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Get ready, folks, for Emir George Washington, Imam Thomas Jefferson, and to learn that Benjamin Franklin was a descendant of Muhammad. Coming soon to a leftist history class near you.
The Left, the Democrats, want to change America. Our Founding Fathers (tried to) create a virtuous, limited government, capitalist, republic. The Democrats don’t believe in any of those things. They believe in promiscuity and licentiousness, Marxism, and totalitarian government. To do that, as Marx said, “Keep people from their history and they are easily controlled.” Change the country’s history, revise it, deconstruct it, make the early Americans evil, slave-holding, secular humanists, and it becomes obvious we need a different America from the one they established.
The next step, apparently and probably, will be the Islamization of American history.
Here is a headline recently from Breitbart: “With Mamdani on Rise, Left Begins Rewriting American History to Elevate Muslims.” I have a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in American history, over 100 hours of graduated work in the subject, and I have written hundreds of articles on the subject. I cannot name one prominent Muslim in American history. That doesn’t mean that there have been no Muslims who have made some contribution to early and middle American history; but none of them became famous enough to make it into your American history textbook. They played no major part in the founding or leadership of building the United States into a great world power.
But now they will be coming for your children.
Zohran Mamdani is a strange duck. He is a Muslim, but he is also a Marxist. There can be no two more self-contradictory themes than those. Muslims are, first, to be devoted to their god, Allah, so much so that literally untold numbers of them have committed suicide in his name. Karl Marx was an atheist. Who is Mamdani’s first loyalty to?
Well, his first loyalty is to himself, because, like every other Democrat (and most politicians), power is the name of the game. And it does appear that Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of New York. It will be very interesting to see the influence he has over that city and how it affects the rest of the country.
Democrats don’t like Islam any more than they like Judaism or Christianity. Most of them, at best, are agnostic, many are atheists, and thus changing early American’s Christian history—or making it look as horrible as possible—is a must for them. Hence their constant attacks on early Americans, our Founders, and Christianity.
Our Founders did not create a theocracy, of course; they gave everyone the right to believe in any religion they wanted to, or none. What our Founders did believe was that a limited government republic could not exist as a civilized entity without a virtuous people, and, to a man, they believed that religion, especially the Judeo-Christian heritage, was the source of human virtue. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the governing of any other,” John Adams said. But rather than give you more (endless) such quotes from our Founders, I want to give the reader a couple of quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville.
Most of you have heard of de Tocqueville. He was the French philosopher who came to America in the 1830s to discover why the American republic was succeeding so well, where both the British and French had miserably failed in their attempts at republicanism. So, we have here the words, not of an American, but of a foreigner looking outside in.
De Tocqueville’s first quote: “Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
America “flamed” with righteous teaching, with virtue, and that is what made the country great. Destroy virtue and you destroy goodness and you destroy the country.
De Tocqueville’s second quote: “Religion in America takes no direct part in the governing of society, but it must be regarded as the first of their political institutions; for it does not only impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it….I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion…but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or to a party, but belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.”
The whole nation held this view, that virtue (as produced by the Christian religion) is “indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions.” Democracy, republicanism is self-government; so is virtue and righteousness. Without virtue, there can be only totalitarian government. That is exactly why the Democrats hate, and are trying to destroy, Christianity in America. The attempt to “elevate Muslims” in American history will simply be the next step in the Left’s road to deflate Judaism and Christianity from influence in the country.
Interestingly, deTocqueville also had something to say about Islam: “I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”
You can take that for whatever you think it’s worth.
Islam lacks the golden rule. That means it is not a legitimate religion in the sense we have always meant in the West.
Islam uses some religious sounding language, and has some ritual behavior that makes it superficially resemble a normal religion, but that is about all. It is not really that different from the Left, which while formally being a modern development, nevertheless has primal roots that existed at all times in human history. So the Left’s modernity vs the relative agedness of Islam is not an ultimately substantial divide. The Left may not use religious language per se, but they effectively worship paganistic false idols like Power and Control.
The Leftist idea that some people matter and that the rest of us may be treated as inherent inferiors, or deplorables is similar to Islam and its notion of Dhimmitude. Leftism, Woke-ism, and Islam are birds of a feather.
Well said. Remember that Islam is the result of a loonie in a cave who heard voices. Enough said…
That Muslim politician Zohran Mamdani, is one man of the entire scheme for the advancement of Islam in the cities across the United States
This sly and subtle , sometimes no so subtle, subversive infiltration in American and other Western governments is known as the stealth jihad. This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective clever for the cause of Islamic power in New York Ciry and then the entire US.
Furthermore, this Islamic method gradual infiltration 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 oppose you.”aria. This sly and subtle , sometimes no so subtle, subversive infiltration in American and other Western governments is known as the stealth jihad. This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective clever for the cause of Islamic power in nations of the West.
In addition this Islamic method gradual infiltration 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 oppose you.”
Exactly, they know they can’t win over the West in a traditional war, so they will obey the Quran and lie their way to victory. Or so they think! I’m hoping the West wakes up before it is too late.
It’s already too late … We passed the point of no return a long, long time ago … We’re only now coming to realize it …
I’m a step ahead of you. About two months ago, I got a “fact of the day” email that stated the oldest university was founded by Fatima Al-Fihri the 9th century. That’s right: the University of Al-Qarawiyyin, located in Fez in Morocco, is the oldest university now.
Forget that “university” comes from Latin “universitas magistrorum et scholarium” and the standards were set in Europe, notably the University of Bologna. If a university was set up in the same location as a madrassa, let’s celebrate it as being older than anything in Europe.
What about the Greek Paideia in the 600’s? Herodotus mentions schools in the late 400’s.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/Athens
My Catholic school teachings said that the earliest universities sprang from the cathedral schools, which were established to educate commoners and counter their belief in sorcery, witchcraft, and folk superstitions. Not sure of the date, but it was around the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Why did the Founding Fathers enshrine the “free exercise” of religion knowing that Islam considered itself a “religion” and they knew Islamic “religion” sanctions the killing of non-Muslims among other heinous practices? Also, their Sharia Law IS the “practice” of their religion and trumps any country’s Constitutional laws.
Why didn’t they define or qualify what they meant by “religion?”
Are Founding Fathers should have known better. Even their first international War as a nation was against Muslims in the Mediterranean who were acting like the Houthis of today.
Theo-political ideologies have no place in America.
Excellent article but I would correct the author’s statement to the effect that, “they believed that religion, especially the Judeo-Christian heritage, was the source of human virtue. ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the governing of any other,’ John Adams said.” Although Adams did not specifically use the word “Christian,” the founders of the USA and all Christians believe that virtue is derived from Christ and Christianity. It is not “Judeo-Christian” morality per se that saves. Christianity is not inherently anti-Semitic. In fact, Paul cautions believers in Romans 9, 10, and 11 not to have antagonism towards Jews and Judaism because of its foundational influence on true religion. However, faith in Christ is transformative. He is the fulfillment of the Law and therefore following Christ is not simply following the moral law PLUS following Jesus. Following Jesus itself fulfills the moral law. This was deemed obvious — an everyday reality — by Adams and other Christian founding fathers of the USA. Our goal as spiritual people is not to be moral AND believe in or follow Jesus. We are to become part of the family of God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If someone commits adultery he or she has radically disrupted their PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Christ. It’s that relationship that is salvific, not obedience to the Law AND a relationship with Christ Jesus. The relationship with God upholds the morality; our morality does not certify the relationship. Yet, if we are not moral, we cannot say we are in relationship with Him. A relationship with Jesus is more than simply agreeing that the rabbinic sacrificial system of the Temple was out of date. Rather, as the sign in front of the storefront church in Brooklyn where I gave my life — body and soul — to Christ says, “Jesus saves.”
Their degree of success will be a function of voter ability to think critically.
In other words, the major divide will occur along big city limits.
It seems to me that not any old Christian ‘religion’ facilitated the peace and prosperity in the USA but the Protestant form of (I would say the more valid form) of Christianity; that is Biblical Christianity, with Christ first and foremost, not man.
To see how the USA would have been if it had adopted Roman Catholicism, you only have to look to South America. Roman Catholicism would have produced a Country and a ‘culture’ that was just as indolent, apathetic, and poor as its Southern neighbours.
Roman Catholicism and islam have a lot in common, especially the fatalism that permeates their societies.