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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAmerica's First Ramadan Break-Fast Was Hosted by Thomas Jefferson
"In 1805, the month of Ramadan fell in December. Far from his friends, family and home, one Tunisian man was attempting to observe it in Washington, D.C. This was the statesman Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, who was spending six months in the United States, on a diplomatic mission..."
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America's First Ramadan Break-Fast Was Hosted by Thomas Jefferson (Original Post)
lapucelle
May 2018
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Jefferson was a secret Muslim.
His full name was Thomas Barack Hussein Obama Jefferson.
A joke. Recommended.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)3. Claimed to have been born in the Sandwich Islands.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. His favorite sandwich was a falafel snadwich. eom