# Holy Crap! A Muslim is a member of the US Congress! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729 "2006-11-09T17:35:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/1 "2006-11-09T17:35:11Z")
[Link](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/muslim.elect/index.html). 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: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/2 "2006-11-09T17:49:39Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] [Link](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/muslim.elect/index.html). 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: [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/3 "2006-11-09T17:54:49Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![lexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/4 "2006-11-09T18:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/5 "2006-11-09T18:03:14Z")
Are there any atheists? I hear US politicians say ‘God Bless America’ a lot, so I do actually wonder… ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/6 "2006-11-09T18:37:57Z")
[QUOTE=glee] Are there any atheists? I hear US politicians say ‘God Bless America’ a lot, so I do actually wonder… [/QUOTE] According to [this chart](http://www.adherents.com/adh_congress.html), 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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-a-muslim-is-a-member-of-the-us-congress/379729/7 "2006-11-09T18:52:30Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] According to [this chart](http://www.adherents.com/adh_congress.html), 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. [/QUOTE] Maybe they should call her a Protologist. And Sampiro, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. 🙂