“While Muslims were present at America’s founding, Islam — as a coherent, self-conscious religious and political civilization — was not.”
Yes, and those Muslims who were present at America’s founding were here because other Muslims had sold them to non-Muslims as slaves, either because the Muslim slave traders didn’t realize that they were Muslims, or because they belonged to a sect that the slave traders considered heretical.
“CNN’s W. Kamau Bell: Islam Part of America’s Founding,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, May 29, 2017:
CNN’s W. Kamau Bell devoted a recent episode of his series United Shades of America to exploring Muslim and Arab communities.
Aside from some interesting vignettes, the program is left-wing, anti-Trump propaganda that firmly establishes the network’s political bias. Bell also serves up some historical distortions of the sort spoonfed to undergraduates on politically-correct campuses, such as the claim that Islam has always been present in the U.S.
“Islam has always been part of the American fabric,” one Muslim man in Detroit tells Bell at an anti-Trump event. “A lot of people think that Islam is from a foreign country, or is a foreign religion. It’s not — it’s very American.” He goes on to criticize “those more violent voices in our society” — and he does not mean radical Islamists. Bell is so impressed that he asks the man, “When are you running for mayor?”, comparing him to a “young Barack Obama.”
It was Obama who told the Muslim world in his Cairo speech in 2009: “Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” He offered a dubious proof: “The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco.” He also cited the Treaty of Tripoli, which was essentially an agreement to pay a bribe to Muslim pirates who had made a practice of kidnapping Americans.
For CNN, the argument that Islam has “always” been present in the U.S. rests largely on the claim that a significant minority of black slaves were Muslim. On Saturday, CNN correspondent Dean Obeidallah claimed that “Islam has been here since the time of slavery, because ten to fifteen percent of the African slaves brought were Muslim. So Islam was here before the creation of the United States. It was actually part of the creation of the United States of America.” Bell’s interviewee raises the estimate, claiming that “during the slave trade, up to about 25 to 30% of the slaves came from areas where there were predominantly Muslim populations.”(Note that these claims leave out the role of Muslims in the slave trade itself, casting Muslims purely as victims.)
There is some basis for some of the claims CNN cites. As Daniel Pipes noted in 2000, “Muslims constituted a significant percentage of the Africans brought to the Americas in servitude; and that, as the most educated and resistant of the captive peoples, they exerted a disproportionate influence on slave life in the Americas.” But the faith did not survive among these populations; few of their descendants knew their forefathers’ Muslim origins.
While Muslims were present at America’s founding, Islam — as a coherent, self-conscious religious and political civilization — was not. Had it been present, one would have expected the Founding Fathers to be more aware of it, and one would have expected to see an American version of the faith emerge, one more comfortable with ideas of tolerance and individual liberty, much as different reformist versions of Judaism flourished in the United States.
To the extent that Islam was a part of early American history, it was a negative force, an external enemy. The predations of the Barbary pirates prompted the U.S. to build a world-class navy and deploy the fledgling Marines. As Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger recall in Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, Jefferson was shocked when, at a meeting in London with the Tripolitan ambassador and John Adams in 1786, the Muslim envoy declared that American Christians were fair game for piracy: “… all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of faithful persons to plunder and enslave.”
There are echoes of that Islamic supremacism in the public statements of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom Bell interviews jovially on CNN. After the San Bernardino terror attack in December 2015, CAIR not only ensured an Islamic burial for the terrorists and represented their family in court, but blamed the murder of 14 Americans and the wounding of 22 more at a Christmas party on U.S. foreign policy.
(CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror-funding operation — none of which Bell mentions.)
Bell offers one additional argument to defend the idea that Islam is intrinsically American: “America has always had heroes who were Muslims.” He cites Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Malcolm X — none of whom were active in public life before the 1960s. Amazingly, he also praises the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Bell cites Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” — and ignores his vicious racism and antisemitism.
CNN’s effort at historical revisionism is not just aimed at encouraging Americans to adopt more tolerant attitudes toward Muslims, but to discourage awareness or criticism of aspects of contemporary Islamic political thought that clash with liberal democratic principles and that, in extremis, pose an active terrorist threat….
Martin says
“…and one would have expected to see an American version of the faith emerge, one more comfortable with ideas of tolerance and individual liberty, much as different reformist versions of Judaism flourished in the United States.”
Utterly delusional left wing BS
mortimer says
Right. Abu Bakr Washington and Mohammed Jefferson.
Kim says
I don’t watch CNN.. very biased and anti-Presidential, unless, of course, Clinton was president..but she’s NOT and never will be
Crimelord Canada says
Lol, that’s Robert, as left as they come.
Anti-Gnostic says
Though Thomas Jefferson was a harsh critic of Islam as a religion (as he was of all Abrahamic religions) and of the hostage-taking and ransom-seeking practices of Muslim states in the Mediterranean, he also was a staunch advocate of religious freedom–even for Jews and Muslims! His views differed from those of his friend and diplomatic colleague John Adams, who dismissed Jefferson’s quest for an alliance against the Barbary states as unrealistic and who rejected the inclusion of Muslims within an evolving American definition of religious freedom. During the ratification controversy of 1787-1788, the proposed U.S. Constitution’s ban on religious tests for holding federal office (Article VI, Clause 1) became a lightning-rod of criticism, with opponents of the Constitution charging that that ban would enable “a Jew, Turk, or infidel” to become president. Nor did these political controversies rage only among those conventionally identified as leading “founding fathers.” A key leader of the Baptist denomination, John Leland, not only backed Thomas Jefferson’s campaign against religious establishments in Virginia and on the national stage, but also sided with them on the question of Muslims becoming part of the American experiment. Recognizing that the Baptists faced discrimination and denunciation from more established sects of Protestant Christianity, and taking that experience to heart, Leland opposed discrimination against those who were not part of that favored range of Protestant sects and denominations – including Muslims.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Of course the problem people keep forgetting, and even did then, is that Islam is not a religion. It is a theocracy, a government with its civil laws from a god. A person who worships Hubal (the moon god and the god of Islam) can serve in political office. However, the question is can a person who is a citizen of Islam serve in public office? Can they be a citizen of the US? Can they have fealty to the US? When one understands the teachings of Islam and the instructions to impose Islam and Shar’iah law on the world can any Islamic be a loyal citizen of any non-Islamic country? I think the answer is NO.
Remember, the word “allah” is not name. It simply means “the god”. And the god Mohammad was dedicated to was the Moon god Hubal who is also known as Baal. Islam is rooted in a polytheist religion of around 360 gods from what I remember reading. Since Hubal was the chief god of the pantheon he tended to be referenced as “the God” – “Allah”. Just like Christian and Jews refer to Jehovah/Christ as “God”. Context is important.
Screeminmeeme says
!. Islam is a totalitarian ideology camouflaged in the garb and rhetoric of religion, and characterized by hegemony, misogyny, pederasty, and genocide. For 14 centuries, its unchanged objective has been world domination….to create an infidel-free world….with all living under the boot of sharia law. The responsibility of every Muslim is to obey Allah’s command to wage jihad (in various ways) and to overthrow/supplant non-Islamic governments with sharia. Since deceit toward the infidel is permitted/encouraged, dealing with any Muslim becomes problematic. .
2. Every American that stands for “tolerance” of ALL religions needs to understand religious freedom can never supersede fundamental constitutional freedom (LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS…for ALL its citizens). If we allow that to happen, we can allow anything–including infiltration of those seeking our decimation–all under the guise of “religious freedom”.
The Constitution protects only those religions that are accordant with its expressed fundamental rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness FOR ALL……otherwise it would mean protecting a religion that sets itself up to destroy the Constitution. That would be self-defeating and it’s disquieting to think that our Founders would frame our Constitution, in all its genius, in such a self-defeating way.
The Constitution cannot be self-defeating because it if were, we would have no objective and legitimate point of reference for our Civil rights.
If any so called “religion” does not respect the fundamental rights outlined in our Constitution….but in fact regards certain Americans as subhuman or at the very least, unworthy to benefit from such rights and fights to keep those rights from certain Americans (non-Muslims in this case), then that ”religion” does not get the protection of that Constitution. In other words, that ”religion” has delegitimized itself from the Constitution and any rights that come from the Constitution.
Islam does not respect the fundamental rights outlined in our Constitution. It teaches that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims and should be accorded certain rights while non-Muslims deserve fewer or none…including the right to breathe.
Therefore, Islam has delegitimized itself from the Constitution and any rights that come from the Constitution.
3. Protecting Islam is insane and suicidal. Throughout the centuries, it’s been a scourge on mankind and its eradication is the only remedy.
Rev g says
So we’re cockroaches, but that doesn’t mean they contributed to our success.
Rev g says
So were….auto correct strikes again
Laura says
LOL! Thank you, Rev g!! – I was wondering why you called us cockroaches!! (Love your statement!)
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims like to have it both ways. Islam (supposedly) is the foundation of our values, our laws, and all of our achievements.
At the same time, Muslims hate all of our values and want to impose Shari’ah on our societies.
In Hugh Fitzgerald’s memorable formation, the first claim is “Slow Jihad”, the second demand “Fast Jihad”.
mortimer says
The success of America is based on critical thought and the Golden Rule, neither of which are in Islam.
Islam uses authoritarian thought and Al Walaa wal Baraa (Islamic apartheid). Islam is an extinguisher of independent thought, progress and innovation.
Islam calls innovation ‘bid’ah’. All bid’ah is from Satan according to Islam. America’s success is based on innovation.
Tehilah says
“The success of America is based on critical thought and the Golden Rule, neither of which are in Islam.”
Mortimer: Apparently this is also no longer true in America. Critical thought is discouraged in Colleges and Universities and very few under the age of thirty-five can tell you exactly what the Golden Rule sates or means. We are headed down a dark path and need to change our course.
John A. Marre says
Remember when Obama said this wasn’t a Christian country? The left wants this country to become an Islamic country.
That would mean that the Constitution would have to go away. Remember how the left said that the Constitution was a “living breathing document”? That’s what they meant.
SteveFinSC says
Actually, the Left wants this country to become atheist. They want us to worship them via the government they run. They are using the Muslims and other immigrants to destabilize our nation, our culture, our values, and our laws to produce ungovernable chaos. When that sets in, they, our Leftist saviors, will step in and put it all right – minus a few pesky, insignificant things like Christianity, the Constitution, personal liberty, guns, etc., of course.
Gwen E Mugliston says
SteveFinSC, you are absolutely correct. That is the globalist agenda and if they can achieve it in the majority of western countries at about the same time, whole continents will fall.
Little Farms will become part of huge Collectives, older people in rural areas will be herded into cities. Only the younger, more ignorant rural folks will become members of the Farm Collectives and they will work dawn to dusk as planters, pickers and packers if they don’t work in abattoirs. All schools will be come part of the government and under govern control lock stock and barrel. Older people in the cities will be pressed into helping care for school age children who will be separated from their parents who will have other jobs to do under government rule or doing other tasks such as cleaning undesirable places. Elders will work until they die.
The Elites will be cared for by those who are not and the elites will not work but they will be controllers of the poor and disenfranchised, develop and enforce the policies and laws of governmental rule. They will be just like the uber elite right now, the billionairs who have no idea what we know, believe, understand.
There will be no religion and very little or no moral or ethical discussions allowed. None of us will own any self protection. And since we already have a sense of the sexual mores of the Elites due to B Clinton, his wife, Podesta and all the rest of the pedophiles our children will not be safe from harm.
We must not let any of this happen. We must not.
Not moron says
Muslims slaves traders were Arabs who invaded North and west Africa and that is why most of North and west Africans are Muslims with Arab culture.
john spielman says
the only contributions to American history was the incident with the Barbary pirates in North africa who were raiding US SHIPS which is consistent with the thievery of mohammedans and their thieving lying murderous pedophile false prophet considered the ‘ perfect man ‘ of islam!
gravenimage says
True.
WPM says
That is why and the reason The United States Marine Corp. was formed. To protect our ships from Islamic pirates.
Donald R Laster Jr says
They were not “Islamic pirates”. They were Islamic sailors doing what Mohammad instructed to do to the non-Islamics. Calling them “pirates”, at least today, obscures the fact they were an Islamics country engaging in normal Islamic violence and theft. They were following Shar’iah law.
WPM says
You are right all true Islamics are pirates on land and sea, anyway that is why the United States Marine Corp. .was formed.
Candace Gonzalez says
This I know is true. That’s also why the marines are part of the navy so they could fight the pirates on land or sea.
Laura says
And why they are called “Leathernecks” – to protect their necks from the scimitar!
IQ al Rassooli says
CNN’s W. Kamau Bel is the usual utterly stupid Black American who would rather blame Whites and Christians than Arabs and Muslims for the African Slaves
The success of Muhammadan Islam in DECEIVING, MISINFORMING, DEFORMING and CONTORTING both History & Reality over a period of almost 1400 years has been ASTOUNDING. That is, until NOW.
The greatest tragedy about this particular subject, is that most of the descendants of African Slavery, the Black People in the Americas, around the world as well as among the African Blacks, are totally IGNORANT of the actual facts.
I would like to make the following statement and then prove it:
The worst, most inhumane and most diabolical institution of the BLACK AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, was initiated, refined, perpetrated and implemented by the Muhammadan Arabs and later aided and abetted by the Black converts to Muhammadan Islam.
I predict that as usual, the two Sub Cultures, those of: DENIAL of FACTS and of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS will attack me without ONCE DISPROVING a SINGLE statement and or conclusion that I make.
Slavery was NOT created by the White races, because it has existed throughout human history and practiced by EVERY tribe, culture, civilization, racial group and religion.
In fact, the very word SLAVERY has its root in the name SLAV based upon the SLAVIC peoples of Europe who were subjugated by other Europeans.
It is not common knowledge that the Arabic word ‘ABD’ is synonymous with the meaning of SLAVE; For example, Abd Allah means literally the Slave of Allah and that in the language of the Arabs,
ALL BLACK PEOPLES ARE CALLED ‘ABEED’ PLURAL FOR ‘SLAVES’.
While much has been written concerning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
While the European involvement in the African Trans Atlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the African slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day.
The birth of Arab Islam and its conquests, brought about the birth of INSTITUTIONALIZED, SYSTEMATIZED and RELIGIOUSLY SANCTIONED SLAVE TRADE, on a MASSIVE & GLOBAL SCALE.
In fact, the Quran allows the taking of slaves as ‘booty’, or ‘reward’ for wars of aggression against any and all UNBELIEVERS (most of the human population).
This has led to an enormous number of so called ‘Holy Wars’ , ‘Jihad’ in Arabic. There was, and is, absolutely nothing ‘holy’ about these wars which are primarily to plunder, slaughter, rape, subjugate and rob other human beings of their wealth, produce, freedom and dignity.
Muslim states and tribes, attacked other non-Muslim groups to achieve these objectives. Although Islamic jurisprudence laid down regulations for the treatment of slaves; however, incredible and heinous abuses have occurred throughout the history of Islam.
By the Middle Ages, the Arabic word “abd” was in general use to denote a black slave while the word “mamluk” referred to a white slave.
Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) the pre-eminent Islamic medieval historian and social thinker wrote: “The Negro nations are as a rule submissive to slavery, because they have attributes that are quite similar to dumb animals.”
It should also be noted, that black slaves were castrated “based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite.”
When the Fatimids Caliphate came to power in Egypt, they slaughtered all the tens of thousands of black military slaves and raised an entirely new slave army. Some of these slaves were conscripted into the army at age ten. From Persia to Egypt to Morocco, slave armies from 30,000 to up to 250,000 became common-place.
Just in the 19th Century, for which we have more accurate records, 1.2 million slaves were brought across the Sahara into the Middle East, as well as a further 450,000 down the Red Sea and 442,000 from East African coastal ports.
That is a total of 2 million black slaves – just in the 1800’s. At least 8 million more were calculated to have died before reaching the Muslim slave markets.
A comparison of the Islamic slave trade to the American slave trade reveals some extremely interesting contrasts.
While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade. Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.
While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans Sahara and East African slave trade was a staggering 80 to 90%.
While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for sexual exploitation as concubines, in harems, and for military service.
While many children were born to slaves in the Americas, and millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the USA to this day, very few descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East survive.
While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated, and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth.
It is estimated that possibly as many as 11 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic (95% of which went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions. Only 5% of the slaves ended up in the United States).
However, a minimum of 28 million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since at least 80% of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets, it is believed that the death toll from
1400 years of Arab & Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been over 112 millions.
When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the Trans Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 million people.
What is obscene about this whole subject is the Muslim and Arab culture of denial regarding their complicity in the African Slave Trade as well as the ignorance of Black Muslims about the reality of their past and present conditions.
The statistics and reports above are based upon the log books kept at the African Slave ports, ship logs, travelers’ reports, eyewitness accounts etc etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, the FACTS and REALITY of Muhammadan Islam’s COMPLICITY in the Slave Trade and their inhuman depravity are infinitely more devastating, more staggering and more incomprehensible than all the nightmare FICTIONS in the world.
IQ l Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
no_one says
I disagree with slavery statement. I come from a country that never had slaves. Never. And women had equal right over 1300 years ago. They could even serve in the army. People don’t know worlds history very well.
Laura says
Why didn’t you name your country??
gravenimage says
Fine post.
gravenimage says
This was for IQ al Rassooli.
IQ al Rassooli says
Thank you grapevine
IQ
IQ al Rassooli says
Thank you grapevine
IQ
gravenimage says
I like “grapevine”. 🙂
Donald R Laster Jr says
Copied to my Facebook paged. Good post.
Candace Gonzalez says
What you are saying is the truth. I have read & heard the same thing over and over by different professor and different authors. It is not politically to teach the truth anymore, sadly. Otherwise, we as a people could make informed decisions and not decisions based on the lies that are being fed to students now and since the 1960’s.
Donald R Laster Jr says
I copied this post (all of it with credit to you) to FB with this prefix
“An interesting post to from another site for people to consider when people try to make excuses for Islam, its teachings, and behavior.”
and it is being forwarded. Useful history for people to be aware of.
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Donald
Thank you for spreading the article so that more Americans (both White and Black) will comprehend the enormous depth of Muslim DEPRAVITY for the last 1400 years
As you may know, I have had over $1,500,000 worth of challenges to every human being reading my articles to prove ANYTHING I reveal as either wrong or a lie
So far, after 12 years, I have yet to lose a DIME!
God bless you
God Bless the USA!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Donald R Laster Jr says
Facts are hard to overcome. “Progressives” keep finding that out over and over.
maghan says
Twenty-eight million is a big number. With reference to the Arab slave trade in Africa, the number is highly exaggerated. The numbers(13 million) of the Atlantic slave trade seems justified because of the nature of the “the Triangular Trade”–involving large plantations producing cotton, sugar, tobacco, etc for growing European and American markets.
The Arabian peninsula was a sparsely populated area, home to primitive sand-trekking Arabs who lived in flimsy tents with their goats and camels. There was no agriculture or industry founded on large amounts of labor inputs as in the case of the Americas.
The 28 million number, when rationally examined, seems to be wildly exaggerated. There was Arab slavery in the East African islands of Pemba and Zanzibar–in the crop areas of cloves and spices. But the sands of Arabia and North Africa would have little demand for African labor. Note that most of the East African trade was carried out by Afro-Arabs such as Tippu Tib and others.
In fact, there was a more massive Muslim trade in slaves from Eastern Europe on the part of Turks who routinely ravaged those Slavic(the word “slave” derives from “Slavic”) lands for harem slaves–as breeders–and others. The North African Muslims were also into the slavery business of the logistically closer European peoples–than transporting Africans across the burning Sahara–with its potential losses including death.
maghan says
The number “140 million” is wildly exaggerated and demonstrates a certain level of innumeracy. In Muhammad’s time, Arabia was an area inhabited by primitive sand-trekking Arabs who did not have need for large agricultural plantations involved in capitalist market exchange.
It is a fact though that Muhammad kept, bought, sold and raped the female ones–after raiding villages. Qur’an 33:50 testifies to that fact.
Actual cases in point: Muhammad raping his Egyptian slave named “Mary the Copt”, Muhammad raping Safiyya bint Huyayy–a war captive whose husband was murdered by Muhammad.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Don’t forget that prior to the destruction wrought by the Islamics north Africa was a bread basket type area. Much of what we see today is related to changes from the Medieval Warm period followed by the Little Ice Age. Israel was a desolate area from descriptions I have read going to back to the 1800s. Now it is prosperous.
maghan says
No, we are talking about a mere 1,500 years ago. Islam’s founding is very recent in historical time. Arabia and North Africa were just the same deserts with trekking camel nomads as you see now.
The fact that camels exist in evolutionary terms proves that the Arabian and North African deserts have existed for millions of years.
Donald R Laster Jr says
You should take the time to learn a little more about the area in the Roman Empire times. North Africa was a breadbasket of the Empire. And even Arabia was prosperous. Mecca, Median, and other cities, flourished. In fact, most of the major cities in Arabia, from historical accounts I have read, were founded or made prosperous due to trading and many by Jewish traders. Islam was created in the 600s when the worship of Hubal (“Allah” when translated from Arabic is “The God”, also known as Baal, and associated with the moon) was fading in favor of Christianity and Judaism.
maghan says
But the same Ibn Khaldun also described Arabs as ” a people, savage in nature, who live only by pillage and corruption–but mainly cowards and feeble in nature, who run away to the hills when challenged “( Al Muqqadimah). Hardly a people engaged in large scale agriculture and mining that require substantial labor inputs.
Voytek Gagalka says
Name me one, just ONE “Founding Father” (you know, like Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson or others) who was Muslim, and I can agree with that. Name just one statement of their founding documents stating openly SHAHADA (so being sharia compliant), and then they can claim that as a “part of America’s founding.” Until that will happen, however, their claim is absolutely absurd and FALSE.
gravenimage says
CNN rewrites history to claim that Islam was part of America’s founding
……………………….
Yes, I saw this appalling episode–this was not the only whopper that W. Kamau Bell swallowed uncritically.
In fact, the *only* role Islam had in America’s early years was in the founding of our navy, which we were compelled to do because the Muslim Barbary Pirates were pirating our ships and enslaving our crews, despite our paying crippling “Tribute” to them.
But our fight inspired Britain and France to finally resist, as well–and led to the Mediterranean Sea being open to free navigation for the first time *in a thousand years*. Something for us to be very proud of.
terry says
Regarding Muhammad Ali as a Muslim hero.
A few weeks ago (print edition, on a Friday) the Wall Street Journal had a story ( based upon a book about sports heroes- and Ali, or perhaps the entire book was about Ali- but the story was about him).
Basically- when he was to go into the army- he went through a few days of orientation, physicals, etc. Then, before he was to be sworn in, Louis Farrakhan contacted him. Told him, not to be sworn in. If he was, —-. Ali contacted his idol, Sugar Ray Robinson, and told him this- and that he was afraid, and it was his view that Louis Farrakhan was the one who ordered the hit on Malcolm X.
The author apparently did a great deal of research on the topic.
But it show, Muslims are violent.
And CNN is so lefty- does anyone other than Maxine Waters and the Clinton supporters pay attention to ti?
Halal Bacon says
I heard muslims made good money in the raisin head business
Georg says
Yes… Muslims founded the United States. They deserve heaps of credit for founding this most prosperous nation in history they so thoroughly revile and work to undermine.
When is the discourse going to get off off Planet Freakazoid Merry-go-round?
So this Obeyed-Allah guy… the US makes him want to spit in one breath, and then the next he wants credit for its founding. Oooooooooooooooooooookayyyyyyyy… Reminds one of the Palestinians overjoyed that day on 9/11 at the success of the American-Jewish plot. What a bunch. And all that combustible marine detritus just had to end up under their feet. Couldn’t have been under Eskimos, or Amish, or just out in the sea. Nope, had to be under the feet of Hitler’s intellectual compatriots.
Jaladhi says
Muslims are expert in writing revisionist history! Either Bell is aMuslim or a liberal, can’t be both but sreves Muslim purpose!
Donald R Laster Jr says
This CNN “story” is just more distortions of real history to make Islam part of the founding of the US to make Islamics look presentable. But that is to be expected from “Progressives” since they need to distort the real history to hide the Christian foundations of the country. Islam has not contributed any thing of value. Consider, our numbering system is referenced as Arabic but it should be referenced as Hindu.
livingengine says
Here is an example of the kind of Muslim that was brought to America under slavery. Prince Sori was Fulani, who are notorious racists, and slavers.
Prince Sori was captured while returning from waging jihad on the surrounding people.
“The story of Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori is used as a springboard to incorporate Islam into American history, misrepresent it as an anti-slavery creed and convince African-Americans that their cultural background is Muslim. The website set up for “A Prince Among Slaves” even claims that the Blues originated from Koran readings.
{{{*}}}
But there’s just one problem with trying to present Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori as a victim of slavery and a role model for African-Americans. The Prince was actually a vicious racist who was a mass murderer of Africans and a brutal plantation overseer.
Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori despised Africans and considered himself a Moor. So much so that he would actually have been more at home in the Klan, than in some of the Black churches and cultural centers where “A Prince Among Slaves” has been screened.
A contemporary fundraising letter on his behalf read, “But Prince states explicitly, and with an air of pride, that not a drop of Negro blood runs in his veins. He places the Negro on a scale of being infinitely below the Moor.”
The letter then goes on to emphasize that his brother was considered racially inferior because of an African mother, and that if Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori were to return home he would have a superior right to the throne than his impure sibling.
In Rahman’s own account, he describes going to war against an African tribe and razing their towns. After the natives fought back, Rahman boasts that he proclaimed, “I will not run for an African.” This assertion of racial superiority proved to be a poor choice. The Africans caught Rahman, tied him up and sold him to some slave traders.
Far from being a hapless African sold into slavery, Rahman was actually a Muslim Moor who despised Africans. It is hard to think of a worse role model to present to African-Americans than a mass murderer of black people, whose expedition against them led to him being sold into slavery by the very Africans he despised.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/98787/prince-lies-daniel-greenfield
maghan says
The Moors as portrayed in history come in 2 types: “blackamoor” and “tawny moor”. In Shakespeare’s time–i.e. Elizabethan times–blacks were described as “Moors” as in “Othello the Moor”.
See Theo Connaut’s “A Slaver’s Log—20 Years Slaving on the West African Coast” for a firsthand look –Conaut was a slaver himself– at the West African slave trade. He observed that most slaves were war prisoners but a substantial number were just kidnapped by armed people smugglers and random kidnappers.
Examples: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text5/diallo.pdf
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/baquaqua/summary.html
http://www.dacb.org/stories/nigeria/crowther4_samajayi.html
David says
CNN sharia!
ShawnH says
That’s like saying the night-shift janitor at Microsoft was responsible for that company’s success.
Georg says
LOL!
WPM says
At least the night janitor at Microsoft , performs a job of some value. The Moslems in early America ? No Mosqua built in early America, no Korans printed in early America , no record any where of any Moslems. Every where Moslems have a presents in the world they proclaim their faith print their Koran , proclaim they are the greatest people in the world?In early America they were in stealth mode ? I think you can have a better case for space aliens in early America then Moslems. There are records of Jews in early America , records of the Torahs Torahs made in America, Temples built in Early America. I think the first Jewish Temple was built in America was before the American revolution in Rhode Island.. Rhode Island also had a large Roman Catholic pop. Many faiths were in America with proof in history , but we all know with the magic way Islamics think they do not need facts to prove their point. There is no evidence of any Moslems in any number that they could influence the forming of American govt. before of soon after the revolution.
Georg says
Muslims are to founding of America as Islam is to reason.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer,so you are shifting the blame of that most cruel transatlantic slave trade to Arab Muslims simply because 30% of the slaves brought to the united states happened to be Muslim? was that not Christians who bought all the slaves ,whether muslims or non_ muslims,and brought them to the lands now called the united states for hard labor? those who were found not fit for hard labor due to sickness or old age were thrown into deep atlantic ocean and eatened by sharks? look ,christians ,you are too wicked.later you followed up with colonisation of all black Africans asking them to close their eyes to rob them of their resources.After granting them limited independence you tople their good leaders who oppose fraudulent activities of your multinational companies to underdevelope them.you are killers,armed robbers and international brigands.yet you say Christianity is based on love.it is a lie.idiots!!
TJ says
Reality is both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have made statements which show they are better men than the author of the quran. The quran will never play a role in providing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which Thomas Jefferson said we deserved. The exaggerations , fables and concealment of testimony in the quran- coupled with the quran’s phony claims of the authority to put dissenters to death- makes it impossible for Thomas Jefferson’s dreams to be realized as long as the quran is around. George Washington also said America should never be a place that supported bigotry or persecution. The racist exaggerations in the quran against Jews ensure the quran can never play a role in meeting George Washington’s expectations for the country either. We’ve seen better commentary than the quran, Ibrahim Itace Muhammad. Your entity has no chance of winning. Your most likely place for support in America is among those who support the ghoulish practice of partial birth abortion. The quran deserves this dubious achievement. This shows your movement is headed for the abyss. Did they handle the servants as well as they could? No, but that is because they aren’t all nazarites. They could have made it plain they wanted servants who are in danger of dying of a famine or in captivity. Then they could give them an 8 year period of service and made it negotiable for the servant and the master after the time was up. This way of life could have avoided the civil war. This is not likely to happen in a primitive time when travel is very dangerous. Despite the fact they were unable to create a bustling market that saved lives of those in danger, both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were able to give direction to the country with their commentary which is infinitely better than the exaggeration and murder proposed in the quran.
gravenimage says
The foul ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr Spencer,so (sic) you are shifting the blame of that most cruel transatlantic slave trade to Arab Muslims simply because 30% of the slaves brought to the united (sic) states (sic) happened to be Muslim?
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This is, of course, quite false. Very few slaves in the US were Muslim–Muslims usually enslaved Infidels. Muslims had been running the African slave trade for centuries before the Atlantic slave trade began.
And Muslims are *still* enslaving Africans in places like Mauritania and Sudan.
ibrahim itrace muhammed has in fact *condoned* the Muslim slave trade today–including that of sex slaves.
More:
was (sic) that not Christians who bought all the slaves ,whether muslims (sic) or non_ muslims,and (sic) brought them to the lands now called the united (sic) states (sic) for hard labor? those (sic) who were found not fit for hard labor due to sickness or old age were thrown into deep atlantic (sic) ocean and eatened (sic) by sharks?look (sic) ,christians (sic) ,you are too wicked.
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muhammed appears not to have noticed that the West *abolished* slavery–we have acknowledged that this was an ugly period.
Islam has not. Instead, slavery in Islam is now *resurgent*–and muhammed has openly applauded this resurgence.
More:
later (sic) you followed up with colonisation of all black Africans asking them to close their eyes to rob them of their resources.After (sic) granting them limited independence you tople their good leaders who oppose fraudulent activities of your multinational companies to underdevelope (sic) them.you (sic) are killers,armed (sic) robbers and international brigands.yet (sic) you say Christianity is based on love.it (sic) is a lie.idiots!! (sic)
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muhammed has, of course, made this claim before–that the third world is “undedevelope” because of Western colonialism. This is, of course, false.
Development is based on ideology. This is why no Muslim country is advanced, yet nations that started out poor like Israel are thriving.
The West no longer colonizes–but Islam has not only conquered for centuries in order to spread, and it *still* violently invades Infidel lands. This is what is going on in Europe right now.
Of course, muhammed *lauds* invasion, conquest, and enslavement.
Georg says
Mr. Muhammed,
“Abd” in Arabic means slave/servant. It’s also a common derogatory for black person. Think long and hard about how this came to be.
IQ al Rassooli says
ibrahim
Why NOT reply to my article and try to disprove me item by item instead of always filling the comments section with TYPICAL Muslim utter insanity and stupidity?
To make it simple for your obvious limited intellect I am attaching the article once more~
IQ al Rassooli says
May 29, 2017 at 3:21 pm
CNN’s W. Kamau Bel is the usual utterly stupid Black American who would rather blame Whites and Christians than Arabs and Muslims for the African Slaves
The success of Muhammadan Islam in DECEIVING, MISINFORMING, DEFORMING and CONTORTING both History & Reality over a period of almost 1400 years has been ASTOUNDING. That is, until NOW.
The greatest tragedy about this particular subject, is that most of the descendants of African Slavery, the Black People in the Americas, around the world as well as among the African Blacks, are totally IGNORANT of the actual facts.
I would like to make the following statement and then prove it:
The worst, most inhumane and most diabolical institution of the BLACK AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, was initiated, refined, perpetrated and implemented by the Muhammadan Arabs and later aided and abetted by the Black converts to Muhammadan Islam.
I predict that as usual, the two Sub Cultures, those of: DENIAL of FACTS and of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS will attack me without ONCE DISPROVING a SINGLE statement and or conclusion that I make.
Slavery was NOT created by the White races, because it has existed throughout human history and practiced by EVERY tribe, culture, civilization, racial group and religion.
In fact, the very word SLAVERY has its root in the name SLAV based upon the SLAVIC peoples of Europe who were subjugated by other Europeans.
It is not common knowledge that the Arabic word ‘ABD’ is synonymous with the meaning of SLAVE; For example, Abd Allah means literally the Slave of Allah and that in the language of the Arabs,
ALL BLACK PEOPLES ARE CALLED ‘ABEED’ PLURAL FOR ‘SLAVES’.
While much has been written concerning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
While the European involvement in the African Trans Atlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the African slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day.
The birth of Arab Islam and its conquests, brought about the birth of INSTITUTIONALIZED, SYSTEMATIZED and RELIGIOUSLY SANCTIONED SLAVE TRADE, on a MASSIVE & GLOBAL SCALE.
In fact, the Quran allows the taking of slaves as ‘booty’, or ‘reward’ for wars of aggression against any and all UNBELIEVERS (most of the human population).
This has led to an enormous number of so called ‘Holy Wars’ , ‘Jihad’ in Arabic. There was, and is, absolutely nothing ‘holy’ about these wars which are primarily to plunder, slaughter, rape, subjugate and rob other human beings of their wealth, produce, freedom and dignity.
Muslim states and tribes, attacked other non-Muslim groups to achieve these objectives. Although Islamic jurisprudence laid down regulations for the treatment of slaves; however, incredible and heinous abuses have occurred throughout the history of Islam.
By the Middle Ages, the Arabic word “abd” was in general use to denote a black slave while the word “mamluk” referred to a white slave.
Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) the pre-eminent Islamic medieval historian and social thinker wrote: “The Negro nations are as a rule submissive to slavery, because they have attributes that are quite similar to dumb animals.”
It should also be noted, that black slaves were castrated “based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite.”
When the Fatimids Caliphate came to power in Egypt, they slaughtered all the tens of thousands of black military slaves and raised an entirely new slave army. Some of these slaves were conscripted into the army at age ten. From Persia to Egypt to Morocco, slave armies from 30,000 to up to 250,000 became common-place.
Just in the 19th Century, for which we have more accurate records, 1.2 million slaves were brought across the Sahara into the Middle East, as well as a further 450,000 down the Red Sea and 442,000 from East African coastal ports.
That is a total of 2 million black slaves – just in the 1800’s. At least 8 million more were calculated to have died before reaching the Muslim slave markets.
A comparison of the Islamic slave trade to the American slave trade reveals some extremely interesting contrasts.
While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade. Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.
While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans Sahara and East African slave trade was a staggering 80 to 90%.
While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for sexual exploitation as concubines, in harems, and for military service.
While many children were born to slaves in the Americas, and millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the USA to this day, very few descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East survive.
While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated, and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth.
It is estimated that possibly as many as 11 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic (95% of which went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions. Only 5% of the slaves ended up in the United States).
However, a minimum of 28 million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since at least 80% of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets, it is believed that the death toll from
1400 years of Arab & Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been over 112 millions.
When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the Trans Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 million people.
What is obscene about this whole subject is the Muslim and Arab culture of denial regarding their complicity in the African Slave Trade as well as the ignorance of Black Muslims about the reality of their past and present conditions.
The statistics and reports above are based upon the log books kept at the African Slave ports, ship logs, travelers’ reports, eyewitness accounts etc etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, the FACTS and REALITY of Muhammadan Islam’s COMPLICITY in the Slave Trade and their inhuman depravity are infinitely more devastating, more staggering and more incomprehensible than all the nightmare FICTIONS in the world.
IQ l Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
john soudas says
This scumbag who narrates the CNN special should be arrested for slander and deceit, and fomenting of a false history leading the injury of victims of Muslim genocide. There are millions who have suffered Islamic genocide and to have a black man sell a history that insults their memory is unacceptable. In a far society this creep would not be allowed to work anywhere in America.
Georg says
The guy really is insufferable. Can’t imagine many countries have an intelligentsia who run such vitriolic propaganda against themselves… other than Britain. RT used to run broadcasts about the problem of homelessness in America (like Russia doesn’t have LOL problems with poverty/homelessness/alcoholism/political suppression, oligarchy, etc.). Khomeini says his favorite book is *The Grapes of Wrath*. The intent, of course, is to instill a dark vision of America and to demoralize us through psychological warfare. That you bring up “arrested” isn’t outlandish as this CNN program in particular seems slanderous. If terrorists are “losers” then your characterization of this guy as a “creep” is apt. A black man who loves Islam, hates white people and with a white wife all while being a fat, happy racist with his own TV show.
Dan says
Of course Islam was part of America’s founding.
Because of Islam, America was FORCED to build it’s navy, and so it could kick the snot out of the same kinds of brutal savage animals that the world doesn’t have the guts to kick the snot out of today.
Guest says
It doesn’t have to be true its entertainment (sarcasm)
Rev g says
In a way muslims did play a key role. Had they not been terrorizing the spice route, Columbus would not have sailed west seeking an alternate route to India.
Buford says
I hope CNN goes off the Air from bad ratings too put out that kind of garbage
the biggest mistake the Crusaders made was not totally eradicating Muslims completely
Craig W says
The unholy practice of Dhimmitude was certainly a part of the African slave trade.
Perhaps I’d rewrite history too were it my political party that bought and sold slaves, then started a Civil War to keep them.
Santa Voorhees says
“A lot of people think that Islam is from a foreign country, or is a foreign religion. It’s not — it’s very American.”
Just a few questions:
1- Assuming that Islam is american means that Muhammad was born in the US. In what american city did he born?
2- How come that Islam is american when its holiest places are in Saudi Arabia (totally another part of the world)? Shouldn’t they be in the US?
3- Did Allah actually sent down the Quran in the second half of the 1700s, and not in the 7th century as history tells us?
4- While we are in 2017, is the US in the third century? It should be so, according to the islamic calendar.
5- What Muhammad did in the US?
6- Why CNN is ran by stupid people?
7- Why am I even asking these questions knowing there’s no point answering them simply because they are so stupid and historically inaccurate (except question 6)?
ByGeorge says
“Muslims constituted a significant percentage of the Africans brought to the Americas in servitude”…idiotic statement. If any Africans sold into slavery were muslim, they allowed it just to escape from Islam.
That’s explains why it never metastisized in America if it even came at all.
The entire article was stupid, idiotic and doubtless will provide another excuses for BLM protestors while they continue to trash America’s cities.
maghan says
The number of West African Muslims sold into slavery was relatively small and many were sent to Brazil in South America. They were among those who revolted frequently and some were sent back to West Africa–to places like Lagos(lake in Portuguese), Nigeria.
Examples of Muslims enslaved in the Americas:
maghan says
See above:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text5/diallo.pdf
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/baquaqua/summary.html
Kenn Goodwin says
Here is some US history in a song:
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine
Lioness says
I always get goose bumps when I hear this, and I am Canadian.
mortimer says
W. Kamau Bell’s theories are fluff without any substance. He cannot defend his thesis. It is a series of unsupported claims, contradicted by easily verifiable historical facts.
Bell’s thesis is crackpot. Why is anyone discussing it?
Donald R Laster Jr says
Because “Progressives” work hard to undermine the real history and foundations of the country. And making Islam a part of the country’s founding aids their lies.
The Pilgrims and American Indians lived peacefully side by side. many Indians became Christians. If an Indian did something against the Pilgrims the Pilgrims tried the person. If a Pilgrim did something against the American Indian the person was tried by the Tribe. Things changed with a tribe not an ally of the Pilgrims attack another Tribe allied with the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims went to the aid of the tribe. The real history is interesting.
Troybeam says
Liberals want people to believe that Islam built this nation, if they say often enough people will fall for it.
fidobite says
Just when you think the Clinton News Network couldn’t get any further from honest news they present this kind of crap. I wouldn’t believe an after-the-fact weather report from this sham of a news outlet. Pure lying propaganda.
Lioness says
Even the word “muslim” was completely foreign in the US 100 years ago. Take any newspaper from 1920 to 1970, and you won’t find a single story about muslim or islam. When written about the Middle East wars, they were referred to as Arabs. So where were these dear muslims so woven into our historical fabric? A big fat lie.
Druth says
Blah, blah, blah.
The US Constitution is Western Civilization.
The US Constitution tolerates Islam.
Islam does not tolerate the Constitution.
The US Constitution permits Islam to exist.
Islam does not permit the Constitution to exist.
The US Constitution allows Islam to operate.
Islam does not permit the Consitution to operate.
The US Constitution is compatible with Islam.
Islam is incompatible with the US Constitution.
Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization.
Donald R Laster Jr says
While the intention is clear this statement “The US Constitution is compatible with Islam.” is inaccurate. The US Constitution is not compatible with Islam. It does not allow any of Islam’s laws. Remember, Islam is a theocracy not a religion. It is an important distinction.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Constantly screwing things up doesn’t count as ”founding”.
Flintoid says
David Barton (of wallbuilders.com) has published a wonderful series of videos about muslim extremists in Jefferson’s time :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlT1IXSv830
He also has great works about the Christian basis of our country.
He has collected over 100,000 pre-1815 documents to back up his analysis. EXcellent work !
Donald R Laster Jr says
This statement “David Barton (of wallbuilders.com) has published a wonderful series of videos about muslim extremists in ” should not have the word “extremists” in it. 🙂 It allows the false impression that Islamics are not following the teachings of Islam.
duh swami says
Some day workers will laying new sewer pipe under Philadelphia Square and discover the foundations of an early 1700’s mega Mosque…
bakancs says
those Muslims who were present at America’s founding were here because other Muslims had sold them to non-Muslims as slaves, either because the Muslim slave traders didn’t realize that they were Muslims, or because they belonged to a sect that the slave traders considered heretical…OR bc. they were Blacks, and Arabs despised Blacks as Inferiors!
maghan says
Arabs were not involved in the West African slave trade. East Africa, yes. But many were Afro-Arabs like Tippu Tib. Note that bearing an Arab name and speaking Arabic is enough to label someone as “Arab”.
Example: Al-Jahiz of Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jahiz
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Low IQ alrasooli,you are truly low iq ignorant liar worse than Any jahl( the father of ignorance).you claimed in one of your previous comments that Arabic is your mother tongue from Iraq.But i know the primary school pupil in Arab christian school will not tell you that abd is synonymous with black .the ishtiqaq ( root) of abd is from abada yaabudu abdan( he served,he is serving ,a servant). How is it applied to refer to black slave while mamluk( possessed) applied to refer to white slave,even though all of them serve their master in the same manner as slaves? i doubt your Arab identity claim.you are just bigoted christian from the west.you have no connection with Arab Christians from Iraq.you also lied where you claimed that black slaves vanished from Arabia because they were either or that the male slaves were castrated unlike the black slaves brought to Americas who still maintain their black identity.if read and understand the Quran very well you will come the conclusion that aims at ending slavery by encouraging muslims to free their slaves to atract abundant rewards.Bilal was the first black slave to be bought by Abubakar from pagan and was freed.Then prophet Muhammad Fred the only slave zaid whom he inherited and brought him closer to him like his biological son.other muslims followed suit.the Fred slaves intermarried with pure Arab muslims and assimilated as Arabs .their descendants look coloured,not fully whites.this has not been the case for black slaves christians brought to Americas where blacks rarely intermarry with whites.that is why blacks in Americas maintain their black skin.
jessie says
Arab’s went into Africa and took hundreds of thousands of African’s a slaves(after they stopped taking slaves from Europe and Asia from the previous to millennia’s)and would for their barbaric religion on them. They also did so much worse like castrate the males and sell the woman a sex slaves. All the while they would try and teach them about Islam because that is their way submit or you have two choices your either a slave or you die. Some of these same Arab’s were just greedy and sold there slaves into the Atlantic slave trades and that is how close the native African’s were to Islamic religion(this happened between 1720-1740). Now if one of their own or their enemies were to become captures they would sometimes would sell them in to the Atlantic slave trades but that was for the very worst crimes. The first building in the US to be used a Mosque was an Elks lodge in Iowa and the first Mosque that was built was in 1929. If the Islamic religion last past the founding then mosque would of been around from the beginning(1700’s) not the start of the 20th century.
Timothy M Benton says
I taught history for years, know it very well, have a PhD in history. I can tell you that the Muslims at the time of our founding made up less than 1/10 of 1% of this nation at the time of our founding (there no census records that even mention them), the only real interactions they had with Islam was the barbary pirates and the slaver catchers in Africa, that would not be a positive influence in the way they are trying to rewrite history.
A European says
Let’s check the passengers’ list of the Mayflower! How many Muslims do you see on that list? Oh yes, when George Washington marched his troops against the British, his soldiers used to shout “Allahu Akbar,” and when Thomas Jefferson drafted the Constitution, of the United States, he was of cause inspired by his lecture of the “noble Quran,” which had always been on his bedside table. That’s why many Muslims even claim today: “The Quran is our constitution!” These guys are right, arent’t they?