tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post7334901624416107558..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Islam & the American FoundingBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-13390074234130500782017-05-22T01:10:13.228-06:002017-05-22T01:10:13.228-06:00Tracing the genealogy of Jefferson’s understanding...<i>Tracing the genealogy of Jefferson’s understanding of Islam, Spellberg establishes the importance of John Locke’s definition of religious freedom to Jefferson’s own thinking.</i><br /><br />A complete <i>non sequitur</i>. Jefferson studied the Qur'an briefly in his law studies, set it down and there is no evidence he was the least bit influenced by it.<br /><br />Eventually he took America to war with it.<br /><br />https://www.city-journal.org/html/jefferson-versus-muslim-pirates-13013.html<br /><br />The "symposium," such as it is<br /><br />http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/category/exchanges/book-blog/thomas-jeffersons-quran/<br /><br />is a laughable blend of politically correct Barneyism and anti-Trumpism, ignoring the last 1400 years of Western-Muslim interaction and history, little of which was beneficial to either.<br /><br />Jefferson's strident anti-sectarianism led him to carve out a place for Islam in America, but only in the abstract. His dealings with the Muslim world in reality were broken treaties and armed conflict.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com