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Associated Press – February 16, 2007
Goode speaking out again about Muslims
CAPITOL HILL (AP) - Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode is speaking out again about Muslims. The Republican says a nonbinding measure opposing President Bush's plan to boost troop strength in Iraq would ... quote ... "comfort and encourage the radical Muslims who want to destroy our country." Goode told his colleagues that Islamic jihadists would want U.S. currency to say "in Muhammad we trust," with an Islamic flag flying over the White House and U.S. Capitol. Goode angered Muslims in December when he questioned Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison's decision to be sworn in on the Quran instead of the Bible and warned that more Muslims would be elected to office unless immigration was limited. Ellison was born in Detroit and converted to Islam in college.
http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6097464
Election Central - February 16, 2007
'In Muhammad we trust' on U.S.money?
Muslims say 'no,' too
By Eric Kleefeld
A top official at a leading Muslim group has just told us that GOP Rep. Virgil Goode's fear that U.S. money may soon be stamped with "In Muhammad We Trust" is rather at odds with the actual history and theology of the Muslim religion. As this expert points out - and as some TPM Readers have noted, too - Muslims don't worship Muhammad. They are monotheists worshiping a single God, called Allah in Arabic - not the individual Muhammad.
"There are many Islamic traditions that reinforce that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was a human being, and he should not be worshipped," Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, tells us. So the notion that any Muslim would want "In Muhammad We Trust" written on U.S. money is, to put it charitably, nonsense.
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/feb/15/in_muhammad_we_trust_on_us_money_muslims_say_no_too
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