I'm liking this Ellison fellow!

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Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts - But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran! - washingtonpost.com:

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.

The right-wing nutballs who seem to think that Article VI was meant for, well, Christians only, can go shove it.

Granted, it remains to be seen if he'll actually do good for the country legislatively, as opposed to just making the right wing reveal its obvious to most of us bigotry.

grokked from Dispatches.