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WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to hundreds of voters this month, Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., warned that the recent election of the first Muslim to Congress posed a serious threat to the nation’s traditional values.

Goode was referring to Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a criminal defense lawyer who converted to Islam as a college student and was elected to the House in November. Ellison’s plan to use the Quran during his private swearing-in ceremony in January had outraged some Virginia voters, prompting Goode to issue a written response to them, a spokesman for Goode said.

In his letter, dated Dec. 5, Goode said Americans needed to “wake up” or else there would “likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.”

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hopefully Virgil Goode gets voted out in 4 years

what an asshxle

"I will not be putting my hand on the Quran," Goode said

on the upside
"Freedom of speech is good, because it makes it easier to spot the idiots."

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Originally posted by Cueball:
It could never happen here.

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does Canada's Muslim community currenly have a representative in the House of Commons or Senate?

I did an google search

Yasmin Ratansi from the Toronto riding of Don Valley East

claim: the election of Canada`s first Muslim woman member of Parliament 2004

How did the national media miss such a historic milestone for Canada`s 600,000-strong Muslim community?

confirmed
Yasmin Ratansi

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Originally posted by Nanuq:
There's nothing particularly new about slamming a candidate over his or her religion. John F. Kennedy's old adversaries routinely used his Catholicism against him. Ditto for Jewish politicians.

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Could you imagine someone questioning whether Joe Leiberman was "good for American values?"

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A Virginia Republican attacks a Minnesota Democrat for his religion. Meh.

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Jessie Ventura's pecs aside, what if Goode said Germans needed to “wake up” or else there would “likely be many more Jews elected to office and demanding the use of the Communist Manifesto”?

And went on:

“I fear that in the next century we will have many more Jews in Germany if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the German Fatherland and to prevent our resources from being swamped"?

Would that get a rise out of you? (I mean, other than for terrible prose..)

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The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

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How surprising is this though, when someone like David Duke held public office in the USA? I once heard Bill Maher complaining about how the USA is always “bringing up the rear” when it comes to social advances.

I think something like this could happen in Canada quite easily, but I don’t think it would be at the national level. I could see it happening in some place like ….home, Saskatchewan, in any small city like Prince Albert, or Saskatoon even; some place where there isn’t a significant number of Muslims, or other minority. Racism is alive and well in this country, very much so. It’s always there right below the surface.

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does Canada's Muslim community currenly have a representative in the House of Commons or Senate?

I did an google search

Yasmin Ratansi from the Toronto riding of Don Valley East

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Originally posted by 2 ponies:

I could see it happening in some place like ….home, Saskatchewan, in any small city like Prince Albert, or Saskatoon even; some place where there isn’t a significant number of Muslims, or other minority. Racism is alive and well in this country, very much so.

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What the hell is that? Are we to be faced with another delusional Headless Hedy moment claiming that there are crosses burning in Prince Albert "as we speak?"

Yeah, racism is alive and well in every part of the country, including cosmopolitan Toronto and sophisticated Montreal - even wordly Vancouver.