Ben Franklin, the founding father of many important institutions in Philadelphia, a key diplomat and a framer of the US Constitution, wrote in his Autobiography concerning a non-denominational place of public preaching he helped found “so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.” ...Hat tip: John Fea.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Juan Cole: "Trump vs. the Founding Fathers on Muslims Coming to US"
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This really has nothing to do with taking massive numbers of Muslim refugees into the US.
http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/05/michael-young-on-hitchens-vs-cole.html
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