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There's a good likelihood that there were Muslims in this country at the time of the American Revolution. I'd think the country has done really well at surviving since that time. "Progressivism, socialism, communism……..;" Mr. Meurer left out "fundamentalist & dominionist Christianity" which, IMHO, is a much bigger threat to America than Islam.
There were Muslims here then. They were called "Musselmen" and are mentioned in Jefferson's writings.
I thought "musselmen" were what that U of Missori prof called for to toss out that student reporter.
Actually it's a piss poor argument, just like arguments that a Catholic President would imperil the nation because of primary allegiance to the Pope or that the turn of the 20th century influx of Jews represented an existential threat to the American Christian way of life, leading to the shutting down of Jewish immigration in the mid 20s and turning away of Jews fleeing genocide during the 30s and 40s.
It's the same argument made in the 19th century that an influx of Asians constituted a yellow peril that would pose an existential threat to white American culture driving a denial of access to citizenship and again manifesting itself most virulently in the WWII internment of Americans of Japanese descent.
We now hear the same basic argument that the influx of brown people from Mexico and points south represent a threat to white anglo-American culture as justifying calls for nothing more than guest worker satus and no path to citizenship.
All of these arguments, like the arguments that Muslim Americans can never be as truly American as the rest of us, are fig leafs to cover up bigotry and xenophobia. They don't change the fact that most acts of domestic mass murder have been committed by plain old ordinary white, Christian background Americans.
Probably the foulest moment in 20th Century American history was when we turned away the St. Louis with its Jewish refugees and sent them on the road to Dachau. Father, don't forgive them, for they knew exactly what they did.
It's stuff like that that makes many American Jews willing to accept anything any Israelii government does as justifiable.
Anyone my age or older, and I'm not quite old enough for medicare, is old enough to remember when Jews were barred in the way blacks were barred, though in fewer places and situations.
Still. There were quotas limiting the number of Jews allowed entry to top drawer schools, particularly in the Ivy League, tony neighborhoods, clubs, organizations, resorts (and not just fancy ones but plenty of little middle class summer vacation cabin resorts) where no Jews were allowed. My mom remembers when banking was an entirely WASP enterprise that didn't employ Jews so Jews formed their own little neghborhood banks.
My stepdad was a chemical engineer and when he got his first job he was the first Jew ever hired by the company he went to work for and still the only one in his office when he retired and this was in Chicago, not some small town with virtually no Jews. He always thought it helped that he was a blue eyed guy with a standard common Hungarian surname, not a Jewish sounding one. By the time they knew he was Jewish nobody cared because it was pretty impossible not to like my stepdad.
Probably why so many Jews were involved in the fight for black civil rights and why Jews, including the wealthiest, are majority liberal Dems, quite aware that we're more naturally allied with other minorities and with immigrants than with any WASP elite.
Both my grandmothers in different part of Ukraine at the time were hidden by Christian neighbors during the last great pogrom decades before WWII. So neither the pogroms nor the Holocaust are ancient history to someone like me. They are stories I heard from my bubby and from members of our congregation my moms age, a single generation older, who had been in the camps. And we knew that children born not many years before we were born died there.
It's why I find discussions about what makes a Jew, who should be considered a Jew, pretty naive. Those of us with a lick of sense know perfectly well who we are. There have never been any shortage of people to remind us if we forget.
I'm pretty sure the host is Dan Muerer, not David.
This is also par for the course as far as what falls out of his and John Rush's mouths. Last year, around Easter, Rush basically agreed with a guest that we needed a Christian theocracy in the US. They also bring up the birth rate thing with some regularity in the context of needing more Christian babies.