Yeah, I think that is significant because Brennan is no friend of this country or our way of life. If he is in fact a practicing Muslim, then loyalty and emnity exists between his Muslim beliefs and our Bill of Rights. No man can serve two masters as Christ so succinctly pointed out. That truism goes beyond money and God…it applies also to divided loyalties between Allah/Muhammed and this country.
As others have already pointed out, it is rather strange that Brennan didn’t swear an oath on the Bible. Unless you consider Iman Rauf’s words, that Islam and the Constitution are about 90% compatible. This presupposes of course, that Brennan really is a Muslim. One might conclude therefore, that minus the Bill Of Rights, the Constitution in draft form, might be halal (acceptable) to a Muslim who wished to exercise a little muruna to hide his Muslimness.
Yahoo – Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted.
Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America’s top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.“There’s one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.” Earnest said Brennan had asked for a document from the National Archives that would demonstrate the U.S. is a nation of laws.
“Director Brennan told the president that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as director of the CIA,” Earnest said. The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789. But
troublemakingblogger Marcy Wheeler points out that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights, which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states.