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Ohio State University course highlights how Muslims helped build America

Feb 7, 2017 9:26 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

It can be taken for granted that people of a great range of ethnicity and religion helped build America. But now a course has to be devoted to what Muslims did to help build America. It is peculiar that only one religion above all others garners the kind of attention that Islam does. This resembles the unfounded “Islamophobia” claims that falsely claim that Muslims are targeted for hate crimes more than others.  This Islamic supremacism has escalated out of control.

The course comes at a time when some Americans are accusing President Donald Trump of being anti-Muslim or even racist for issuing an executive order that temporarily bans visits or immigration into the U.S. from seven scheduled countries because of their reputation for exporting terrorists.

If national security is not a valid reason for immigration restrictions, is anything?

The course also will tackle “current issues that make Muslims ‘persons of interest’ to some very vociferous, although not necessarily well-informed, critics,” she said. Topics would include Sharia Law and dress codes.

One wonders whether Dr. Sabra Webber intends to tell the truth about FGM, women being deprived of an education, women being worth half the value of a male, women being unable to drive, the lopping off of heads, stonings, the treatment of dissidents in Iran, etc. One also wonders how many Muslim reformists such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali has Webber spoken to, or will even mention in her course. While she attacks “vociferous” critics of Islam, she doesn’t appear to explain the specifics of her criticism.

“Ohio State Course Suggests Muslims Helped Build America”, by David Krayden, Daily Caller, February 3, 2017:

A new course at Ohio State University aims to highlight role that Muslims played in making America great — from the founding fathers to the news of today.

According to The College Fix, “Islam in the United States,” scheduled to debut in Ohio State’s spring session, will be instructed by Dr. Sabra Webber and will argue that Muslims have always been an essential element of the American experience.

The course comes at a time when some Americans are accusing President Donald Trump of being anti-Muslim or even racist for issuing an executive order that temporarily bans visits or immigration into the U.S. from seven scheduled countries because of their reputation for exporting terrorists.

Ohio State is very familiar with Somalia’s propensity for terrorism: Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the student who drove his car into a unsuspecting students before stabbing several with a butcher knife, was a refugee from Somalia.

Prof. Webber, revealed in an email that the course could not open at a more opportune time.

“The ratcheting up throughout contemporary college students’ lives of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant (notably Mexico, Syria) public discourse has led them to seek a better understanding of the background in the U.S.,” Webber said.

Webber is insistent that “Muslims have been part of American cultures for more than 500 years,” according to The College Fix.

“I start by sharing with the students something about the Muslims who came to the Americas at the beginning of the 1500s and those arriving in colonial America by the early 1600s because I have found that many assume the arrival of Muslims has been fairly recent,” the professor said.

And that’s just the beginning. Along the way, students are told that the Muslim Kingdom of Morocco was “the first country to recognize the independence of the United States” in 1777 and that a treaty signed with Morocco a decade later “remains the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U. S. history.”

Another historical rarity? When he was sworn into office, Minnesota Muslim congressman Keith Ellison used Thomas Jefferson’s English version of the Koran……

The professor will also touch on the sensitive current issues such as the preponderance of Muslim extremists in world terrorism and and an examination of Sharia Law that many Muslims insist they should be subject to instead of regular U.S. law.

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  1. somehistory says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:33 am

    With two slices of bread, we could have a sandwich…not fit to eat.

    Let’s see: Because of moslim activity, there had to be developed a navy and marines and other means of protecting the country from the barbarians of islam.

    This worship of the wild beast from satan is expanding…for now.

    Revelation 13, 17, 19-21

    • Christianblood says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 7:06 pm

      Liberal educators in the West love islam and muslims, including muslim jihadists but hate, demonize and denigrate Christians and Christianity.

    • David Scoltock says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 8:34 pm

      You what?

      The US Navy was formed in response to the threats posed by the British Royal Navy.

      Knowing that America could never compete with the British in line of battle warships, they focused on heavy frigates and commerce raiders. These proved rather effective during the war of 1812 by refusing to be drawn into conventional battle.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 7, 2017 at 9:06 pm

        David Scoltock wrote:

        You what?

        The US Navy was formed in response to the threats posed by the British Royal Navy.
        …………………,

        What rot. It was formed–at a time when America could ill afford it–when the young United States lost the protection of tribute paid by Britain to the Barbary Pirates, and they began seizing American `ships and enslaving their crews.

        • Spike1033 says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 6:03 am

          Agreed. Scoltock does write some complete rubbish.

          The US Navy was formed by George Washington by the Naval Act of 1794 in direct response to the piracy of Algeria, Morocco and Tripolitania (modern day Tripoli). Look up the Battle of Derne 1805.

          Unfortunately the war was inconclusive although attacks on US ships pretty well ceased afterwards. In that time it is estimates by historian George Davis that those north African states held up to 1.5 million Christian slaves.

        • Lesley says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 6:57 am

          Wow, so the British appeased Muslims before their brewing, current day disaster by paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates, even as they had a big navy…

          If it wasn’t for Churchill and Thatcher, I’d be completely out of hope for the British.

        • Tom says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 2:32 pm

          That is the correct answer!

    • Gordon Miller says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:04 am

      Madness!

    • old white guy says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:37 am

      muslims built nothing in America.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 10:13 am

        Quite theopposite. They are trying to tear the fabric of our civilized society.

    • A Harris USA says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 4:21 pm

      somehistory, you nailed it.. It is amazing how these idiot sheep of Islamic devils keep on going and going, with their devilish ideas.. there is just to much evil to figure out anymore.. God knows and he will show us the way…. Away from the devilish savage murdering lying pigs!!

  2. andra says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:42 am

    I am not surprised. The Turks rebuilt Germany after the war and the “economic wonder” only took place because of their supreme efforts.

    Erdogan already claimed a couple of years ago that there is verified evidence that Muslims have been in North America long before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived. Well Americans, learn your lessons, the West would be nothing without Islam. IO

    • maghan says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 3:44 pm

      Horses and dogs also helped build America. Maybe even homing pigeons too. They all did much more than dumb but cruel Muslims ever did. Ask President Quincy Adams, Mark Twain and Alexis de Tocqueville.

      Axiom: If you look hard enough you will find that needle in the haystack and that 12-toed man.

    • Bismarck says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 4:16 pm

      Then why does Islam do nothing but destroy…I’m German after the war the German people with the help of the allies rebuilt Germany , Turkish immigrants came after they were not at the forefront of rebuilding Germany ..Islam is viciously intolerant and is hell bent on world domination

      • andra says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 9:02 am

        They were not even part of the economical wonder, because the first one arrived in 1960, at a time Germany did no longer need any workes.

        • andra says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 10:05 am

          Turkish migrants with German passport, however, demand that we teach in School that Turks have rebuilt Germany after the war. And the Munich greenies demand to take down the monument for the Trümmerfrauen, because they were filthy Nazi women who only wanted to get more food portions. I guess the greenies are strongly uneducated and don´t know that physical work needs to be fed.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:09 pm

      Andra, I presume this is meant sarcastically.

      • andra says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 9:01 am

        You can take that for granted. IO (at the end of my post) stands for Irony off.

        By the way, Turkey claims that an Osman sailor was the first one who reachted the south pole. They want to claim Antarctia for Turkey.

    • Anne Smith says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:27 am

      Erdogan also claimed that Muslims reached the moon long before the Americans did.

      He is obviously a lunatic.

      • andra says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 9:04 am

        As we can see all over the world. Islam very often leads to lunatism.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 10:22 am

        Years ago, shortly after Muhammed Ali converted to Black Islam (A different branch which thinks Mohammed was born and at that time living in Chicago by the name of Elija Mohammed) I saw him on the Johnny Carson show, “Tonight.” He said that Muslims put the moon in the sky, but he had forgotten how at the moment. I guess he had!

        When this branch of Islam started, it had little in common with real Islam. That seems to have been changed and now they worship the barbarian Mohammed of the seventh century.

        • Rev G says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 4:05 pm

          To see Laila Ali on tv it seems to be islam of convenience. She hangs out with people drinking alcohol and has even handled and cooked pork.

  3. Dave Flang says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:50 am

    The Founding Fathers and what they said and believed.
     
    The facts of history illustrate the this nation never intended to be “God neutral.” Public displays of worship and subservience to the God of creation have always been made matter-of-factly. There can be no greater example of this than casual and unapologetic declarations concerning God in the constitutions of every one of the fifty states!
    WE ARE AMERICANS by Sam Gipp
    http://www.warneveryone.com/we_are_americans.htm

    • somehistory says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 10:20 am

      True! The book “Common Sense Nation” documents it well with historical quotes and a lot of evidence to prove the points.

  4. RichardL says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:51 am

    it will be a 0 credit course, I suppose. Is that woman’s name really “Sabra”?

  5. RichardL says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Professor Webber is, academically speaking, a non-entity. If you scholar-google SJ Webber almost nothing pops up. I always wonder how these people get jobs at good universities…

  6. john spielman says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:11 am

    islam has been very active AROUND THE WORLD – with DEMOLITION

    • mgoldberg says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 2:51 pm

      ah ah ah…. they are world leading experts… in blowing up people

  7. Alan Davis says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:23 am

    “the shores of Tripoli” comes to mind.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:13 pm

      Exactly, Alan. That is about Islam’s only “contribution” to our history–that, and 9/11…

  8. HUGH fITZGERALD says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 10:30 am

    For 500 years Muslims have been part of the American story? IIn other words, she’s retailing that ludicrous story about Muslims accompanying Columbus on his voyages, which makes no sense, given that Columbus was a devout Catholic, eager to find a new way to the East because of the Muslim conquest of Constantinople now completely blocked the old route, and his desire, too, to desire to claim new lands for les reyes catolicos, Ferrdinand and Isabella. There is no evidence for more than a handful of Muslims arriving as slaves, though once that story got started (in the work of Sylviane Diouf) it has taken on a life of its own, and now some are claiming that as many as “30%” of the slaves were Muslim. None of their fellow slaves, nor their white masters, appear to have noticed all of these Muslims. Perhaps that’s because they weren’t there.

    It will be fascinating to see what cultural and political contributions to American life by Muslims Ms. Webber will discover, invent, concoctk exaggerate.. The latest claim these days is that “the blues” owe their existence to Islamic song,which, however, date from the end of the 19th century, by which time whatever handful of Muslims just might have come over as slaves, but had long before, living in an entirely Christian environment, jettisoned Islam.

    I hope she willl have auditors, carefully taking notes on her presentation, and posting it on-line so it can be shared with the woorld, either during, or after, her course is given.

    • Gen Jones says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 11:53 am

      As a music lover and an American that claim about the Blues being a product of Islam irks me the most. These people are rewriting history and the most dangerous aspect is the huge swath of people who’ve read no history and who will believe anything that sounds multicultural and inclusive.

      • Rev g says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 4:37 am

        You never heard of Abdul “porkbelly” har-monica?

        • Gen Jones says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 3:15 pm

          ?

    • Angemon says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 12:14 pm

      “she’s retailing that ludicrous story about Muslims accompanying Columbus on his voyages, which makes no sense, given that Columbus was a devout Catholic, eager to find a new way to the East because of the Muslim conquest of Constantinople now completely blocked the old route, and his desire, too, to desire to claim new lands for les reyes catolicos, Ferrdinand and Isabella.”

      Plus we know the names of each crew member, and there’s a distinct lack of “muhammads” , “mahmuds”, “muhammet” or any other variations of “muhammad” the “creative” islamic religion treasures so much.

    • Katnis says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 7:48 pm

      These people know that if you repeat a lie often enough…

      More lies coming soon to add to the list, compliments of a public university.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:16 pm

      Exactly, Hugh. And the idea that most African saves were Muslim has been popularized by the ahistoric claptrap in “Roots”.

  9. Oscar2Marine says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 11:04 am

    Another very short course !

  10. Westman says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 11:35 am

    I hope she doesn’t forget that Islam provided the slaves that Obama proudly hailed as the “you built that” people of DC. And, of course, she will not forget that the Muslim pirates attacked the US commercial ships and took so many captives that 20% of the federal budget was needed to pay ransom – before the first and second Barbary Wars stopped it.

    The piracy was, of course, justified by the pirates as simply following the Quran and Sunnah. Tripoli’s ambassador said:

    “It was written in their[his] Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.”

    So, Muslim terrorists are not new and are very Islamic. The BLM students should enjoy being in the professor’s class to learn about the contributions to the US by their Muslim slavers.

    • Katnis says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 7:50 pm

      Sounds like you’d be the perfect person to teach the course. Someone who can present some facts, rather than this PC nonsensical bulls!t.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 7, 2017 at 9:20 pm

        Agreed, Katnis. Great post, Westman.

  11. Gene says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    The course is extremely popular because it lasts only 15 minutes including the final exam, since the school decided to cut the jihad/terrorism portion of the course.

  12. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    A course designed to falsify history. Mohammedans are experts in falsification of history. Look how they falsified over the years history of the Middle East, particularly around Jewish lands to support their (false) claims to that area. And what are basis of their pretense? Conquest by brute force and some mystical legend of Mohammed’s dream of travel to Jerusalem on the back of flying horse. How convenient! Perhaps, one day, they will devise equally silly and fantastic basis to claim America as their own. They are working hard to do just that. That “course” must be obviously part of their well designed program.

    • maghan says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      That near illiterate Erdogan of Turkey claims that Columbus saw mosques in Cuba–when he came calling. Next, he will say that the Native Americans were Muslims and the buffalo are just fat camels.

      • Oscar2Marine says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 11:00 am

        Great stuff !

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:24 pm

      Yes–Muslims rewriting history is very much a tactic of Islam. In this case, this idiot appears to be an Islamophilic dhimmi, also bent on whitewashing that foul creed.

  13. Hindu American says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    Everyone, lets not think too much into this issue.

    This is what her university profile says: …. “Her research focuses on Arab and Arab-American folklore and culture and on folklore theory–especially as it informs discussions of the colonial and post colonial and issues of social justice. She has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Tunisia and Morocco…a Rockefeller Residency Fellow and an American Institute of Maghribi Studies Fellow…”

    She is all arab and things associated with maghreeb. She is also all about “social justice”. Now she is combining the two. She will do what she has to do best in order to support her tenure. My bet is that this will turn out to be just another willfully ignorant, benign and mundane class that will be dropped after students lose interest in the topic or drill holes in her thesis or complain about her being flaky or all of the above.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:33 pm

      The fact is that a major American university is backing this stupidity. That can’t be good.

  14. Spencer Warren says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    The Arabs didn’t recover the oil under their sands. Westerners did.

    I remember then Secretary of State Powell talking about various contributions to American culture and, like a good multiculturalist, he hesitated and then tossed in Islam.

  15. Shmooviyet says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    ‘Instructors’ like these work furiously to weave a connection between islam and the American Indian; it will turn out that all nations can be traced to muslim roots.
    They certainly can’t seem to make up their minds about Jefferson. One decade he’s a slave-raping supremacist; the next, he’s to be admired for owning a koran due to his admiration for the RoP. Hmmm…
    ‘Inventing entirely new histories is a challenging, yet ultimately rewarding field of endeavor!’
    All of those endowments and gov’t grants don’t hurt and are so easily accessed by the correct people.

  16. davej says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 2:11 pm

    They were pirates then (in Jefferson’s time) and they are pirates now. Except now they are invading pirates, well funded with Saudi oil money and have established a beachhead in our Universities, where they will rewrite history and teach dhimmitude to the little snowflakes..

  17. JawsV says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    Moslems have contributed nothing except Jihad. They couldn’t invent a toaster. They’re all parasites on the Judeo-Christian West.

    • maghan says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      And Islam is just a lazy plagiarism from Judaism and Christianity–filled with primitive and cruel Arab culture items. The Jews and Christians should just sue these vile copy-cats for copy-right theft.

      Hey, if you need a religion, then just make one up yourself, instead of stealing from others. Yet they all got it wrong.

      • Katnis says

        Feb 7, 2017 at 7:52 pm

        Awesome comment! LOL

      • Lesley says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 7:03 am

        @maghan, That’s a REALLY interesting idea :-))

        I love it!

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 10:39 am

      Well, we know they can’t “Invent” an alarm clock.

  18. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    It is well known
    George Washington, Robert E Lee, Marilyn Monro and John Wayne were all Muslims
    I mean what a load of bullshit

  19. Kilfincelt says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    American universities and colleges are full of any number of professors who should never have gotten their bachelor’s degrees let alone PhD’s. This woman would seem to be one of them. All those here who have commented on the history of Islam in the U.S. are absolutely correct.

    We have the Barbary Pirates, who were Muslim, to thank for our country developing a Navy and the Marine Corp. We have any number of Muslim middleman in Africa to thank for assisting in bringing slaves to the Western world. The Spaniards would not have found the New World if the Spanish king and queen hadn’t finished the reconquest of all of Spain from the Muslims in 1492 and launched the voyages of discovery in that year in order to find another route to the riches of the East because Muslims occupied the land between Europe and the East. Safe passage for non-Muslims through those lands could no longer be guaranteed. In a way one could say that the Muslims were responsible for the death due to disease and destruction visited on Indians of the Americas by Whites. So yes, Muslims have been involved in American history from the beginning but not in a good way.

    As for the Jefferson Koran, Jefferson was an intellectual and curious. He was aware of what was going on in the Islamic world and that any number of people were being enslaved by Muslims. He bought a Koran so that he could better understand Islam. While he never said much about how he felt about it, he did initiate the first Barbary War because he got tired of the U.S. having to pay jizya to Muslims to prevent them from taking and enslaving the crews and passengers of American ships.

    • JawsV says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 3:41 pm

      “He bought a Koran so that he could better understand Islam.”

      Exactly. I own a paperback Quran. Why? To know the enemy, same as Jefferson.

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 10:42 am

        I own an English translation of the Koran, too, but it certainly doesn’t make me a Muslim. Quite the contrary.

        • Rev G says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 4:02 pm

          I got my second one, a hardcover from CAIR, just because it being free meant I was taking money from them.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:41 pm

      True, Kilfincelt and Jaws.

  20. James McNulty says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 3:51 pm

    And yet when you watch/listen to “street interviews” by Mark Dice, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, and a host of others on either You Tube or TV, you realize that many 20 year olds know nothing about history or the United States. They are either completely devoid of information or have such miss-information as to sound ridiculous. To these brainless people, anything you tell them is possible. Throw in a bunch of white male or cultural appropriation crap (and other endless “new think”), and they’ll “eat it up”. You literally will NOT believe the “truths” they have filled in their tiny minds. They do know everything about Beyonce and Ariana Grande however.
    Watch Mark Dice on You Tube on the beaches of So. Calif. gleaning information from these vacated airheads – and then cry about the future of the once great USA.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:42 pm

      Grimly true, James. And you can pour any amount of bosh into the heads of such ignoramuses. History used to be pretty solid department in most American universities; this is less and less the case today.

  21. DFD says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 5:09 pm

    One of my all time favorites about them is Obama’s claim, during a speech in the gulf, that Muslims have invented the printing press.

    Another couple of years and we will learn that Muslims have invented breathing in and breathing out….

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      This is especially laughable, since the printing press was adapted from the wine press–something conspicuously lacking Dar-al-Islam.

      Literacy, art, wine, and technical innovation–all in short supply in the Muslim world.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:29 am

      They didn’t.

      In fact, when the printing press – after being invented in Europe – set out on its travels, Ottoman Muslim Turkey rejected it.

      The first printing press east of the Bosphorus, within the dar al Islam, was not set up by Muslims but by Jews; by the mystical rabbinic scholars of Safed/ Tzfat, in what is now northern Israel. *They* could see a useful technological advance when they saw one, and they snaffled it up straight away and began cranking out copies of the Talmud, Mishnah, etc in no time.

  22. Custos Custodum says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 7:02 pm

    Sabra Webber’s web page lists various publications from 1998 – 2008 as “Last Ten Years.”

    Her web page also has a section entitled “Thesis / Disserattion [sic] Advising”

    Apparently, Sabra fell in love with Tunisia when she was sent their by the newly formed Peace Corps 1967-1969.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 10:24 pm

      Here is the link to Sabra Webber’s web page:

      https://nelc.osu.edu/people/Webber

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:26 am

      Maybe she secretly converted to Islam…

  23. tony46 says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 7:48 pm

    They were here from the beginning?…….but the first ever mosque in America was built in 1929,…how’s that?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 7, 2017 at 9:58 pm

      Well, except for those imaginary Mosques in Cuba and Mississippi built by Indians, of course…

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 10:55 am

        This is sort of reminiscent of the Garden of Eden being in Missouri, as Mormons believe.

        I wonder if, in her course, the professor will mention that most African slaves were captured by and sold by Muslims? Will she even mention that some Muslim countries are slave holders even today?
        The history of Islam while having nothing to do with the history of North America, is a history replete with inhumanity and cruelty. And those contributions, I might add, were anti-human and misogynistic. Will she cover this?

        • Rev g says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 1:37 am

          Not gonna happen, what would people think if they found out the muslim Kenyans were plying the slave trade as traders, not slaves. Right BHO?

  24. abad says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    “Build”? Build what?

    Islam teaches destruction, whether it is the Twin Towers, the Buddha statues in Afghanistan, the tetrapylon monument in Palmyra, temple of Bel, – or human life.

    Don’t give me that “Muslims helped build America” because they did no such thing.

  25. gravenimage says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    Ohio State University course highlights how Muslims helped build America
    ……………………..

    Well, Muslim pirates seizing our ships and enslaving our crews did lead to our forming a navy and eventually to opening the Mediterranean Sea fully to free shipping for the first time in over a thousand years.

    Somehow I doubt that this is what the witless Dr. Sabra Webber has in mind, though…

    More:

    Another historical rarity? When he was sworn into office, Minnesota Muslim congressman Keith Ellison used Thomas Jefferson’s English version of the Koran……
    ……………………..

    Any mention that Thomas Jefferson read the Qur’an so that he could learn about the guiding tenets of those attacking and enslaving us? I doubt it…

    And, of course, likely no reference to Ohio State itself suffering a Jihad terror attack.

    By the way, this twit is mostly a folklorist, not a historian. She–I am not joking here–wrote the section “Humor and Religion: Humor and Islam” in the Encyclopedia of Religion. Needless to say, this is a * very* short entry…

    She also wrote “The Horror! The Horror!” A Response to Stanley Kurtz’ ‘Marriage and the Terror War’, which sneers at the whole idea of Jihad terror existing in Islam.

  26. Joe says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    In the past universities were locations where free speech and science too place. Nowadays it’s obviously used for brainwashing students with liberal BS.

  27. davej says

    Feb 7, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Low IQ people love destruction – they are jealous and incapable of the energies required to create and build, but destruction is easy and has visible results very quickly. A book or art form that took years to create can be burnt or defiled in a moment.

    Islam contributed nothing to American democracy but now seeks to tear it down. There should be a law against teaching historical untruths.

    • maghan says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:35 am

      Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America” and he had some very negative things to say about Islam. No mention of Muslim influence anywhere in that book.

  28. Guy Jones says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 6:16 am

    Historical Revisionism & Islamic Propaganda 101

    AKA,

    Advanced Dhimmitude and Obsequy to the Ideology of “Submission”

  29. Anne Smith says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 6:32 am

    Well I suppose you could say the Muslims were fairly essential in some way developing the southern states and the cotton trade. After all, they were the ones who caught and sold the African slaves to the traders who transported them to America, and all the other places like the Caribbean.

    Without Muslims, there would not have been a slave trade.

    • carol says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 1:56 am

      I doubt they’ll want to tout that.

      By the way Keith Ellison didn’t use Jefferson’s Koran while he was being sworn in (they can carry whatever text they like but are not sworn in using it). He did have a photo op with it afterward however and Nancy Pelosi joined him: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/ellison.asp

  30. Tom Thumb says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 6:37 am

    Gee, maybe if we get a few more Muslim stab attacks OSU will create a course that says Muslims founded the United States.

  31. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 8:52 am

    Such a course will be filled with as much fantasy as the “Islamic Golden Age.”
    https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2016/09/22/fantasy-islam-vs-reality-islamic-terrorism/

  32. Hummer says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    Fantasy course obviously.

  33. Sam says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    WOW. how wonderful muslims are ha?

    IDIOT, CLUELESS, AMERICA HATING LIBERALS!

  34. Don Fredrick says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    I recommend “The Muslim Discovery of America,” a book that shoots down every absurd Muslim claim of “begin first.” (The title is intended to ridicule the claims of course.)

    https://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Discovery-America-Frederick-William/dp/3848238632/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486579034&sr=8-1&keywords=the+muslim+discovery+of+america

  35. Cretius says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks to the Arab Mohammedans for being the main source of black African slaves. A questionable contribution but probably their main contribution to the development of America.

  36. politicalqrm says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    I live in New England..How many historical mosques are there? None… Historical churches of all Christian faiths, yes, but no mosques. Muslims have nothing to do with America except try to destroy it..

    That course is a bunch of propaganda the university feels comfortable touting as legitimate because they know the students coming in will eat up anything they throw at them.

  37. Rich says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    Pamela Geller: Millions of Muslims all around the world are following the same playbook — the Quran —
    and the same ideology — Islam..but the Media wont ever tell you that, it wouldnt fit in with their
    pro-jihad propanda offensive..
    As for a short selection of peaceful messages found in Quran:
    “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.” Qur’an 2:191
    “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Qur’an 9:123
    “When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them.” Qur’an 9:30
    “The Jews and the Christians are perverts;.” Qur’an 9:5
    “Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” Qur’an 3:85
    “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this – they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned.”
    (Quran 5:33)
    The Jews are called in the Quran as “the progeny of apes and pigs”.

  38. Buford says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    Instead of teaching a bunch of crap like that why don’t they teach the truth of what the Quran is all about such as Deception, Violence, World Domination, Hatred, Pedophilia, The 109 References to Killing Non Muslims.

  39. Concerned Woman says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    I emailed her this…

    Dear Sabra Webber,

    You seem like a very intelligent woman, with many accreditations.

    I came across an article that explained how you plan on teaching a course that explains how Muslims helped form America, and make it what it is now. It also said you will be going into explaining Shariah Law.

    My question to you is this,

    As a woman, how can you promote a religion and ideology that promotes Female Genital Mutilation, “The Rape Game”, Women being treated as half value of men, Women being deprived of an education and unable to drive, honor killings, beheadings, stonings, the treatment of non-muslims, etc.?

    Or do you plan on telling the truth about these issues ?

    If you do not, how can you live with yourself ?

    Sincerely,

    – A Concerned Woman and Proud American

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