BARACK OBAMA, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THAT IFTAR DINNER, AND THE REWRITING OF HISTORY

Obama Again Spreads False Claim That Thomas Jefferson Hosted First Ramadan Iftar Dinner At White House
Obama said during his iftar at the White House on August 10, 2012: "As I've noted before, Thomas Jefferson once held a sunset dinner here with an envoy from Tunisia — perhaps the first Iftar at the White House, more than 200 years ago." The State Department retailed the same PC myth last year in this article, 'Thomas Jefferson's Iftar,' July 29. 2011."[1] From Family Security Matters, August 10, 2012.

A Portrait of Thomas Jefferson "The first Muslim ambassador to the United States, from Tunisia, was hosted by President Jefferson, who arranged a sunset dinner for his guest because it was Ramadan — making it the first known iftar at the White House, more than 200 years ago." — Barack Obama, speaking on August 14, 2010, at the "Annual Iftar Dinner" at the White House
Really? Is that what happened? Was there a "first known iftar at the White House" given by none other than President Thomas Jefferson for the "first Muslim ambassador to the United States"? That's what Barack Obama and his dutiful speechwriters told the Muslims in attendance at the 2010 "Annual Iftar Dinner," knowing full well that the remarks would be published for all to see. Apparently Obama, and those who wrote this speech for him, and others who vetted it, find nothing wrong with attempting to convince Americans, as part of their policy of trying to win Muslim hearts and Muslim minds, that American history itself can be rewritten. A little insidious nunc pro tunc backdating, to rewrite American history. And that rewrite of American history has the goal of convincing Americans, in order to please Muslims, that the United States and Islam, that Americans and Muslims, go way back.

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