Academia: American History to Blame for Islamophobia.....

It must be nice never having to take any responsibility for your actions. Did he ever consider that 3,000 Americans being killed by his co-religionists in just a few hours opened our eyes to the disgusting, hyper-violent religion he's part of?.....

Islamophobia linked to American history- Illinois State University

Dr. Junaid Rana, an assistant professor of Asian American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spoke about Islamic history and the effects of Islamophobia Tuesday evening.

Rana connected Columbus' voyages to explain where some racial stigmas stemmed from.

"These same documents that Columbus was using were very famously interpreted by an Arab who had converted to Catholicism," Rana said.

Rana also said that the explorers who discovered the Americas spoke Arabic to the indigenous people first and assumed they were Muslim. (That myth has been proven false -ed.)

"One of the mandates they had was to bring back converts," Rana said. "Part of that mission was to civilize the indigenous people of the Americas."

He said that the Native Americans for "all-intensive purposes, were almost obliterated."

Rana also tied the slave trade to the expansion of Muslim racism.

"A large portion of the African American slaves were…Muslim," Rana said. "It's estimated that probably two to four million were Muslims."

Rana also highlighted the impact that Noble Drew Ali and Mufti Muhammad Sadiq had on the Muslim community in Chicago.

Rana also addressed the current racial implications plaguing the Muslim world in the wake of September 11.

"Many of the things we're still grappling with today…all of these questions, go back to a central part of American history that incorporates…how we understand each other," Rana said.

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Comments

[Elric66]

Doesnt explain Islamic raping and pillaging from the beginning of Islamic history; centuries before the Crusades and the Euros exploring America.

[Elric66]

"Rana also said that the explorers who discovered the Americas spoke Arabic to the indigenous people first and assumed they were Muslim."

So where are the mosques? Muslims discovered America and didnt build mosques?

[UberInfidel67]

OK, this man is stupid and so are the students that made this newspaper. "All-intensive purposes"? Ah, how about "all intents and purposes". Stupid stupid stupid. First rule: When trying to talk bullshit....at least say it right.

[ZIP]

Elric, Gateway Pundit had a good post about the 'Native-Americans are Muslims' myth.

[Elric66]

To be honest, I never even heard of this myth until recently. Ill have to check it out.