Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-02 21:54:48 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 86B19FA42983A41D0B01533367501F53A8004EB04168E4A34D69BDC3EC9E41B9
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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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