{"id":36028,"date":"2017-04-10T17:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/i-wanted-to-share-an-amazing-part-of-us-history-demonstrating-why-history-matters"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:14:55","slug":"i-wanted-to-share-an-amazing-part-of-us-history-demonstrating-why-history-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/i-wanted-to-share-an-amazing-part-of-us-history-demonstrating-why-history-matters","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to share an amazing part of US history demonstrating why history matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-wanted-to-share-an-amazing-part-of-us-history-demonstrating-why-history-matters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American Revolution Records from the American Revolutionary War indicate that at least a few Muslims fought on the American side. Among the recorded names of American soldiers are \u201cYusuf ben Ali\u201d (a member of the Turks of South Carolina community), \u201cBampett Muhamed\u201d and possibly Peter Salem.<\/p>\n<p>The first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation was the Sultanate of Morocco, under its ruler Mohammed ben Abdallah, in the year 1777. [23] He maintained several correspondences with President George Washington.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=155770548271658&amp;set=gm.10155358250143455&amp;type=3\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=155770548271658&amp;...amp;type=3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Revolution Records from the American Revolutionary War indicate that at least a few Muslims fought on the American side. Among the recorded names of American soldiers are \u201cYusuf ben Ali\u201d (a member of the Turks of South Carolina community), \u201cBampett Muhamed\u201d and possibly Peter Salem. The first country to recognize the United States as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48197,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028\/revisions\/48197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}