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Posted on 08/13/2010 10:40:50 AM PDT by Justaham
In his annual Ramadan statement released yesterday Barack Obama claimed that,
“Islam has always been a a part of America.”
From the White House website:
On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.
Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God. This is a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But Ramadan is also a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during the day and pray during the night; when Muslims provide support to others to advance opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere. For all of us must remember that the world we want to build – and the changes that we want to make – must begin in our own hearts, and our own communities.
These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country. And today, I want to extend my best wishes to the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world – and your families and friends – as you welcome the beginning of Ramadan.
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com ...
Well, “The Return of Khan” was the best STAR TREK movie.
Islam is big in Northern Africa, but the southern part, including the west coast, where most slaves came from, is now Christian. Not sure what it was before. Probably animist.
I don’t think a lot of slaves were mooselimbs.
I think numbers were minor, but presence was there:
http://islam.about.com/od/history/a/afammuslims.htm
Some depiction is found in Roots as well as Amistad.
Yeah right. From the Barbary Pirates to the “shores of Tripoli”. Yeah, there is a history there.
Actually, baseball is older than Islam in America. According to Wikipedia:
“Islam however was almost completely absent in the United States until the 20th Century.”
Even Wikipedia disagrees with the President on this one
Thanks for the link with the specific individuals.
I note that the article was written under a pseudonym by an Irish-American woman who is a convert to Islam.
That's generally a profile for the mentally unstable - but it's interesting nonetheless.
The A-rabs controlled the EAST African slave trade (centered out of Zanzibar) long before and long after the European-run WEST African slave trade.
The fictional Kunta Kinte excepted. I still have never read anything about West African slaves being muslims.
I think Obama was referring to our war against the Barbary pirates. That makes muslims a part of American history.
Much more accurate.
“...Islam Has Always Been a Part of America..”
Yep - ever since the USS Enterprise blasted the first Tripoli pirate ship out of the water in 1801.....
"The Declaration of Independence recognized the European law of nations, as practiced among Christian nations, to be that by which they considered themselves bound, and of which they claimed the rights. This system is founded upon the principle, that the state of nature between men and between nations, is a state of peace. But there was a Mahometan law of nations, which considered the state of nature as a state of war - an Asiatic law of nations, which excluded all foreigners from admission within the territories of the state - a colonial law of nations, which excluded all foreigners from admission within the colonies - and a savage Indian law of nations, by which the Indian tribes within the bounds of the United States, were under their protection, though in a condition of undefined dependence upon the governments of the separate states. With all these different communities, the relations of the United States were from the time when they had become an independent nation, variously modified according to the operation of those various laws. It was the purpose of the Constitution of the United States to establish justice over them all.
"The commercial and political relations of the Union with the Christian European nations, were principally with Great Britain, France, and Spain, and considerably with the Netherlands and Portugal. With all these there was peace; but with Britain and Spain, controversies involving the deepest interests and the very existence of the nation, were fermenting, and negotiations of the most humiliating character were pending, from which the helpless imbecility of the confederation afforded no prospect of relief. With the other European states there was scarcely any intercourse. The Baltic was an unknown sea to our navigators, and all the rich and classical regions of the Mediterranean were interdicted to the commercial enterprise of our merchants, and the dauntless skill of our mariners, by the Mahometan merciless warfare of the Barbary powers. Scarcely had the peace of our independence been concluded, when three of our merchant-vessels had been captured by the corsairs of Algiers, and their crews, citizens of the Union, had been pining for years in slavery, appealing to their country for redemption, in vain. Nor was this all. By the operation of this state of things, all the shores of the Black sea, of the whole Mediterranean, of the islands on the African coast, of the southern ports of France, of all Spain and of Portugal, were closed against our commerce, as if they had been hermetically sealed; while Britain, everywhere our rival and competitor was counteracting by every stimulant within her power every attempt on our part to compound by tribute with the Barbarian for peace.
"Great Britain had also excluded us from all commerce in our own vessels with her colonies, and France, notwithstanding her alliance with us during the war, had after the conclusion of the peace adopted the same policy. She was jealous of our aggrandizement, fearful of our principles, linked with Spain in the project of debarring us from the navigation of the Mississippi, and settled in the determination to shackle us in the development of the gigantic powers which, with insidious sagacity, she foresaw might be abused.
"Notwithstanding all these discouragements, the inextinguishable spirit of freedom, which had carried your forefathers through the exterminating war of the Revolution, was yet unsuppressed. At the very time when the nerveless confederacy could neither protect nor redeem their sailors from Algerian captivity, the floating city of the Taho beheld the stripes and stars of the Union, opening to the breeze from a schooner of thirty tons, and inquired where was the ship of which that frail fabric was doubtless the tender. The Southern ocean was stiff vexed with the harpoons of their whalemen; but Britain excluded their oil, by prohibitory duties and the navigation act, from her markets, and the more indulgent liberality of France would consent to the illumination of her cities by the quakers of Nantucket, only upon condition that they should forsake their native island, and become the naturalized denizens of Dunkirk.
"In the same year, when the Convention at Philadelphia was occupied in preparing the Constitution of the United States for the consideration of the people, two vessels, called the Columbia and the Washington, fitted out by a company of merchants at Boston, sailed upon a voyage combining the circumnavigation of the globe, discovery upon the shores of the Pacific ocean, and the trade with the savages of the Sandwich islands, and with the celestial empire of China, all in one undertaking. The result of this voyage was the discovery of the Columbia river, so named from the ship which first entered within her capes, since unjustly confounded with the fabulous Oregon or river of the West, but really securing to the United States the right of prior discovery, and laying the foundation of the right of extension of our territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean."
“American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country”
“Name one”
I’ve got my paper and pen ready to write down a name ....... I’m still waiting.
Yeah, don’t you remember learning about the Nina, the Pinta, and the Fatwa?
Delusionary rhetoric like this does nothing more than damage an already ailing credibility. And standing by statements that are demonstrably false destroys it.
” Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings”
I remember their role on September 11, 2001.
Finished it for him. NOW it's correct.
But I have seen a claim that Columbus had a Moslem navigator. That's the sort of drivel that will fill American kids' history books (if it doesn't already) unless those on textbook committees are very vigilant.
Even if true, it means nothing as I'm sure Columbus could have found other navigators, and the navigator was not the prime mover in Columbus' voyages. But something like that would be presented as being of tremendous importance by America hating (and Moslem promoting), revisionist historians.
Yes Las Vega’s title as the “Mecca of American Gambling”
was given by moHAMeat himself 1300 years ago when he landed there on his magic carpet with his 72 virgins
Y’all thinking like Westerners. Facts and logic aren’t important to this dude. What’s important to him is to SAY this, loudly - then people will see what a wonderful, tolerant, and empathetic person he is and be overcome with emotion and love for our Muslim brothers.
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