Rashida Tlaib, one of two Muslim women elected to Congress, attended her swearing in wearing a traditional Palestinian thobe and using Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Quran to take the oath of office.

But for Tlaib, using the Quran sends an unmistakable message after she and incoming Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, made history in the 2018 midterms as the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. “It’s important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,” Tlaib told The Detroit Free Press. “Muslims were there at the beginning. … Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.”

Where to begin with this?

The REAL reason that Thomas Jefferson had the Quran was to research Islam given that four Muslim powers had threatened the young United States and were routinely capturing American merchant ships and enslaving the sailors. Furthermore, all four Muslim states (Algiers, Tripoli, Morocco, and Tunis) made it very very clear that their religion – Islam – completely justified the attacks on American merchant ships and sailors.

Jefferson needed to learn more about Islam in order to combat what was happening. That is exactly why he purchased that copy of the Quran.

“Muslims were there at the beginning….” Why yes, yes they were. They were there hijacking our ships, enslaving Americans and threatening death to a brand new country.

But sure, tell me again how Muslims were contributing positively to growing the United States back then. Because they weren’t.

Rashida Tlaib is not only a proud Muslim, she is an avowed Palestinian American.

Today as she was sworn in, this happened at her office.

Someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office. pic.twitter.com/mwyshIog4r — Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) January 3, 2019

So Palestine, a country that literally does not exist, has precedence over Israel. That’s just swell. Oh but wait, there’s more. Guess who one of Rashida’s guests was today?

The scene outside Rashida Tlaib’s new office as she awaits her swearing in this morning. Linda Sarsour is here, comedian Mo Amer, Arab American activists, 100 kids from Detroit arrived by bus. #congress pic.twitter.com/uXbCYJnYu0 — Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) January 3, 2019

Yes, that’s correct. Israel-hating, Sharia law loving Linda Sarsour was there. With friends like that, it’s a pretty fair bet that when it comes to votes concerning Israel, Rashida Tlaib will vote against that country every single time, even though she supposedly supported a 2-state solution during her campaign. As soon as she won, that support went out the window.

Rashida Tlaib is using Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Quran as a prop. Sadly, far too many will believe her inference that Jefferson was a friend of Islam. History tells us otherwise, but not enough people will do the bare minimum of research.

Specifically that the Muslim powers demanded that the United States pay a ransom for the ships and sailors. Thomas Jefferson told them to go pound sand and sent the newly minted Marine Corps over in 1801 to rescue Americans held captive and get our ships back.

The ONLY thing that Rashida Tlaib gets right is that Muslims were there at the beginning. The rest of the story is that Muslims had, even then, made it brutally clear that their goal is to wipe the United States off the map.

Thomas Jefferson didn’t bow to their intimidation then, and we shouldn’t let Rashida Tlaib sell us a pig in a poke now.

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