- 14 Jun 2017 21:09
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The Immortal Goon wrote:The Founding Fathers specifically singled out Islam as not being alien to the foundation of mission of the United States.A lot of radical/anarcho liberal indeed saw that perhaps in future Islam and Christianity can live in religious plurality. Thomas Paine comes to mind. This believe and mode of thought still continues on today. And these liberals seem to finally have gotten their chance to put their idealism into practice and experimentation.
It in no way means that Islam was particularly loved, just that they had no issue with any kind of religious preference in any way whatsoever for a variety of reasons.
This being true, your implied statement that learning from history would teach the opposite rings a certain amount of historiographical irony.
Me, well I used to be known as Plaro....