"The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to
scholars -- historians have put their population in the tens of
thousands -- yet when President Obama noted last month that "Islam has
been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding," he was
greeted with incredulous outrage." Peter Manseau
Image: Portrait of the enslaved Muslim Yarrow Mamout by Charles Willson Peale (1819), via Wikimedia.
