tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931682382198278362.post2680300633295978248..comments2024-03-16T08:36:39.345-06:00Comments on American Revolution Blog: Land of Confusion: The Delusions and Realities of New World ColonizationBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931682382198278362.post-56440540881275744272010-09-19T15:44:26.964-06:002010-09-19T15:44:26.964-06:00Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy
...Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy <br /> <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tmQQJAt64A<br /><br />There is a prominent myth in American society that Muslims were Johnny-come-lately to the shores of America, arriving in America only in the latter half of the 20th century. This book dramatically illustrates that Muslims helped tame and settle the American Wild West, fought to preserve the Union in the American Civil War, stood armed and ready to defend America from British invasion in the War of 1812, fought to secure American independence from Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, helped build the agricultural base of the American South even before there was a United States of America, explored the American continent with the Spanish conquistadors, and sailed with Columbus in 1492. In addition, although it may be somewhat controversial, Arabic records indicate that Muslims had repeatedly sailed to the Americas centuries before Columbus. <br /><br /> ... In reality, there is a centuries long history of the Muslim presence in America, which is all too often overlooked or misidentified. Written documentation, linguistic evidence, and reports of early Spanish explorers of the New World suggest Muslim contact with the Americas prior to Columbus.<br /><br /> Muslims and Moriscos sailed with Columbus and were part of many of the Spanish explorations of the New World.<br /><br />Muslims comprised a significant percentage of the enslaved Africans who were brought to the Americas, and many Islamic residuals have found their way into contemporary African-American life and culture. At least one Muslim fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War, and many other Muslims were prepared to fight to keep American independence during the War of 1812. Another prominent Muslim was part of the taming! of the Wild West. Beginning in the late 19th century, successive waves of Muslim immigrants enriched America, and the phenomenon of Americans converting to Islam became increasingly widespread. In reviewing this history, the author presents a series of brief biographies of individual Muslims to illustrate the Muslim presence at each stage in American history. These biographies provide valuable role models with which Muslim youth in America can identify as they search for their identities as both Americans and Muslims.<br /><br />“In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”<br />…and conventional wisdom, as taught to us in our childhoods, tells us that America was discovered with his expedition.<br /><br />For most of the twentieth century, this “conventional wisdom” went unchallenged. But in his years of research, Dr. Jerald Dirks – a former Harvard Divinity School Minister turned Muslim Comparative Religion scholar – began to see the “Age of Exploration” in a new light. <br /><br />His research and the analysis he brings forth in Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy, goes into some of the historical evidence that contemporary researchers have discovered with regards to the sizable Muslim contributions to the New World, prior to Columbus’s voyage across the Atlantic. <br /><br />... how Islam may be just as integral to American history as “American Pie.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931682382198278362.post-40008364504921040712008-07-01T18:14:00.001-06:002008-07-01T18:14:00.001-06:00Good overall assessment and conclusion of the init...Good overall assessment and conclusion of the initial colonization of the "New World" religiously, economically and culturally by such notable key historical figures, such as Christopher Columbus and Cortes. <BR/>I am of the opinion one of the greatest deterrent factors which led to a great deal of hostility between parties during the colonization period were the new and diverse diseases which arrived with the English. <BR/>The havoc these new types of illness inflicted upon the Native Americans, surely brought their longstanding religous beliefs into question. It seems very likely and quite probable,based upon their initial religious beliefs before conversion to Christianity a great deal of the the Native American Indians found themselves reaping the punishment handed out by their gods they worshiped.<BR/>No doubt, economically, the English were looking for greater diversion of natural resources with which to exploit for their benefit and consumption.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11300321504409120520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931682382198278362.post-52957443885833006222008-07-01T18:14:00.000-06:002008-07-01T18:14:00.000-06:00Good overall assessment and conclusion of the init...Good overall assessment and conclusion of the initial colonization of the "New World" religiously, economically and culturally by such notable key historical figures, such as Christopher Columbus and Cortes. <BR/>I am of the opinion one of the greatest deterrent factors which led to a great deal of hostility between parties during the colonization period were the new and diverse diseases which arrived with the English. <BR/>The havoc these new types of illness inflicted upon the Native Americans, surely brought their longstanding religous beliefs into question. It seems very likely and quite probable,based upon their initial religious beliefs before conversion to Christianity a great deal of the the Native American Indians found themselves reaping the punishment handed out by their gods they worshiped.<BR/>No doubt, economically, the English were looking for greater diversion of natural resources with which to exploit for their benefit and consumption.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11300321504409120520noreply@blogger.com