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 \nPhoto by Stephen Shugerma/Getty lmages  \nBackground Eboo Patel believes that religion should bring people together.Inspired by both his Muslim faith and his Indian heritage,he founded the  \n# 1.READD As you read lines 1-21,begin to collect and cite textevidence.\n\n·Underline the two situations Patel is comparing..  \n·Circle the words Patel thinks define the\"essence of our nation.\"  \nweckend,watching women n namicheadscaresbae fhestares anadscowls of some of their fellow Americans on an anniversary no one willever forget.  \nI wonder if a similar feeling prompted Moses Sessius,the leader of theHebrew Congregation ofNewport,Rhode Island to write GeorgeWashington a letter shortly after he assumed the Presidency.It was a letteressentially asking whether Sessius and his people—Jews—would be safe inthis new nation,or ifthey would be hounded and hated,blamed for crimes10 they did not commit  \nIn his response,Washington put on paper words that I think still definethe essence ofour nation:  \n\"The Government of the United States...gives to bigotry no sanction,topersecution no assistance,requires only that they who live under itsprotection should demean themselves as good citizens.”  \nCLOSE READ  \n# Notes\n\ndemean:  \nIn this new nation,the new president was saying,people would havetheir identities respected,their freedoms protected,their safety secured.They would be encouraged to cultivate good relationships with fellowcitizens from other backgrounds,no matter the tensions and conflicts in20 the lands from which they came.And they would be invited—andexpected—to contribute to the common good of their country.  \nWashington came to his views through both principle and practicalexperience.As the leader of the Continental Army,the first truly nationalinstitution,Washington recognized he was going to need the contributionsof all willing groups in America.Back then,it was a common anti-Catholicpractice to burn the Pope in effigy.Washington banned this,and otheranti-Catholic insults within the Continental Army,and wrote:“At such ajuncture,and in such circumstances,to be insulting their Religion,is somonstrous,as not to be suffered or excused.\"  \nWashington brought this ethic to his private life.When seeking acarpenter and a bricklayer for his Mount Vernon estate,he remarked:\"Ifthey are good workmen,they may be of Asia,Africa,or Europe.They maybe Mohometans,'Jews or Christians of any Sect,or they may be Atheists.”What mattered is what they could build.  \nWars between clans and tribes,tension between sects and groups,prejudice directed at religion or nationality—those were the problems ofpast centuries.And whether you are reading the news about Somalia orLibya or Europe or Oklahoma,those are the problems of our time.  \n2.  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