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Blogs Buzz About Bush Adding Koran to Library; Correction From Me

The addition of the Koran to the White House bookshelves by Bush captured the attention of two more news bloggers today, BuzzFlash and AmericaBlog. Both sites predict fundamentalist anti-Islamists won't be happy learning the man the installed in the White House won't be happy about that. Not sure that the fundies even know Bush put the Koran in the library.

I have to correct something I alleged earlier today about no MSM had reported on Bush's action last month, during his now annual Ramadan dinner for American Moslems.

Turns out the San Francisco Chronicle reported on October 26 about the dinner: "Bush took the occasion to formally announce the addition of the very first Koran to the White House library."

Here's what the two of the politcal blogs wrote this evening:

From BuzzFlash.com

George Bush just added the Koran to the White House library. Nice gesture, but it will drive the fundies absolutely CRAZY. They hate it when Bush even vaguely suggests that Islam is anything but a religion of evil nutjob fanatics (yes, the irony is lost on them). So, this should make for some great theater. 11/2

And this was posted at AmericaBlog.com

Bush ? the Koran
by John in DC - 11/02/2005 04:17:00 PM

He put a copy of the Koran in the White House library AND apparently he's reading it. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But oh the fundies are gonna flip.

Check out this interview last month in which a Malaysian reporter interviews Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes:

KHAIDIR: Talking about books, President Bush in the Iftar in the White House – the White House finally has a Koran in the library….

UNDER SECRETARY HUGHES: That’s right, he’s put a Koran in the library for the first time. [...]