Bullcrap. The first mosque was built here in 1929. Jefferson had a Koran and red it as some sort of informative exotica from far away.
In 1786 Jefferson and Adams went to London to meet the emissary of the Barbary pirates and to see why they were attacking our ships.
They had no idea of what moslems were or how they thought. This tells me they had quite literally never met one and were clueless.
I have never seen a single documented instance of a moslem being here in that era. Not even a diplomat. Not one. Anyone else know of one?
I looked it up and the best I could find was some guy names Ali something was listed as being with the Continental Army. It was a pro-Islam site so I have reservations about the accuracy.
If there were muslims here, it was nothing more than a handful. I also know of several former muslims who haven’t changed their names.
The rewriting of American history to make Islam part of it is already underway by one Peter Manseau. He’s the “source” for the claims that 20% of slaves were Muslim. It pays to check the veracity and agendas of sources like Manseau.