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Our Muslim heritage



Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said: "I know, too, that Islam
has always been a part of America 's story." '



AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:

The earliest documented cases of Muslims to come to the United States
were two West African slaves: Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, who was brought to
America in 1731 and returned to Africa in 1734,[1] and Omar Ibn Said in
the mid 19th century. There has been some speculation that a Moor slave
Estevanico of Azamor, who had converted to Christianity [2][3][4] 14
years before his arrival in North America in the early 16th century, was
at least the first born Muslim to enter the historical record in North
America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States

". . . more than 3,500 Muslims have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan,
according to Defense Department figures provided to The Times. As of
2006, some 212 Muslim-American soldiers had been awarded Combat Action
Ribbons for their service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and seven had been
killed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us...pagewanted=all

Looks like the religion has a right to be here, it's paid for in blood
and service.

Disrespecting another American's religion, isn't the American way.
Neither is killing non-combatants, and calling them "collateral damage",
to use Timothy McVeigh's words.

You break it, you own it.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html