Even the sober Benjamin Franklin made this association among the maxims penned for Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1741: “Turn Turk Tim, and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil?”
Evidence
Even the sober Benjamin Franklin made this association among the maxims penned for Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1741: Turn Turk Tim , and renounce thy Faith in Words as well as Actions: Is it worse to follow Mahomet than the Devil? — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 165 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Americans recurrently embrace religiously framed conspiracy panics about children and the Devil — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 236; Even Benjamin Franklin equated apostasy to Islam with following the Devil — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 165
Broader Connections
- Even Benjamin Franklin equated apostasy to Islam with following the Devil
#corroborates(0.95) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 165