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CNN’s W. Kamau Bell: Islam Part of America’s Founding
http://www.breitbart.com ^ | May 29, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 05/30/2017 9:38:10 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

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.

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To: Labyrinthos

Edward E. Curtis IV....Just a wrote a load of lies.


41 posted on 05/30/2017 10:24:13 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: NKP_Vet

There were no Muslims on the Mayflower.


42 posted on 05/30/2017 10:53:43 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (I'm not homophobic --I'm homonauseated.)
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To: JohnyBoy

My understanding is that the European slavers purchased the slaves in Africa from Muslim slave traders, and transported them to America. Obama’s tribe in Kenya are descendants of those Muslim traders.


43 posted on 05/30/2017 11:00:56 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: NKP_Vet

The only impact of Islam on our beginnings were the Navy and Marines to go over there and kill Mohammedans.

Islam has been at war with the US since its founding because they have been at war with the rest of humanity since 622 A.D.


44 posted on 05/30/2017 11:03:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: NKP_Vet

“Islam has always been a part of the fabric of America...and pigs can fly.” I’m sure that puts the original quote into the proper context.


45 posted on 05/30/2017 11:09:23 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Well, the US did fight the Barbary pirates who were Moslems. The other Moslem connection in the early days was that Moslems were the slave traders who made it so African slaves could be had for field work in the colonies.

So there are two Moslem connections.


46 posted on 05/30/2017 11:14:38 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: elpadre

0bola has not Kenyan antecedents.

Fake life.


47 posted on 05/30/2017 11:17:24 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: NKP_Vet

Bull!


48 posted on 05/30/2017 11:18:53 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Without the Muslims, the democrats wouldn’t have had their slaves.


49 posted on 05/30/2017 11:28:46 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: NKP_Vet

In the 17th and 18th centuries moslems were nothing but trouble to the New World...

they were a hindrance and a huge economy loss through ransoms of American sailors and private citizens and destruction of the property of American businesses for the fledgling country...

there are no “moslems founders”


50 posted on 05/30/2017 11:58:58 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Towed_Jumper

and there certainly none on the New Netherland or among the Winthrop Fleet...


51 posted on 05/30/2017 12:05:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Romans Nine

They don’t look stupid to many democrats.


52 posted on 05/30/2017 12:06:05 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: RayChuang88

>Now, Judaism did contribute to the early USA since there were Jews living in the American Colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War.

Nope, there were only about 1,500 Jews. That’s about 0.001% of the population at the time.


53 posted on 05/30/2017 12:08:21 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: JohnyBoy

The math: 1500 is about .1% of 1.5 million.


54 posted on 05/30/2017 12:18:59 PM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Salvation

Obama. Didn’t he make a speech that basically state the same lie?

Tearing down our historical monuments and then lying about our real history is what totalitarians do. Soon you’ll see all the brainwashed leftists on social media posting and tweeting the same lie Obama and now Bell spewed.


55 posted on 05/30/2017 12:30:27 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: NKP_Vet
“Islam has always been part of the American fabric,”

Indeed ... in the early days of the Republic, as we expanded our influence and interests beyond our borders, mohammedanism declared war on us, demanding tribute. When we were strong enough, we told them to piss off. The United States Marine Corps sings about the "shores of Tripoli" for a good reason.

56 posted on 05/30/2017 12:33:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Phinneous
A Muslim "Bell", claiming some nonsense about America's founding. Posted today on the eve of Shavuos. So I might as well drop this here, regarding Bell days and 911:

The sabbath year (shmita Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release") also called the sabbatical year or shvi'it (Hebrew: שביעית, literally "seventh") is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel,[1] and still observed in contemporary Judaism.

And:

In modern Israel

The first Shmita year in the modern State of Israel was 1951-52 (5712 in the Hebrew calendar). Subsequent Shmita years have been 1958–59 (5719), 1965–66 (5726), 1972–73 (5733), 1979–80 (5740), 1986–87 (5747), 1993–94 (5754), 2000–01 (5761), 2007–08 (5768), and 2014-15 (5775). The last Shmita year began on Rosh Hashanah in September 2014, corresponding to the Hebrew calendar year 5775. The 50th year of the land, which is also a Shabbat of the land, is called "Yovel" in Hebrew, which is the origin of the Latin term "Jubilee", also meaning 50th. According to the Torah observance of Jubilee only applies when the Jewish people live in the land of Israel according to their tribes. Thus, with the exile of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Menashe (about 600 BCE) Jubilee has not been applicable.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita

The 50th year, according to the Shmita years counted in the modern state of Israel, began on Rosh Hashanah 5762. 29 Elul 5761 marked the end of the seven cycles of seven.

Rosh Hashanah 5762 therefore marked the beginning of the "eighth", the first year of the next 49 year cycle.

29 Elul 5761/ 1 Tishri 5762:

Monday, September 17th, 2001

That day in history was promoted as "Let Freedom Ring" Day by the NYSE, because it marked the reopening of the exchange after 911. (1 Tishri, א תשרי, has the numeric value of 911). Here is the full page ad run in the NYC papers that day:

The ringing of the NYSE bell was connected to the well-known phrase from "My Country Tis of Thee", to the bell and spirit of American Freedom (liberty), literally our Liberty Bell.

It "just so happens" that the quote on the Liberty Bell is from Lev 25:10, the Jubilee verse itself:

Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

The 50th year, according to the Shmita years counted in the modern state of Israel, began on September 17, 2001.

That was no ordinary date.

According to the Torah observance of Jubilee only applies when the Jewish people live in the land of Israel according to their tribes.

The modern state of Israel (and by extension, NYC which is Diaspora central) is comprised of the tribes Judah, Levi, and Benjamin. 30 + 46 + 162 = 238 = Rachel

Today in History

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

5 Sivan, 5777

Reuben Finds Mandrakes (1568 BCE)

The incident involving the mandrakes (dudaim) which Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, found in the field "during the time of the wheat harvest"--recounted in Genesis 30:14-18--occurred on the fifth of Sivan of the year 2197 from creation (1568 BCE).

5777 - 2197 = 3580 = 358 x 10 (עשר eser, שער gate)

Dudaim (דודאים) = "two beloveds' = "two Davids"

The conception of knowledge. Rachel had the long view (vision) in what she saw in the plants/flowers. The birthright went from Reuben to Joseph. As long as noone really knows what the dudaim were, they might as well have been forget-me-nots. Or, as they are named in Hebrew, zichrini, "remember me".

Gen 30

22. And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb:
23. And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24. And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another אחר [209 = hatzaddik הצדיק] son:

Benjamin was named Benjamin by his father, but Rachel named her second son Benoni, a name that the son Benjamin was never called. Benoni (בנאוני) = Yinon comes (בא ינון).

Nun also means “kingship.” There is a verse in Tehillim regarding Mashiach that states:16 “May his name (Yinon) endure forever, as long as the sun.” According to Rashi, Yinon refers to kingship. If we break the word “Yinon” into two—yud and nun—nun means kingship, and putting a yud before a word denotes continuity.17 Therefore, the name Yinon implies that the kingship of Mashiach will endure forever.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137086/jewish/Nun-Mashiach.htm

yud + nun = NY (י"נ). There's more than one angle to the idea that DJT is at the forefront of the Messianic process.

Rachel. Yinon. Yud (future form, masc sing.) + Nun. The long view:

50: at a distance

The number 50 is used as the measure that places something at a distance. The Talmud notes the use of a rope measuring 50 cubits for matters such as measuring the 2,000-cubit distance of techum Shabbos, the distance beyond the city one may travel on Shabbos.

http://www.aish.com/h/o/t/Who-Knows-50.html

50 "at a distance" can really be thought of as 60 (yud + nun, the yud denoting the future, the continuity), which is a samech. Distance not viewed as a long line, but rather a full circle (cycle). Samech = 120 = Yinon as written in the verse, 60 + 60 (ינין). New York, New York (י"נ, י"נ)

It really does explain why there is no end to this stuff. באין סוף 209...

shmita Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"... Makes sense, just as 210 follows after 209.

"That bell meant more to us than business as usual."

שמיטה = my name is "14" (nun: 14, 50)

Happy Shaar haNun Day :)

57 posted on 05/30/2017 12:41:12 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Really, this CNN moron could make Maxine Waters seems like a Rhodes Scholar...(and Maxine is not)


58 posted on 05/30/2017 12:44:51 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: NKP_Vet

ARABIAN NIGHTS does not qualify as part of America’s foundation.


59 posted on 05/30/2017 1:27:30 PM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: Phinneous
My back and forth coding flipped the letters around (I think, I am always at risk of a scramble with this stuff), so should be NY,

נ"י

It's always something...

60 posted on 05/30/2017 1:38:37 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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