How Muslims Influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders | American Muslims

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur’an? That George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim? And that a Muslim diplomat broke his Ramadan fast in the White House in 1805? These are some of the facts that Aymann Ismail (staff writer, Slate Magazine) discovers as he...

26 min - Religion & Belief - PBS

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