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New Book Fails to Convince that Islam Made America Great

Mar 14, 2017 11:38 am By Andrew Harrod

“Muslims have helped us to be more American, to be better Americans,” writes Loyola Marymount University theology professor Amir Hussain in his new book Muslims and the Making of America.  Yet his volume offers little support for this multicultural, politically correct thesis.

“There has never been an America without Muslims,” Hussain states while noting Muslims among America’s African slaves both before and after the United States’ founding. Historians estimate their numbers at between ten and 20 percent of all slaves brought in bondage to America. He analyzes the subsequent “impact of Islamic practices on African American worship and music,” although, as other studies have noted, slave-master repression ultimately extinguished Islamic belief among American slaves.

Similarly examining the American founding, Hussain also concludes that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s “owning a copy of the Qur’an and reading it is crucial to my argument that Islam is part of the history of America.” He “began learning Arabic in the 1770s, after he purchased a translation of the Qur’an in 1765,” namely the 1734 English translation of the Quranic Arabic by English Orientalist George Sale. “It was this Qur’an that Keith Ellison used when he was sworn in as the first Muslim member of Congress in 2007,” Hussain enthuses.

“To be clear, Jefferson was no fan of Islam,” Hussain writes, and Sale’s Quran offers reasons why. Sale’s introductory essay describes Islam as “so manifest a forgery” that has motivated “calamities brought on so many nations by the conquests of the Arabians.” Hussain also notes President Jefferson’s campaigns against North Africa’s Muslim Barbary pirates; thus the “founding of the modern American Navy is connected to the Muslim world.”

The worlds of entertainment and sports loom large in Hussain’s assessment of Islam in America. Therefore he dedicates his book to Ahmet Ertegun “and to Muhammad Ali, perhaps the two American Muslims with the greatest global influence.”  While Ali dominated the boxing ring, Ertegun was “president and cofounder of Atlantic Records and the chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man who shaped the music of the twentieth century.”

A strange Muslim role model, Ertegun’s biographies say almost nothing about piety, but note his elite background as a diplomat’s son who came to America when his father was Turkey’s ambassador. Using a truly broad definition of “Muslim,” Hussain concedes that Ertegun “wasn’t a ‘good’ Muslim. He lived the high life, was a bon vivant, drank, partied to excess, and had numerous affairs.” Ertegun himself noted in a 2005 interview that he “used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years.”

Meanwhile, Hussain unconvincingly concludes that “Muhammad Ali’s life gave the lie to the ‘problem’” that “Islam is…comprised of adherents who are violent, ‘un-American,’ and a threat to our nation.” Hussain quotes Ali, who began his Muslim spiritual journey as a member of the rabidly anti-Semitic Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1964, refusing in 1967 military service during the Vietnam War. “We don’t take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers,” Ali stated, subordinating moral questions of patriotic duty and just war to pure Islamic sectarianism.

Although Ali moderated later in life as he moved away from the NOI towards more mainstream Islamic practice, he had a particularly conflicted relationship with Jews. His 1969 statement to television interviewer David Frost that “all Jews and gentiles are devils” foreshadowed a series of anti-Semitic/anti-Israel statements. By contrast, Ali developed friendships with Jews such as comedian Billy Crystal and sportscaster Howard Cosell, and attended the 2012 bar mitzvah of a grandson born to Ali’s daughter and her Jewish husband.

Hussain also profiles American professional basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who reflected Ali’s less than all-American behavior. Abdul-Rauf received a playing suspension in 1996 after he refused to stand before games for the national anthem. In a 2016 interview, he stated that as a “Muslim, I don’t believe in giving my allegiance to anyone or anything but God,” and that the American “flag represents…tyranny and oppression.”

The NOI and its bizarre offshoot cult, the Five Percenters, present more radicalism, yet Hussain’s analysis of their influence upon American rappers such as Ice Cube shows little concern. His past praise for the NOI exhibited an antisemitism often present in hip-hop music but ignored by Hussain. He likewise ignores Ice Cube’s lax understanding of Islam; Ice Cube stated in a 2000 interview that “going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it’s just not in me to do. So I don’t do it.”

More appealing is Hussain’s description of the “Muslim engineer from Bangladesh, Fazlur Rahman Khan,” who “helped to redefine the American skyline” with design innovations that helped build the World Trade Center. “It was foreign Muslims, nineteen hijackers, who took down those buildings. But it was an American Muslim, Fazlur Rahman Khan, who made those magnificent buildings possible in the first place.” Yet as in the case of Ertegun, little Islamic faith appears in the biography of Khan, who married an Austrian non-Muslim. According to his daughter, he enjoyed “traveling and meeting people of different cultures and different backgrounds, listening to music, reading widely, from existentialism to writings about beauty, and learning about art.”

Hussain’s book ultimately reveals more about how America made various individuals from Muslim backgrounds rather than how Hussain’s Muslims, who often have Madonna’s depth of piety, made America. The radicalism displayed by various Muslims profiled by Hussain affirms his observation that “Islam often was an alternative to ‘White’ or ‘Western’ in African American movements.” Alienated by American racism, these movements often sought false redemption in Islam from historic sins like slavery.

In contrast, the Egyptian-American Ahmed Zewail, whom Hussain praises for winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry, valued America’s merits in a 2009 interview. “What America has given me is a system of appreciation and opportunity, and that is what we are lacking in the Muslim world. If I had stayed in Egypt, I would not have been able to do what I have done.”

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  1. RichardL says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    the Jesuits have really completely sold out to islam.

    • nona says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 12:37 pm

      The jesuits ARE part of the repression of the Human Spirit!
      They are hand -in-glove with islam!
      As is the Vatican, with the present popiola now being in OUR faces!

    • alida says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 4:04 pm

      I HATE ISLAM, IT’SBARBARIC.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      RichardL claims Jesuits ‘sold out to Islam’. Proof, please? Loyola Marymount University may not have much Jesuit influence left in to sell.

      Fr. Henri Boulad, SJ, has a PERFECT understanding of jihad: “Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam.

      To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.
      Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.

      But what is Islamism?

      Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.

      Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”

      • murad says

        Mar 14, 2017 at 7:23 pm

        “Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, ”

        All of what muslims are doing in the west to the west – – establishing the seeds of their future countries on the ruins of ours – – – is made possible by the godless, cowardly rulers of the west, all in the name of democracy. So much hungry for power at the expense of destroying their own nations. Pope’s attitudes and stances cannot be different from the rulers.

        • maghan says

          Mar 15, 2017 at 10:07 am

          Useful to note that Alexis de Tocqueville who wrote the well-known text “Democracy in America” had a very strong critical view of Islam. He argued that Islam and Democracy were totally incompatible.

    • fran says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 6:44 pm

      To Amir Hassan, Well we can see that you are illiterate We can see that you lack any formal education.
      Muslims are not part of the US, they never were, and the only thing muslims have done is to create
      problems, selfishness, greed, and devil worshipping.

      I know it is difficult to do research when one does not read. I know it is difficult to do research when one has no real formal education.

      Better go back to the muslim countries, your type of personality is loved there, narcissism, greedy, selfish, and satanistic.

  2. Stan Lee says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    Hussain uses slaves brought to America as the Muslims who contributed to America’s beginnings.
    There can be no denying what extremes this man would go to in order to project his theory.
    History indicates that slaves were brought to the west African coast at ports visited by European and ships from America, first from America the English and other Euro colonies,, then from America as the United States, from which slave ships came to buy slaves brought for sale in W.Africa by Arab slavers who either bought them in Africa’s interior, or took them as prisoners to be sold into slavery.

    Just as Hussain labors under presumptions, I’m presuming that these African natives were also pressed into Islam rather than to die for refusing Islam. They did have their own tribal ideologies before Arabs invaded and sacked their villages. African spears could not beat the invaders who were armed with firearms and swords..
    So much for Hussain’s “slave theory” In America, the slaves wasted no time in converting to Christianity after arriving at their plantation destinations of America.

    If Hussain includes Arabs as assisting America to be built, they probably did have a certain influence to America (meaning the Arabs and not the black prisoners) because the Arabs kept their slave markets churning out slaves in W.Africa, while they, themselves remained in Africa to gather wealth from slave sales relating to the black Africans the Arab traders conquered and enslaved.

    Therefore, Hussain’s theory is obviously supported by the fact that the Arab slave traders did not come to America, only their prisoners through slave sales were brought here. Without Arabs coming here to even attempt conversion by duress in these colonies, Arab absence indirectly freed America to be built as a strong Christian land in freedom and democracy.
    Despite Hussain having been immersed in an educational system which precipitated his writings on the matter of slaves and Islam’s alleged influences, Muslims contributed strictly by remaining in Africa and Araby and not coming to America.

    Why we Americans place such high value in the freedoms of America, and for the most part support the Constitution to which we take an Oath of Allegiance, is because we are distinctly American and Christian but never forced to be, and not burdened by Islam’s binary method put to the conquered of either converting to Islam or dying for refusing conversion.
    Hussain may use Egypt as an example, where Coptic Christians supposedly exist in peace, but then how is it that they are murdered, homes burned down, churches destroyed, by Muslims who are the majority? .

    • maghan says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 10:04 am

      Your history here is mostly wrong. Arabs had no hand in the West African slave trade. on the East African coast Afro-Arabs such as Tippu Tib were much involved. Get a copy of the text “A Slaver’s Log–20Years of Slaving on the West African Coast” by Theo Conaut–himself a slaver. He states that the vast majority of the slaves were prisoners of war that were bartered off to Middle Men for petty trade goods and instruments of war–such as muskets and cannon. Others were also victims of random kidnappings by roving gangs and people smugglers.

      Islam spread to West Africa not by Arab invasions as was the case in North Africa but by itinerant marabouts and some of the kings in places like Ghana, Mali, and Songhay adopting Islam for political purposes. Google Mansa Musa of Mali and his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.

      The historical truth is that Muslims[not Arabs] and non-Muslims were involved in the West African slave trade. Here are 2 examples of details on the how the trade was carried out. Internecine ethnic wars, kidnappings and people smuggling was the name of the game.

      http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text5/diallo.pdf

      http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/baquaqua/summary.html

      Note too that a number of African Muslims were enslaved and shipped over to Brazil. Many were sent to what is now Nigeria when they revolted.

  3. Westman says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    “What America has given me is a system of appreciation and opportunity, and that is what we are lacking in the Muslim world. If I had stayed in Egypt, I would not have been able to do what I have done.” – Ahmed Hassan Zewail, Nobel Laureate, father of femtochemistry.

    The premise of the book is reversed. America gave Muslims the freedom to be great.

  4. Babs says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    All of these muslims seem to be stuck at the age of magical thinking, where, if they say or write a thing, it becomes true just because they say or write it. So far as I can see it’s a common aspect of muslim behaviour, particularly “Big Talk”

    What beggars belief, or should, is that it is believed or even published!

  5. Paul N Silas says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Muslims are encouraged to lie to advance Islam’s domination of the West. I’m not sure how to spell it, but the concept sounds like the word “Tequila”.

    OFF TOPIC: See Victor Davis Hanson’s article today at The National Review site titled ” March 20th 2017″ , scary stuff.

  6. Buford says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    That Idiot that wrote that article needs to realize anybody with an ounce of a Brain knows better than believing that Garbage all anyone needs to do is open a Quran & there objectives & Goals are Clear & outlined They can write all the
    articles they want & have Ask a Muslim anything days all they want But I know BS when I see it

    • no_one says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 4:03 pm

      You only need to open a qeeran to find all sorts of BS. Goals are indeed clear to subjugate or kill all infidels. It either comes from satan or from a schizophrenic moHamMad. The secomd is likely because the qeeran repeats a ‘Gospel of Thomas’ written centuries after apostle Thomas. That is the “talking Gospel’ where Jesus talks as a baby. Total nonsense.

  7. Troybeam says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    Cold day in Hell when Islam makes any nation a better nation. This is just promoting a political theocracy or a Muslim who wants to have people perceive Islam as non threatening.

  8. Shmooviyet says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    “…thus the “founding of the modern American Navy is connected to the Muslim world”.
    I admit having only read this far into the article before having to stop to get sick.
    Now he explains how islam REALLY changed the NYC skyline, before it was smashed by those phoney muslims taking allah’s name in vain.

    Where was all this need, pre-2001, to prove islam’s wonderful, positive contributions to America, and mankind generally? In which sections of bookstores and libraries were these books, in the 1980s and 90s?
    Because they weren’t located in American History.

    • Gen Jones says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 2:02 pm

      “Where was all this need, pre-2001, to prove islam’s wonderful, positive contributions to America, and mankind generally? In which sections of bookstores and libraries were these books, in the 1980s and 90s?
      Because they weren’t located in American History.”

      Exactly. They doth protest too much!

      • Shmooviyet says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 10:18 am

        Methinks you are spot on, @Gen Jones.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 5:21 pm

      There is the group of islamo idiots who claim there are no books necessary other than their unholy ones from the evil nobody of the desert. Isn’t that why the great library of Alexandra and others were burned/destroyed by moslims?

      • Shmooviyet says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 10:09 am

        Like/thumbs up that, @somehistory!
        “the evil nobody of the desert”

        aka ‘the E.N.D.’

        • somehistory says

          Mar 18, 2017 at 8:27 pm

          Thank you, Shmooviyet! Thumbs up for the a.k.a. it fits.

  9. IQ al Rassooli says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Dear JW readers

    Muslims cannot ever make anything GREAT except Great Death & Destruction

    Please spread the following 6 minutes video PROVING that Muslims will NEVER be LOYAL citizens

    This video has more than one million views now

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJnW8HRHLLw&t=2s

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  10. somehistory says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    The guy and his *book* are full of nonsense and garbage.

    • maghan says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 10:37 am

      Correct. Essentially nonsense. Did the author read what 5th President Quincy Adams had to say about Islam? Or Mark Twain or Alexis de Tocqueville?

      No intelligent person with rational faculties intact could ever consciously embrace Islam–after having read its doctrinal texts.

  11. Pandit Technology says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Yeah…that book is a good work of fiction….really is any country where Muslims are in majority great?…they took the knowledge from ancient India,concept of zero , algebra, chess etc and passed to Europe. Europe then took mankind to greater levels and added to the knowledge. base. It’s pathetic to observe the “intelligence” of the “educated” Muslims by these “observations”…America is great because of NO Muslim influence and the fight is now to keep America great, by ensuring the medieval mindset does not prevail.

    • Gen Jones says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 2:15 pm

      I know I just laugh when some Muslim on social media claims “we” invented algebra. Because yeah people started doing mathematics in the 7th century. The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Parthenon, etc apparently didn’t require any calculations.

      • Pandit Technology says

        Mar 14, 2017 at 2:55 pm

        If anyone deserves the credit for jump-starting the Mankind development, it would be the Greek – Roman Civilization, their ancient philosophers, who laid the foundation of “questioning the authority / accepted principles”, These great Philosophers, questioned everything and this led to quest of knowledge. Whereas the Islamic Civilization is very fragile and ruthlessly smothers all dissents. No Islamic civilization can produce anything useful as they are very rigid and no concept of critical thinking. Look at the way of all the Islamic Countries, except poverty, population explosion, envy, self pity…absolutely no productive thought / concept / ideas

        • Paul N Silas says

          Mar 14, 2017 at 4:47 pm

          True, but let us not forget Christ, St. Paul, Augustine, Locke, Luther, Calvin, and so many others.

  12. Gen Jones says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    Citing Ahmet Ertegun as the model Muslim American! What a reach. It was incidental that he was a Muslim only because he was born in Turkey. A Turkey that was defiantly secular after WW I. Ertegun came to the US and fell in love with rhythm & blues, and jazz and was a major figure as Atlantic Record’s label owner in developing rock & roll. He was a truly cosmopolitan man who danced, drank, made records, bought modern art – all haram. The link in the above article is a great read, it’s from PBS’s series on American Masters. Other “historians” are trying to claim the Blues as influenced by Islam – rather than the well documented traditions from Pre-Islamic African music. This rewriting of history by Islamic apologists is quite pathetic and offensive.

  13. Romans says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    Funny how I spent my entire first twelve years of education (The 1970s) never hearing any of my school teachers or fellow students speak the words “Islam”, “Muslim” or “Qur’an” in any of my classes, especially American History; I never saw anyone dressed in a Hijab or dressed like a Muslim. I never heard it in my town, my neighborhood or even on local TV. I grew up in a true Americana small town next to the Delaware River in PA (George Washington during the Revolutionary War crossed that town). To this day the townsfolk wave the American flag on their doorposts proudly, even on my family’s home.

    • Rev g says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 11:05 pm

      12 years of the 70’s? Wow.

  14. Romans says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    PLUS..we would pledge allegiance to the American flag, then pray to the God of the Bible before we began our classes; Those were the glory days of American childhood.

  15. Janey Carter says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    Islam needs to be eradicated.

    • AleX says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 5:30 pm

      Islam is a brain cancer in a retarded head. It is transmitted through generations like syphilis. Naming your boy mohomot is child abuse, as much as covering your daughter with a hijab. Everything about this bull crap is ugly, repulsive, sinister and a danger to environment. Islam is for rabid retards with a collective mindset and an appetite for destruction. Islam is for rapists the same as mohomot brought rape into the filthy culture of illiterates. mohomot is an abomination and his place is in hell whence his tooshy is being raped incessantly by mighty gorgons.

  16. Angemon says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    Alienated by American racism, these movements often sought false redemption in Islam from historic sins like slavery.

    Any African-American that “converts” to islam to spite Americans for a slavery that ended many years ago is cutting the nose to spite the face. Maybe they need to learn/be reminded of who captured the slaves and then sold them to Americans? Oh, and maybe any African-American convert to islam could explain me why is there no Saudi-African or Yemeni-African diaspora despite the many millions of African slaves taken there?

    • maghan says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 10:45 am

      Millions of African slaves were not taken to the Arabian peninsula. Why? Arabia was a primitive backward sand-covered place until Standard Oil came on the scene. Why would tiny populations of sand-trekking Arabs moving from flimsy tents to flimsy tents need “millions of Africans”.

      The most extensive slavery by Muslims was from Eastern Europe to Turkey where white females were kidnapped and enslaved to serve as breeders in Turkish harems.

  17. Jacob Jones says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 3:30 pm

    This is a good book-review. Unfortunately this guy is touring American Universities right now proclaiming his thesis that Islam made America great (including Baylor University March 16).

  18. Mickey says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    Just as Obama had tried and succeeded in some ways to his followers, he tried to change history to read what he and the Muslims wants Americans to believe.

    How many know that perhaps 1.5 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780? We dimly recall that Miguel de Cervantes was briefly in the galleys. But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by “corsair” raiders in a single night?

    Some of this activity was hostage trading and ransom farming rather than the more labor-intensive horror of the Atlantic trade and the Middle Passage, but it exerted a huge effect on the imagination of the time—and probably on no one more than on Thomas Jefferson.

    How Thomas Jefferson Led America’s First “War On Terror”
    TIM BROWN — MAY 5, 2013
    oday, I hear a lot of cries for tolerance, especially of Islam. I’m told, “Stop the hating of Muslims.” Many of the very people I hear this from like to point to the Constitution and to the Founding Fathers and especially to the First Amendment and declare that Islam should be tolerated in America. However, I wonder if they have paid attention to either the Constitution or the Founding Fathers on this matter. Specifically, I wonder if they have even considered the words and actions of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, especially his sense of reading their own texts from the Qur’an and knowing just what his enemies thought. JEFFERSON DID NOT IMPLEMENT ISLAM AS MOST MUSLIMS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE AS THIS ARTICLE SAYS: “Siimilarly examining the American founding, Hussain also concludes that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s “owning a copy of the Qur’an and reading it is crucial to my argument that Islam is part of the history of America.” He “began learning Arabic in the 1770s, after he purchased a translation of the Qur’an in 1765,” namely the 1734 English translation of the Quranic Arabic by English Orientalist George Sale. “It was this Qur’an that Keith Ellison used when he was sworn in as the first Muslim member of Congress in 2007,” Hussain enthuses.
    JEFFERSON READ THE QURAN TO LEARN ABOUT HIS ENEMIES NOT TO FAVOR ISLAM. OBAMA and ELLISON is trying to rewrite our history.

    First, keep in mind that Islam and terrorism have gone hand in hand since its inception at the beginning of the 7th century. In fact, it’s founder Muhammad was a terrorist and used “religion” to band his merry men together to conquer, rape and pillage.

    For nearly fifteen centuries the world has faced the disease of Islam, but our nation faced it head on when Thomas Jefferson, serving as the ambassador to France, and John Adams, servicing as the ambassador to Britain, went to London to meet with Ambassador Abdrahaman, the Dey of Tripoli’s ambassador to Britain. Of course they met with Abdrahaman to negotiate a peace treaty, but keep in mind that in Islam, the only peace is submission to Islam.

    Islam requires jizya under Sharia law, you know that alleged “harmless law” they want to impose here in the West. Jizya is a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state’s non-Muslim citizens, who meet certain criteria. The tax is and was to be levied on able-bodied adult males of military age and affording power. So as Adams and Jefferson met, they found out the price of peace was quite expensive.

    Gary DeMar writes,

    If America wanted “temporary peace,” a one-year guarantee, it would cost $66,000 plus a 10% commission. “Everlasting peace” was a bargain at $160,000 plus the obligatory commission. This only applied to Tripoli. Other Muslim nations would also have to be paid. The amount came to $1.3 million. But there was no assurance that the treaties would be honored. In vain, Jefferson and Adams tried to argue that America was not at war with Tripoli. In what way had the U.S provoked the Muslims, they asked? Ambassador Abdrahaman went on to explain “the finer points of Islamic jihad” to the Koranically challenged Jefferson and Adams.

    Jefferson then wrote a letter to John Jay that read:

    “The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

    This is loosely based upon the Qur’an’s teaching from Surah 47:4 which reads,

    “Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah’s Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.”

    Ultimately, in 1805 United States Marines crossed the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forced the surrender of Tripoli and free those Americans that had been kidnapped and were made slaves.

    Thus, this is where the famous line from the United States Marine Corps (Oorah!) comes from: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Demar says it not only refers to the First Barbary War, but specifically to the Battle of Derna, which took place in 1805.

    It is ironic the Rep. Keith Ellison, who became the United States’ first Muslim Congressman took his oath of office on Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an at a time when we continue to be at war with Islam. While Ellison has called Jefferson a “visionary,” what I think we could all learn is that Jefferson was wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their own book of jihad.

    Sadly, many today would rather listen to the lies of Islamists rather than understand what the Qur’an actually teaches. After all, it’s been said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
    http://freedomoutpost.com/barbary-wars-how-thomas-jefferson-led-americas-first-war-on-terror/

    • Shmooviyet says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 11:00 am

      Mickey– thank you for a terrific post.

      Ellison is correct about Jefferson being a “visionary”, but he puts forth the reasons why in an underhanded, bass-ackwards way. Though he is a dumb…, he knows the truth but follows MoMad’s lead as to WHY Jefferson had the filthy book, as you point out.

      Ellison the Louse and his ilk use that ‘Jefferson’s quran’ crap as false islamo-cheerleading, and people fall for it– including some who should know better!

  19. JS says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    The book actually shows the greatness of America so much so that even imbecile like this professor can live freely, even teach at university (which is the sad part) in this country.

  20. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 5:45 pm

    Ho, ho! What a laugh! Islam helped the US to create its NAVY and MARINE CORPS!!! Ho, ho!

    In other words, ISLAM’S INFLUENCE WAS HIGHLY NEGATIVE!

  21. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    The founding fathers wanted to create a nation that would NOT establish a state “religion”.

    Islam WANTS to establish a state “religion”, forcefully & globally, everywhere.

  22. Guest says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    What made our country great was our founders desires to be free. To have the right to choose, to have the right to say no and live! Not an ideology that kills anything that is slightly different!

  23. Eric Jones says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    The fact that some of the slaves brought to America were muslim is more evidence that islam had already ravaged Africa before Europeans got there. Mohamad took all forms of music, art and signing out of worship services because he viewed such practices as pagan. Islam had nothing to do with Black American church services.The music and signing exhibited in Black American churches is out of West Africa and adaptations that slaves here implemented based on their experiences here. Professor Hussain is trying to push revisionist history.

    Eric

  24. Baucent says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    “Ertegun was “president and cofounder of Atlantic Records and the chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man who shaped the music of the twentieth century.”

    A strange Muslim role model for sure. I think this is clutching at straws.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 9:37 am

      I thought it was Elvis, the Beatles, MoTown, and Phil Specter who “shaped the music”. There were many, many others, Paul Simon, Moody Blues, …
      Never heard of this moslm guy. And even if he worked in music in the U.S., no one *alone* “shaped the music.”

  25. tony46 says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    Oh yaaaa?
    helped build USA?
    How come their first mosque was built only in 1929?…..Explain that.

  26. Kanda says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    Don’t insult people’s intelligence.iIn all honesty,the political ideology ,has been at the center of destroying society for 1400 years.Let us stop pretending.

  27. tedh754 says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    If Islam had never existed, we wouldn’t have…..uh…we… we wouldn’t know that you can cut someone’s head off with a steak knife!

  28. Thomas F Mills says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 4:04 am

    Thank you amir hussan, you are one very funny clown. You should be in stand up. Your
    Opening a woman should be headed and close instructing the muslims in your audience on how to properly relieve themselves or how to have sex with sheep.

  29. J-pal says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:36 am

    It is deeply regrettable that a “person” can represent a diamteriacally oppiste idea and identity within Loyola… Muslims has actuall absolutely no possible relationship to Ignatius! Typically, though, there would be NO ISLAM WITHOUT the JEWS first and CHRISTIANITY next… I am convinced: ISLAM COULD NOT EVEN EXIST WITHOUT JEWISH FAITH AND CHRISTIANITY. So, WHATEVER THEY CLAIM is ONLY IN RELATION TO what has already been taught to “Humanity” – they have nothing, whatsoever, NEW! this “copy-and-paste”-‘religion’ should bow down, not torwards Mecca, but to God!!! ISLAM – JUST QUIT, will yah…!!!

  30. DRHazard says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    The sparse contributions Muslims have made to the world only occurred when they lived in the West.
    Freedom allows men to become great. That’s because true Muslims don’t care about the world they live in. They only care about the whorehouse in the sky they hope to enter one day. Any Muslim who attempts to bring light to the barren landscape of Islam will eventually come up against the distrust and disdain of Allah’s mediocre slaves. For that person there are really only two choices, get killed or move to the West. If he chooses life in a free land then his biography might someday appear in a book about important Muslims.

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