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According to historian Susan Jacoby, when President Obama told a group of Muslims that \u201cwe do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.\u201d he was alluding to the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797, which brought an end to the conflict with the Barbary coast pirates. Passed by the Senate without controversy and signed by President John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-history","category-islam"],"yoast_head":"\n
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