I think it would have raised a few eyebrows and/or gotten a mention on the news, but I kind of don’t think it would have stirred up the the BS that the Muslim fellow had to deal with. I think most of the people making a stink would have been the “neo-nazi” types, who tend to get ignored and marginalized in the national media. The media will mention the nazis, but it’s usually mildly derisively, and no one takes them seriously. I don’t think that anyone who wanted to be taken seriously, IE, another Congressman, would dared have raised a fit about a Jew swearing in on the Torah. You be slapped with an anti-semite label and get in all sorts of trouble over it, whereas this senator seems to have gotten away with his Muslim-hating, for the most part. People got crabby over it, but mostly it was people who write the left-wing blogs who were really yelling about it.

Oh, I think it’d have raised more than a few eyebrows and some commentary, as I feel that antisemitism isstill running high in this country, too.