Rep. Keith Ellison’s political stunt, in which he took his oath of office on a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, garnered lots of adulatory reviews from the left-wing blogosphere and mainstream media. They saw it as an excellent put-down of right-wing Christians and other conservatives who objected to Ellison using a Koran, and as a political maneuver there’s no doubt it worked well.

But Christopher Hitchens points out that we still have not heard an unambivalent repudiation from Ellison of his long association with the Nation of Islam hate cult—and the ultimate irony of the Koran stunt is at Ellison’s expense: What Jefferson really thought about Islam.

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What does the Marine anthem say? ”From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country’s battles on the land and on the sea.”

America’s military defeated Islamic terrorism in the early 19th century, and if Thomas Jefferson were leading the Democratic Party today he would despise their cries of appeasement and submission (which is the meaning of the term “Muslim”)and he would support the war in Iraq against Islamic terrorism today.