The Detroit Free Press reports that the first Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, "said he'd use the Quran during his swearing-in ceremony next week. 'On Jan. 4, I will go swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I'll place my hand on the Quran.'"

That's like saying, "I'll swear an oath to uphold the principles of capitalism by placing my hand on the Communist Manifesto."

Speaking at the annual convention of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America, Ellison "said that Muslims can help teach America about justice and equal protection."

That's like saying the Aztecs and Mayans could have helped teach Queen Elizabeth about high tea etiquette.

Calls to shut down Camp Delta persist. Certainly we’ve all heard the gruesome stories: people having cocktails of urine, feces, blood and semen hurled at them, plus getting spat on in the face, bitten on the ear, ambushed and called names--all the while unable to do anything in response.

And that’s just the U.S. officers stationed there.

The AP reported that Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison chose to use Thomas Jefferson’s Koran “because it showed that a visionary like Jefferson believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources.”

Of course, had Ellison lived when Jefferson did, Jefferson would have owned him.

Meanwhile, all that stuff about Muslims being the new black man doesn't make any sense to me. If Muslims are the new black man, why are so many black men, like Ellison, converting to Islam? Because they don’t feel black enough? Because they want to get in on the Muslims’ lucrative African slave trade?

Regardless, it’s nice to see Ellison respecting the founding father. After all, Jefferson may very well be his great-great grandfather.

A man-sized talking rabbit appeared on television in Gaza [recently] to denounce Danish newspapers over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that offended Muslims.

The latest in a line of cartoon-inspired characters that take the message of the Hamas Islamist movement to Palestinian children, the actor in the Bugs Bunny-style outfit also railed against "Zionist filth" and Israel's control of Jerusalem.

"We will liberate al-Aqsa mosque from the Zionists' filth," said Assud, whose name means Little Lion...

Though some parents are uneasy about the show's message it has proved popular with children, not only in Hamas-controlled Gaza but also in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. One girl called Rasha said she was phoning in from Bethlehem, near Jerusalem: "Who has sabotaged the world if not the Zionist plans?" she sang down the line to the studio in Gaza. Dancing and singing along, Assud the rabbit chimed in: "They have bombarded us."