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2023-05-02 23:12:11 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A334F41CE034FB74A5786FC5EE68D3D4479B9F9AD6FF8D05CD48FDD6D14CBB65
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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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