Socialist Muslim Congresswoman Spreads Myth: Muslims were there at the beginning of U.S.

The Detroit Free Press reports one new radical socialist member of Congress:

When Rashida Tlaib stands on Jan. 3 for her ceremonial swearing-in as the first Palestinian-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, it will be with her hand on a copy of the Koran.

But this won’t be just any Koran: She will use Thomas Jefferson’s personal copy of George Sale’s 1734 translation of the Koran into English, a two-volume work that resides in the Library of Congress.

“It’s important to me because a lot of Americans have this kind of feeling that Islam is somehow foreign to American history,” said Tlaib, who also will become, with Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women sworn into the U.S. House. “Muslims were there at the beginning. … Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now.”

At America's founding there were about 3.75 million people with 98% of them Protestants, 25, 000 Catholics, 2500 Jews, and no known Muslims. There wasn't even a mosque in America until 1900.