Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-02 18:55:16 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 91D6C8B7704FAF82CB14AD75AAF59A37C778663B9CB2815BA9AC9828AE7F3F42
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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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