's founding fathers
January 5, 2007

Detroit native Keith Ellison, the first Muslim Congressman, told the Free Press Friday that he used the Quran during his oath of office because the Islamic holy book helped influence the founding fathers of America.

Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, garnered international attention Thursday when he used a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson during his ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for the House of Representatives.

The Quran is "definitely an important historical document in our national history and demonstrates that Jefferson was a broad visionary thinker who not only possessed a Quran, but read it," Ellison said in an interview with the Free Press. "It would have been something that contributed to his own thinking."

Ellison was criticized by some commentators for using the Quran during his oath off office. Ellison said he decided to use Jefferson's Quran after receiving a letter from someone who told him about the copy, which is with the Library of Congress. U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, a Virginia Republican, slammed Ellison for using a Quran.

But Ellison said Friday that Jefferson's Quran "shows that from the earliest times of this republic, the Koran was in the consciousness of people who brought about democracy."

Dm1497

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams reported this to Congress about Islam:

"... that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

This is the reason Jefferson owned a Qur'an - to learn about America's enemies.

Hitting that Taqiyya pretty early, eh, Ellison?

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:41 pm

fgj159

Jefferson, as I understand him, modeled the majority of his ideas (including the Declaration) on John Locke's teachings - so why not swear on one of Locke's books? Ellison is attempting a lame excuse to justify his desire to change the way thousands of our leaders have been sworn in to serve our great nation.

However unfortunate, the United States is at war with the followers of the Quran. Obviously not all Muslims are our enemies, but all of our enemies in this war are indeed Muslim. It is irrelevant whether you agree or disagree with the war - recognition of it, however, is essential for America. Allowing the Congressman to swear allegiance to the USA by searing in on the Quran is a slap in the face to the American soldiers and those who died in 9/11. Remember, the contents of that book are what fuel the terrorists and justify their actions to themselves. And now, its teachings are a member of Congress.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:56 pm