This Ellison guy has a future in politics

This is a very cunning move on Ellison's part. If this doesn't shut up Goode, nothing will. He's chosen a very special Qur'an for his swearing in ceremony.

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. [emphasis mine]

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