Obama Claims Islam Was Always A Part Of Our Country President Obama has been telling an interesting story about Islam in our country. He started out by calling the notoriously violent religion a religion of peace. More recently, he asserted that Islam has been woven into the fabric of the United States since it was first founded. He has even gone on to claim that Muslims have played a significant role in building and shaping this nation. That could not be more false. And in a recent interview with Glenn Beck, Historian David Barton was sure to set some things straight. Barton argued that the first contribution any Muslim made was in 1856 (8 decades after our founding), when the Secretary of War Jefferson Davis hired a Muslim to help train camels in Arizona. That is the one example he could find about a contribution to societyand it was short-lived, as the whole camels in war thing quickly fell apart. For the most part, our early interactions with Muslims were as enemies. When America broke apart from England, they lost the protection of their ships. As a result, they were frequently raided and plundered by Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast. When John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were sent to mediate the problem, they discovered that Islamic law gave the men permission to attack non-Muslims. The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise, Jefferson wrote to the-Secretary of State John Jay. So, you could say that Muslims contributed to our history, but only in the fact that they highlighted the context and need for U.S. Marines. What do you think? Are you tired of Obamas lies to the American people? 