I usually agree with the author of this piece, but I think this one misses the point.
The issue is not that there are Muslim people who made contributions to our society in the course of living in it.
But those individual contributions were not in any way a contribution of Muslim culture, which has been virtually non-existent in America since forever prior to the last 10-15 years.
Yes there have been Muslim people who have made contributions to our society, although nowhere near as many as individual Jewish, or even Asian people. But Muslim culture, wherever it has been permitted to take root in America, has had, at best, a neutral effect, and at worst a negative influence.
And clearly, as the Muslim population grows in any society, it predictably brings with it hatred, poverty, and all sorts of barbaric values that should forever be banished from Western civilization.
And Obama’s statement about Muslim contributions to the “very fabric of our Nation” becomes outright offensive when one realizes that Obama has NEVER made the same sort of statement about Christianity, which really is at the core of Western civilization and the values that led to the creation of our once great nation.
I agree with much of what you said in post #12. You raised some excellent points. The best Muslims ate the ones who adopt western values of property rights, rule of law, and individual liberty. The worst Muslims are the ones who reject these beliefs.
Correct. In the context of Eid al Fitr, Obama was praising the muslim *culture*, which has contributed nothing measurable to the fabric of the US.