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Julián Castro Lauds How Muslims Have Helped Make America Great
JIHAD WATCH ^ | SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 | ROBERT SPENCER

Posted on 09/08/2019 2:34:46 PM PDT by robowombat

Julián Castro Lauds How Muslims Have Helped Make America Great

BY ROBERT SPENCER SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

In light of the ongoing efforts by Democrats and the establishment media to make the Make America Great Again hat equivalent to the Nazi swastika, presidential candidate Julián Castro’s recent embrace of the phrase was curious in the extreme. Yet thus far no Leftist political or media spokesperson has complained about the fact that at the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America annual convention last week, Castro declared: “Muslim Americans for generations have been part of the fabric of our American family. They have helped make America the great nation it is.” So far, no one has wagged a disapproving finger at Castro and reminded him that, in the immortal words of Andrew Cuomo that so many Leftists agree with today, “America was never great.”

Their silence is odd, but even odder is the fact that Castro apparently did not provide even a single example of how Muslims “have helped make America the great nation it is,” yet his audience seems to have taken for granted that it was true. But what is the basis for this confidence? Can Mr. Castro elucidate? Since, as he said, “Muslim Americans for generations have been part of the fabric of our American family,” it shouldn’t be hard for him to list a few examples of how Muslims have helped make America the great nation that it is, right?

Castro may not want to do this, of course, since it would only draw attention to his right-wing, bigoted, hate-filled claim that America is great, and that will only lose him voters among Democrats today. So we will have to do it for him.

Castro probably had in mind the increasingly popular Leftist dogma that the slaves in the pre-Civil War American South were Muslims. This claim has been gaining a great deal of currency recently, and despite the fact that slavery has been illegal in the United States for over 150 years, there are more Muslim slaves all the time. According to PBS, “10 to 15 percent were said to be Muslims,” but by April 2019, PBS had revised this, saying that “up to 20 percent of Africans enslaved in America were Muslim.” Even that isn’t enough for the VOA, which claims that “approximately one-third” of American slaves were Muslim.

The VOA does admit, however, that “while the exact number of enslaved Muslims is unknown, up to 40 percent of those who were captured and enslaved came from predominantly Muslim parts of West Africa.” However, that factoid works against the VOA’s own argument about the percentage of Muslims among the slaves, for as the historian Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Slavery, notes, Muslim slavers, including those who sold slaves to Atlantic slave traders, enslaved only non-Muslims. Nor are the alleged Muslim slaves likely to have come from non-Muslim areas of West Africa, as there simply weren’t many Muslims at all in those areas during the time that the transatlantic slave trade was thriving.

What’s more, if up to a third of the slaves were Muslim, it is beyond odd that no one seems to have noticed until the early twenty-first century. There are only a handful of antebellum accounts mentioning any slaves that were Muslim; why did the multitude of the rest go completely unnoticed?

The agenda in this historical revisionism is to claim that all the fruits of slave labor in the United States have to be credited to Islam’s positive influence in the country. Leftists love to make this argument these days, as it buttresses both their fantasies of how Muslims are routinely victimized in this country and their new claims, recently advanced in the New York Times, that pretty much everything that has ever been accomplished in America is due to slave labor.

Yet like so many other Leftist claims, this one isn’t true. Julián Castro may not be willing to tell you, but there is simply no record of Muslims having “for generations” been “part of the fabric of our American family” and having “helped make America the great nation it is.”

Not only were there no more than a handful of Muslim slaves. It shouldn’t even need to be said that there were no Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence, no Muslim influence (again, contrary to claims) on the framers of the Constitution, no Muslims fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War. The Civil War, or the Spanish-American War. If any fought in World War I or World War II, they were again only a handful, but we will be certain to be hearing about them before too long.

There is one way, however, that Castro is right: consider all that Muslim Americans have contributed to the strength and character of our country over the last ten years. The innovations in airport security. The poisoning of the public discourse with “hate” invective against anyone who opposes them. The assault on the freedom of speech. The numerous jihad plots and attacks, from Fort Hood to Times Square to Portland, Oregon to North Carolina. The ever-increasing demands for special accommodation in businesses and schools. The spurious claims of victimhood. And so much more in this vein.

All that is decidedly not what Julián Castro had in mind. But the fact that his claim was pure fantasy is unlikely to trouble anyone who might vote for him: their grip on reality isn’t that strong in the first place.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: castro; islam; jihad; juliancastro; muslims; texas
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To: Brian Griffin
That doesn't surprise me. I think there are enough of virtually ever definable ethnic group on this plant in NYC, even Eskimos.
21 posted on 09/08/2019 2:52:20 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: robowombat

It would be entirely lawful for Muslim slavers to sell non-Muslim tribes as slaves to the Americas. That might be why so few slaves were Muslim.


22 posted on 09/08/2019 2:52:43 PM PDT by marron
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To: robowombat

Hey, the British and French couldn’t have brought African slavery to North America without the Muslims. If Castro thinks that is worthy of accolades, I won’t try to shut him up.


23 posted on 09/08/2019 2:53:46 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Yes, the people I am posting about were not slaves and never had been. They and some family members came to Texas to take care of the US Army’s camel ramuda. I think the Mexican President in the 1920’s Gen Calles was a part descendent of one of these folk,


24 posted on 09/08/2019 2:54:46 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The problem with Islam is its lack of tolerance.

Islam is fine in a 100 percent Muslim country.


25 posted on 09/08/2019 2:56:05 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: robowombat

Yeah, Muzzies have done such a great job with advancing civilization. NOT!

To paraphrase Johnathon Edwards’s song “Sunshine”:

They can’t even run their own lives,
I’ll be damned if they’ll run mine.


26 posted on 09/08/2019 2:57:36 PM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: robowombat
Our first war as a nation was against mohammedums.

The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitanian War and the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against the four North African states known collectively as the " Barbary States ".

27 posted on 09/08/2019 3:00:41 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Brian Griffin

In a 100% Muslim country, Muslims just start killing each other over who’s not ‘Muslim enough’.


28 posted on 09/08/2019 3:10:59 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: robowombat

Much like the a##clown president obama.


29 posted on 09/08/2019 3:18:02 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Just recently moslems have helped make Lower Manhattan great.


Wasn’t that some sort of mussulman neighborhood renovation?


30 posted on 09/08/2019 3:23:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: robowombat
Every time I see weird Julian Castro, I am reminded of this:


31 posted on 09/08/2019 3:26:43 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: robowombat

The only thing muzzies have contributed is that they caused Americans to pull together for about a week after 9/11.


32 posted on 09/08/2019 3:30:29 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Old Yeller

Muzzies definitely inspired the creation of the US Marines, to stop them kidnapping Americans for ransom or to sell as slaves.


33 posted on 09/08/2019 3:33:14 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: MarvinStinson

There were no Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence, no Muslim influence (again, contrary to claims) on the framers of the Constitution, no Muslims fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War. The Civil War, or the Spanish-American War.


Back the framers’ day, the very first Mussulman landed on the shores of the Colonial America. In his nascent travels, he happened upon the local Indian tribe. There, he saw and fancied an Indian princess. By all accounts, she was quite a looker.

When got her alone in her teepee, he tried to force himself on her in the usual Mussulman custom. She refused and made such a racket the tribal warriors rushed to her rescue.

The Mussulman explained that taking her was his due and according to his customs. Everyone disagreed. So they took him outside, tied him to a stake, gave the princess a very sharp knife, with which she proceeded to skin him alive.

And that was the first recorded contribution of a Mussulman making America great.


34 posted on 09/08/2019 3:34:18 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: kiryandil

Musloids don’t believe in the Bill of Rights


Or the rest of the Constitution for that matter.


35 posted on 09/08/2019 3:36:15 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

36 posted on 09/08/2019 3:40:02 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: robowombat

SPJNK x 1,000.


37 posted on 09/08/2019 3:41:24 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: robowombat

Give me ONE example. tick tock tick tock...


38 posted on 09/08/2019 3:52:12 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: robowombat

>>“Muslim Americans for generations have been part of the fabric of our American family.

3/4 of the muslims in America today are first generation immigrant families.

it’s just not so that they’ve been a significant factor in this nation “for generations”.

And the number of loony Louis Farrakhan’s black nationalist Nation of Islam were probably the predominant sect of Islam in America prior to wide scale colonization in the past 20 years.


39 posted on 09/08/2019 4:05:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: madison10

They came within 15 minutes of taking out the Whitehouse or the Capitol Building. The sacrifice of a handful of true Americans prevented that.

Remember come Wednesday morning.
Never forget.
Never forgive.


40 posted on 09/08/2019 4:23:23 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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