The New Jersey State Senate is considering joint resolution 105, which would make January “Muslim Heritage Month” in New Jersey. News12 in the Bronx was there to cover Madina Ouedraogo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) speaking in support of resolution 105. News12 tells us:
The goal is to increase awareness and appreciation of Muslim American communities in the state. The Council of American Islamic Relations testified on behalf of the new bill in Trenton.
Ouedraogo said:
If the state of New Jersey truly takes great pride in the religious and cultural diversity of its residents It is critical to pass Senate Joint Resolution JR105 which would recognize our large community within the state.
News12 added:
The Council hopes the new bill can bring more awareness to the rise of anti-Muslim incidents in the state.
Aware that there is always something wrong with every newscast that features CAIR, we go to the resolution to see what it says. In line 12 of joint resolution 105, we find this:
WHEREAS, Muslims have made significant contributions that shape our world, including notable achievements in philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, architecture, music, literature, and the arts…
It is hard to know what exactly they are referring to here. But it sounds as if it might be a rehash of chauvinistic, pro-fascist 1,001 Islamic Inventions propaganda. “1,001 Islamic Inventions” made claims that Muslims invented or discovered chess, the crankshaft, bathing, the circumference of the Earth, manned flight, robots, etc. But these boasts are either fables, such as a single line in an ancient poem, or just warmed-over Greek civilization.
If the resolution is referring to this kind of esoteric knowledge, then the state of New Jersey should not celebrate it. And if CAIR’s endorsement was the first warning sign, the hint of revisionist history was the second.
Eight lines later comes another warning:
WHEREAS, The history of Muslims in the United States dates back to before the country’s founding, originating with enslaved Africans, of whom scholars estimate as many as 30 percent were Muslim, who brought Islamic beliefs and practices with them and contributed in numerous ways to the founding of the nation, including courageous and dedicated military service in every major war from the American Revolutionary War until today.
Again, there is this vague reference to “scholars.” But there are no scholars who will tell you that 30 percent of the slaves brought to America were Muslim. That is because the historical record is not complete enough to know how many people were Muslim.
Also, several of the names that propagandists regularly bring up as examples of a Muslim presence in America are not only outliers, but Fulani.
The Fulani people were busy ethnically cleansing their areas at the time of the Transatlantic Slave Trade era. They were supplying the slaves, and they were not enslaving themselves. They were taking non-Muslims into slavery.
Omar ibn Said, Yarrow Mamout, and Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori are used as examples of American slaves who were Muslims. But these men were all ambushed or waylaid Fulani, and were not representative of large numbers of Fulani being enslaved.
James H. Johnston wrote about one of these Fulani brought to America, and says it right in the book:
…“Muslim slaves were uncommon”
That’s from From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family, by James H. Johnston.
Another Fulani slave was Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori, who was the subject of a Unity Productions movie called “Prince among Slaves.” Daniel Greenfield wrote about it here: “PRINCE OF LIES How a racist Muslim mass murderer of Africans became PBS’s role model.”
Not your typical friendly neighborhood slave.
There is a type of Muslim who will try to appropriate, in the name of Allah, anything that isn’t nailed down. That includes America. CAIR is like that. CAIR is an ardent supporter of teaching the 1619 Project in public schools. The thesis of the 1619 Project is that America began with the arrival of the first slaves.
There is another interesting detail to the Joint Resolution story. One of the bill’s co-sponsors is Ed Durr. Remember Ed Durr? He once spoke bluntly about Islam on social media. But now that he has been elected to the New Jersey State Senate, he is helping CAIR to bring revisionist history into New Jersey classrooms.
My guess is that News12 will not be around for any percentage of that.
“State lawmakers consider bill to name January ‘Muslim Heritage Month,’” News 12, December 19, 2022:
New Jersey lawmakers are considering naming January “Muslim Heritage Month” in New Jersey.Lawmakers have introduced a bill to make it so. The bill is backed by state Sen. Joe Pennacchio….The Council of American-Islamic Relations testified on behalf of the new legislation.“If the state of New Jersey truly takes great pride in the religious and cultural diversity of its residents, it is critical to pass Senate Joint Resolution, SJR-105, which would recognize our large community in the state,” says Madina Ouedraogo, government affairs manager for CAIR-NJ.CAIR says it hopes the new bill can bring more awareness to the rise of anti-Muslim incidents in New Jersey.
Noah Andeark says
CAIR is a terrorist organization. (p)islam is a gutter cult followed by the terrorists at CAIR.
That’s all you really need to know.
ALLAHU’S SNACKBAR!!!
Oded Oppenheim says
They want a presence in January to steal the public attention from Christian and in Hanukkah from Jewish holidays. There is no regular Moslem holiday in January.
Charles Lee Ray says
Allahu Tittybar!!!
Intrepid says
I wonder when Jewish Heritage Month will be declared.
Mo de Profit says
It’s like western history, we don’t need a month, we created almost all historical progress and every historical record made.
IAC. says
Or Christian, Buddhist, etc ?
Kasandra says
Will that “heritage” include 9/11, the Pulse Nightclub, the San Bernardino office Christmas party massacre, Jose Padilla (also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah – radiological bomb plotter), etc.? Asking for a friend.
Angel Jacob says
It might be a good cause to reveal all of islamic terrorism and dictatorships worldwide.
Steven Brizel says
This is the rewriting of history on a grand scale
Spurwing Plover says
CAIR needs to be investigated for whomever finances and supports them and we don’t need a whole 31 days over this Muslim Heritage stuff
Walter Sieruk says
CAIR has much gall, Islamic gall to actually wants a “Muslim Heritage Month” installed in January ,or any other month of the year.
For the greatness of the history of the United States of America is because this nation was, mostly founded and based, in part, upon the Judo- Christian percepts and the concepts and values of Bible based Christianity and not Islamic precepts and “values.”
As the second President of the United States, John Adams, had, so well, declared when he wrote that “The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity …. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are eternal and immutable as the existence of God.”
Walter Sieruk says
That CAIR movement to have a ”Muslim heritage Month” installed in New Jersey is part of the sly insidious stealth jihadist to inch by inch ,Month by Month ,State by state making gains in the America for the cause of Islam.
There is movement that is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to establish Sharia in America and other Western nations. This method different to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Walter Sieruk says
CAIR with its different efforts to influence the American people to thinks that “Islam is Great and wonderful” is along an action of subversion against the laws and precepts of the US Constitution of the United States because a strong part of Islam is Sharia is indirect conflict to the laws of the US Constitution.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
BettyO says
Haven’t even read the story yet, but I have a comment:
NO
Spurwing Plover says
How about a Christian Heritage month?
Andrew Blackadder says
Herr Goebbels, that wee Nazi prick said.. Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become truth in itself.
This is exactly what is happening today, for instance if they tell the uninformed public that islam created everything and just repeat and rinse over and over then people will start to think there must be something to all this and then the fish is caught.
The MSM today are not just Of The Left, they are also smart and evil for they know of what they do.