EEEEUUUWWW! MUSLIM COOTIES!

Don't let 'em get on you:

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sixteen state lawmakers have joined Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, in refusing a gift copy of the Quran.

The holy book of the Muslim religion was offered as a centennial gift by the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council, made up of American Muslims from Middle East countries....

Whoops -- now the number of refusers is up to 24:

Two dozen Oklahoma lawmakers plan to return copies of the Quran to a state panel on diversity after a lawmaker claimed the Muslim holy book condones the killing of innocent people....

"Most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology," Rep. Rex Duncan said.

He said he has researched the Quran on the Internet and believes it supports such killing.

"That's exactly what it says," Duncan said. "I think it's pretty straightforward. By their own admission those are the exact words...."

Good heavens! What kind of religion would advocate the killing of innocent women and children?

Oh yeah -- the one that gave us Deuteronomy 20:16-17.

However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them -- the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites -- as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Or Deuteronomy 7:1-2.

When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations -- the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you -- and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

(There are a few more fun Bible quotes here.)

One legislator made what seems to me to be the only legitimate objection to this Quran distribution -- that a government-sponsored organization shouldn't be handing out any religious materials, Muslim, Christian, or otherwise.

...ha-ha, I made a joke: No one, as far as I can determine, has said anything like that. All the objections stem from the fear of getting Islam germs.

Gosh, why do they hate us? I simply can't imagine.