Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-02 16:30:41 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 28EB6210FFB29A2AB006CA721B13ADD96A05087B615D3EE1E937536D59593F50
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American was founded primarily by those with Christian values, but Islam was not unknown, with many slaves being Muslum. Thomas Jefferson is known to have owned a copy of the Q'uran and found Islam's claims of supremacy to be against America's values of religious freedom. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/feb/11/chain-email/barbary-wars-did-us-declare-war-islam/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-thomas-jefferson-owned-qur-1-180967997/
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