Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:23:30 PM
What is often lost in the hyped up controversy about Congressman Keith Ellison’s religious faith are
his bonafides rather than those of Islam. He and his supporters cried foul when Dennis Prager and Representative Goode raised rather naïve questions about Ellison using the Qur’an for his ceremonial oath taking. Let us turn the question another way around. Can Mr. Ellison swear on the Qur’an, and call himself a Muslim with his integrity intact?
The Minnesota Democrat, proudly hailed as the first ‘Muslim’ in the United States Congress has much to answer for about his bizarre understanding of Islam’s teachings. Of all the monotheistic faiths, Islam has probably the most stringent prohibitions against homosexuality, promiscuity, and abortion. And in making those prohibitions, it provides no convenient leeway of “personally I am against but…” Similarly strong prohibitions exist against socialistic economic policies that seek to redistribute wealth or expropriate property. And yet Congressman Ellison is a proud member of the left wing of the Democratic Party, publicly committed to gay marriage, abortion on demand, and wealth redistribution.
It seems the real question should have been not whether Keith Ellison should use a Qur’an to take his oath but rather whether he, in all honesty, could use the Holy Book of Islam with a straight face.