Jumah in Charlotte and the New History

Hat tip The Blaze and Squid

The big Jumah in Charlotte organized by the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (a misnomer in itself) has turned out to be a flop since only a couple of hundred showed up instead of the "expected" 20,000 and the DNC distanced themselves from the event at the last moment when somebody finally did their homework about the organizers.


Siraj Wahhaj speaking before 20,000 followers






But here is the good news: A new version of history was created during the Friday prayer service when one of the speakers claimed that Muslims preceded Christopher Columbus to America.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jumah-at-the-dnc-speaker-muslims-visited-america-prior-to-columbus/

Apparently, some Native Americans were not pleased. In fact, they may soon be forgotten altogether as those 7th grade textbooks start repeating this nonsense as fact to our children.



Like this book, for example.

"And as the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower, they were welcomed  by indigenous Muslims, who taught them how to grow corn and ............................................" 

At any rate, Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy had a more sober analysis of this event right from the start. Here is his statement on his website.

http://aifdemocracy.org/2012/democrat-national-convention-welcomes-radical-islamists/


"The leaders of [the “Jummah at the DNC”] event – Jibril Hough and Imam Siraj Wahhaj as advertised are no moderates. They are radicals. These individuals embrace Islamist supremacy and have demonstrated support for radical ideologies… M. Zuhdi Jasser M.D., Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy [describes] Siraj Wahhaj [as someone] “who I saw with my own eyes in 1995 seditiously say it his duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran“…