Posted on 04/28/2004 4:54:44 AM PDT by SJackson
Were Arabs really part of the American Indian tribes? That's what a new series of textbooks says
A liberal advocacy group in Washington recently committed intellectual genocide on American Indians. Authors of the group presumed to fabricate Indian history, as if real Indian history doesn’t matter. Authors simply created an Indian story to suit the purposes of the advocacy group, and published it in a school text manual as fact.
Sounds incredible, but the Middle East Policy Council published a 540-page book called Arab World Studies Notebook, a teacher’s guide for presenting Arab culture to young American students. The text, published five years ago, has a two-page chapter entitled, “Early Muslim Exploration Worldwide: Evidence of Muslims In the New World Before Columbus.” The text says Arab Muslim explorers were here in America before Columbus, and married Algonquin Indians. These early marriages produced descendents who, by the 17th century, became Algonquin chiefs, like “Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik.” The Washington Times notes there is no evidence to validate the story.
The story is simply designed to give the Arabs a home in America, to make them part of the foundation of American civilization. The story was an attempt to make Arabs “indigenous.”
The author and editor of Arab World Studies Notebook is Audrey Park Shabbas, the Teacher Workshop Leader of MEPC’s impressive educational program for grades 7-12. Shabbas, a Muslim convert and zealot, is a career advocate of Arabic culture. Executive Director of Arab World And Islamic Resources since 1995, she tirelessly champions the Arab Muslim “cause” in America.
The story of Arab Muslim explorers and Indians is her collusion with Shayk Abdallah Hakim Quick, another Muslim convert (1970) and zealot for Islamic ascendancy like Shabbas. The internet does not reveal family background of either Shabbas or Quick, but Shabbas regularly decries the Anti-Defamation League, and apparently sued them for illegally obtaining information on Arab Americans.
But it’s okay for Shabbas and Quick to fabricate information about American Indians, because it’s they think it’s good cause. They want Arab Muslims to be more acceptable in a time. If Arabs can somehow be linked to the American Indian, they’ll be spared. They will have that special place, that unique validation, which will enable them to say Arab Muslims are the founding fathers of civilization in the Americas.
"It is not, nor has it ever been, our intention to spread lies or untruths," said Jon Roth, Program Director of Middle East Policy Council. Of course not. The intent is merely to give a face lift to Arabs. Who cares if American Indians are used? Early Indian history is mostly oral tradition anyway. It’s open season for multiculturalists. Anyone can make up Indian stories, and include anyone in the Indian race. It’s everyone’s “civil right.”
Why not make an Arab Indian tribe, get federal recognition, and create another casino? American Negroes do it all the time, and they certainly have no claim like Arab explorers would have.
This free use of American Indian history by white liberals to promote Arab Muslims is the most presumptuous disrespect of Indians in history. Indians are relegated to myth, as if we didn’t really exist historically…or if we did, our history did not matter – we’re just a fantasy for anyone to use any time it suits. We’re a free talisman of racial, cultural validation. Just say you’re Indian, you’re in, at the deepest level.
But this nonsense isn’t complimentary to Indians. This egregious fraud is abuse of Indians. Just pin that Indian name on yourself, and you suddenly belong to America. Shabbas pinned “Indian” on every Arab in history – including America’s worst enemies.
Multicultural liberals obviously hate and disrespect Indians.
An Indian advocacy group exposed Shabbas’ chicanery. Algonquin Nation’s Peter DiGangi protested her text until MECP finally had to face the facts. Some 1,200 copies of the her book have already been circulated, but she promises to give “careful and thoughtful attention” to how exactly to break the news that she lied to all the trusting teachers who were given copies of the text.
Maybe she should say the romance fantasy between Arabs and Indians was all sublimated sexual excitement. But should such personal indulgence be published as fact in professional secondary school texts?
Alas, exotic sexuality may be in her professional style. Last year Shabbas spoke at San Francisco University High School’s “Global Awareness” evening, which included homosexual advocacy. She has shown no offense by the association. One thing is certain: Shabbas thinks feminism is advocated in the Qur’an. Now that’s super sexual fantasy!
Let her keep her sexual hang-ups. But let her keep them from lying about American Indians in the nation’s textbooks.
Originally, it was the American Indian who welcomed English and European settler into Virginia and South Carolina.
In fact, the settlers would not have survived had it not been for the generosity of the native indians.
Little is known of entire villages completely wiped out by settlers and soldiers as the settlers moved west.
Try again.
These Islamic lies and propoganda fit perfectly in the pattern of Islam's 20 year plan to take over America.
Is America gullible enough to swallow it?
Read "A Few Acres of Snow" about the French and Indian Wars in North America. The Indians come out looking extremely bad. This is one resource. There are many others which detail despicable acts by Indians.
Ah, yes, the "noble savage" myth emerges again.
There were excesses on both sides to be sure, but initially, the French Jesuits took advantage of the less-than-noble proclivities of the indiginous inhabitants to rain hideous, torturous deaths upon the men, women, and children of the Protestant settlers in the English colonies.
The natives delighted in the most barbaric tortures they could devise, eating the hearts and drinking the blood of the few who did not cry out for mercy during their hideous deaths.
Such excesses ignited a hatred for the indiginous inhabitants, setting the stage for ruthless behaviors among the settlers.
Perhaps you should try reading some source documentation. You can start with "Of Plymouth Plantation" and the works of Charles C. Coffin. Even Laura Ingalls Wilder provides some good documentation on the relations between the settlers and the Indians.
If you are still in doubt, you may want to read the accounts of the pacifist, non-resistant Amish and Quaker settlers who experienced firsthand the depravities of the "noble" savages.
Ah, yes ... what better PC nonsense than the myth of the Noble Savage, unspoiled by civilization, living in harmony with the wilderness, at one with nature ...
What they have in common is they are both pagan warrior cults. Both cults highly honor the warrior.
http://www.geocities.com/hiberi/
I dare you.
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