Please read the article and judge it on its merit. It is a good one.
I would ask you - Have you read the Washington Post article?
Take a look at post #14 on this thread.
Then read exactly what the WP author wrote.
I have done that.
And I conclude that Huston is misstating the gist of the WP article - and doing so rather badly.
We need to be doing things better than the “other guy” not using his same dirty tactics.
And Huston is using dirty journalism here.
But that’s what he does. It’s a habit with him.
Which is one of the many reasons he was banned from FR in the first place.
"The often-used claim that Thomas Jefferson held the first Iftar dinner at the White House was trotted out by the Post’s Wang."
This is what Wang wrote:
"Jefferson’s decision to change the time of the meal to accommodate Mellimelli’s observance of Ramadan has been seized on by both sides in the 21st-century debate over Islam more than 200 years later. Historians have cited the meal as the first time an iftar took place in the White House — and it has been referenced in recent White House celebrations of Ramadan as an embodiment of the Founding Father’s respect for religious freedom. Meanwhile, critics on the far right have taken issue with the characterization of Jefferson’s Dec. 9, 1805, dinner as an iftar.
Whatever Jefferson could have foreseen for the young country’s future, it appears the modern-day White House tradition of marking Ramadan with an iftar dinner or Eid celebration has come to an end."
Read both carefully and ask yourself - "Who is doing the mischaracterizing here?"
Personally the only thing I find offensive is the use of the word "Historians" juxtaposed to the words "far right"
In any event she makes it clear that he "tradition" is a modern day one.