Bill Federer
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And so we're coming back, trying to regain ground.
We used to have, saying, look, we need to make up...
I was reading Washington when he was there, you know, Dorchester Heights in Boston and in the Harvard Yard had some soldiers from Connecticut, and they were going to do the annual burning of the pope in effigy.
And Washington said, guys, we're not going to do that anymore.
We have Catholics fighting with us against the British, so no more of that.
But just the idea we have to work together to save the country.
And that's what they realized in the 1970s with Pattinson and Jerry Falwell and James Dobson.
It goes through the 1400 year history of Islam conquering all of North Africa, which used to be Christian.
Egypt used to be Christian.
Syria used to be Christian.
Turkey used to be the Byzantine Christian empire.
But it zeroes in on Muhammad.
He was a religious leader for 12 years in Mecca, only makes 70 converts.
He gets confrontational, they chase him out of town.
He's the first Muslim refugee, goes to Medina, which was controlled by three Jewish clans.
They're tolerant.
They let him in.
He goes into the minority neighborhoods and he organizes a following like a community organizer.
And he gets involved in politics and he pressures the Jews to a treaty.
And then when his followers get chased out of Mecca, there's lots of Muslim immigrants.