My latest in PJ Media:
The border is in chaos, there have been two violent attacks by Muslims in the last few weeks, the trade deficit has ballooned to a record $71.1 billion, and those are just a few of the signs of the abject incompetence of Biden’s handlers’ administration. But never fear: the administration has its priorities straight, and is working to address the real issues that matter the most to the American people: the State Department has just designated April as Arab American Heritage Month. Now we can all breathe easy: Old Joe’s handlers are firmly in command!
CNN reported the good news on Monday: “The culture of Arab Americans will be honored this month, with the designation by the State Department of April as Arab American Heritage Month, reflecting the group’s contributions to the US ‘are as old as America itself,’ a spokesman said.”
That spokesman was State’s Ned Price, who seems bent on surpassing Obama wonk Marie Harf as the most far-left and reality-optional State Department spokesman ever to stand behind a podium. “The United States,” Price intoned piously last Thursday, “is home to more than 3.5 million Arab Americans representing a diverse array of cultures and traditions. Like their fellow citizens, Americans of Arab heritage are very much a part of the fabric of this nation. And Arab Americans have contributed in every field and profession, many of them, in fact, serve here at the State Department and throughout the interagency.”
Indeed they do, and many of them have been there for quite some time. Some were likely present at the Obama State Department’s cordial meet-and-greet with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in January 2015. Some of them may even have been recruited for the State Department during its outreach efforts to the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), both of which have links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States are dedicated, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” But who at the State Department cares about that, or has cared about it for years? To question the motives of Muslim Brotherhood operatives and their allies at State would be “Islamophobic.”
As for Price’s claim that Arab-American contributions to the U.S. “are as old as America itself,” the same claim was made many times by none other than Barack Hussein Obama. As many times as it is repeated, however, it remains fictional, just another example of the left’s relentless Islamopandering. Arab Americans’ contributions to the U.S. are as old as America itself? Really? There were Arabs at Jamestown? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony? At Roanoke?
Ned Price’s statement is so wildly ridiculous that it doesn’t just invite parody; it pleads for it. Remember the Arabs among the Founding Fathers, Yahya al-Adams and Iskandar Hamilton? Remember the Arabs who told Yaqub Madison about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina so that he could lay out the foundations of a republic in the U.S. Constitution? Remember the Arabs who fought so valiantly in the Revolutionary Jihad, and the Jihad of 1812, and the Mexican Jihad, and the Civil War, aka the Jihad Between the Caliphates? Remember all the controversies about whether Muslim soldiers in the Civil War could make sex slaves out of the wives and daughters of Confederate commanders? The jihad suicide attacks that broke the Germans’ will to fight on during World War I?
There is more. Read the rest here.
Mike says
more lies from the left
Mr A Plater says
9/11 !!!, says it all, more than 3,000 dead
Check Burry says
If any group need a month its the native American Indians, well up the list before this latest bit of knee bending.
mortimer says
Contributions by Arabs to the early US? Such as … piracy, enslavement, robbery, torture, murder, massive EXTORTION of the US government.
The FINANCIAL BURDEN of EXTORTION from the Ottoman clients in North Africa was SUBSTANTIAL. In 1800, payments in ransom and tribute to the Barbary states amounted to 20% of United States federal government’s annual expenditures.
TWENTY PERCENT OF THE US GOVERNMENT’S BUDGET!
jim says
sure lots of contributions, I quote “leather necks, terrorism, child abuse, female abuse, murder, rape, robbery, over 15 million dead” now that is some kind of a list for sure….
garry pollack says
no, it is Tru!…From the Halls of Montezuma…TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI!!!
Wellington says
Biden is worse than ignorant; he is a very limited man now in the early stages of dementia reciting Woke Leftist talking points on virtually a daily basis. The harm he is doing on sundry fronts is enormous.
If ever there were a front man, in a decreasingly free society, for idiocy, foolishness, general ignorance and overall mendacity, said society becoming less free by the day, Biden is “the guy.”
Put another way, the third term of Obama, via principally Susan Rice, continues unabated.
Biden is a disaster in the making. One knows this of should know it. I am exceedingly tired of excuses masquerading as arguments to the contrary.
PRCS says
Who knew, all along, about his mental health.
Well, his handlers of course. Including Jill–who could have spared our country this disaster.
truthout says
Yeah his handlers should be charged with neglect and abuse of him.However because he is in the position to destroy the United States it should also include neglect and abuse of the United States Citizens as well.
PRCS says
The primary–IMO–is Jill.
Who else would know better when that decline began and how bad it had become by election day.
When the charade can no longer continue–she, more than anyone else needs to explain why this fraud was allowed to be perpetrated on our nation.
mortimer says
Correct. Jill Biden knew he was in early dementia and did not say ‘no’. How does she benefit from this … is she trying to kill him by pushing him into this overly demanding job?
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
What a difference that a *fake* election makes – conducted with the “standards” of a banana republic.
Pres. Trump was, arguably, the best US President since Abraham Lincoln.
Phony, fake, pretend “Demented Joe” is, *undoubtedly*, the worst US president since Abraham Lincoln.
The “not so” free world currently has a problem of epic proportions…
Giacomo Latta says
Biden is America’s Breznev.
Billy Chickens says
Obama is running the show. This is Obama’s third term.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Mr. McGoo is at the wheel.
truthout says
Dont put down Mr.McGoo like that.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness,
Oh Sleepy Joe, you’ve done it again…
spiro says
And this old goat won the election fairly
What a load that is
truthout says
First and foremost there isn’t any excuse of calling yourselves Arab Americans .If you are a United States Citizen first and are of ethnicity second .Otherwise you haven’t integrated and shouldn’t have any platform .That goes for anyone else for that matter. If you can’t do that then don’t come here and if you are here GO HOME TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
Biden is playing the incompetency just like we knew he would .He steps down then Kamala steps in .Its a designed disaster of mammoth proportions .Since he cares so much more for other countries I say we deport him to his country of choice.
PRCS says
Harris would be in WAAAY over her head.
And after she cackles at a world leader or three…
Myron J. Poltroonian says
Agreed! I am a proudly Unhyphenated American – first, last and always. I was once asked by a fellow (female) community action group member, “What” I was. When I responded “American”, she went into apoplexy, admonishing me sternly that I couldn’t make that claim, as that wasn’t a “recognized, legitimate” category or group. I replied that when I was stationed near Munich, West Germany [12/’60-06/’62], I was asked, in German, the same question. I then told her I responded thus: “Armenischer, Englander, Franklander, Hollander und Scotlander”, to which my German questioner, bursting into a big smile said, “Ach! Amerikaner!”. I told her it was a lesson I’ve never forgotten. As long as we Balkanize, segregate, separate, categorize, fold, spindle and mutilate the American polity, we diminish this grand experiment. We must embrace our uniquely American commonality, especially those precepts as espoused in our Constitution and its Preamble thereto that bind us together. We must disavow those who would divide to conquer, control and diminish us, both as a people and as a nation.
Savvyone says
April is Arab month? Of course, Ramadan. Starts on April 12. My Muslim neighbors always come over in the dark and spray my lovely lawn with Roundup. That is just a fraction of the destruction to my property I will receive. Watch for vehicle accidents amplified. Shootings etc. Actually ,I cannot think of one positive thing Muslims bring to our country. Our country is being ruined. Democrats are happy and the Republicans are gutless. But its Arab month, who can complain?
tgusa says
Good thing I don’t consider what has been thrust upon us a legitimate administration. I have never been more disgusted in all my years. President Trump won the election in a landslide and the establishment, both sides, had no problem with the fraud. They have made a joke of the country and I can never forgive them for that.
Rarely says
Trump won the election?? In some alternate universe perhaps.
tgusa says
Over 66000 unregistered ballots in 9 Michigan counties alone. Americans are calling for audits but the democrats are suing to stop that. What are they hiding if the results are legit? As democrats love to spew, democracy dies in darkness. If you want the country to unravel you are supporting that. No honest man has a problem with the checking of his results. Perhaps in an alternate universe that doesn’t apply.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
A full forensic audit of 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona will be conducted over the next 60 days.
The Dominion machines will also be forensically audited.
I predict that massive fraud will be discovered, and then the other swing states will be forced to conduct their own full forensic audits.
Dominoes could fall.
And if massive fraud is found in the other swing states, there is no way that Sleepy Joe can remain president. The cowardly US Supreme Court will then be *forced* to take action.
I hope beyond hope that I am *not* wrong…
tgusa says
Do democrats really believe that the world would take them seriously after what they did? Do they think that America could be a leader of anything after what just occurred? If what went down is the price of living with the democrat party I want nothing to do with it.
Rarely says
Talk about conspiracy theories.
Trump lost. Period.
tgusa says
Is that you, Hunter?
rubiconcrest says
Great, now we have a month to remember the Arabs who brought us 9/11. It’s good the state department is giving us a month. Americans though tolerant to a fault are coming around to recognizing jihad and knowing who brings it to us.
Rarely says
They should honour ramadam by making “Take a Neighbour to Lunch Month” coincide with it.
Franklin M Saylor says
Hey! Arabs DID have a vital part in the early days and development of America. After all, without the Barbary Pirates, we might not have stood up the US Marine Corps (pronounced Corpse, of course) as a permanent war-fighting force until much later in America’s history. So, hurrah for the Muslims, our great friends who helped reform the US Marine Corps in July 1798.
Rarely says
They should honour ramadam by making “Take a Neighbour to Lunch Month” coincide with it.
tgusa says
We read you the first time. Do you think we are democrats and you have to write it twice or more?
Rarely says
LOL. You can read after all. But can you think?
Daniel says
In some ways the Muslims did help establish the U.S. Navy and Marines. The newly formed country had just dismantled the Continental Navy so a fighting force was need to battle to Barbary Pirates, or Moors.
Reb says
I think the Biden Administration is referring to the pirates America has been fighting with like the Barbary wars….
Jim says
And this sort of thing overlooks that most Muslims are not Arabs. Why not change the title to Muslim-American month? Perhaps they could edit the Koran to eliminate all the verses that violate the Constitution and US laws to protect women’s rights, along with annotations explaining what is required or allowed in Sharia that is illegal and not customary in the USA.
gravenimage says
It is true that most Arabs in the US are actually Christian and are good citizens–but I doubt that this is aimed at them.
Sharon Wilders says
Let us not forget the barbary pirates and who were the top sellers of slaves to the shippers! Our Navy and then Marine Corps were founded to deal with them. Oh… many don’t know that those barbary pirates were moslems on a jihad wanting their extortion payments (jizya) … or else. Marines were called ‘leathernecks’ for a reason! (leather around their necks to stop swords of islam from slicing their heads off!!)
St. Croix says
All good points, Sharon Wilders. I was thinking, yes, their contributions were there right from the start! Everyone seems to think Americans invented slavery of Africans. It is indeed a terrible thing that Americans were involved in slavery, however, yes, the Muslim Slave Trade was already in full swing, aye, the contribution of slavery of blacks was not “as old as America itself” but even older. Yet, in the minds of the modern enlightened West, white Americans and other colonialists started racism and slavery.
Slavery is as old almost as “humanity itself” and the Arabs, many of whom became the Arab Muslims after Mohammed, eagerly carried on the slave trade, and exported it all over the place. It was exported and spread by the sword, as Islam was spread.
I wish Robert Spencer would write a book on the Arab Muslim slave trade.
Bruce 'Pilgrim' Stanton says
This is clearly another effort by the biden administration to teach us how to spit polish a turd.
Peter Herz says
I gather that in the annals of Nieuw Amsterdam, one Noureddine, an Egyptian, was killed by Indians who thought they’d been cheated in trade. I won’t begrudge a community that historically has been Maronite, Eastern Orthodox, Melchite Roman Catholic, Church of the East, or Syrians Orthodox Christian a month of notice. But, if we aren’t careful, we’ll run out of months in which to honor various ethnicities.
However, someone Leftist near and dear to me once mentioned how Muslims have been in the forefront of “anti-imperialism”. I then pointed out to him if he’d ever considered how North Afirca became Arabic-speaking and Anatolia Turkish-speaking, and how the Arabic alphabet spread all the way to Monsoon Asia. It shut him up.
I’m also teaching an AP World History course now, and sneaking in dribs and drabs about how colonialism and land-grabbing has been practiced by just about everyone; and that the 20th century alone murdered, exiled, imprisoned, or ruing more people in the name of social justice than suffred for heresy during the 15 centuries between the conversion of Constantine and Ruggles v. New York.
gravenimage says
Good post, Peter.
Do you have any links about the Egyptian trader Noureddine in Nieuw Amsterdam, though? First I have heard of this.
Quazgaa says
Well, Neil Armstrong was muslim, so there you have it.
Next in line, Albert Einstein.
Reminds me of the Jahr Null from The Man in the High Castle.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Aastra says
Rules in India when muslim rulers ruled.
1. The Hindus will not build new temples.
2. They will not rebuild temples which may have fallen into disrepair.
3. They will not prevent Muslim travellers from staying in temples.
4. They will provide them three days’ hospitality in their houses.
5. The dhimmi-s will not act as spies nor shelter spies in their houses.
6. They will not prevent from conversion any one inclined towards Islam.
7. They will respect Muslims.
8. They will courteously receive Muslims wishing to attend their
meetings.
9. They will not dress like Muslims.
10. They will not take Muslim names.
11. They will not ride horses with saddle and bridle.
12. They will not possess swords, bows, or arrows.
13. They will not wear signet nngs.
14. They will not openly sell or drink intoxicating liquor.
15. They will not abandon their traditional dress.
16. They will not openly practise their customs amongst Muslims.
17. They will not build their houses in the neighbourhood of Muslims.
18. They will not cany or bury their dead near Muslim graveyards.
19. They will not mourn their dead loudly.
20. They will not buy Muslim slaves.
This is the composite culture which liberals dream and celebrate.
Now it is coming to the west.
somehistory says
You salivate at the idea that mozlums are going to be here as they are in mozlum -majority, mozlum-ruled places. You just can’t wait. You’re very sick.
But, at least you don’t have to “abandon your traditional dress.” Or be forced to name your kids like mozlums do theirs.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
You’re an idiot. Aastra was informing everyone what the rules were in India when under Muslim rule, not lauding it but warning about what it was and is.
somehistory says
No, mr pol troonian….You are the “idiot” if there is one here.
This poster…aastra….likes to lie and “salivate” over what he/she sees as just desserts for those of us in the West….especially Christians, whom he/she hates.
aastra blames Christians for what has happened in India. aastra wants the same things here….brought by mozlums, of course, whom he/she doesn’t blame….because of being too busy blaming Christians.
you don’t read here enough to know enough about what is the usual…esp about this aastra poster so as to call anyone an “idiot.”
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But, that’s okay because I’ve been called worse by better.
somehistory says
informed persons.
gravenimage says
Somehistory is right here–Aastra is not merely informing us about the Muslim point of view. This poster has a long and ugly history here of sneering at Westerners–particularly Chirstians–becoming the victims of Jihad and Shari’ah.
Aastra says
When did say I support such idea.
Iam not like you one side hate muslims and another side support missionaries.
Who do the same.
In reality you are the shameless sick person.
somehistory says
Over and over again you have made snide comments, relishing the idea that mozlums might overtake a Christian majority country and go about slaughtering here as they do in places like Africa.
And, I left off “shameless.” You wouldn’t know how to fake shame, much less actually feel it. You want nothing less than for Christians to be killed by mozlums.
And you are a pathological liar. To deny your past remarks is a full demonstration of your lies. You are fully aware that Christians and mozlums are not the same, but you make a habit of claiming Christians do the same things as do mozlums. Shameless liar is what you are.
gravenimage says
How are peaceful Christian missionaries “do the same” as Jihad terrorists?
somehistory says
He should be asked: What month is dedicated to the English? What month for the Irish? What month for the Scots? How about the French? Surely, the French have a month dedicated to their part in the beginnings.
How about a month for the Polish, the Italians, the Portuguese, the Spanish?
How about a month for each Native American Tribe? Oh, there were the “500 Nations”…way, way too many for each Tribe to have a month.
What the biden dos is doing is called “pandering.” Next thing we know, they’ll be giving over young girls for the mozlum practice of taking children…the younger they are, the more they are preferred…for what they call “marriage,” so they can rape them daily and often.
As the old song asks, “How low can you go?”
Peter WF says
Is this a case of funding work for law enforcement staff?
ME Infidel says
We have purveyors of revisionist history fully ensconced at the University of So. Maine. No one at the school challenges this apologist for his outright lies.
https://usm.maine.edu/publicaffairs/multicultural-centers-reza-jalali-featured-mpbn-interview-about-muslims-maine