{"id":41851,"date":"2017-05-03T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:30:24","slug":"thomas-jeffersons-quran-muslim-fears-muslim-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/thomas-jeffersons-quran-muslim-fears-muslim-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Qur&#8217;an: Muslim fears and Muslim rights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41852\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/800px-TAatNight.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41852\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41852\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/800px-TAatNight.jpg\" alt=\"Roughly the view from our hotel room\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Tel Aviv at night (from Cccc3333 at English Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article about what looks to be a very interesting book:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2017\/05\/02\/muslim-fears-and-muslim-rights\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2017\/05\/02\/muslim-fears-and-muslim-rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth pointing out, by the way, that Joseph Smith\u2019s charter for the city of Nauvoo guaranteed full liberty to \u201cMahometans,\u201d even though it\u2019s very possible that neither Joseph nor any other residents of Nauvoo had ever actually <em>met<\/em> a Muslim by that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s perhaps likewise\u00a0worthy of observing that, in the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, the leaders of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a> were <em>also<\/em> often portrayed as \u201ctyrants\u201d and \u201clustful monsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A very interesting article about what looks to be a very interesting book: \u00a0 http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2017\/05\/02\/muslim-fears-and-muslim-rights\/ \u00a0 It\u2019s worth pointing out, by the way, that Joseph Smith\u2019s charter for the city of Nauvoo guaranteed full liberty to \u201cMahometans,\u201d even though it\u2019s very possible that neither Joseph nor any other residents of Nauvoo had ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Thomas Jefferson&#039;s Qur&#039;an: Muslim fears and Muslim rights&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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