Islam in America Timeline
1619-1800s
10 million Africans are brought to North America as slaves. About 30% are Muslim.
1775
Former slave Peter Saleem fights in the Battle of Bunker Hill and throughout the American Revolution
1856
The U.S. Cavalry hires Hajji Ali, a Muslim, to experiment with raising camels in the Arizona desert.
1893
Journalist Mohanned Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest white Muslim-American converts, founds the American Islamic Propaganda Movement.
1898
Kawkab Amnika (Star of America), the first Arabic newspaper in the United States, begins daily publication.
1908
Large numbers of Muslims immigrants pour into the United States from parts of the Ottoman Empire, including what is now Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
1913
Noble Drew Ali founds the Moorish Science Temple of America in Newark, N.J. The group claims to be an Islamic sect but incorporates influences from many religions
1919
First Islamic Association is found in Highland Park, Mich., where many immigrants found work in auto plants.
1920
The Red Crescent, a Muslim charity modeled after the International Red Cross is established in Detroit.
1934
The Mother Mosque, the first building in the United States built specifically to be a mosque, is established in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1957
The Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., a mosque and cultural center is dedicated. President Eisenhower and first lady Mamie Eisenhower attend the ceremony.
1964
Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali as part of his conversion to the Nation of Islam.
1965
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published soon after it subject’s assassination, tells the story of conversion to Islam in the context of the African-American experience.
1975
Nation of Islam founder, Elijah Muhammad dies, causing a split in the organization that launches the controversial anti-white movement of Minister Louis Farrakhan.
1980
The American-Arab anti-discrimination by Senator James Abourzek, D-S.D., a Christian to “defend the rights of people of Arab descent.”
1991
The Islamic Cultural Center id completed in New York City. The first building erected there as a mosque, it regularly draws more than 4,000 for Friday prayers.
1991
Charles Bilal is elected mayor of Kountze, Texas, the first Muslim to head a U.S. municipality.
1993
Abdul-Rasheed Muhammed is appointed the U.S. Army’s first Muslim chaplain.
1996
The first celebration of Eid al-Fitr takes place at the White House
2001
The U.S. Postal Service issues the first stamp honoring a Muslim holiday.
2001
A series of coordinated suicidal attacks by al-Qaeda Muslims upon the United States occurs on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda Muslim terrorists hijack four commercial passenger jet airliners, crash two of them into the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon. The fourth crashes in Pennsylvania as passengers sacrifice their lives to thwart an attack on the White House. The 9/11 terror attacks fuel a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment across America that continues today.
2001
Muslim Richard Colvin Reid (born August 12, 1973) commonly known as the shoe bomber, a self-admitted member of al-Qaeda, attempts to bomb flight 63 with explosives concealed in his shoe. In 2002 he pleads guilty in U.S. federal court to eight criminal counts of terrorism stemming from his attempt to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight.
2002
The FBI reports that hate crimes against Muslims have risen 1,600 percent since 2000.
2003
FBI leaders tell field offices to count all of America’s mosques and detail their membership. Faced with protest from Islamic advocacy groups the agency drops the plan.
2003
U.S. Army Sgt. Asan Akbar, an African American Muslim, who is alleged to have committed a grenade attack on fellow U.S. soldiers in Kuwait, killing one American and wounding 15 others, will likely be charged with murder and possibly treason. The fragging incident raised intense speculation that Akbar allegedly committed his deadly attack because he felt persecuted by Army brass for his religious beliefs, or harbored resentment for being required to fight a war against other Muslims
2004
Daniel Pipes, a President George W. Bush appointee to the Institute for Peace, establishes the Islamic Progress Institute to “articulate a moderate, modern, and pro-American viewpoint” on behalf of U.S. Muslims.
2004
The Treasury Department appoints Mahmoud El-Garnal to advise the federal agency on Islamic banking and Shariah finance.
2005
A mother-daughter team founds the first Muslim national sorority in the United States, Gamma Gamma Chi, to help improve the image of Muslim women.
2006
Keith Ellison of Minnesota becomes the first Muslim elected to Congress.
2007
President George W. Bush participates in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Islamic Center of Washington.
2008
Imam Warith dies. Known as “America’s Imam”,” he was the first Muslim to offer the U.S. Senate’s invocation in 1990. He also offered prayers at President Bill Clinton’s inter-faith prayer services.
2009
President Barack Obama names Rashad Hussain, an American Muslim of Indian origin, as deputy associate counsel.
2009
An American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others. Hasan had tendencies toward radical Islam since 2005 and had e-mail communications withAnwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki, born April 22, 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen, and of Yemeni descent. He is an Islamic lecturer, spiritual leader and former imam who has purportedly inspired Islamic terrorists against the West.
2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Muslim Nigerian citizen, (also referred to as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri; born December 22, 1986, in Logos, Nigeria) attempts to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan on December 25, 2009.
2009
Obama appoints devout Muslim, Arif Alikhan as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. to Homeland Security Post. Arif comes from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa’s office, where he served as Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community. Alikhan is affiliated with MPAC, the "Muslim Public Affairs Council".
2009
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announces that at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swears in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). He is a leader of an Arab group that hailed jihadists as 'heroes'
2010
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf champions Park51, also known as the ground zero mosque, a multistory Islamic Community center two blocks from the New York World Trade Center site.
2010
Worldwide outrage is triggered when a Florida preacher announces plans to burn the Koran in protest against the ground zero mosque. He later cancels the event.
2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this weekend that the "multikulti" concept – where people of different backgrounds would live together happily – does not work in Germany.
At "the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed."
The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners" who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits.
STORY: Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer'
The study also found that 13 percent of Germans would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a firm hand.” Some 60 percent of Germans would “restrict the practice of Islam,” and 17 percent think Jews have “too much influence,” according to the study.
"The findings signal that Europe’s largest nation, freed from cold-war strictures, is not immune from the extreme and often right-wing politics on the rise around the Continent," writes the Monitor's Europe Bureau chief, Robert Marquand. "The year 2010 is marking a clear shift toward extremist politics across Europe, analysts say. An uncertain economy, a gap between elites and ordinary Europeans, and fraying of a traditional sense of national identity has just in the past month brought more hard-line politics and speech, often aimed at Islam or immigrants – into a political mainstream where it had been absent or considered taboo."
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Muslims: Here they come! Another reason to vote Republican!
Kareem Shora
Arif AlikhanThis will make your day!
Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep!
Obama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.
Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...?
Just wondering.
Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already?? That should make our home land much safer, huh!?
Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 8 1/2 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood?
What's next? A Mexican illegal alien for Secretary of DHS?
Please forward this important information to any who cares about the future of our Country. VOTE REPUBLICAN!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Intolerance of Islam
MALMO, SWEDEN — At some point, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that often greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the 107-year-old Moorish-style synagogue in this port city forced the 32-year-old attorney to make a difficult, life-changing decision: Fearing for his family’s safety after repeated anti-Semitic incidents, Eilenberg reluctantly uprooted himself and his wife and two children, and moved to Israel in May.
Sweden, a country long regarded as a model of tolerance, has, ironically, been a refuge for Eilenberg’s family. His paternal grandparents found a home in Malmo in 1945 after surviving the Holocaust. His wife’s parents came to Malmo from Poland in 1968 after the communist government there launched an anti-Semitic purge.
But as in many other cities across Europe, a rapidly growing Muslim population living in segregated conditions that seem to breed alienation has mixed toxically with the anger directed at Israeli policies and actions by those Muslims — and by many non-Muslims — to all but transform the lives of local Jews. Like many of their counterparts in other European cities, the Jews of Malmo report being subjected increasingly to threats, intimidation and actual violence as stand-ins for Israel.
Read more: http://life.nationalpost.com/2010/10/17/anti-semitism-in-sweden-grows-with-muslim-immigration/#ixzz12owFXOCc
Sweden, a country long regarded as a model of tolerance, has, ironically, been a refuge for Eilenberg’s family. His paternal grandparents found a home in Malmo in 1945 after surviving the Holocaust. His wife’s parents came to Malmo from Poland in 1968 after the communist government there launched an anti-Semitic purge.
But as in many other cities across Europe, a rapidly growing Muslim population living in segregated conditions that seem to breed alienation has mixed toxically with the anger directed at Israeli policies and actions by those Muslims — and by many non-Muslims — to all but transform the lives of local Jews. Like many of their counterparts in other European cities, the Jews of Malmo report being subjected increasingly to threats, intimidation and actual violence as stand-ins for Israel.
Read more: http://life.nationalpost.com/2010/10/17/anti-semitism-in-sweden-grows-with-muslim-immigration/#ixzz12owFXOCc
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Moderate Muslims in America are in Denial
The moderate Muslims in the USA are in complete denial about the hijacking of Islam by the Radicals who use violence and intimidation to coerce those who might otherwise prefer a more liberal revision or interpretation of Sharia Law that encompasses Western ideals. The media does America a huge disservice by continuing to water down the threat of Islam. True Muslim believers clearly want to impose their totalitarian system of politics, finance and religion on the USA. The greatest hypocrisy of the media is the parading of Muslim women on their programs to assert their moderation. The Radicals and Imams barely tolerate their appearance and would like to slit their throats the first chance they get off camera. While they are prudent to abstain from such actions in the USA for now, they would celebrate the offing of these Muslim women on Muslim soil with the blessings of those governments. Of course, the Radicals are looking for the day when they can put these strident Muslim women in their place through stoning, lashings, or beheadings. With the assistance of naive Americans of all faiths, that day is a bit closer.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Detroit -- Islamic America
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere !
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps !
With Aid to Dependent Children, women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!
Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America .
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America . English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In this week's Time Magazine October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night.
Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit . "By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the unemployment rate is 28.9%.
That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent." At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit , he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain ; London, England ; and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life.
By Frosty Wooldridge
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps !
With Aid to Dependent Children, women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!
Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America .
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America . English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In this week's Time Magazine October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night.
Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit . "By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the unemployment rate is 28.9%.
That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent." At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit , he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain ; London, England ; and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life.
By Frosty Wooldridge
Should the Queen Convert to Islam?
Tim the Terror wrote: Oct 2nd 2010 6:22 GMT .I speak as an Englishman - now living in Australia - who first heard an MP by name of Enoch Powell back in the '60's warn Britons that if Asian immigration wasn't drastically reduced there would one day be 'blood flowing in the streets of Britain'
Like others I didn't take too much notice and liked it when I heard others say 'what a tolernt society England was'
After a few years I saw third world conditions starting to blight certain sections of northern towns. A while later militant Moslems demonstrating in the streets and the placards went beyond anti-Israeli sentiments to that of an anti-American AND anti-British vein.
Next it was talk of taking over Buckingham Palace, the need for the Queen to conert to Islam and Sharia Law become the order of the day.'Honour' killings became commonplace and finally British blood was spilt on England's streets with train and bus bombings in London.
Enoch Powell was correct in his prophecy.I am seeing the same thing happening in not only the Anglo-sphere of the English speaking world of America,Britain,Canada,Australia and New Zealnd
but in the Euorpean Western Democratic Societies.
Published in the Economist
Like others I didn't take too much notice and liked it when I heard others say 'what a tolernt society England was'
After a few years I saw third world conditions starting to blight certain sections of northern towns. A while later militant Moslems demonstrating in the streets and the placards went beyond anti-Israeli sentiments to that of an anti-American AND anti-British vein.
Next it was talk of taking over Buckingham Palace, the need for the Queen to conert to Islam and Sharia Law become the order of the day.'Honour' killings became commonplace and finally British blood was spilt on England's streets with train and bus bombings in London.
Enoch Powell was correct in his prophecy.I am seeing the same thing happening in not only the Anglo-sphere of the English speaking world of America,Britain,Canada,Australia and New Zealnd
but in the Euorpean Western Democratic Societies.
Published in the Economist
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