"Closer to the American tradition,

Benjamin Franklin famously stated that the standards of religious freedom in America had to be so broad that, when he was placed as a trustee of Westminister Hall, "even if the Mufti [chief jurist] of Constantinople [from the Muslim Ottoman Empire] were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service." [13: Quoted in Paul Leicester Ford, The Many-Sided Franklin (New York: Century, 1899), 159.]

-Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters by Omid Safi, pg. 10