Quran for courtroom oaths gets green light

A ruling from a state appeals court has reopened a case prompted because a Muslim woman wanted to use a Quran -- a book that an expert on Islam says allows Muslims to lie under compulsion -- on which to swear her oath of honesty in a court hearing. The lawsuit was filed by Sydiah Mateen with help from the American Civil Liberties Union in 2005 after she was denied permission to use a Quran to take the courtroom oath in a case in North Carolina . . . [Click for more]