He thinks Islam has been part of the American fabric, American story, words to that effect, from colonial days.
Of course he’s full of it, as there were no Muslims in American in colonial times. But to appease certain people, he has talked of the Muslim influence on our history, from the beginning.
I suppose, in a way, this is true.
The people who founded this Nation, having come from countries that had been at War with Islam for a thousand years, had woven in their fabric that Islam was evil.