Rep-Elect Keith Ellison To Be Sworn In On Koran Once Owned By Thomas Jefferson...

Washington Post Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts January 3, 2007 12:08 PM

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.

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