Rashida Tlaib to be sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Quran

Rashida Tlaib to be sworn in on Thomas Jefferson’s Quran

BY OWEN DAUGHERTY

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/423668-rashida-tlaib-will-be-sworn-into-congress-on-thomas-jeffersons-copy-of-the

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Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), one of the first two Muslim congresswomen elected in the U.S., will be sworn in to Congress on Thursday using Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Quran.

Jefferson’s copy of the Quran, which was translated by George Sale into English in 1734, currently resides in the Library of Congress, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Tlaib will join incoming freshman Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar(D-Minn.) as Congress's first two elected Muslim congresswomen. Tlaib also will make history as the lower chamber's first Palestinian-American congresswoman.

“It’s important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,” Tlaib told the Free Press. “Muslims were there at the beginning … Some of our Founding Fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.”

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