Did you know that ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’?

He may have been thinking about slaves brought over here, and they didn't leave behind many traces. Omar Ibn Said was an educated Muslim African who was captured in war, enslaved and transported here. He later wrote his autobiography after he converted to Christianity and was freed. There's been some speculation about whether his conversion was real or motivated by a desire for freedom.

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, also known as Job ben Solomon, was another educated Muslim who was briefly a slave in colonial America and wrote an account of his life. Abdu-l-Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori is said to have been an African prince who was freed after the Sultan of Morocco intervened with John Quincy Adams, asking for his emancipation.

Anthony Janszoon van Salee, a Dutchman who'd been a pirate in Morocco, was said to be the first Muslim to live in what became the United States, and his Koran was passed down in his family, but he's an even more obscure figure. He's believed to have been an ancestor of Warren Harding and the Vanderbilts.

This is all little known and somewhat murky historically. None of these figures was very prominent in American history, and we don't know how much of their stories are true, but they did exist, whoever they really were.

In a way this is "dog whistle" politics that most Americans won't know about or know what to do with, but some African-Americans do know about or believe in them. Essentially, Obama's audience was first the Muslims he was addressing, secondly African-Americans who did know about Muslim slaves, third his younger white supporters who believe what he tells them, rather than you or me.

I agree with Obama.

Didn't you know that the American Indians were descendants of Muslims who crossed the Atlantic from Spain?

These indian-Muslims had one frustration : There were no Christians or Jews before Columbus arrived who they could torture and cut off their heads.

In the meantime, they developed Sandals Resorts in the Caribbean and waited for the Christians and Jews to arrive so that they can follow the teachings of Mohammad by burning them alive and cutting off their heads.

In fact, if I am not mistaken, I think Brian Williams has bragged that he was in the Columbus group who met the Muslim-Indians for the first time. I tend to believe him, because if you can't believe Williams----Obama's good and close friend---who can you believe?

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