Non-Muslim Politicians Immersed in the Koran

This weblog entry keeps track, in reverse chronological order, of non-Muslim politicians in the West who likewise closely associate themselves with the Koran – a complement to my earlier weblog entry, "Hijabs on Western Political Women." (December 22, 2008)

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Tony Blair, a Catholic, a former British prime minister, and now the Quartet's envoy to the Middle East, said today: "I regularly read the Koran, practically every day." (Back in 2000, he merely asserted, "I carry a copy of this book with me whenever I can, to give me inspiration and courage.")

Prince Charles has been praising Islam for many years and sometimes he quotes the Koran to make a point, as he did in a 2006 pleas for environmentalism ("Only they pay attention who have hearts; only they believe [or see signs] who have hearts.").

George W. Bush bragged in 2005 that," for the first time in our nation's history, we have added a Koran to the White House Library."

Dennis Kucinich announced, in the course of his 2004 effort to become the the Democratic Party's a candidate for president: "I keep a copy of the Quran in my office."

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