Holy Crap! A Muslim is a member of the US Congress!

Link. How did this happen?!?! It’s the beginning of an Islamic State in The West! The terrorists have won! WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Actually, the guy sounds pretty decent. Clever bastard, I think. :dubious:

Didn’t I also read that one of the new members (Senate or House of Reps, I’m not certain) is a Socialist?

Certain political elements are probably frothing at the mouth just about now.

Damn. This guy is an African-American farmer from Minnesota whose religion is Islam, who was endorsed by The American Jewish World (a newspaper) and won election to Congress as a liberal Democrat.

Statisticians will be studying this guy for years. What the hell are the chances of that conglameration of descriptions even existing, let alone winning an election? Now if he’ll just marry a male conjoined twin who’s also an Ainu who grew up in W. Edmonton but by religion is Hindu and is also left handed then they could be the official “most minority couple in the world”.

Bernie Sanders, the new Senator-Elect from Vermont, is a self-described socialist. He’s been a Representative for years, but this will be his first term in the Senate. He was at one time a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, but I don’t know if he still is.

Are there any atheists?

I hear US politicians say ‘God Bless America’ a lot, so I do actually wonder…

According to this chart, no current member of Congress identifies themselves publicly as atheist or agnostic, although 4 are “unspecified”, so it’s possible. Mary Bono, by the way, calls herself a “Scientologist-Protestant”, whatever that means.

According to the same chart, no Senators are atheist or agnostic.

Maybe they should call her a Protologist.

And Sampiro, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. :slight_smile: