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  media coverage of Muslim world

  Medina, Tomé de

  Mediterranean and U.S. trade

  forces against peace

  and Mediterranean markets, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1

  paying off pirates, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  post–Revolutionary War risks

  and start of U.S. naval power, 4.1, 4.2

  and Tripolitan ambassador, 4.1, 4.2

  and U.S. naval action against Tripoli

  See also Barbary States; North African pirates

  Meet the Press (TV program)

  Mellimelli, Sidi Suleyman, 6.1, 6.2

  Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, A (Madison), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  “Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover,”

  Menocchio “Domenico Scandella,” 2.1, aft.1, nts.1n15

  Middle Eastern immigrants, aft.1, aft.2

  military action against Tripoli/North African pirates, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, nts.1n18, nts.2n91

  military power, centralization of

  Miller, James

  Mistery of Iniquity, The (Helwys)

  Mitchill, Samuel L., nts.1n140

  Mohammed, Sohail

  Moors, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1. See also Muslims

  Moroccans and Morocco

  and England

  Ibrahima, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1n156

  overview

  seizure of the Betsey, 4.1

  Sultan Ismail

  U.S. peace treaty with, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  See also Barbary States; North African pirates

  mosques, bans on building of

  movies with negative depictions of Arabs

  Muhammad

  as final Prophet

  images of, 1.1, nts.1n109

  Sale on

  Stubbe on

  Muntzer, Thomas

  Muslim Americans

  and 9/11, aft.1, aft.2

  acceptance of

  and anti-Muslim bigotry, ix–x, itr.1, aft.1, aft.2

  and Deists

  demographics

  FBI interviews

  first citizens defined as Muslims

  and Flushing Remonstrance, 2.1, aft.1

  forging ties with Jewish and Christian organizations

  and Fourteenth Amendment

  historical views

  Jefferson accused of being Muslim, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, aft.1, aft.2

  and Judeo-Christian rubric

  Leland’s fight for rights of

  Locke accused of being Muslim, 2.1, aft.1

  mosque-building bans

  and North Carolina debate on religious freedom

  Obama accused of being Muslim, aft.1, aft.2, aft.3

  overview, itr.1, aft.1

  as President of the United States, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  as public officeholders, aft.1, aft.2

  and religious test for public office, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  rights of

  violence against

  Muslim “civil rights”

  American Founders’ support for, itr.1, itr.2, nts.1n26

  in England

  and Federalists

  Federalist vision of

  and First Amendment, aft.1, aft.2

  Helwys on, 2.1, 2.2

  Iredell’s defense of

  Jefferson on, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

  Jefferson’s vision of, 3.1, 3.2, aft.1

  Leland’s fight for, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Locke on, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1

  overview, itr.1, aft.1

  and PATRIOT Act, aft.1, nts.1n80

  slaves excluded from

  utilizing to encompass all non-Protestants, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Muslim Histories and Cultures Project, Texas

  Muslims

  and boundaries of toleration

  Christians compared to

  double loyalty issue

  exclusion from Act of Toleration of 1689

  exclusion from public office

  as imagined U.S. constituency, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

  immigration to the U.S., aft.1, aft.2

  Jefferson’s attitude toward, 3.1, 6.1

  Jews and Christians compared to, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2

  Jews, Catholics, and, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1n3, nts.2n27

  and Jews, equated, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1

  links with Deists and Unitarians

  living outside Muslim lands

  in London

  Menocchio’s argument for salvation of Jews and, 2.1, aft.1

  Shi‘i, aft.1, aft.2, aft.3, nts.1n130

  as slaves in America, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, nts.1n156

  See also European views of Muslims; Muslim Americans; Ottoman Empire; Sunni Muslims

  Muslim Students’ Association

  national army

  National Conference of Christians and Jews

  Native Americans, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  nativism

  Naturalization Act (1790)

  Naturalization Act (1870)

  naval force for the United States

  Netherlands. See Holland

  New England, 5.1, 6.1. See also specific states

  New Hampshire’s religious test for public office

  New Jersey’s religious test for public office

  New Testament

  Arabic translation

  and Golden Rule

  Jefferson on, 6.1, 6.2

  Leland quoting from

  oaths sworn on

  and religious test for public office

  New York

  Cordoba House Initiative

  religious liberty in

  New York Magazine

  9/11 terrorist attacks, aft.1, aft.2

  non-Protestants

  Jefferson’s acceptance of, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Protestant opposition to non-Protestants as public officeholders, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  See also Catholics; Deists and Deism; Jews; Muslims; taxes for supporting churches

  North Africa

  Jefferson’s collection of books on

  Muslims to reside only in Islamic lands

  U.S. peace treaties with

  vilification of Islam and

  See also Algiers; Barbary States; Moroccans and Morocco; Tripolitans and Tripoli; Tunisians and Tunis

  North African pirates

  Adams on

  American captives of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, nts.1n12

  and Arabic language

  cost of safe passage

  economic motives, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  guarding Strait of Gibraltar

  Jefferson’s military response to, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, nts.1n18, nts.2n7

  Jefferson’s view of

  overview, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1n18

  Qur’anic justification for

  ransom for captured pirates

  religious vs. political motives

  response to Spanish incursions

  seizure of the Betsey, 4.1

  sighting in West Indies, nts.1n65

  “A Treaty of Amity and Commerce” (Jefferson draft, 1785), 4.1

  U.S. captives of, 1.1, nts.1n87, nts.2n121

  U.S. negotiations with, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1

  See also Barbary States; Moroccans and Morocco; Tripolitans and Tripoli; Tunisians and Tunis

  North Carolina

  Constitution ratification debates

  debate on religious freedom, 5.1, 5.2

  failure to ratify Constitution

  and Iredell, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  and Johnston, 5.1, 5.2

  overview

  and religious test for public office, 5.1, 5.2

  second convention to ratify the Constitution

  Notes on Virginia (Jefferson)

  on coercion

  on conformity in religion

  on history

  Leland’s use of

  on reason and free inquiry

  on religious freedom

  on religious tolerance

/>   on religious uniformity

  Nussbaum, Martha

  oath of toleration

  oaths for citizenship, 3.1, 3.2

  oaths for public office

  Bill Prescribing the Oath of Fidelity and the Oaths of Certain Public Officers

  Constitution of the United States on

  Ellison’s oath on Jefferson’s Qur’an, x

  in Pennsylvania

  swearing on New Testament

  swearing on Old Testament

  test oaths

  See also public officeholders

  Obama, Barack

  O’Brien, Richard, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Of the Law of Nature and Nations (von Pufendorf)

  Oklahoma City bombing

  Oklahoma’s “Save Our State” anti-Sharia amendment

  Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)

  and Arabic language

  and Golden Rule, ix, 2.1, 7.1, aft.1

  Jefferson on, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2

  and Jefferson’s library catalog system

  oaths sworn on

  polygamy in

  and religious test for public office

  Omar Ibn Said, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1n156

  “On the Right to Rebel against Governors” (West)

  Oracles of Reason (Blount)

  Order of the Holy Trinity and Redemption of Captives “Mathurins,”

  Orientalism, nts.1n30

  Origen’s heresy, 2.1, 2.2

  Ottoman Empire

  as Antichrist

  British and American depictions of

  Calvin’s beliefs

  as cause of French Revolution

  chief mufti of Istanbul

  despotism alleged in constitutional ratification debates

  divorce or alimony in

  and English businesses

  Fondaco dei Turchi, Venice, nts.1n32

  Foxe’s view of

  janissaries, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1

  Jefferson’s collection of books on

  local uprising and assassination of sultans

  Luther’s beliefs

  threat to Western Europe, 1.1, 2.1

  Ottoman Turkish language

  Owen, Jim (slave owner in North Carolina), 5.1, 5.2

  Oxford University

  Paine, Thomas

  on Islam

  and The Rights of Man, 6.1

  PATRIOT Act (2001), aft.1, nts.1n80

  Peek, Lori

  Penn, William, nts.1n157

  Pennsylvania

  People of the Book, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, nts.1n75

  Pérez, Juana

  perpetui inimici (enemies for life)

  Perry, Rick

  Peterson, Merrill D.

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Philadelphia (warship), 6.1, 6.2, nts.1n103

  Philosophical Works (Bolingbroke)

  piracy in the seventeenth century, See also North African pirates

  Plumer, William, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, nts.1n17

  Pococke, Edward

  political officeholders. See public officeholders

  politics

  anti-Sharia movement, aft.1, aft.2, aft.3

  and Article 11 of the Tripoli Treaty, 6.1, nts.1n69

  and early American hatred of Catholics and Turks

  of fearmongering about Muslims, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, aft.1, aft.2, aft.3

  Jefferson’s interest in religion as, 6.1, 6.2

  Muslims in, x

  and Muslims in office

  See also fearmongering; government; Whig ideology

  polygamy

  Pompilius, Numa, nts.1n54

  Popple, William, 2.1, 3.1

  Porcupine Gazette

  Powell, Colin

  Prager, Dennis

  “Prayer against the Turks, A” (Foxe)

  “Preliminary Discourse” (Sale)

  Presbyterians and Presbyterianism

  and Anglicans, 3.1, 6.1

  Beecher

  Caldwell, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Ibn Said as

  and Jefferson, itr.1, 3.1

  and Jews

  Locke on, 2.1, 2.2

  Omar ibn Said

  slave’s possible conversion to

  President of the United States

  Catholic as, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, aft.1

  election of 1800, 6.1, 7.1

  Johnston’s reassurances about non-Christians not attaining office

  Muslim as, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, aft.1

  pope as, 5.1, 5.2

  religion factor

  universalism and Muslim president issue

  See also Constitution of the United States, No Religious Test Clause

  Prideaux, Humphrey, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1n43

  Priestley, Joseph

  Prize Act (1708)

  Proast, Jonas

  Procrustes, and “Pocrustes” of Leland

  Prophet, the. See Muhammad

  Protestantism

  Congregational Protestantism in New England, 6.1, 7.1

  and Constitution of the United States

  and Deism

  the Great Awakening

  and Jefferson’s argument for freedom of religion

  and religious test for public office

  and religious tolerance, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1n80

  sectarian warfare

  See also Anglicanism; Baptists

  Protestants

  America’s Founders as

  Calvin, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

  fear of Catholic domination, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2

  Luther, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1

  in New England

  See also Baptists; Presbyterians and Presbyterianism

  Providence, Rhode Island, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1

  public officeholders

  civic virtue vs. religion

  and debate on religious test for public office

  Muslims as, aft.1, aft.2

  Protestant opposition to non-Protestants as, 5.1, 5.2

  See also Constitution of the United States, No Religious Test Clause; government; oaths for public office; President of the United States

  “Publicola” (pseudonym of J. Q. Adams)

  Puritans, See also Massachusetts/Massachusetts Bay Colony; Williams, Roger

  Qaramanli, Ahmed “Hamet,”

  Qaramanli, Yusuf

  Quakers

  Bowne arrest by Stuyvesant

  Locke on, 2.1, 2.2

  and religious freedom, nts.1n157

  and tax supporting Protestants

  Williams’s condemnation of

  Williams’s offer of refuge to

  Qur’an

  Abd al-Rahman’s use of, to justify piracy, 4.1, 4.2, aft.1

  Christians’ awareness of

  on compulsion in religion, 1.1, 3.1

  Fatiha, first chapter, 5.1, 5.2

  Jefferson’s negative views of

  Jefferson’s positive views of, 6.1, 6.2

  on Jesus, 1.1, 3.1

  Luther on

  People of the Book, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, nts.1n75

  religious tolerance as principle of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  on slavery vs. captivity

  “the Sovereignty” (al-Mulk) chapter

  translation issues

  on unity of God

  See also Islam; Jefferson’s Qur’an; Koran (Sale)

  racial discrimination

  Ragosta, John A.

  Ra’is, Murad (formerly Peter Leslie)

  Ramadan, 3.1, 6.1, nts.1n140

  Reformation, Jefferson on, 3.1, nts.1n169

  religion

  importance to colonists

  and piracy

  religion (continued)

  slavery defined by

  “true” religion and tyrannical governments

  Zoroastrians and Zoroastrianism

  See also Christianity; Deists and Deism; Islam; Judaism

  religious freedom

  Carolinas’ statutes for, nts.1n44

  and Christianity in the U.S., 3.1
, 5.1

  conformity in religion vs.

  and Constitution of the United States

  debate on, in North Carolina

  English treatises on

  Federalists on, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  and immigration

  Jefferson on, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  in Jefferson’s Tripoli treaty

  Leland on, 7.1, nts.1n1, nts.2n84

  Locke on

  in New York

  North Carolina debate on, 5.1, 5.2

  in Pennsylvania

  Presbyterians quest for

  and Quakers, nts.1n157

  religious equality compared to

  and swearing an oath

  tyranny vs.

  in Virginia, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1

  Virginia Declaration of Rights, 3.1, 7.1

  Washington on

  Williams’s charter for Providence

  See also Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom; Constitution of the United States, No Religious Test Clause; First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; Muslim “civil rights”; rights of conscience; taxes for supporting churches

  Religious Freedom Act (Massachusetts, 1811), 7.1

  religious test. See Constitution of the United States, No Religious Test Clause

  religious tolerance

  The Algerine Captive on

  of Castellio, 2.1, 2.2

  Christian inclusiveness

  in Flushing Remonstrance, 2.1, aft.1

  of Franck

  of Franklin, 1.1, 1.2

  as full equality under the law

  Helwys on

  as heresy, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  of Jefferson, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1

  Leland’s disgust for

  of Locke, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1n5

  in medieval European peasant lore

  of Menocchio, 2.1, aft.1

  for Muslims, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6

  overview, itr.1, nts.1n5

  political equality vs.

  and Protestantism, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1n80

  in Qur’an, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  of Servetus

  of Smyth

  of Stubbe, 2.1, nts.1n200

  of Williams, 2.1, 2.2

  See also Muslim “civil rights”

  Remonstrants, nts.1n236

  Reports on Cases Adjudg’d in the Court of the King’s Bench (Salkeld)

  Revolutionary War

  British army’s abuses

  and Iredell

  Muslims serving in, itr.1, nts.1n14

  performance of Mahomet the Impostor during

  Rhode Island, and religious test for public office

  rights of conscience

  and Constitution

  in French Constitution

  Helwys on

  Jefferson on, 3.1, 7.1

  Leland’s fight for, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Protestant concerns about losing, 5.1, 7.1

  “soul liberty” experiment, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, aft.1

  See also taxes for supporting churches

 

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