METAXY: * Congressman Keith Ellison is No Dummy, He's Very Clever

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

* Congressman Keith Ellison is No Dummy, He's Very Clever

But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!

by Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
January 3, 2007

"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."

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