Noted in passing… (part something or other)
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by
Strange Forces sends us an email which reads in part:
This is awesome with awesome sauce.
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.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Hahahahahahaha…Goode’s tiny brain will burst.
That has sprinkles of awesome on top too.
Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Koran – who knew?
Thomas Jefferson… I always wondered about him. Isn’t he that guy who had a thing for dark women?
Must be another one of those Michael Moore fatties.
The brain trust at the Corner has already responded:
Take that, Tommy J! Monticello sounds like a pretty French name too…
Can we check with the FBI and see if this particular Quran has been “pre-squatted” for your convenience?
mikey
Who knew that rat bastard Jefferson was a Islamomexicommiehomofascist? Traitor!
By all means let Keith Ellison swear in using Jefferson’s Koran, maybe afterwards he can look up the passages that discuss smiting the infidels at the neck and make great slaughter among them. Probably underlined.
Thanks Jeebus there’s nothing like that in Teh Bible, eh?
Even better: were Jefferson alive today he’d probably be in Goode’s district in VA (same county) .
Can I get a “Heh, indizzle”?
If the irony were any sweeter I’d need an insulin shot.
As for those Cornerite morans, perhaps someone might point them to the parts in the bible where stoning to death is required by Levitical law for some rather minor offenses, or the bits where “god” (and certainly never the political priesthood who claimed to speak for “him”) commands the faithful to commit full-scale genocide (men, women, kids, livestock, every living thing).
Thanks Jeebus there’s nothing like that in Teh Bible, eh?
I think the Bible recommends inviting them to dinner and getting them all drunk first. I may be wrong.
maybe afterwards he can look up the passages that discuss smiting the infidels at the neck and make great slaughter among them.
Oooh, yeah, then he can switch over to the Good Book, and read about stoning one’s children to death for disrespect, when one isn’t offering them for rape by a mob. Then he can skip to the part where God sends His angel to save the life of Ishmael in the desert, because He wants all Ayrabs exterminated.
Man, to dodge the cognitive dissonance loogie Mr. Ellison has hawked, they actually spit on Jefferson at the Corner. Yeah, he was a jerk, but he was also a Founder(TM), and hence perfect and omniscient. That’s why strict constructionism can be applied so well to legal issues involving the Internet.
I wondered why I kept getting a 404 error at protein wisdom…
Awesomefruit Ice Cream??? for me?!?!
Do I get half credit for suggesting that Ellison use the Jeffersonian Bible?
“By all means let Keith Ellison swear in using Jefferson’s Koran, maybe afterwards he can look up the passages that discuss smiting the infidels at the neck and make great slaughter among them. Probably underlined.”
Oh Good GOD!
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/massacre_of_the_peaceful_unsuspecting_people/jg18_01-02.html
http://www.thebricktestament.com/joshua/index.html
People who think Christian God is wine, roses, and song are delusional at best. I’m so sick of the rampent ignorance of one’s own faith.
Maybe Jefferson used his Quran to learn more about his opponents during the Barbary Wars. If it were George Bush’s Quran, he would just throw it at his opponents and hope that it hits them.
Elderta,
The Bible is much better suited to that use. It’s much longer than the Quran.
Well, to be fair, I don’t think Fighting 101st has much use for Jefferson- wall of separation, tyranny of the majority and all that. It’s much like the relationship that the Bob Bork end of the Kool Aid line had with Lincoln. Sure, using the Sedition Act to shut down a few printing presses gets a golf clap from The Right, but the Emmancipation Proclamation? An unforgivable gubmint intrusion into private enterprise, Suh!
Sammy, very true.
I’m still hoping for some type of holy book war to open up on the senate floor -but something like in the way of Something Wicked This Way Comes meets South Park’s Santa Vs. Jesus battle.
Teh Kewl. CSPAN, get the cameras ready!!
If it were George Bush’s Quran, he would just throw it at his opponents and hope that it hits them.
Why did I just get an image of the angry apes at the beginning of “2001: A Space Odyssey”?
“Thanks Jeebus there’s nothing like that in Teh Bible, eh?”
Sarcasm is the weapon of Islamomexicommiehomoabortionlovingfascists…I hope YOU’RE HAPPY!
The Bible is much better suited to that use. It’s much longer than the Quran.
You underestimate the Preznit’s mad power-throwing skillz.
But Jefferson was a member of the Illuminati, which, according to noted schizophrenic Myron Fagain “at least partly accounts for the condition of the party at this time and through infiltration of the Republican Party; we have exactly nothing of loyal Americanism today.”
You can read all about it here.
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/illuminati.htm
So let’s be very very clear on this:
The Autocratic boot lickers at the Corner are so mealy mouthed and beholden to the wielders of power in their grimy, misbegotten little world that revolves around demonization of the other; that when said other crops up as a perfectly normal American, elected fairly, and intending to practice his faith legally and peacefullly, supported by an inspired piece of research showing Thomas Jefferson’s intelligence and respect for freedom of religion…
that their immediate, knee jerk and vituperative reaction is to malign Thomas Jefferson?!?
That’s what passes for patriotic over there? sheesh.
It is time that the people were told about the other books in Jefferson’s library… like his personal copy of the Necronomicon. Annotations in human blood and all that.
Even now, Gary is probably preparing a guided missive about how Jefferson exaggerated his war record and staged his own injuries.
Snagsby in the house!
Let’s be clear about this right now–Thomas Jefferson just wasn’t a good conservative. The man never touched a Cheeto in his life.
By all means let Keith Ellison swear in using Jefferson’s Koran, maybe afterwards he can look up the passages that discuss smiting the infidels at the neck and make great slaughter among them. Probably underlined.
Yeah! Like these:
Deuteronomy
2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing [worshipping another god, from 17:3] unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
20:16-17 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
Ezekiel: 6:4-5: And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I [God] will cast down your slain men before your idols.And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Hosea 13:16: Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Oops! Wrong book. My bad.
Anybody else hear the NPR piece today with the Library of Congress dude talking about his sacred mission to carry the Jefferson Q’uran over to the swearing-in secured in a nuke-code-quality briefcase? Shazam!
I hope I live long enough to see the first Hindu member of Congress take his oath on a copy of the Kama Sutra. Free-yow!
That Ellison is going to use Jefferson’s Koran (or Q’uran, or whatever) to swear in on sends a definite message, and a symbol that he definitely has his priorities straight. Rep. Goode, OTOH, is a dumfuk.
Jefferson wasn’t big on the idea of revealed religion, as his edited version of the Gospels makes pretty clear. But he was very big on being smart and, y’know, reading books. Hence the Cornerites’ disgust.
My guess is that the Library of Congress’s Rare Book Division enjoy doing this very, very much, because Rep-Elect Ellison’s staff called them with the catalogue number, meaning that they’d done the sort of research that makes rare-book archivists go all tingly.
(Here’s a picture of the original 1734 edition of Sale’s translation, though Jefferson’s was the 1764 medium octavo, 2 vols.)
Hmm, I’ve just remembered something about a traditional view that it’s not really the Q’uran if it’s a translation. That would mean that Mr. Ellison’s use of Jefferson’s copy would not be an actual oath on his holy book, but simply political grandstanding. To which I say, HUZZAH! Like all that entirely optional private posing with the Bible is ever anything else? As ye sow, yada-yada-yada.
I’m in ur office, paintin ur doorz.
Brilliance, really. Between that and the new chairman of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, the week’s looking up.