Islam Has Always Been in America? Really?
Barack Obama’s big lie is repeated in Illinois.
June 1, 2026 by Robert Spencer 4 Comments
In a prayer to Allah at the Illinois General Assembly, a hijab-wearing woman said:
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…
Whatever this woman was, she was not original. What she said was nothing new. Barack Obama said it ten years ago during his visit to the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Baltimore “Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Qur’an,” without bothering to mention that they had them in order to understand the ideology of the enemy the new nation faced in the Barbary Pirates, and that it faces today, even after Obama’s relentless attempts to appease the jihadis in Iran and elsewhere.
“Islam,” Obama declared, “has always been part of America.” Really? There were Muslims at Jamestown? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony? At Roanoke? Obama’s statement is so wildly ridiculous that it doesn’t just invite parody; it pleads for it. Remember the Muslims among the Founding Fathers, Yahya al-Adams and Iskandar Hamilton? Remember the Muslims who told James Madison about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina so that he could lay out the foundations of a republic in the U.S. Constitution?
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