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Decoding Obama: No, Muslims Did Not Found America, But Their Piracy United Americans Against Islam

Decoding Obama: No, Muslims Did Not Found America, But Their Piracy United Americans Against Islam

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:55 pm by Bethany Blankley

Decoding Obama: No, Muslims Did Not Found America, But Their Piracy United Americans Against Islam 2020-02-10T14:55:51-05:00 Bethany Blankley

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Former president Barack Obama claimed, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of America since its founding.” This is both true and false.

It is true in the sense that Islam posed a threat to America’s early existence. The North African Islamic Barbary Pirates had been attacking the west since the 13th century and began attacking newly American ships after the War of Independence. Algerian Dey Muhammad declared war on the United States, creating a catalyst for two separate wars the U.S. fought against Tripoli (1801-1805) and Algiers (1815-1816).

In fact, their threat was so great that delegates to the newly formed American government urged their states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. They believed their survival depended on a strong federal union and a strong Navy to protect them from the Algerians.

In The Federalist No. 24, Alexander Hamilton asserted without a “federal navy . . . of respectable weight . . . the genius of American Merchants and Navigators would be stifled and lost.”

Likewise, John Jay, in his letters, wrote, “Algerian Corsairs and the Pirates of Tunis and Tripoli” would compel the feeble American states to unite, since “the more we are ill-treated abroad the more we shall unite and consolidate at home.”

“From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We fight our country’s battles, In the air, on land, and sea,” became the U.S. Marine theme song after Marine Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon who famously, tragically, and fearlessly, led Marines and mercenaries up the Nile River and across miles of desert to capture the Tripolitan port of Derna.

Ironically, Barack Hussein Obama’s ancestral legacy is rooted in the Arab-African slave trade that would have been very much involved in the Barbary campaign against the West–the very enemies against which early Americans fought.

Obama’s father and father’s ancestors lived in the East African Arabic slave-trading region. Anthropologists point to cultural, mythological, historical and geographical traits to identify the meaning of names. Within the Arabic-African lineage, the meaning of Barack Obama’s name is rooted in Islam.

“Barack” means “Allah’s blessing” and is the name of the winged creature that brought the Muslim prophet Muhammad to “Paradise” in his “Night Journey.”

Hussein was not only Muhammad’s grandson’s name, but it indicates the status of Arab-African traders and entrepreneurs who sold non-Muslims as slaves. “Obama” in Swahili means “lion.”

Obama’s Arabic-African heritage is inextricably linked to Islam, which is inextricably linked to slavery. Muhammad’s institutionalization of slavery of non-Muslims is described in Sira of Ibn Ishaq, among other texts.

The buying and selling of people by non-African and non-Arab slave traders from Muslim wholesalers for 200 years represents a mere blip in the 1400-year legacy of Islamic slave trade.

Yes, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of America since its founding”—as an early threat to its existence.

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