Posted on 02/20/2015 10:25:51 AM PST by Starman417
The latest fantasy from the fanciful imagination of Barack Obama:
We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding."That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar things in the past:
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan. And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy."
What the hell is he talking about? Then again, maybe he has a point. Islam did touch the United States of America early on in its history- in the form of piracy.
Over two centuries ago, the United States was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era. These pirates preyed on unsuspecting trade ships. The hulking merchant vessels of the period were no match for the Muslim pirate ships, which were built for speed and lightning strikes. It was simply a fact of life that- over the centuries-took its toll on countless merchant ships and their crews.Contemporary scholars estimate that over 1 million white Christians from France and Italy to Spain, Holland, Great Britain, the Americas, and even Iceland were captured between 1500 and 1800. The bloodcurdling tales of brutality and horror that awaited Christians unlucky enough to fall victim to the Barbary Pirates were widely known, although sometimes wildly exaggerated.
Muslims were pioneers in the slave trade:
The reality was often much more prosaic, although no less cruel. After seizing the cargo and scuttling the vessel, the pirates would strip the crew of anything deemed remotely valuable. The shaken, naked, terrified crewmen would then be dragged back to North Africa. There, they would be imprisoned and enslaved or, if they were lucky, ransomed back to their sovereign or their family or the company they worked for.Often enough, however, the victims of these maritime hijackings would languish in fetid prisons, unsure of when, or even if, they would ever be redeemed. Many perished or simply disappeared in the White Slave trade. The only other escape was conversion. Embracing Islam-"turning Turk"-instantly changed one's status and prospects. Indeed, from time to time, some of these victims would prove rather able-bodied adventurers and mercenaries, considering their national identity, their religion, and their foreskins a small price to pay as compared with life as a Muslim pirate in North Africa.
Please do read the while thing.
Then Obama fired off another salvo:
"Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and to build up America."
Because you know how important railroads were during the Revolutionary War. He wasn't done yet:
"The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America's first mosque, this was an interesting fact, was in North Dakota."
Uh, no. It was 1929.
Let's review the Obama version of the birth of our nation with some images. You remember the writing of the Declaration of Independence:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Another factoid from Obama’s Poop Pile...
The only Islamic custom of today that I’m aware of early in our country’s history is slavery. And, it likely had different historical roots, anyway.
If he means that islam in the form of the Barbary pirates was responsible for the founding of the Marines, then I would agree. Otherwise, complete malarkey.
I bit obammy was really biting his cheek when he laid that one..
If he and his agenda was any more transparent,
Even liberals would see the dangers ahead
Comin’ Home to roost.
Guess that’s why the first mosque was built in 1929.
Its like he’s being advised by one of the loony imams who believe the indians were all muslim and the earth doesn’t rotate.
He has told us what he wants this country to be like.
I thought it was Buddhists who laid the railroads.
“We hear a lot about the United States’ Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”
Sure it has, in fact it begins like so: From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of TRIPOLI.....
I always wondered about those minarets at Montecello...
The problem is that Obama said it and the universities and public schools will be teaching it soon enough.
Here’s someone who finally gets it right. Good graphic, too.
They were the First to declare WAR on us!
They have never retracted their declaration either!
Ross is a city in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 97 at the 2010 census.[5] Ross was founded in 1902 and is the site of the first, established mosque in the United States.
Ross is also the site of the first building in the United States purposely built to be a mosque. Established in 1929, the mosque fell into disrepair and was dismantled. In 2005, the edifice was rebuilt by the family of one of the last remaining Muslims in the area. The community that built the mosque were Syrian-Lebanese immigrants who settled the region starting in the late 19th century to take advantage of the Homestead Act.
Oh Cmon don’t you remember the Pislims and the first Halal Thanksgiving?
Don’t forget the Muslim volunteer units from Cairo, Illinois who bravely fought for the Union during the Civil War.
Gonna be a looooong 2 years....
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