Reddit reviews Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders
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> Thomas Jefferson, (...) was, in Denise Spellberg’s words, “the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the eighteenth century.”
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Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: How Islam Shaped the Founders - What role did Islam have in shaping the Founders' views on religion? A new book argues that to understand the debate over church and state, we need to look to their views on Muslims, writes R.B. Bernstein.
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I would suggest you check out this book for another view.
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jeffersons-Quran-Islam-Founders/dp/0307268225/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393884159&sr=1-1&keywords=jefferson%27s+quran
It talks about the founding fathers laying the framework for religious inclusion but not endorsement by the federal government.