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2023-05-02 17:07:19 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: F5C0A4961AFEB10C8513C3713D579FAD8694C0543930DBA65F8AFB03EA267678
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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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