Samar Dahmash Jarrah

“As Americans, the vast majority of us might recall that our ancestors began here as outsiders, immigrants and strangers, not citizens; an even more compelling reason to remember the Golden Rule. Jefferson would do so at the end of his life, following a pronounced pattern in those who had fought before him against the persecution of Muslims.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

“Thomas Jefferson would be the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the eighteenth century.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

“many Americans in the founding era, despite the tenacious legacy of misinformation from Europe, refused to yield to contemporary fears promoting the persecution of Muslims.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

“تذكرت سيدنا عمر بن الخطاب الذي كان يخشي أن يسأله الله عن بغلة عثرت في العراق، وقارنته بالبغال الذين لا يخشون أن يسألهم الله عن ملايين البشر الذين ساسوهم فزادوهم رهقا.”
― بلال فضل, السكان الأصليين لمصر