The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants Dennis Prager, a columnist and conservative talk radio host, removed from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council for criticizing Representative-elect Keith Ellison’s decision to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in next month. Keith Ellison is the United States first Muslim Congressman.
In his column last week, Prager wrote: “Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible. If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don’t serve in Congress.”
Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director, sent a letter to the Council’s chairman, Fred Zeidman, saying, “No one who holds such bigoted, intolerant and divisive views should be in a policymaking position at a taxpayer-funded institution that seeks to educate Americans about the destructive impact hatred has had, and continues to have, on every society.”
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