US Congresswoman Denies Reports She Was Sworn In on Jefferson’s Quran

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Saturday denied recent reports that she was sworn in with former US President Thomas Jefferson’s 18th-century Quran.

Tlaib insisted that she instead used her own copy of the Islamic Holy Book to make her ceremonial swear-in “more personal.”

“I used my own *personal Quran* that my best friend of 25 years gifted me to use for the ceremonial swear in (basically a photo with Speaker Pelosi). *Note: I did not use Jefferson’s Quran as reported. I wanted it to be more personal (and my own),” she wrote in a tweet, the Daily Caller reported.

Tlaib’s clarification comes after many outlets reported that the freshman congresswoman used the same two-volume English translation of the Quran once owned by Jefferson and used for the swearing-in ceremony of former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who was the first Muslim elected to US Congress.