Democrat Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. represents New Jersey’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 8th district includes Paterson, the place of my birth and coincidentally, the place where reliable eye-witnesses have testified that Muslims gleefully took to the streets on the afternoon of 9/11/01.
Pascrell has published a letter to Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode, demanding an apology for the following passage from a letter Goode wrote, “The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.”
Goode is refering to newly elected Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison who has insisted on being sworn into office with his right hand on the Koran instead of the Bible. And Pascrell has countered by accusing Goode of “wrongfully (equating) the issue of immigration with a fear of Muslim integration in our society.” So, in a country where most of us are passionate about religious liberty, what’s wrong with a Muslim wanting to serve as an elected official informed by his own personal beliefs?
Nothing, if we could reasonably apply the doctrine of seperation of church and state that the leftists like Pascrell are constantly harping about. The trouble is, no such seperation exists anywhere in the Muslim world, and it is foolish to believe that Muslims here in America have anything remotely resembling seperation of church and state in mind.