Posted on 02/03/2016 3:02:41 PM PST by John S Mosby
"President Obama spoke warmly about Islam during his speech at a mosque today, highlighting the contributions that Muslims had made to the fabric of American society.
“Islam has always been part of America,†he said, detailing the beginnings of the religion among African slaves brought to America. He also pointed out that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Virginia statute for religious freedom that the “Mohammedan†should have his faith protected in the United States.
Obama met with Muslim leaders during a visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, before delivering a speech there. This is Obama’s first visit to a mosque as president – although George W. Bush also visited a mosque in New York City after the attacks of 9/11.
During his speech, he praised the religion for being a religion of peace – not the hate preached by groups like ISIS.
“The very word Islam comes from ‘Salam’ – peace,†he said. “The standard greeting is ‘As-Salaam-Alaikum’ – ‘Peace be upon you,’†he explained".....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well— thinking most likely the heroin/cocaine cartels, Las Vegas, and....the House of Saud and both major factions of islam, Sunni and Shiite. The mother’s milk of politics (as exhibited by the other crime family the Clintons- Bill of the absent nasal septum- the human cocaine vaccuum)—money and the people in the “biz” that control the media— choomers and dopers over 80% in that profession.
If you think they like the word “Mohammedan” try this one on them:
“Ishmaelite”.
CC
0bama creates history once again.
Islamic history in the US began in 1803 when President Thomas Jefferson formed the Marines to combat muslin pirates....the muzzies weren’t heard from again here until the 20th century.
I can’t write what I’m thinking about 0 but it’s not nice.
Dittoes!
..Obama visits mosque: “Islam has always been part of America...
Since when? Islam has been an adversary since the Marines kicked their butts on the Barbary Coast.
Remember the words of our feckless leader, ‘ The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.’
This man is mentally ill.
“I can’t say it. I’ll get banned.”
If it makes you feel any better know that you didn’t say it before I didn’t say it!
Obama, the idiot in chief, wants us to believe he is the world’s most interesting man, and the smartest.
Oh yes, Islam has been a part of our history from the earliest days. It was Muslims who captured and sold into the slave trade non-Muslim Africans.
Clown Prince nobama again earns his moniker.
islam is a superstitious heresy, that is false in every way.
http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx
The US Navy got its start in fighting the jihad of the Barbary States, whose leaders were “good” muslims who believed “kill the infidels wherever you find them”. That was even though the U.S. had never done anything aggressive or violent to them. We should follow in the footsteps of Jefferson and Madison, and give NO QUARTER to the Muhammadans!!!!
The mosque visited by obama was among the worst for promoting jihad and terrorism. But there are a network of other muslim Brotherhood mosques in large US cities that are just as bad. These mosques should be closed, and by no means should they be visited and praised by ANY US President, Senator, Governor, etc.
Finally, islam is a totalistic system that is not just a religion but also a superstate with military, economic, and political aspects. We need to find a way to take that into account, and thus to exempt islam from First Amendment protection. The islamic superstate is our ENEMY, and the enemy of every non-islamic country. It is also the enemy of the Christian people throughput the world!!!!
Dating from a line in the Marine Corps Hymn:
“From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...”
And why were the US Marines in Tripoli?
When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated in March of 1801, he inherited troubled relations with the Barbary states - the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, along with independent Morocco. The United States had treaties with all four, but tension was high and rising.
American representatives in the region wanted an American naval presence. They regularly, if less eloquently, echoed the 1793 view of their colleague in Lisbon: “When we can appear in the Ports of the various Powers, or on the Coast, of Barbary, with Ships of such force as to convince those nations that We are able to protect our trade, and to compel them if necessary to keep faith with Us, then, and not before, We may probably secure a large share of the Mediterranean trade, which would largely and speedily compensate the U. S. for the Cost of a maritime force amply sufficient to keep all those Pirates in Awe, and also make it their interest to keep faith.” The new president was fully aware of the situation. In 1790, as Secretary of State, he had reported to Congress on the subject in some detail, and he had been directly involved in the region even earlier.
The news from these consuls that awaited the new administration in 1801 was distressing. Tension was particularly great with Tripoli. Pasha Yusuf Qaramanli, feeling slighted by the Americans, was threatening war. He was convinced the Americans treated him less well than they did the other Barbary rulers. He was right, but Tunis and Algiers had negotiated better treaties. In October 1800, five months before Jefferson took office, the American consul in Tripoli, James Cathcart, summarized the long, rambling messages he had been sending the Secretary of State and others for a year or more. In short, he said, the pasha’s message is “if you don’t give me a present I will forge a pretext to capture your defenseless merchantmen; he likewise says that he expects an answer as soon as possible, and that any delay on our side will only serve to injure our own interests.”
A series of escalating incidents put the young US government at further odds with the pasha, who responded by chopping down the flagpole at the US Embassy in Tripoli, essentially a declaration of war. Early in June 1801, barely three months after the inauguration a small squadron - three frigates and a schooner - sailed for the Mediterranean under Commodore Richard Dale. Unfortunately, the pasha had not waited to hear from the new president.
During the next few months, squadron vessels blocked two Tripolitan corsairs in Gibraltar, delivered goods and messages in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, escorted American merchant ships, and briefly blockaded Tripoli harbor. In the only real action that year, the schooner Enterprize engaged and soundly defeated the Tripolitan ship Tripoli off the coast of Malta on August 1, 1801.
The Americans had set up blockades that severely hampered the trade of the pasha with other ports within the Ottoman Empire, and the situation was not coming to any satisfactory conclusion. The most important naval action in 1803 involved the frigate Philadelphia, which ran aground near Tripoli in October. The pasha imprisoned the 307-man crew and refloated and repaired the stricken vessel. Before they could make any use of her, though, on February 16, 1804 a US Navy team under Lt. Stephen Decatur slipped into Tripoli harbor after dark and set fires on board that totally destroyed the Philadelphia. The loss of the frigate weakened the American squadron, while captives from the Philadelphia gave the pasha new leverage and prospects of substantial ransom. In 1804, Jefferson decided the current squadron was not big enough to do the job. Newly-appointed Commodore Samuel Barron would command eleven vessels, “a force which would be able, beyond the possibility of a doubt, to coerce the enemy to a peace on terms compatible with our honor and our interest.”
After arriving on the scene, if Barron judged it expedient he was authorized to support an overland attack on Tripoli by forces supporting the restoration to power of Hamet Qaramanli, an older brother ousted in a 1796 coup by Pasha Yusuf Qaramanli. That idea had been proposed in 1801 by James Cathcart and also by William Eaton who knew the exiled Hamet in Tunis when he was American consul there.
Barron may have expected Eaton to bring Hamet to Syracuse for a consultation - that is unclear - but having eventually located him, Eaton helped the ex-pasha put together a collection of a few hundred armed Arabs and Greeks, mostly mercenaries under a handful of disparate leaders. Eaton, Hamet and several marines marched their “army” nearly 500 miles through the desert along the southern shore of the Mediterranean and, on April 27, 1805, they captured the town of Derne, some miles east of Benghazi.
Tobias Lear was given the commission to carry the terms of the treaty to the pasha. Lear sailed from Syracuse for Tripoli May 24th. Negotiations began shortly after his arrival, preliminary articles were agreed June 3 and the American captives from the Philadelphia were embarked on US vessels June 4. The final document was signed on the tenth. It involved neither payment for peace nor annual tribute. Based on the difference between the numbers of captives held on the two sides, ransom of $60,000 was agreed, well below the limit given Lear. Far to the east, the Americans, Hamet and his close associates left Derne on board American naval vessels June 12. The Senate ratified the treaty April 12, 1806.
Thus concluded the First Barbary War. American experience with Muslim rulers was to continue in the same negative vein up to the present day.
“It actually has not been always been part of american history.”
I beg to differ. In 1786 the US was paying monetary tribute to the Muslim Barbary pirates. Thomas Jefferson finally put a stop to it in 1805.
That, my friend, is a part of our American history: the barbarism of Islam.
It is not an oversight that Obama chose the day before the National Prayer Breakfast to visit a mosque.
This is a stick-it-in-your-face statement by Obama.
Just read a book about William Eaton, our “man on the ground” in N. Africa during that era.
He was one bad@ss operative.
How did muslims contribute positively to America?
They helped the U.S. Navy get started!!!!
Heh-heh!!!!
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/06/06a.htm
Agreed. Our earliest history is FIGHTING Muslims.
Some slaves and slave traders were likely muslim but that had little to no influence on the nation. Cows and horses have always been part of America, and have made a much more positive impact than 8th century savages.
Yes, cows and horses... and even more appropriately— pigs, swine- they have had more positive impact than 8th century Mohammedans. Pigs-— they made the US possible, and wonderfully, the horrified Mohammedans learned yet again how pigs helped win the Moro uprising in 1900.
Naaaaah,
He’s just a proud muslim who wants to use the reources of the Greatest Country, the US of A’s resources, all of them to enable islam and crush western man.
That is why he has also gone on to bankrupting America in every possible way.
That is why he has muslims in our FBI, CIA, military all the security.
He is right- we are no longer a Christian nation.
FUBO
respectfully, a bible clinging gun totin’ American
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