Breitbart: The establishment media became upset this weekend after President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.” But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such “tradition” to cancel.
Amy B. Wang of the Washington Post led the pack with this nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held the “first Iftar dinner” with a June 24 piece entitled, “Trump just ended a long tradition of celebrating Ramadan at the White House.”
The often-used claim that Thomas Jefferson held the first Iftar dinner at the White House was trotted out by the Post’s Wang. She recounted the time when the diplomatic envoy from the Bey of Tunis, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, visited Washington during Ramadan in 1805.
Jefferson invited the envoy to the White House for dinner at 3:30 PM—the time most Washingtonians had dinner in those days. But after he sent the invitation he was told that Melli Melli could not partake of a meal until after sunset because of Ramadan. Thomas Jefferson was faced with two choices: cancel the dinner entirely or simply have the meal later in the evening at a time when his guest could attend. As a good host and a decent person, Jefferson chose the latter.
In fact, all Jefferson did was change the time of his meal. He had no intention of honoring Islam. Jefferson simply was not honoring the religion of “the Musselmen”—as he termed Muslims at the time—when he changed the time of the meal. Also, there is no evidence that Jefferson asked Melli Melli what sort of food a “Musselman” would eat, so no special food was prepared to suit a Muslim’s religious needs. Jefferson neither inquired about religious accommodations nor was any made. All he did was move the time of the meal as a courtesy. Continued
Since liberals love Islam so much I know a great area they can move to. It’s sandy but there’s always plenty of sunshine.
Just be careful… ya never know when the Gays will drop in on ya!
I have it on good authority that Jefferson used to have Tupperware parties, also.
You mean the guy who sent the Marines to the Barbary Pirates. Yeah right!
What this proves to me, is that 41 of our former Presidents had a better grasp of what the Mohammedans were all about. More importantly, our current President isn’t going pretend that Muslims have to be catered to like his three predecessors. God speed, President Donald J. Trump.
its so easy for them to lie. No conscience at all.
I love how Breitbart is jumping on all these fake news stories and calling them out! Andrew would be proud.
Of course he did. He shot them out of cannons from the porch to toast the fine Claret
People ought to send a note to customer service at Amazon.com outlining how the Washington Post is print fake news. Maybe Jeff Bezos will hear about it.
I laughed at this one yesterday. Jefferson was good
at blowing them the phuck up. He’d get my vote!
Jefferson loved Islam so much he made war on Barbary States in his first year as President. American leaders were better educated and more realistic in those days as shown by the notations in Jefferson’s copy of the koran.
Next, they’ll be telling us that Jefferson owned slaves because of his respect for islam. No, wait. They probably won’t be telling us that.
My Iftar dinner would be at 5pm and feature pulled pork.