OT: Opinions, not flames please

What do you all think of this and why:

"Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran."

http://tinyurl.com/ybfszv

I'm honestly interested in what everyone thinks about this, so can we please keep it civilized :-)

I was a little taken aback with it, but a reasonable solution, IMO, would be to have him take the oath on both the Bible and the Koran.

Marsha/Ohio

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    ... Why on earth would one take an oath on a book they do not believe to be holy? ... To me that would mean they didn't really have to keep the oath. ... "Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran." ... I was a little taken aback with it, but a reasonable solution, IMO, would be to have him take the oath on both the Bible and the Koran. ...
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