Leftist L.A. Times Editorial Page Gives the President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Space to Spread "Myth" That Islam was " integral part of American society since the Revolutionary War. "

The L.A. Times as an op-ed from Salam Al-Marayati :

In reality, American Muslims have been patriots and an integral part of American society since the Revolutionary War. We are doctors, lawyers, civil servants and actors on your favorite television shows. We represent the diversity that defines this nation at its best and our American values — human dignity, freedom, justice — are Islamic values too. We are American and we are Muslim, and there is no conflict between the two.

This is revisionist history in the extreme. There were no mosques in America at its' founding in 1776. No of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence were muslims....