Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
July is when families load up screaming kids into a minivan for a road trip, when water parks overflow with the smells of cotton candy and chlorine, and Chicago shootings reach highs only previously witnessed in minor South American wars. Sprinklers rotate over dying lawns and glorious fireworks rise into the sky over a American million cities, towns and villages.
But Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and a bunch of other leftists would like to turn July into Muslim American Heritage Month.
“As we continue to see an uptick in anti-Muslim hate, it is important we recognize the resiliency and accomplishments of Muslim Americans with a formal resolution,” Rep. Omar claimed.
Except that July was already designated the National French-American Heritage Month.
I’m not clear on what Muslim accomplishment in America took place in July (another month later in the year comes to mind), but we celebrate our revolution on July 4th and the French celebrate theirs on July 14th. The French supported our revolution and we supported theirs (at least until it turned into the orgy of social justice killings and insane decrees that leftist revolutions always degenerate into whether it’s on college campuses or in countries).
“Muslim-Americans have played a major role in shaping our nation for centuries,” Rep. Andre Carson, insists. “Designating July as Muslim-American Heritage Month is a wonderful opportunity to honor the trailblazers who came before us.”
Muslims played little role in America until the 1970s with the embrace of Islam by black nationalist opponents of the United States and the onset of violent terrorist attacks like the Hanafi Siege in D.C. While the next phase of the 1619 Project will no doubt produce its alternative history which will reveal that Alexander Hamilton bowed to Mecca and Dolly Madison wore a burka, there’s little doubt among sane historians that the French were here first.
There are 12 million Americans of French descent and while the last time a congressional resolution on French-American Heritage Month was passed was back in 2002, that’s because Franco-Americans are much less vocal about occupying cultural territory than Omar and Tlaib. The resolution noted that the French had established parts of the United States, that Lafayette had fought for American independence, Tocqueville had explained America, and L’Enfant had laid out Washington D.C. (3 out of 4 ain’t bad). The French were here first.
Though perhaps Rep. Carson can explain more of the “major role” that Muslims played “in shaping our nation for centuries” and how it exceeds that of the role played by the French.
If it weren’t bad enough that Omar, Tlaib, and Carson were spitting in the faces of 12 million French-Americans, they’re also hijacking Disability Pride Month. The Hamas Caucus could try to move Muslim Heritage Month to June, but that’s already Gay Pride Month. And when Islam and gay people meet, the latter tend to get thrown off tall buildings and then stoned to death.
August however is pretty clear aside from being National Immunization Awareness Month.
But, much like the Ground Zero Mosque had to be near the site of the greatest impact Islam has had on shaping American history, Muslim Heritage Month has to take over July.
No other month will do.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had already introduced a resolution for April as Arab Heritage Month where it displaced Scottish American Heritage Month. (But what contribution have the Scots ever made to America compared to the centuries of Omar and Tlaib’s shaping of the country?)
Does Tlaib really need two months or a sixth of the calendar year? Heritage months are generally ethnic, not religious. But the Hamas Caucus wants two months to start with. Having seized one month from the Scots, they’d like to hijack another one from the French.
One of them has to be about violating the separation of church and state by promoting a religion.
And hating America.
July means fireworks, barbeques, and patriotic songs. But Rep. Rashida Tlaib would like it to be about honoring “the achievements, contributions and sacrifices of Muslim Americans in the face of rising anti-Muslim hate.” Or, according to Tlaib, it will “provide an opportunity to foster religious tolerance nationwide and combat misinformation directed at the Muslim community.”
Like every theme month lately, this seems destined to be another ‘America Sucks’ month. But it will come packaged with an extra share of Dawah or Islamic missionary activity while informing us that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and anyone who disagrees should be beheaded.
Los Angeles, which rushes wokely where angels fear to tread, is already celebrating Muslim Heritage Month through its libraries with Linda Sarsour’s biography and Rep. Omar’s biography. Don’t just think of Muslim Heritage Month as displacing July 4th when it’s also a great gimmick for selling otherwise unsellable books. And even as the Taliban retake Afghanistan and prepare to put those women who took off their burkas and hijabs in their place, Muslim Heritage Month is being used to promote The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family to small children.
Indeed, the resolution itself promotes the hijab by insisting that “women who wear the hijab, or headscarf” are discriminated against in America. The resolution then goes on to celebrate accused domestic abuser Keith Ellison and then, after appropriating July, tries to also appropriate the ice cream cone. It’s one thing to hijack the Fourth, but ice cream cones too?
“Whereas Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi’s invention of the ice cream cone is a practical confection with a near ubiquitous presence in American life,” the resolution falsely claims.
While the ice cream cone is indeed a most ubiquitous and practical confection, the ice cream cone was invented and patented by Italo Marchiony: an Italian-American immigrant.
First, Omar and Tlaib displaced the French and the Scots, and then the Italians.
Ernest Hamwi, a Syrian immigrant, did play a role in the ice cream business, and he patented his own cone decades later in the twenties, but he was Christian, not Muslim. Ernest was one of the many Syrian-Lebanese Christians who fled Muslim persecution and a famine to come to the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century. He married into a local American family and was buried in Valhalla Cemetery. His stepson, Arthur C. McGuffin, took over his company.
As July wanes and Omar and Tlaib try to appropriate the month and even its ice cream, replacing swimsuits with hijabs and the Declaration of Independence with the demonization of America as a racist Islamophobic society that only has two months to celebrate their heritage, instead of twelve, let’s remember the heroic American patriots who fought to keep us free.
The only heritage month we truly need is the heritage of our freedom from all tyrannies.
Including the one American soldiers were fighting from the “shores of Tripoli” in the First Barbary War of 1801 to the one that they are still fighting today against terror in our homeland.
Raja says
With the weak Biden at the helm, every attempt to islamize US must be tried. She seems to be plotting and scheming for islam 24X7. What a disgrace, she has no other business to do.
Aren’t the people who voted her ashamed?
Cathryn Paradise says
Because her district is most Somali moslems like she is
Infidel says
Raja, she sees her sole mission in Congress as furthering the cause of islam. Nothing else
James Lincoln says
Exactly, Infidel.
mortimer says
Shariafication for the American nation.
She should have her citizenship revoked for declaring her brother was her spouse.
Giacomo Latta says
Plus her enjoyment of a right that Islam cannot give her: to marry and divorce who she pleases and when she pleases.
Keys says
She needs a extended vacation in Somalia ———— with all those who voted for her.
maria says
she is a terrorist like the rest of the squad and should be in jail or executed
Wellington says
“Muslim-Americans have played a major role in shaping our nation for centuries,” said Congressman Andre Carson.
This is a total lie—Muslims have done diddly shit to consciously and patriotically make America in any way a better and greater nation—made all the worse because Carson is black and Islam’s record on black slavery makes the West’s role in black slavery (still completely wrong to be sure) look like a relatively minor error.
Besides, America has profusely apologized for its role in the black African slave trade. When has the Islamic world EVER apologized for its role in black African slavery, made all the worse because it 1) began 8 centuries before the West trafficked in this iniquitous institution; 2) the West did not castrate black male slaves but the Islamic world did en masse; 3) the number of blacks enslaved by the Islamic world was easily at least 100 million while the total number of black slaves brought to all of the New World (mostly by the Spanish) was around 12 million and of this some 12 million only around 400,000 were brought to what is now the USA; and 4) Islam’s reputed founder himself trafficked in black slaves and referred to blacks derisively as “pug-nosed creatures” and “raisinheads.”
The Islamic world is wretched and those non-Muslims who defend it are useful idiots. Unfortunately, Carson himself is a convert to Islam so he functions in a “special sphere” of useful idiots, i.e., adults who willingly become adherents of the only major religion which is a mortal enemy of liberty. Deep shame on this man.
What a fool. What a monumental fool he is. No respect for him at all. None.
gravenimage says
+1
MIke says
+2
Infidel says
It’s like Andrea Mitchell’s claim that Thomas Jefferson hosted the first iftar dinner
PRCS says
Au contraire, Monsieur Wellington.
Like Omar, Tlaib, Nijad Awad, Linda Sarsour, and pretty much every other Muslim “influencer” in the West–he’s no fool.
He, like they, are very effectively–sad to say–exploiting the West’s own foolish ignorance of Islam.
Nary a word from them, ever, that Islam’s “guy in the sky” commands hijab to distinguish “chaste, pure” Muslim women from unbelieving riff-raff.
To this day. Around the world.
Qur’an 33:59.
Wellington says
I consider all adults who are willingly Muslim to be a fool, PRCS. And extra foolish are those adult Muslims not brought up Muslim but who converted to Islam when an adult.
PRCS says
Foolish to be Muslim, yes.
But, to date, the plan to implement Islamic law here is well-coordinated, massively funded, and very effective; the apparently unchallenged claim that Muslims played a major role in shaping our nation being but one of so many examples.
They’re winning and “we” are being played for the fool.
Wellington says
I agree, PRCS, that many are being played for the fool by the Islamic world in general, but one can know exactly what they’re doing and still be foolish (and evil) in the extreme. I think we’re pretty close here.
william says
Carson appears to be quite ignorant of US history. The USA is barely 250 years old and Muslim have only been present in large numbers for about 50 years, so what centuries of Muslim contribution is he talking about.?
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington. Andre Carson hasn’t a clue about the real American history with Islam. Islam’s caliphate caused America’s first foreign war.
PRCS says
Disagree.
No way to know what he knows.
More likely, IMO, he knows he’s telling a lie; a lie being parroted to further “the cause”.
CAIR makes sure he toes the line.
JOEYN says
Might as well call it Terrorists Heritage Month since terrorism has been the main contribution of the Muslim population to America.
Infidel says
Yeah, but then make it September
AleX says
As the day of September 11 moves due to the lunar calendar, make it every month: the Islamic Terrorism Awareness Month.
Infidel says
Not a bad idea
Rachele C. Raanan says
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are merely taking advantage of the poor education and lack of critical thinking skills of a large portion of the American public. With no knowledge of history (American or world) and no understanding of how the U.S. government is constructed or functions, they are fair game for hostile propaganda, conspiracy theories and the concerted efforts of those who would make use of their ignorance.
While these ‘useful idiots’ are undoubtedly in the minority, the ‘silent majority’ seem willing to let them define the terms (linguistic and political) of the ‘new society’ being created.
This may be the ultimate test as to whether a popular democracy, in which everyone has the vote – regardless of education or understanding – can survive.
PRCS says
Agree!
john smith says
If you can include knocking the twin towers down, then muslims have played a major role in shaping America, but it’s a major role for the worse.
Infidel says
That’s the only major role muslims have made in reshaping America, or more precisely, the Manhattan skyline
American Patriot says
Well, that could be a major role in shaping America, they changed the whole New York skyline down so they could build the largest Mosque there. And the United Nations is changing all the History of America for Islam to be the dominant species of whatever evil animal you want to call them. Look up all and I mean all History of Islam and you will find that a self-proclaimed last prophet called Mohammad was invented by the Mullahs to gain power in the world. There has not been any proof of any Muhammad being in existence until the stories passed down by the religious men that had other ideas of religion and used it as a smokescreen to convince ignorant and uneducated people listened to the BS. They believe that Allah is a true god but don’t know that it was a moon god made up of hundreds of idols put together to form an invisible power over people to do their evil bidding as they still do today.
gravenimage says
Rep. Omar Wants to Replace July 4th With Muslim Heritage Month
……………….
As Daniel Greenfield notes, there is no objective reason why July would be associated with Muslims–it is obviously just to distract from the founding of our civilized nation.
I hope this whole idea is scotched–but in today’s mad climate, it may not be.
Infidel says
When Juneteenth became prominent last year, Mark Steyn pointed out on Tucker’s show how it’s the first step towards making July 4th irrelevant. Particularly since the bill that was voted on this year almost unanimously calls it ‘Juneteenth National Independence Day’ instead of ‘Emancipation Day’
Looks like Ilhan is just interested in proving Mark Steyn right. And the Dems right now have the numbers in both House and Senate to pass this, since the bulk of Republicans are not anti-islamic the way they should be.
I agree w/ Daniel Greenfield: why not call September muslim heritage month, since that was the month that put islam and muslims in the minds of most Americans?
Keys says
I wouldn’t go for a whole month, Infidel, but I would support September 11 as National Muslim Heritage Day.
Infidel says
Call it ‘Triumph of islam Day’, not just to further rub it in, but also to have the salutary effect of reminding us Americans not just about the day, which we observe, but also islam’s role in it, which we (the population at large) don’t
Keith O says
I thought the US has mental health laws in place where someone, who is obviously mentally unstable, can be committed for an evaluation, especially if they are a threat to themselves or others!
So why is Omar still walking the streets and waffling her demented BS?
Walter Sieruk says
Omar with her foreign Islamic agenda she desire to impose on America which are in strong contrast to American ideas, values, politic and polices are a matter of concern. Omar with her favoring Sharia law.
Now she has the gall to actually want to replace the July 4th calibration with a Muslim heritage month , that outrageous as well as absurd . Omar that that awful and outlandish goal have completely proven how totally un-American she actually is
With this type of insidious Islamic infiltration in the US government the wisdom of the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, very much applies to this serious situation.
In a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician , Ilan Omar is so very anti-Jewish and so spitefully against the Jewish State of Israel that she is in totally in essences un-American as the late US President ,William Howard Taft and said “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America”
Trevor Morgan says
There’s a series of things,
A chain of events
That flows from cause to consequence.
These can be put straight down to chance
Or blamed upon mere happenstance
And some may say with sad laments
That Satan set the circumstance
Although we’re vexed, well, maybe
From chaos and complexity
About the way that things may go
And where they’ll lead us who can know.
As consequence becomes new cause
Events flow on without a pause
For they seem linked like an endless chain
That rattles along and past again
As in a gapless seamless dance
We’re driven on by hapless chance
A whirligig of spirals flow
And where they’ll take us
Who can know?
Yes – there’s a series of things
A chain of events
That runs ‘tween cause and consequence…
Ecosse1314 says
No GI..scotched is/was in June. Now apparently its a month to celebrate the famous McAbdullah clan.lol
gravenimage says
🙂
By the way, Ecosse, my maternal gramdmother was Lowlands Scots.
OLD GUY says
Omar has been totally brainwashed by the islamic cult. She is nothing but a tool of the Islamic State who’s job is to spread propaganda and destroy America.
She has broken her oath to defend America and its people.
She should be prosecuted for the laws she has broken and deported as an enemy agent.
The Political Oracle says
One day at a time, one month at a time, one city, one county, one state, one tradition, one culture at a time until everything about the West is conquered by Islam and rebuilt into one Islamic State. Isn’t this multi-cultural practice nice!
What dirty filth these actors and actresses for Islam are! Shame on the people who put this filth into office!