Muslim elected to Congress

If that's his faith, he should be allowed to do it. When people are sworn into trial, they can choose to "affirm" rather than "swear" if they are not religious and don't want to swear an oath on a Bible.

I'm not a big fan of politicians taking oaths on ANY religious book. My reason is this; what's wrong with a man's(or woman's" word being worth something. Why can't they let their "yes" be yes and their "no" be no? To me, the need for a man to place his hand on the Bible or Koran or any other religious text tells me his word is worth very little. As if he could otherwise renig on his word by saying" sure I promised to do good, but I didn't swear on the Bible" Also, and I'm not a Christian mind you, but I believe Christ has been credited as saying something to the effect of "don't swear at all, but if you must do so not on the name of God. Let your yes be yes and your no be no." I know I completely botched that verse but I think it gets the drift of what I'm saying. Force

The United States Constitution protects religious freedom in this country. If he is Muslim and feels he should swear on his religious book then let him. Congressmen don't take an oath on the Bible anyway. Any pictures you see of that is more for publicity than anything.