Homeland Terrorism
In the second paragraph of the constitution of the United States it reads “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator what certain unalienable rights, that are among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is what the founding fathers said, but it’s not what they practiced. Even Frederick Douglas in the 1850’s said “You claim to be Christians and followers of Jesus Christ and to be a democracy, but your behavior would shame a nation of savages. Some Americans were clearly omitted from this circle of united interest drawn by the declaration of independence: Indians, black slaves, and women.
America always reminds other countries of their human rights records, forgetting or minimizing her own human rights record. What other country was established on three, not one, but three genocides. Americans killed the
Indians for their land. Americans then kidnapped, terrorized, and enslaved the African for his labor. Americans kill approximately 1 million Hawaiians, so that U.S. companies could control the land, and we get all the pineapple that we wanted. Does any other country have a worst human rights record than America? America is also the only country to drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations.
On October 12th 1492 Columbus landed in the Bahamas. They were greeted by the Arawak Indians. Columbus’s motivation was gold and slaves. When the Indians couldn’t guide him to any gold, he took them prisoner and shipped hundreds to Spain. They were put up for sale by the Arch Deacon of the town. Other Arawaks were ordered to produce a certain amount of gold every three months. Those who couldn’t produce it had they’re hands cut off and bled to death.
The Arawaks tried to resist, but the Spaniards had armor, muskets, swords, and horses. Among the Arawaks mass suicides began. In 2 years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide half of the 250,000 Indians on the island
were dead. By 1650 no descendents of the Arawaks were left.
In the Americas lived approximately 75 million Indians. When Columbus came, there were maybe 25 million in North America. When the pilgrims came to America, they didn’t come to a vacant land. The governor of the
Massachusetts bay colony, John Winthrop created an excuse to take the Indians land. He said “They had not subdued the land and therefore had only a natural right to it, but not a civil right to it. A “natural” right didn’t have legal standing. The puritans also used the bible to justify the terrorism, enslavement, and genocide of the Indians.
In Psalms 2:8 “Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utter most parts of the earth for thy possession”. To justify their use of force to take the land, they sighted Romans 13:2 “Whoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of G’d, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation”. The Puritans must have an interpreted this to mean, kill, enslave, and massacre people who
befriended you, and take their land.
America needed labor, Bishop Las Casas urged replacing Indians with black slaves. The helplessness of the African slave made it easier. The Indians were on their own land. The whites had their European culture. The
blacks had been torn from their land and culture. Forced into a situation where the heritage of language, dress, customs, and family relations was all but obliterated.
The first Africans brought to America were not slaves, and resisted slavery. A slave is a product of a psychological and physical process of terrorism. The slave was beaten, raped, and the stronger ones killed in front of the others, especially the females to instill fear into her, who in turn conditioned her young to obey the master. The slave was taught to know his place, to merge his interest with those of the master, destroying their own individual needs. To accomplish this there was the discipline of hard labor, the break up of the slave family, and the forcing of the Muslim slave (one in four slaves was Muslim) to become Christian. It’s estimated that Africa lost 50 million souls to slavery and death in the Americas.
The Africans were stamped with slavery, literally, and symbolically. The color black was distasteful, according to the oxford dictionary “Deeply stained with dirt, foul, having dark or deadly purposes, involving death, sinister. Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc. From the bible came further justification to enslave blacks. In Genesis 9:20-7, it states Ham saw the nakedness of his father Noah, when Noah new what his youngest son had done, he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham to be a slave to his brothers.
Slavery was profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make $257 per year on every Negro slave, and only spend $12 to $13 on his up keep. In 1610 a
Catholic priest in America named, Father Sandoval wrote to a Church functionary in Europe to ask if the capture, transplant, and enslavement of African blacks was legal by Church doctrine. On March 12th 1610 Brother
Luis Brandaon wrote the following answer to Father Sandoval “Your Reverence writes me that you would like to know whether the Negroes who are sent to your parts have been legally captured. To this I reply that I think you
Reverence should have no scruples on this point, because this is a matter which has been questioned by the Board of Conscience in Lisbon, and all its members are learned and conscience men. Nor did the bishops who were in Sao Thome, Cape Verde, and here in Loando-all learned and virtuous men-find fault with it. We have been here ourselves for forty years and there have been among us very learned Fathers…never did they consider the trade as illicit. Therefore we and the Fathers of Brazil buy these slaves for our service without any scruple….”.
Was African culture inferior to Western culture? Only militarily was African culture inferior to Western culture, and vulnerable to whites with guns and ships. Africa was judged as inferior because it was practical and profitable. In his book “The African Slave Trade”, Basil Davidson states “Slavery existed in African states, and it was sometimes used by the Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out “The slaves of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe- in other words, like most of the population of Europe”.
So as we can see Christians misinterpreted the Bible to justify kidnapping, enslaving, and killing Indians, Africans, and Hawaiians. Just as we see some Muslims doing the same with the Qur’an to justify suicide bombings, both are
wrong. Suicide bombings are not predicated on race, but against Western injustice, but slavery was race based. Even though slavery has been abolished, the psychological damage to whites and blacks has been done,
and what’s unfortunate is that we keep trying to heal the effects of racism with the very thing that caused it- racism.
What about reparations? Forget it, the west doesn’t have enough money. What the Afro-American needs more is 1st - free psychological help, and free education. Why do you think that after 200 years of terrorism that Afro-Americans don’t need help? But when some white kid kills himself speeding, or shoots up the school and his class mates, grief counselors are sent to the school. After 200 years of being terrorized don’t you think that Afro-Americans need to be psychologically healed, and be allowed to grieve?
2nd get the best Afro-American authorities of Afro-American history to devise a black history course to be taught from grades 8-12 and make it required just like English. Lastly America needs to have a million man/woman
march as a show of repentance for slavery. Or we can just wait, and let the forces of nature correct the problem.
To save some of you an e-mail lets do the following, if you want to claim that all of this happened in the past, and you’re tired of hearing about slavery. Lets put all of our suffering in the same barrel and forget about it not to be mentioned again. Take the Forth of July, Columbus Day, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Patriots Day, 911, 7/7, slavery, and all other memories of injustices, put them away not to be mentioned again, deal? I didn’t think so.
What was the African slave’s response to American terrorism? Did he engage in suicide bombings, and terrorist activities? No, the African slave’s response to American terrorism was to appeal to the consciousness of white
people, to have faith in G’d and to be patient. This produced great leaders like Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Emam Dr. W.D. Muhammad. None of these great leaders
advocated violence as a means to combat racism. This is why the Afro-American can walk with dignity, take note Muslims in the Middle East.
Sources:
A Peoples History of the United States: Pages 2, 4, 11, 13, 18, 25, 26, 31, 33, 35
The Bible- Revise Standard Version
Alamin Muhammad
Alamin Muhammad has been practicing Islam for 30 years.
9 Comments:
The opening quote is from the Declaration of Independence, not the U. S. Constitution.
And the rest of this rant is simply another attempt at justifying the Muslim position that someone else was bad, so Muslims are justified in being worse.
Why not give us a Muslim history lesson and explain why the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer Europe? What rationalization do you have for the religious doctrine that justifies murder, rape and mayhem perpetuated on Europeans because they thought differently?
Just another one of your lame endorsements of terrorism.
They did terible things, so why shouldn't Islam? Because Islam will be judged on what it does, not as a comparison of what others have done.
trashing white anglo Christian Americans has become over-used and cliche.
I almost feel like my day is not complete unless something I read or see insults me for being,
male
white
Christian
It only emboldens me to fight against my opponents harder.
I would like to echo the comment by anonymous-
Your own Muslim history is anything but squeaky clean.
Your article would find a more receptive audience with N.O.W., NAACP, and most Muslim organizations.
The things mentioned in this article are all old history, and I'm pretty certain some parts are either incorrect or gross exaggerations, though I don't have the specific information here to dispute it properly.
As I said, this is all old history, and in fact, the bloodiest war ever fought by this country was to END slavery. The problems with radical Islam are going on NOW. THAT is why the perpetrators are being hunted.
It pains me to quote Bill O'Reilly, but you do not point to bad behavior to try to justify worse behavior. Yes, all those things happened way back when before anyone gave any serious thought to civil rights. So, you are trying to justify Radical Islam's behavior to what happened hundreds to thousands of yrs ago.
This may be a stretch for the author, but for future reference when writing such articles, try to get the facts straight as anonymous said in the beginning, that quote was from the Dec. of Independance, not the constitution. But, let's not get fact in the way of how you feel toward the US and christians.
It pains me to quote Bill O'Reilly, but you do not point to bad behavior to try to justify worse behavior. Yes, all those things happened way back when before anyone gave any serious thought to civil rights. So, you are trying to justify Radical Islam's behavior to what happened hundreds to thousands of yrs ago.
This may be a stretch for the author, but for future reference when writing such articles, try to get the facts straight as anonymous said in the beginning, that quote was from the Dec. of Independance, not the constitution. But, let's not get fact in the way of how you feel toward the US and christians.
I won't get into some of the inaccuracies. I will get into the intent of the column.
Yea, America had slavery. And yes America ended slavery. The political system in place allows change to eventually come about. The history of the Constitution proves this. As you correctly said Annonymous, America went to war, a Civil War, to end slavery. Having said that:
Why bring up slavery etc. here as a way to communicate to Muslims about how not to be? Here is the problem with the columns intent.
Case in point: my ancestry came to America just after the Civil War. They made their home in a northern state that fought against slavery
(Union side). They never owned slaves.
So talking about America and slavery in the simple terms that Alamin does here really discusses slavery in a very unfair way. There were just as many moral heroes in America regarding the slavery issue.
Today, Christians in Muslim countries are not treated justly at all. They are routinely threatened. Muslims in this country, even as they appear as a Fifth Column to more and more American's as the days and years go by, get treated overwhelmingly better than Christians in Muslim countries.
Alamin, you would be on higher moral ground to preach if you were honest to tell the whole story about America.
It often amazes me that everyone blames the practice of slavery on the Americans while ignoring that the use of slaves is as ancient as history itself. The Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews in the land of Goshen, The Sumerians and Babylonians in the Middle East all kept slaves in the past, as did the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, The Ottomans, Chinese, Aztecs and Mayan civilizations.
While the History of America is replete with instances of barbarity, it is by no means the source, instigator or greatest purveyor of human kinds hideous practices. It is often forgotten that America fought a bloody war from 1861 – 1865 over the abolition of Slavery. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln stated, "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..."
The practice of the Muslim Arab slave trade lasted over ten centuries, but to those with collective memory loss - who love to place blame for the worlds ills on American colonialism and it’s European roots – America as a nation is a mere 229 years old and hasn’t engaged in the practice for over 140 years.
But it is often overlooked that over a hundred years later Muslim slavery was alive and well on the Arabian Peninsula and was not formally abolished until 1962 in Saudi Arabia, and 1970 in Yemen and Oman and in some cases is still practiced in Arab countries to this very day, like Mauritania and Sudan.
The Arabian enslavement was far more extensive and cruel than any practice of Spaniards English or Dutch…as many of the male slaves were castrated and made eunuchs so they could not reproduce. The process involved surgically removing the testes but often resulted in the loss of the penis as well. It has been offered that only about one in ten who were subjected to this “medical procedure” survived.
Furthermore, because The Koran promotes virginity and polygamy to such a high standing thousands of virgin girls were kidnapped and sold to Arab harems. They could be considered the lucky ones who weren’t raped and mutilated by their Arab captors before they were sold.
While the author states The Africans were stamped with slavery, literally, and symbolically. The color black was distasteful, according to the oxford dictionary “Deeply stained with dirt, foul, having dark or deadly purposes, involving death, sinister.
Here are a few quotes from Muslim Intellectuals;
The famous Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, expressed racist attitudes toward black Africans: “The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and their proximity to the animal stage,”
Another Arab writer, of the 14th Century, asked: “Is there anything more vile than black slaves, of less good and more evil than they?”
The children of a stinking Nubian black---God put no light in their complexion! Arab Poet, late 600AD.
I suggest the author do a little more research on World history before publishing anymore of his twisted and illogically biased tripe.
Also could you backup this dubious claim?
Americans kill approximately 1 million Hawaiians, so that U.S. companies could control the land, and we get all the pineapple that we wanted.
First of all The United States was the biggest market for sugar, not pineapples.
In 1863 under the orders of The U.S. minister to Hawaii John L. Stevens, U.S. Marines landed in Honolulu. A group of 18 men – mostly American sugar farmers – staged a coup and set themselves up as the “provincial government”
Was this act of war on a friendly nation the result of American hegemony? As a matter of fact it was all the act of a few businessmen that didn’t want to pay tariffs anymore.
The American President Grover Cleveland investigated the coup and fired Stevens, set the Queen free from house arrest and on Dec. 18, 1893 he briefed Congress on his findings:
"By an act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress, the government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown," Cleveland said. "A substantial wrong has thus been done, which a due regard for our national character, as well as the rights of the injured people, requires we should endeavor to repair." Cleveland refused to approve the annexation of Hawaii. Soon, however, he was out of office, and President William McKinley gave it his blessing.
By the end of the Spanish-American War, Queen Lili‘uokalani proudly flew the U.S. flag for the first time over her residence at Washington Place. She maintained it was in honor of the flag for which her subjects lost their lives defending. It was the first acknowledgement by the monarchy that American annexation was inevitable and that she was ready to become an American herself.
I have been unable to find ANY support that the United States Government exterminated 1 million native Hawaiians. Perhaps you could enlighten me?
I think that what is truly at work here, besides the hypocrisy, is a Fifth Coumn mentality which could be stated as follows: "we have the right to be in a state of war on the Americans, but we should take the moral high ground, and not be as evil as they are."
You see, again, there is no admission of fault...just preaching to us lesser beings...us white Christians.
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