Obama Completely Distorting Islam’s Role in America’s History

•     The US Supreme Court building served as a church every Sunday until the 1850s and during President Thomas Jefferson’s two terms, the largest church in America met every Sunday in the U.S. Capitol building. It is interesting to note that the Muslim’s first mosque in America was built in North Dakota in 1929!

•    John Jay, the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, declared, “The Bible (not the Quran) is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts … Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

•    Beginning at the establishing of our nation in 1620 by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and scanning 250 years, can you find even a handful of prominent Muslim innovators and achievements of significance? You will find thousands of innovations, achievements and innovations from the patriots of our country—those who were Judeo-Christian adherents. This is the true fabric of America, not some trumped up fantasy figures!

•   As the United States of America was being founded, Muslims were primarily slave traders in Africa enslaving blacks, kidnapping them and sending them here by the Dutch.

•   Upon in-depth research, one can discover that in 1732 there is mention of a Muslim slave sent back to England by James Oglethorpe of Georgia; in 1807 there is reference to a Muslim who bought some shares in a bank; in 1828 there is mention of a Muslim in jail visited by John Owen who later became governor of South Carolina; and, in 1856 during the Western advance Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of war, hired a Muslim to help in raising camels who were well-suited for extended battles on the plain.

•    During the early decades of America’s founding, our leaders faced four decades of Muslim terrorism. In modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, Muslims kidnapped American sailors, looted American ships and captured Americans to sell them as slaves. The Heritage Foundation states, “During America’s founding it was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on America by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era.”

Finally, in 1804, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines into Tripoli to stop the terrorism of Islamists. The military engagement marked the first time that a U.S. flag was raised on foreign soil and the first time that U.S. power was projected abroad. To this day the United States Marine anthem begins with, “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.” The very nickname for Marines as “Leathernecks” came from the leather neck-piece that was part of their uniform to protect them from beheadings (sound familiar?).

• President Jefferson was a brilliant academic and did something it would do us well to imitate. He secured a copy of the Quran from England and studied its tenets. He then called Muhammad a “military fanatic” and one who “denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms.”

•   Finally, when President Obama lectured the Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2015 concerning the Crusades (Christian leader Star Parker labeled it “verbal rape”), let’s establish that in the 800s Muslims were taking control of the entire Mediterranean territory. Paris almost fell. It was not until 250 years later that the first Crusade was initiated to stop Muslim aggression, advancement and destruction of human lives. My friend Nicholas Papanicolaou, author of Islam vs. the United States, says it best: “We must immediately change the narrative that our president is presenting and stop indicting Christians falsely for their response to terrorism and destruction by Muslims during the era of the Crusades.”

Exactly 100 years ago Armenian Christians were being slaughtered by Islamic militants during a seven-year period. The parallels to ISIS and their savage aggression today are frighteningly similar. One major difference: America did not remain silent or retreat. We were the Armenians biggest defender! Pastors across this nation informed their congregations and financial aid along with prayers and volunteers helped bring about rescue and recovery.

Today the drumbeat gets louder each day with militant jihadis drawing their ideology from the Quran and their perceived lack of morality in the West—pornography, fornication, adultery, cohabitation, homosexuality and casual divorce. Many ISIS young men are recruited  as they serve to cleanse themselves of guilt for earlier viewing of pornography coming from us.

Here’s the deal: We must start by understanding and facing the disturbing reality of this ideology and changing the narrative being rolled out by politicians today. It’s not too late but the clock is ticking. The challenge of Islam is the defining issue of our generation. May we teach our children well and may we pass along this commentary to awaken unaware multitudes.

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not on other religions but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” —Patrick Henry, American patriot 

Larry Tomczak is a best-selling author and cultural commentator with over 43 years of trusted ministry experience. His passion is to bring perspective, analysis and insight from a biblical worldview (see “Is Gay OK? 10 Things Everyone Needs to Know” now on YouTube). He loves awakening people to today’s cultural realities and responses needed for a restored, influential church. Please visit larrytomczak.com.