IQNA

10:27 - January 06, 2019
News ID: 3467627

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.

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

 

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