Why Jefferson's vision of American Islam issues today
After last year's purposeful damage with custom, Head of state Donald Surpass has resumed the iftar supper – the sundown dish throughout the Islamic not eating month of Ramadan. An approximated 3.3 million American Muslims commemorate Ramadan. The month of Ramadan notes the moment when Prophet Muhammad is thought to have initially got revelations from God and has been well known at the White Home because 1996. It was Hillary Clinton that began the custom as initially woman. Nevertheless, in 2015, the Surpass White Home didn't hold the conventional function. Neither did the Specify Division under Secretary Rex Tillerson, although the vacation has been commemorated there because 1999. In spite of the fairly current nature of these official events, the truth is that Islam's existence in North The u.s.a. days to the founding of the country, and also previously, as my book, "Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders," shows. Islam, an American religious...