Sylvia Diouf’s Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas is replete with other examples of Muslim slaves’ supremacist attitudes towards non-Muslims. Of course, Ms. Diouf makes her position as one of the 36 liberal historians clear by whitewashing the true reason for Muslim slaves’ self-perceived superiority over non-Muslims, hiding the real reason behind a fog of potential other factors: their high levels of literacy, for instance (although it is not clear if that literacy extended beyond the ability to read and write verses of the Qur’an in Arabic). It is clear to anyone familiar with Islam what the motivation was behind calling Christians dogs.
Islam brought more that was bad, importing supremacist attitudes reeking of dhimmitude that rival anything Jim Crow served up many years later.
In addition to slavery and hatred of non-Muslims, what else did Islam and Muslims bring to the US during the time of the Founding? Our encounter with the swashbuckling Muslims of North Africa, the Barbary Pirates, began in 1784, when the pirates first captured a US-flagged merchant ship and began enslaving Christian sailors. Over several decades, the US government paid a regular series of tributes, rightly thought of as waterborne jizya, to the Barbary States..."
Well yeah, many Muslims captured other Muslims and sold them into slavery.
About the only contribution I can think of, offhand, of muslims to America is that they provided the history behind a segment of the Marine Corps hymn.
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Extremely few.
There is always an odd case or two, somewhere.
Probably most were actually black slaves, odds are a few would have professed Islam of some sort. These people were traded long distances across that continent.
GW was the first Muslim?
Slaves who were identifiable as Muslim were rare enough that they were considered somewhat as celebrities (as Omar ibn Said). There is an absolute falsification of American history going on. The victors write the history books.
They kidnapped people from as far away as Ireland and brought them to Africa as slaves, in addition to taking them off of ships.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Davis estimates that 1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other ...
Lots of things have gone on in history, some of them good, most of them not so good. Some of the pirates that operated around the east coast and Bahamas in the early 1700's were from N.Africa and were nominal Muslims (just as other pirates were nominal Christians). Because there were pirates operating in an around America doesn't mean we should brag that "there were pirates in America from the beginning" as if that has any relevance to anything.
When she said this I texted my sister that I didn’t know George Washington was muslim
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Every ethnic and religious group tries at some point to establish their presence in early American history.
And the first Armenians or Russians or Poles or Italians or Danes here weren't Founding Fathers either.
Hillary has forgotten that Washington’s successor, John Adams, had signed the Treaty of Tripoly into law because Muslims in North Africa were attacking American ships.
Ann now Hillary is ignoring that corrupt Congress is allowing radical Muslims to get away with attacking citizens in the homeland.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Trump can’t make Mexico pay for a border wall soon enough.
Truthfully, the US did bring back some Barbary pirates for hanging. But it remains to be seen if afterwards they contributed to our land by fertilizing it; or if they were dumped at sea to feed the fishies.
Does she know we fought the Libyan pirates back then? Does anybody?
This reminds me of the young boy who asked his father why was there no muslims on Star Trek. The father replied “...because it’s in the future.”
We can only hope that art imitates life.
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Didn’t Mohammed Atta sign the Declaration of Independence or something like that? Why else would I know that name?
Yeah, three of four, no doubt about it.
I've heard rumors that George Washington's horse was a Muslim........
Kunta Kinte from Roots was supposedly Muslim. Another slave said when he refused pork fat, “Oh, you be one o’them Guinea-men what don’t eat Poke”.