America's Muslim Founders

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Where did the 'Founder Muslims' settle?

You know the one's who arrived on the Mayflower or soon thereafter?

Or did Obama's America begin post Lincoln?

By "soon thereafter" you're referring to the Muslim slaves who were brought over and forcibly converted to Christianity by the slaveowners, I believe.

Dell, I just don't get the whole point of that op-ed. Muslims stepped foot on the New World before Columbus did. We have records of Muslims serving in the Revolutionary War. The first nation to recognize America as an independent nation was Morocco. Even if we didn't have records of those things, who cares? Islam is as diverse a religion as any other major religion and to lump all Muslims in with extremists is every bit as stupid as lumping all Christians in with white supremacists who assassinate abortion doctors and burn down synagogues.

If that op-ed writer wants to talk about Johnny-Come-Latelys to the country's history, he should talk about Italians and Irish. If you're judging how American someone is by how many generations of their ancestors have been on North American soil, then the average African American is much more American than the average Italian or Irish American.

(Full disclosure- three fourths of my family are Johnny-Come-Latelys.)