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Fake News: CNN Pushes the Outrageous Claim That Islam Helped to Create the United States

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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.

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.” Bell’s interviewee raises the estimate, claiming that “during the slave trade, up to about 25 to 30% of the slaves came from areas where there were predominantly Muslim populations.”(Note that these claims leave out the role of Muslims in the slave trade itself, casting Muslims purely as victims.)

This is what our founding fathers actually thought about Islam:

There is some basis for some of the claims CNN cites. As Daniel Pipes noted in 2000, “Muslims constituted a significant percentage of the Africans brought to the Americas in servitude; and that, as the most educated and resistant of the captive peoples, they exerted a disproportionate influence on slave life in the Americas.” But the faith did not survive among these populations; few of their descendants knew their forefathers’ Muslim origins.

While Muslims were present at America’s founding, Islam — as a coherent, self-conscious religious and political civilization — was not. Had it been present, one would have expected the Founding Fathers to be more aware of it, and one would have expected to see an American version of the faith emerge, one more comfortable with ideas of tolerance and individual liberty, much as different reformist versions of Judaism flourished in the United States.

To the extent that Islam was a part of early American history, it was a negative force, an external enemy.

The predations of the Barbary pirates prompted the U.S. to build a world-class navy and deploy the fledgling Marines. As Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger recall in Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, Jefferson was shocked when, at a meeting in London with the Tripolitan ambassador and John Adams in 1786, the Muslim envoy declared that American Christians were fair game for piracy: “… all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of faithful persons to plunder and enslave.”

There are echoes of that Islamic supremacism in the public statements of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom Bell interviews jovially on CNN. After the San Bernardino terror attack in December 2015, CAIR not only ensured an Islamic burial for the terrorists and represented their family in court, but blamed the murder of 14 Americans and the wounding of 22 more at a Christmas party on U.S. foreign policy.

CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror-funding operation — none of which Bell mentions.

Bell offers one additional argument to defend the idea that Islam is intrinsically American: “America has always had heroes who were Muslims.” He cites Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Malcolm X — none of whom were active in public life before the 1960s. Amazingly, he also praises the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan. Bell cites Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” — and ignores his vicious racism and antisemitism.

Brigitte Gabriel Reads the Muslim Brotherhood Plan for America:

CNN’s effort at historical revisionism is not just aimed at encouraging Americans to adopt more tolerant attitudes toward Muslims, but to discourage awareness or criticism of aspects of contemporary Islamic political thought that clash with liberal democratic principles and that, in extremis, pose an active terrorist threat.

Islam need not be seen as a foreign presence. But to claim that it predates, or was part of, the Founding, is fake history and “fake news.”

Americans are certainly tolerant enough to accept law-abiding and tolerant Muslim communities into the fabric of American social and political life without being taught lies about the role Islam played in our history, or being made to feel that Islam’s claims on this country precede almost anyone else’s. source

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the “most influential” people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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    • unidentified

      that is a very poor attempt to rewrite the history of the united states, no where in early american history is there any mention of black african slaves being muslim

    • Boo

      The very fact that slavery was imposed upon the person experiencing and his personal ideologies weren’t a consideration in the equation says it all. If he had any say in the matter and someone actually listened to what he thought, do you think he would of decided to be a slave in the first place? Slaves were here to facilitate the belief systems of their owners. Not the other way around. Signed Rocket Scientist.

    • Man

      ‘Islam has always been present in the U.S.’

      that claim is correct because i came with the slave trade. so yeah that is part of American history.

      you even recognize it.

      and why does islam have to have ideas of tolerance and individual liberty to be recorded as there was no women’s rights and racism and religious bigotry was rampant in the USA… and that was before 1960′s LOL

      • Boo

        Man…along with every other cultural mindset of every serf, pilgrim, Scot, Irish, Italian, French, etc. etc. you want to throw in the soup. You didn’t see mosques until the late 1960′s either on this soil. So laugh … but it’s at your own expense. Lot of Voodoo practice among the slaves too. No one is naive enough to say Voodoo was a foundation of this country.

        • Man

          that is not the point i was making. It is stupid to state Islam had no influence because it shows no tolerance when back then, the protestant view was intolerance as well.

          John Adams published “Thoughts on Government,” in which he mentions the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a “sober inquirer after truth” alongside Confucius, Zoroaster, Socrates, and other thinkers.

          So it had an influence when fighting off Anticonstitutionalists who wanted only protest values promoted by the state and thus religious freedom was chosen as part of the free state

          • Boo

            Man … Actually, it was the Protestants fleeing the church of England in order to practice their version of Christianity that inspired freedom of religion. Most were Quaker’s. I wouldn’t spend much time on a cult or ideology like Islam that celebrates death and slavery of it’s women. You can call it a religion, but other then the fact that Islam was one of the originators of slavery it has no contribution to this country. Unless you want to bring back slavery or point out Islam’s contribution to slave trades?

            • Man

              The bible never stated that slavery should be abolished. So Christians should be for slavery.

              and it is stupid any way. which islamic nation endorses slavery?

            • Man

              worse yet. the bible actually specifies how to own slaves and keep them, and even punish them

    • wiseoldlady

      The only Islamic contribution to our American history was the creation of our Army. All due to the Barbary-muslim pirates. Muslims were NOT allowed entrance into America. If any were here they deceived their way in. There are numerous writings and articles exposing the rejection of islam by our fore fathers. I recall John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, even Mark Twain, wrote blunt truth about the barbarism of the political cult called islam.

      • harry

        ditto!!!

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