Please keep it up! And don't forget to vote Obama in 2012! :smiley:

I went to law school at the U of MN (Class of 1989) with the only Congressman who is openly a Muslim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison At least, that's as far as I know.

With Keith Ellison then, you knew he was a Muslim; he never hid that. And, back in 1989, it sounded like he wanted to be on the US Supreme Court. I guess he had to settle-- so far at least-- on a Congressional seat from MN.

If Obama were a Muslim in hiding his Harvard Law classmates probably would have outed him by now. Kind of hard to hide very much in the pressure cooker of law school. With that many eyes of the shrewd and ambitious on you as just about every Harvard Law student would be, there is not much that you could really hide well. The competition to be on a law journal is also extremely intense. It was at MN and I can imagine just how much work it would take to become an Editor of a Harvard Law journal.

I did not know this man personally but had a live-in girlfriend who was also in the U of MN Class of 1990-- the same as Congressman Ellison-- who mentioned him from time-to-time.

Teaching Company's Great World Religions: Islam
 

I checked out an older CD from the Teaching Courses on the history and religion of Islam and found out just how ignorant I was about this very powerful force in much of the world. Picked up this CD from the Lady Lake PL.

This newer examination of Islam looks very interesting. We all could use more information about this religion.

Great World Religions: Islam

I did not find this course in any local library though the last time I looked.

An important part of Islam seemed to me to be just how much it seemed to intertwine the religion into the state. Which is what you find in many Arab as well as non-Arab countries. Our Constitution fortunately forbids this establishment of a state religion.