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To: OmegaMan; La Enchiladita
Too bad there isnt any quotes by Jefferson about Islam, because Im sure he would have said that its a bunch of BS.

You'd probably be surprised about some of the Founders' relatively tolerant views about Muslims (although not necessarily Islam itself) in the 1780s. See: The Founding Fathers and Islam
Library Papers Show Early Tolerance for Muslim Faith
(James Hutson, Library of Congress)

One excerpt:
In his autobiography, Jefferson recounted with satisfaction that in the struggle to pass his landmark Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786), the Virginia legislature "rejected by a great majority" an effort to limit the bill's scope "in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan."

Mahometan is another word for Muslim.
64 posted on 01/03/2007 11:14:21 PM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: conservative in nyc

"You'd probably be surprised about some of the Founders' relatively tolerant views about Muslims (although not necessarily Islam itself) in the 1780s."

I don't believe the Founders would have much tolerance for a group that wanted to impose Sharia law on the country.


70 posted on 01/04/2007 8:02:46 AM PST by Sam Hill
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