If she had bothered to educate herself she’d know Jefferson got that Quran to study the enemy and kick their asses.
#shoresodtripoli
The hate just oozes from every part of your being. It allows you to post such ridiculous statements as the one above. Without any sort of proof. Islam wasn't hated in those times nor was any American paranoid of the religion. You just make up ridiculous lies and expect people to be stupid enough to believe it.
He bought the book years before he became president. When he was studying law. Which as the Smithsonian states, is appropriate since islam bases most of their laws on the koran.
You people will use any lie no matter how ridiculous they are and easy they are to refute. The woman used Jefferson's koran. Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence that started our war for freedom from England, one of our founding fathers and one of our presidents had a koran. She was the second House of Reps in our lifetime to use it to be sworn into office. Get over it. Stop lying.
Here's the real truth:
Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
Two hundred and three years ago this month, President James Madison
approved the act of Congress purchasing Thomas Jefferson’s private library. Intended to restock the Library of Congress after its previous holdings were destroyed by British arson during the War of 1812, the transfer of books from Monticello to Washington also highlights a forgotten aspect of religious diversity in early America.
Among the 6,487 books that soon traveled north, Jefferson’s 1734 edition of the
Qur’an is perhaps the most surprising.
Historians have attributed the third president’s ownership of the Muslim holy book to his curiosity about a variety of religious perspectives. It’s appropriate to view it that way. Jefferson bought this book while he was a young man studying law, and he may have read it in part to better understand Islam’s influence on some of the world’s legal systems.
But that obscures a crucial fact: To many living in Jefferson’s young nation, this book meant much more. Some scholars
estimate 20 percent of the enslaved men and women brought to the Americas were Muslims. While today these American followers of the Prophet Muhammad have been largely forgotten, the presence of Islam in the United States was not unknown among the nation’s citizens in the 18th and 19th centuries. Often practiced in secret, reluctantly abandoned, or blended with other traditions, these first attempts ultimately did not survive slavery. But the mere existence of Islam in the early republic is evidence that religious diversity in this country has a deeper and more complex history than many now know.
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Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
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