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Obama: They Said Thomas Jefferson Was A Muslim Too!
BySara JerdePublishedFebruary 3, 2016, 1:49 PM EST 2744 views
President Barack Obama noted Wednesday while speaking at the Islamic Society of Baltimore that the rumors about him being a secret Muslim were leveled against one of the country's founders, too.
"Thomas Jefferson's opponents tried to stir things up by suggesting he was a Muslim. So I was not the first," Obama said, trailing off to laughter.
"No, it's true. Look it up," he said. "I'm in good company."
The event marked the first time he visited a U.S. mosque while in office. Obama assured American Muslims that they should feel appreciated in the country regardless of the heated rhetoric directed at them by some Republican presidential candidates.
The discussion here is very interesting whether it is narrowly true or not:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... im-rights/
"... "Baptists and Presbyterians were really demanding religious freedom in the 18th century because they were dissenters from the established church," Ragosta said. "And they were talking about Muslims and ‘infidels’ and Jews."
Evangelicals had been subjected to religious persecution not long before. Prior to the American Revolution, more than half of Virginia's Baptist ministers were jailed for preaching, Ragosta said. "These people knew what they were talking about."
Opponents of Jefferson's proposal wrote letters to the Virginia Gazette, arguing that it would allow atheists, Muslims and Jews to hold office — to which evangelicals responded, “that’s right,” Ragosta said. ... "
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