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“Islam in America did not begin in 1965 or in the 1800s. It’s woven into the fabric of this nation.”
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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 27, 2026
The video, which began circulating on Wednesday and has over 560,000 views as of Thursday afternoon, is arresting on a number of levels. It shows a woman wearing a hijab and leading a prayer at the Illinois General Assembly, which is not all that odd in itself: The General Assembly often features clergy of various religions leading the assembled legislators in prayer. Muslim clerics, however, are universally male, and so in this case, we have a Muslim layperson leading the solons in prayer. What she says, however, is far more striking than the event itself.
As the lawmakers bow their heads piously, the woman prays:
Bismillah al-rahman al-raheem. We turn to you in gratitude and remembrance. O Lord, remind us that the history of Islam in America is not a story that began in 1965, nor one that arrived upon distant shores in the twentieth century. It is woven into the very tapestry of this nation. It is part of black American history. A story not only of bondage, but of spiritual emancipation, a freedom of the soul that existed long before its material counterpart was realized. Let us honor that truth with fortitude and clarity. O sustainer, remind us that this story is stitched into the fabric of our land, and carried in the sacred inscriptions…
The speaker claims that the history of Islam in America didn’t begin in 1965 (when immigration laws changed, allowing for much more immigration from non-European countries) or anytime in the 20th century. She claims Islam is “woven into the very tapestry of this nation.” Yet where is it? Where are the Muslim Founding Fathers? Where are the Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence? Where are the Muslims who fought in the Civil War (on either side)? Where are the Muslim veterans of the Spanish-American War, or World War I, or World War II, or Korea? There might be a handful for Korea, and subsequent conflicts, but the fact is that otherwise, Islam has had no significant presence in the U.S. until September 11, 2001. And it was only after that date that mass Muslim migration began, so most Muslims in the U.S. have been here less the 25 years.
The claim is actually based on the contention that a large number, if not all, of the black slaves in antebellum America were Muslims. This is an increasingly popular claim among the leftists who insist that “black and brown people built this nation,” but it is as unlikely as it is widely circulated. The uncomfortable fact is that Muslims in Africa often captured non-Muslim Africans and sold them to the Atlantic slave traders; they didn’t generally capture or sell their fellow Muslims, as that would have been against the Qur’an’s injunction to be “ruthless to unbelievers, merciful to one another” (48:29).
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Islam is bad says
Islam is the reason the United States Marine Corps exists. Because Barbary Jihadis were demonstrating the meaning of Jihad and the US President at the time needed someone to conduct Counter-Jihad.
So Islam is woven into the fabric of the USA, in a manner of speaking.
Nabil Bissada says
“What One Illinois Speaker Said About Islam and America Has People Talking”
“Islam in America did not begin in 1965 or in the 1800s. It’s woven into the fabric of this nation”
NOT TRUE.
LIES OR IGNORANT.
ACCORDING TO THE KORAN AND THE SHARIA LALW LIES IN ISLAM ARE A NOT A SIN.
Because if it is true USA, will be the same as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, or any other Muslims countries. Who still from the third world who have no respect, no secure for the Christians minorities and the women.
NO DEMOCRACY, NO HUMAN RIGHTS, NO FREEDOM.
Dear Muslims:
Please stop to deceive people who are accepting you as migrants in their country.
Majority of the western citizens are knowing the truth about Islam and Muslims.
THE WESTERN, CITIZENS AND THE CHRISTIANS MINORITIES IN THE MUSLISMS COUNTRIES ARE SUFFERING FROM YOUR DAILY TERRORISTS’ CRIMES AGAINST THEM.
For More Information;
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JIHAD WATCH
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
WHAT MAKES ISLAM SO DIFFERENT?
KK says
Jihad muhammadists are simply liars of the truth and will prey on the ignorant and unsuspecting.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In another post on this topic, I pointed out that this was as truthful as the claim that the patriarchs from Abraham to Christ were muslims. Here, I’d note that it’s as truthful as the claim that Neil Armstrong converted to islam
somehistory says
The late, fairly great, President John Q. Adams would disagree with this muzzie liar.
And the “slaves” may have been muzzies, but they were captured and sold into slavery by muzzies, who still enslave people to this day. Of course, it’s just as possible that the slaves brought to America were **not** muzzies, but believers in other religions. muzzies in Africa are still catching and murdering those who refuse their muzzie beast.
” bondage,” is a word used by this liar. and sure enough, muzzies are in “bondage” until today. There are some….who knows how many?….wishing to leave the demonic slave cult, but fear for their lives if they do so.
The ‘legislative body’ members taking part in a so-called ‘prayer’ with this muzzie, are bowing their heads to the “wild beast” which seeks to destroy them.
bill says
The fact is that Muslims invented the ‘modern’ slave trade. Slavery has existed for most of history but the Muslims starting in East Africa began taking slaves and marching them to the coast. Where traders bought them so the Muslims were making money from selling Afriacns long before the Westerners mainly on the Atlantic side gaot involved. The Europeans did not go slave catching in Africac it was being done for them by Arabs and by African tribes caprturing other tribes for sale. All the Europeans had to do was trade for them.People are now demanding reparations for slavery but they should be looking at their own people
and the Muslim countries who faciliated the whole business.
Present day Europeans do not have any responsibility for the slave trade. In fact in UK especially they were the ones who put an end to it.
Kepha says
Uncle Kepha reserves greater ire for a different group.
I see the greater fault lying with a large band of ostensibly Christian theologians who have been bending over backwards to prove to our cultured despisers that they share the cultured despisers’ contempt for historical Christian belief. This crew has also been at the forefront of welcoming every false belief down to Islamic fanaticism into our country.
I will also fault my 17th century brother Pierre Jurieu, who, in an unguarded moment, spoke of the Grand Turk as “tolerant”, when the Sultan was tolerant only in comparison with Louis XIV, who had just revoked the Edict of Nantes. I regret that it was a brother Calvinist who started the ‘tolerant Islam” meme.
Alkflaeda says
The African Muslims who sold African animists into slavery were indulging in a bit of ethnic cleansing, notwithstanding the claims of pro-Palestinian campaigbers that only Israel has ever putatively committed genocide. If the American slaves had been Muslim when captured and sold, surely they would have reverted to Islam on emancipation.
I am only surprised that no-one has ever attempted to build a case for Native American religious practices being Islamic.
Beans🫘 says
Israel is the worst genocider in history then. The population of the Palestinian hordes, it went up.