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
Can a Christian be a good American? No in the Christian Bible it says have no other doctrine but the doctrine of God……
Please show me the law that states you must take oath on a Christian Bible?
What Christian constitutional authority? Please show me this law that states you must take your oath on a Christian Bible?
This is a disgrace to our country and citizens
Here is the actual immigration act of 1952 perhaps you should read it.
http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/%7Ecalda/Documents/1950s/McCarran_52.html
Christians cant be judges either because in the Bible it states have no other doctrine but the doctrine of God
What is a disgrace that the Constitution provides for the freedom of religion and that there is no Law stating that you must take your oath on a Christian Bible?
Please show me the law that states you must take your authentic Christian Bible?
Simply put through Constitution was built around Christian principles of right and wrong. The coral or any other book has no such moral values as embodied in the Bible or the US Constitution.
Please show me the constitutional law that provide you must take your oath on a Christian Bible?