{"id":8434,"date":"2017-06-26T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:00:23","slug":"fake-news-washington-post-claims-thomas-jefferson-held-white-house-iftar-dinner-to-celebrate-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/fake-news-washington-post-claims-thomas-jefferson-held-white-house-iftar-dinner-to-celebrate-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News: Washington Post Claims Thomas Jefferson Held White House Iftar Dinner to \u2018Celebrate Ramadan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fake News: Washington Post Claims Thomas Jefferson Held White House Iftar Dinner to \u2018Celebrate Ramadan\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Breitbart \/ Big-Government<\/strong>
\nby Warner Todd Huston
\n6\/25\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The establishment media\u00a0became upset this weekend\u00a0after President Donald Trump canceled the \u201cWhite House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.\u201d But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such \u201ctradition\u201d to cancel.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Amy B. Wang of the Washington Post led the pack with this nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held<\/a> the \u201cfirst Iftar dinner\u201d with a June 24 piece entitled, \u201cTrump just ended a long tradition of celebrating Ramadan at the White House.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The often-used claim that Thomas Jefferson held the first Iftar dinner at the White House was trotted out by the Post\u2019s Wang. She recounted the time when the diplomatic envoy from the Bey of Tunis, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, visited Washington during Ramadan in 1805.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Jefferson invited the envoy to the White House for dinner at 3:30 PM\u2014the time most Washingtonians had dinner in those days. But after he sent the invitation he was told that Melli Melli could not partake of a meal until after sunset because of Ramadan. Thomas Jefferson was faced with two choices: cancel the dinner entirely or simply have the meal later in the evening at a time when his guest could attend.\u00a0As a good host and a decent person, Jefferson chose the latter.<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, all Jefferson did was change the time of his meal. He had no intention of honoring Islam. Jefferson simply was not honoring the religion of \u201cthe Musselmen\u201d\u2014as he termed Muslims at the time\u2014when he changed the time of the meal. Also, there is no evidence that Jefferson asked Melli Melli what sort of food a \u201cMusselman\u201d would eat, so no special food was prepared to suit a Muslim\u2019s religious needs. Jefferson neither inquired about religious accommodations nor was any made. All he did was move the time of the meal as a courtesy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Further, Jefferson sent no letters containing proclamations about the meal being an Iftar dinner nor mentioning Islam, he never mentioned such honors in his private papers, and there is no record that he spoke to anyone about his intentions to honor the Muslim practice of an Iftar dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n

To the Post\u2019s Wang, that Jefferson had a dinner at all was somehow proof positive that he invented a \u201ctradition\u201d of some sort. As\u00a0\u201cproof\u201d that it was an Iftar dinner, Wang\u00a0quoted the words of liberal historian John Ragosta who gave the scintillating argument, “Yeah, it sounds to me like an Iftar dinner.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fake News: Washington Post Claims Thomas Jefferson Held White House Iftar Dinner to \u2018Celebrate Ramadan\u2019 Breitbart \/ Big-Government by Warner Todd Huston 6\/25\/2017 Excerpt: The establishment media\u00a0became upset this weekend\u00a0after President Donald Trump canceled the \u201cWhite House Muslim Iftar Dinner … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}