Really, Mr. Obama: Islam "Always Been a Part of America"?
Joseph Klein writes at Frongpagemag.com:
To single out Islam as an unabashedly positive force that has “always been part of America” is simply not supported by the historical record.
No mosques were even built in the United States until the early twentieth century.
Muslim slave traders enabled the market for slaves to grow in America.
The first war that the young United States fought against foreign powers was against Muslim states.
The founding fathers cited by Obama who owned copies of the Koran were not comfortable with the rigidity of Islamic doctrine and its warrior mentality.
Muslim Americans’ contributions to such fields as science and jurisprudence, such as they are, did not begin in earnest until well after the middle of the twentieth century.
And, by the way, Mr. Obama, the "oldest mosque in the U.S. was built in North Dakota in 1929," Klein writes.
That would be 153 years after the Declaration of Independence was set forth in 1776 and 322 years after the Jamestown was founded in 1607.
