Yes from the Barbary Pirates. They were asked “why do you kill or enslave everyone on the ships you capture”, or something similar. They replied “Because it’s our religion”.
Yes, he was ambassador to France from my best memory, that is not always correct. He met on a number of occasions with their Rep and he paid a huge ransom to free a number of our folks. The SOB’s kept on capturing merchant ships and selling our folks into slavery after promising not to do so for the ransom. After that I believe is when the Muslim told him about their lying to infidels. Our marines went to Tripoli not long afterwards. I highly doubt a single founding father of this nation would allow a Muslim.