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Koran
Islamic religious text that Thomas Jefferson owned and studied.
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The United States is Not a Christian Nation
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10:19
Back in 1776, a few months after the writing of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson borrowed from the English philosopher John Locke when he wrote in his notes, neither pagan nor Muslim nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.
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10:49
Some of Jefferson's contemporaries were scandalized because he owned a copy of the Koran. Speaker 1: That wasn't in my history books. Strange.