Correction to Previous Post: Muslims Did Contribute
(nablopomo day 22) I previously posted on President Obama's statement uttered in his speech in Cairo, that Muslims played a role in "America's story." What I posted was An American citizen's response " to Obama's statement by Mr. Morris Sadek , supposedly refuting it point by point. The refutation sounded plausible on the surface, and I did no research on it whatsoever. I Should've. Because the refutations themselves were done without research, and they were false (hat tip, my previous commenter, Friar Yid ). I am here to set the record straight. Turns out In this case, Obama was right: Muslims did play a part in the discovering and building of America. Even before the slave trade, there were accounts in pre-Columbus times of Muslims arriving in the 'New World', and in the 1500s, Africans were forcibly brought to this country and sold as slaves in Spanish Florida. There are estimates indicating that 10-20% of the blacks brought as sl...