Taken with great glee and gusto from graydancer LJ its nice to see that America still has many bits of Irony just waiting to slap patriotic bigots in the face. I suppose he would have been just as twisted if it had been the Hebrew bible naaaahhh proably not

But It's Thomas Jefferson's Koran!

By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

Wednesday, January 3, 2007; Page C03

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010300075.html