CNN pushing claim that Islam was part of founding of America

CNN pushing claim that Islam was part of founding of America

Imagine if 9/11 had been orchestrated by Jews. (Some liberals already believe it was!) If 19 Israelis had infiltrated the nation and commandeered two passenger jets for a suicide mission that succeeded in killing 3,000 Americans, would the Left be waving the blue-and-white flag emblazoned with the Star of David? Would they find themselves in a bind when it comes to their allegiances in the struggle between the “chosen people” and neighboring Palestinians?

We’ll never know, but liberals in the U.S. have bent over backwards ever since that fateful day to extricate Islam from the terrorists who kill in its name, even inventing fictitious claims about the “religion of peace.”

Take recent broadcasts by Fake News Central, aka CNN, that advance the notion that Islam is a fundamentally American religion that played a key role in the founding of our nation.

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Anchors such as W. Kamau Bell and Dean Obeidallah have been promoting the specious argument that because Muslims were present during Revolutionary times, they were actively involved in the forging of the American nation.

Islam is “not” a foreign religion, one guest tells Bell, “It’s very American.”

“It was actually part of the creation of the United States of America,” Obeidallah himself claims in another segment.

Via Breitbart:

“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.”

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For CNN, the argument that Islam has “always” been present in the U.S. rests largely on the claim that a significant minority of black slaves were Muslim. On Saturday, CNN correspondent Dean Obeidallah claimed that “Islam has been here since the time of slavery, because ten to fifteen percent of the African slaves brought were Muslim. So Islam was here before the creation of the United States. It was actually part of the creation of the United States of America.”

As Joel Pollak explains, CNN is painting Muslims as victims of the slave trade while ignoring their role in helping the practice thrive.

Moreover, the founders have consistently been quoted as wary of the prophet Muhammad. John Adams referred to Muhammad as a “military fanatic” along the lines of Napoleon, adding he “was a usurper, lawless, and arrogated everything to himself by the force of arms.”

His son, John Quincy Adams, described the prophet as “the fraudulent spirit of an impostor” who espoused violence and “degrad(ed) the condition” of women.

Thomas Jefferson, as president in 1801, sent the Navy and early Marine force to the Barbary Coast to stop Islamic pirates’ reign of terror on U.S. merchant ships. He had determined that the Muslim holy book commanded the faithful to “plunder and enslave” non-Muslims.

While the founders were certainly focused on tolerance for all religions, there is little to no evidence that they looked to Islam as a founding force for our nation.

CNN needs to disengage in their revisionist history reports on our nation’s founding.

Cross-posted at the Mental Recession

Rusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is editor of the Mental Recession, one of the top conservative blogs of 2012. His writings have appeared at the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record.

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