Obama recently praised the “contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation.” In FrontPage today I try to find some.
In his message to Muslims on their holiday Eid al-Fitr, issued Sunday, Barack Obama asserted that “Eid 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.” He did not, unfortunately, provide even a single example of these “many achievements and contributions” that Muslims have made to “building the very fabric of our nation,” but he said that there were many, so they shouldn’t be hard to list a few, right?
You remember a few of them, don’t you? Remember the Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence? With Yahya al-Hanqoq’s large signature front and center, so that the infidel King George III could read it without his spectacles? And then there was Ibrahim Clark of New Jersey and El-Bridge Gerry of Massachusetts. Remember also the Muslims who gave James Madison information about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina – which, as we all know, granted equal rights to women and religious minorities, predating such documents in the West by 1,000 years. Madison, of course, used the Medina Constitution as a model when framing the U.S. Constitution.
Then there were the Muslims who fought so valiantly during the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. And in the titanic struggles over slavery, Muslims were front and center: remember the Muslim abolitionist Senators who faced down the South in the antebellum Senate, the Senate chamber ringing with their oratory about how the Qur’an says to free slaves and so the U.S. government should, too? Remember the Muslim regiments in the Civil War (all on the Union side, of course!)? Then in the aftermath of the Civil War came the Muslim industrialists who brought us railroads, the telegraph, the telephone.
Not to be forgotten are the Muslims who also fought courageously in the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II, and the Muslim entertainers who kept us laughing on the Vaudeville circuit and on the home front during those terrible world wars with their jokes from the Hadith.
None of this rings a bell? Not to worry. Before too long it will be taught in all the textbooks. Absurd? Maybe – but no more than Obama’s statement itself. And even if they don’t go so far as to Islamize John Hancock and imagine Muslim Americans fighting against slavery and defending America in world wars, public school textbooks already present a ridiculously rosy picture of Islam. A study by the American Textbook Council, an independent national research organization that evaluates the quality of textbooks, found that ten of the most widely used middle school and high school social studies textbooks “present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.”
The books present highly tendentious constructions as undisputed truth, making common cause with West-hating multiculturalists to bowdlerize the presentation of Islam, denigrate or downplay Christianity and Western civilization, and transform numerous public school textbooks into proselytizing tracts.
Meanwhile, even though the Constitution of Medina is of highly doubtful authenticity and is contradicted both by Islamic law and by Islamic traditions about Muhammad’s actions, it is already becoming common for Islamic apologists to invoke it as evidence that Islam and democracy are not only compatible, but that Islam originated the idea of republican rule. Ahmadi Muslim apologist Qasim Rashid recently wrote in the Huffington Post that “when Prophet Muhammad was popularly appointed Medina’s ruler, he entered into a pact with the Jewish communities of Medina. Through this pact, he granted equal political rights to non-Muslims. They were ensured complete freedom of religion and practice.” Undercutting Rashid’s case are the facts that Muhammad ended up exiling two of the Jewish tribes of Medina and massacring the third, and that the Qur’an mandates that Jews (and Christians) in the Islamic state, rather than enjoying “equal political rights,” must “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).
But facts just get in the way of the narrative, and so the facts must go. It feels so good and multicultural to imagine Muslims at the founding of this nation, contributing to its very fabric, doesn’t it? Heck, speaking of fabric, probably Betsy Ross was a Muslim. And doesn’t the flag of South Carolina have a crescent moon on it?
Likewise regarding slavery – I imagine Muslim abolitionists above in pre-Civil War America above, in trying to give some substance to Barack Obama’s absurd statement. In reality, of course, there were no Muslim abolitionists, or Muslims, in the antebellum United States. What’s more, there were no Muslim abolitionists anywhere. Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam forbids slavery, but in fact the Qur’an takes slavery for granted, and according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad hallowed the practice by owning slaves himself. In some Muslim nations, it is still practiced, even though it is against the law (laws that initially began to be adopted in Muslim countries under Western pressure). Mauritania, for example, abolished slavery in 1981 and made it a crime in 2012, but it is still widespread — because it has Islamic sanction. Yet I myself remember being taught in high school, way back in the 1970s, that the last country to abolish slavery was Brazil, in 1889. There was no mention of Saudi Arabia’s abolishing slavery in 1962, or of the persistence of the practice in some Muslim countries. And that was forty years ago, showing that whitewashing of Islam in the textbooks, now rampant, had begun even then.
So when it comes to Barack Obama’s claim that Muslim Americans have made contributions to “building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy,” if there were no Muslim Founding Fathers scrutinizing the Constitution of Medina for material they could use in the charter document of their new nation, then they have to be invented. The textbooks have already departed from reality regarding Islam – what could possibly be the problem with a few more steps into fantasy? What difference, at this point, does it make? Yahya al-Hanqoq, grab your quill!
Jaladhi says
Muslim contribution to world civilization is a big fat ZERO!! Their contribution to world – murder, rape, looting, stealing, lying, deceit, invading, … If that is the contribution of America’s founding fathers then, of course, Muslims have contributed to America. Morons!!
Looks like these days morons are dimes a dozen all over America!!
Jay Boo says
Muslims helped form the US Navy
when the Barbary pirates attacked American ships and demanded ransom.
Ian says
Not sure thats what Obama the traitor meant but well done the muslims for that!
John Magee says
I agree. Obama would not like to talk about over 300 years of the Muslim Barbary Pirates collecting European slaves raiding villages on the coasts of Christian Europe as far as Ireland and attacking ships going from Europe to the New World full of immigrants and returning with gold and silver. Then taking their captives back to North Africa and selling them as slaves. Some ended up as slaves as far away as Persia.
Jerry says
Muslims were always accomplished sailors.
That’s why the Camel is called the Ship of the Dessert
and that’s because, usually, they are full
Muslim Semen
Ian says
But you have to point out that the camel gets no choice in the matter,and thanks to weak governments nore do we,they allow muslims to shaft everything.
History buff says
And when they tried to behead the first Marines, the Marines refashioned their collars with leather…….hence the name ‘leathernecks.’
Mark says
Robert needs to explain in his erudite fashion that what Obama just said is thoroughly Islamic. In the same way Islam claims that Moses, Jesus, Abraham were all Islamic. Therefore, we get the fallacious claims that scientific endeavour, mathematics advance were all and are all Islamic. In essence we are all moslem according to Islam, except those who are not are just rebels from the Truth. This is a big giveaway as to Obama’s Islamic background at a minimum. in my opinion he really is Moslem but is practising Islamic deceipt, which is legitimized in order to take the world for Islam.
ronald rowell says
u hit the nail on the head brother!! i been saying that since he first started running for office
duh_swami says
Rasool Obama is right…If not for Mahoundian road and bridge builders, we would have no America. I used to think Ralph Cramden, and Phil Silvers were Mahoundians. I’m sure Babe Ruth attended mosque on Friday nights. And don’t get me started on the jihad of Billy the Kid.
It was a Mahoundian that discovered gold in California. Abu James bin Marshal started the gold rush. It was Mahoundians who founded the colony of Monterrey Ca, and Abu Bakr James bin Colter was the first Caliph. The Alamo was defended primarily by Mahoundians… Mohammad Kit Carson was an Imam. The Alamo was actually a mosque. The list of Mahoundians as a part of our fabric is very long and would take several books to complete it.
Charli Main says
d_s
I believe that you have omitted the most important fact of all—-the Moohoundians actually discovered America.
Christopher Ben Ali Columbus was a Moohoundian from Al- Andulus and all his crew were Spanish Moohoundians.
So, you see, America is actually Moohoundian land and you are an illegal occupier of their country.
PS. seriously now, while working in Algeria I have had Moohoundians tell me Muslims discovered America.!!!!!!
Kebert Xela says
Leif bin Erik al ‘Ahmar
Ian says
Even Superman and Spiderman are in support of the full face veil.
TH says
I guess if Abraham, Moses and Jesus were muslims, then it is not difficult to imagine that the Founding Fathers were really muslims, accoding to Obama’s skewed reasoning.
duh_swami says
It’s interesting how many Mahoundians who built America were named, ‘James’…James Madison, James Marshal, James Carter, James Doolittle, James Duranty, James Dean, James Earl Jones…James seems to be a favorite Mahoundian name in America, but I bet there are also a lot of Bobs…
John C. Barile says
And Yahyas.
Paul Moyaln says
If I might be so bold;
Islam was in all likelihood responsible for a large proportion of the slaves in America, both before and after the Louisiana purchase.
It was also partly that the slaves were revolting in the south that insured such a good deal for Jefferson, among other contributing factors.
It is also entirely likely that some of the slaves, who where in large part enslaved by Muslims, where in fact Muslims. And as much as people hate too admit it, America was built on the backs of these slaves.
Without the slaving empire, of the Ottomans, America might never have been.
Is this what Obama is saying, would he be so bold as to say ‘thank God for the Islamic slaving empire, on which we built America’.
Western Canadian says
“And as much as people hate too admit it, America was built on the backs of these slaves.”
Rubbish.
Pavelina says
If the slaves were obtained from villages in Africa, was Islam so widespread that it found its way into remote African villages? If slaves were not Muslim when obtained, they were unlikely to have been converted to Islam as that would have prevented their enslavement. It is against Sharia law to enslave Muslims.
don says
In fact Muslims could have converted Africa to Islam but that would have shut down their lucrative slave business in East and North Africa. And Islam also castrated their male slaves.
Michael Copeland says
You forgot the Pilgrim Mullahs.
Jay Boo says
jizya tax introduced in US by a Muslim,
since the time of the Barbary pirates
pay the jizya to the federal government for ‘financial aid’ to Muslim countries.
Richie says
Thomas Jefferson had a vast book collection, and he owned a Koran. Many Muslims and leftists take that as ‘evidence’ that he believed in the Islamic teachings, and was sympathetic to Islam. One could better judge his opinion of Islam by the action he took against the Muslim Barbary pirates
John Magee says
Where is the media on this one? Doesn’t one of them have the courage to ask President Obama to give just one example of how Muslims contributed to building the fabric of the United States of America? Of course President Obama will claim Islam somehow influenced the Italian Renaissance which influenced the Age of Reason and that influenced the Founding fathers and in that way “Islam contributed to building the fabric of our nation”. That too would be a lie. The Greek Byzantine Christians in Constantinople saved the writings of pagan Greek and Roman Civilizations (Eastern Orthodox monasteries in the East and in the West Latin monasteries also saved ancient pagan manuscripts or copied them) which is in large part why they were preserved long before Mohammed was even born. It’s too bad President Obama and his fellow Muslim’s didn’t celebrate the Muslim Feast of EID in the traditional way by dragging a sheep or goat into the White House dining room and slitting its throat with blood spraying all over the place which happens in every mosque and in the streets of the Islamic world on this “wonderful” Islamic holiday when blood flows in the mosques and fills the gutters of the streets.
John Magee says
Where is the media on this one? Doesn’t one of them have the courage to ask President Obama to give just one example of how Muslims contributed to building the fabric of the United States of America? Of course President Obama will claim Islam somehow influenced the Italian Renaissance which influenced the Age of Reason and that influenced the Founding fathers and in that way “Islam contributed to building the fabric of our nation”. That too would be a lie. The Greek Byzantine Christians in Constantinople saved the writings of pagan Greek and Roman Civilizations (Eastern Orthodox monasteries in the East and in the West Latin monasteries also saved ancient pagan manuscripts or copied them) which is in large part why they were preserved long before Mohammed was even born. It’s too bad President Obama and his fellow Muslim’s didn’t celebrate the Muslim Feast of EID in the traditional way by dragging a sheep or goat into the White House dining room and slitting its throat with blood spraying all over the place which happens in every mosque and in the streets of the Islamic world on this “wonderful” Islamic holiday when blood flows in the mosques and fills the gutters of the streets.
John Magee says
Where is the media on this one? Doesn’t one of them have the courage to ask President Obama to give just one example of how Muslims contributed to building the fabric of the United States of America? Of course President Obama will claim Islam somehow influenced the Italian Renaissance which influenced the Age of Reason and that influenced the Founding fathers and in that way “Islam contributed to building the fabric of our nation”. That too would be a lie. The Greek Byzantine Christians in Constantinople saved the writings of pagan Greek and Roman Civilizations (Eastern Orthodox monasteries in the East and in the West Latin monasteries also saved ancient pagan manuscripts or copied them) which is in large part why they were preserved long before Mohammed was even born. It’s too bad President Obama and his fellow Muslim’s didn’t celebrate the Muslim Feast of EID in the traditional way by dragging a sheep or goat into the White House dining room and slitting its throat with blood spraying all over the place which happens in every mosque and in the streets of the Islamic world on this “wonderful” Islamic holiday when blood flows in the mosques and fills the gutters of the streets.
P says
In one of his speech, Obama claims that Islam gave the world the Arabic numeral system. A very subtle lie to deceived the whole world that mankind owed Islam for its mathematical contribution. The truth is, it originated in India. It was during the golden years of the Gupta Empire of India that the Indian mathematicians developed the concept of the decimal system as well as the concept of zero. From India trade merchants spread it to Asia, to the Middle East and then to Europe. When the merchant caravans brought its awareness and practical usefulness to the middle east, the Arabs adopted it. Initially it became known as “Hindu-Arabic” numeral system. The 21st century Islamic countries have now purposely dropped the word “Hindu” to just call it Arabic numeral system. What a shame for a US President who so brazenly boast it was a Islamic contribution to the world and mankind without checking first the historical facts or was it intentional. Simply put the world owes these concepts of numeral system to the Gupta Empire of India and not to the Arabs.
JIMJFOX says
Why the hell has an elected member NOT demanded POTUS support his statement with some examples ???
Kepha says
Actually, there probably were a number of ordinary contributions to these United States by Muslims.
The first organized Muslim communities in the USA date to the 19th century; including one by Poilsh Tatar refugees who had joined their Catholic neighbors in rebelling against the Russian Tsar. They weren’t many, but they were there, and did their two bits’ worth along with millions of other immigrants.
Just being fair-minded.
However, my gut feeling is that the O really means some of the neo-Muslims of the 1960’s, like Malcolm X. Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown), Louis Farrakhan, and Cop-killer Mumia. All of these people, as far as I’m concerned, were net minuses to the USA, and I’d gladly see the back of the lot of them. It is a national disgrace that we name streets after the first of these nonentities. That’s one reason why I never voted for the O and think that he’s one of the worst POTUS in my lifetime.
Angemon says
Muslims in the american fabric = the loose thread that can unravel the entire garment
Doc says
This man has lost it completely. Profiler following him said he was coming apart mentally he’s mental and demonic
blitz2b says
Obama is right in saying “…the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation…”
Yes Obama, without the unforgettable “achievement and contributions” of Muslims, 911 would be just a number on the telephone dial to call out for help in instances of terror, rather than being remembered as a date when Muslim terrorists dialed our number…. Muslims have really changed the very core of our democracy by using Islamophobia as a ploy to elect an idiot like you twice, to be the POTUS …..Nice analysis you lying moron.