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First Ever America's Muslim by Bensmart04(m): 10:18pm On Mar 11, 2015 |
What does it mean for a religion to be woven into American history? The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to scholars historians have put their population in the tens of thousands -- yet when President Obama noted last month that "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding," he was greeted with incredulous outrage. There was controversial Christian historian David Barton scoffing that Islam's influence could be seen mainly in the role followers of Muhammad played in the slave trade and the Barbary Wars, while South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan wondered if the president's "Jakarta elementary education" might be responsible for his view of the past. An editor of a Catholic newspaper put doubts about the president's historical literacy plainly when he asked, "Is he high?" But it's not up for argument that this majority Christian nation has a spiritual history much more diverse than usually supposed. As Obama's critics have noted, there were, of course, no Muslims among the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both owned copies of the Quran, but they may have been as unaware of Muslims living in the young United States as David Barton and Jeff Duncan are today. Source: http://www.theafricanvoice.org |
Re: First Ever America's Muslim by SLIDEwaxie(m): 11:13pm On Mar 11, 2015 |
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Re: First Ever America's Muslim by tit(f): 12:49am On Mar 12, 2015 |
Re: First Ever America's Muslim by Nobody: 12:55am On Mar 12, 2015 |
"Every mallam with him own kettle,every Northerner with him own radio."Which means every man for himself....his life,his choices.... 0nyegame:No be here be your bus-stop,na for sambisa forest you go drop...... |
Re: First Ever America's Muslim by 0nyegame(m): 12:58am On Mar 12, 2015 |
Rubbish....oga i wan come down here |
Re: First Ever America's Muslim by 0nyegame(m): 1:08am On Mar 12, 2015 |
wakacome:lol....i wish u the same,God punish devil. |
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