tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post8743287323321336224..comments2024-03-28T10:28:25.907-06:00Comments on American Creation: More from Thomas Kidd on Obama claim Islam was “'Woven into the fabric of our country'"Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-13100837200182467652015-03-12T20:58:19.028-06:002015-03-12T20:58:19.028-06:00We'll only need about an hour.We'll only need about an hour.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-39628066161343333682015-03-08T06:03:48.029-06:002015-03-08T06:03:48.029-06:00Maybe in a few years American public schools will ...Maybe in a few years American public schools will be celebrating "Muslim History Month" when we can find out more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-25899033159420414712015-03-07T11:30:49.874-07:002015-03-07T11:30:49.874-07:00The necessary distinction is between Muslims and I...The necessary distinction is between Muslims and Islam itself. Islam itself is nowhere to be found, except pejoratively.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-32645152971644528672015-03-07T06:23:55.528-07:002015-03-07T06:23:55.528-07:00"... a Barbary pirate or a Middle Eastern des...<br /><br /><br /><i>"... a Barbary pirate or a Middle Eastern despot..."</i><br /><br />It's interesting that in response to Jon's post on Muslims in America before and during the founding, you choose to highlight this section of Kidd's work, thereby juxtaposing the vicious and brutal and institutionalized acts of slave trading and slave owning practiced by many of the most prominent of Americans at the time. Good work. A bit Zinn-like though.<br /><br /><i>"What role did Islam, and Muslims, play in colonial and Revolutionary America?"</i><br /><br />Well, I'd say that their main role....as slave labor...was to help build an economy and a nation. Of course, in the peculiar circumstances of the nation, there were also freed blacks, some presumably Muslim or descendent from Muslims, also participating in nation building.<br /><br /><br />jimmiraybobnoreply@blogger.com