Interfaith community responds to lawmakers
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Published: October 26, 2007
TULSA (AP) - Remarks this week by some state lawmakers who rejected Qurans offered as gifts from an ethnic advisory council promote Islamophobia and promote mistrust and hostility, members of Oklahoma's interfaith community said Friday.
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The lawmakers are all rich businessmen and lawyers. What the rest of us have to say is irrelevant.
It's going to turn eventually to civil war and anarchy, because we no longer have a common belief on which to focus.
Jo Ewy
Piedmont, OK
And Sher, you're right the Qur'an does mention Jesus. It talks about how his death on the cross (for the sins of all mankind) was simply an illusion.
July 30, 2007
GUTHRIE - During the first six months of this year registered lobbyists bestowed nearly $120,000 of gifts on Oklahoma legislators. According to a recent report published in the Daily Oklahoman State Representative Jason Murphey (R-Guthrie) was #1 in the House and the Senate when it came to not accepting those gifts.