In the Jan. 4 editorial "Goode goes bad," the ostrich-like editorial staff of The Free Lance-Star denounces Rep. Goode's warning "that Muslims have no business holding elective office in the United States" ["Goode goes bad," Jan. 4].
The Free Lance-Star then goes on to say, "It says that right there in whatever document he carries in his breast pocket where a copy of the Constitution should be."
I am sure that Rep. Goode knows chapter and verse what the Constitution says, including freedom of religion.
However, should religious freedom include an Islam that advocates the use of governmental powers to convert infidels (read Christian, Jew, Hindu, et al.) to its religion?
Perhaps what Goode carried in his breast pocket was a copy of the Quran as translated to the English by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, the first foreign minister of Pakistan, president of the 17th U.N. General Assembly, and a former member of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
This translation is at our Central Rappahannock Regional Library.
In it, The Free Lance-Star would find the following messages: 1) the cause of Allah is submission to Allah and his religious dictates; 2) all people are to convert to Islam and submit to Allah; 3) the Muslims or Believers are, if necessary, to force the submission of all people to Allah; and 4) when a majority of a country's population is converted to Islam, the government is to be used to enforce the Islamic code on all the population.
Perhaps the politically correct editorial staff should pull its head out of the sand.
Allen WhitesideSpotsylvania