"...he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a visionary like Jefferson" believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources."
It's obvious that Democrat Keith Ellison needs to glean a little wisdom from the history of Jefferson and his battle with Islam.
I believe that it is OUR inability to glean wisdom from hundreds of years of facts that would be our undoing. A huge portion of western civilization has an unconscious (or conscious?) deathwish. The sissyfication of our society is well down the road of completion.