re: #419 EmmmieG

Actually, almost all of the founding fathers would likely have not known too much about the “Mohammadens” and might likely never have met one.

The world was bigger then, in terms of what it took to get around.

They not only met them, they signed treaties with them:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

-Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11