TulsaSooner78

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Yeah remember when they shot down a commercial plane and killed 290 people?

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That will probably go over the heads of a lot of people who post here.

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Islam introduced Islam to America by attacking US ships and capturing and enslaving US merchants off the Barbary coast throughout the mid to late 1700's.

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Dude, the Atlantic slave trade was a thing several hundred years prior to that.

Slave owners bought Muslim slaves. That is how Muslims ended up with a presence here.

If any of your ancestors were slave owners, you can thank them.

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The first significant waves of immigration of Muslims to North America came through three centuries of the slave trade. In the midst of brutal treatment and forced conversion to Christianity, many African Muslims preserved their religious identities.

The first significant migration of Muslims to America is an indisputable fact: in three centuries of the slave trade, an estimated 10 to 50 percent of the ten million Africans brought to these shores against their will were Muslims. Historical records indicate that many enslaved African Muslims strove to preserve their religious and cultural heritage even after conversion. Historical documents, including oral histories of the great-great grandchildren of enslaved people, as well as narratives and diaries of enslaved people, indicate that some of the earliest Muslims in America performed salat daily, observed the fast of Ramadan, and recited and read the Qur’an.

Today, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid on Southern Avenue stands as testament to the legacy of the first American Muslims, a legacy which continues to inform contemporary Islam in America.

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All these earthquakes sure are convenient

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A sign that Allah is on our side.

One of my stepsons serves on a guided missile destroyer that is now "forward deployed" somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They have a public Facebook group, and yesterday their Mass Communication Specialist posted several pictures of their recent activities. Here is one. The caption is "Boat operations in the Indo-Pacific".

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Lindsey Graham said this yesterday during a committee meeting where Hegseth and General Caine were testifying:

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During a meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee regarding the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion dollar budget request, Graham became visibly frustrated when speaking about a CBS News report from the day before that Pakistan had quietly allowed Iranian aircraft to park at its military bases, potentially to shield them from U.S. airstrikes.

Graham pressed the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, General Dan Caine, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether they believed that was consistent with Pakistan’s role as a mediator between the U.S. and Iran. Both military leaders refused to weigh in.

“I don’t want to get in the middle of these negotiations—” Hegseth said, and Graham exploded.

“Well, I do! I want to get in the middle of these negotiations!” he said.

“I don’t trust Pakistan as far as I can throw ’em! If they actually do have Iranian aircraft parked in Pakistan bases to protect Iranian military assets, that tells me we should be looking maybe for somebody else to mediate. No wonder this damn thing is going nowhere!”

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He mad.

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If the US dropped a nuke on them

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Not happening.

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The IRGC attack reported today by Kuwait on Bubiyan Island was likely a kill/capture mission directed at US forces.

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Add another one to the list of 10 that Dan Caine talked about on May 5th.

Does that put Iran over the threshold? What is the threshold?

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I don't think there will be any major developments on the military side with this conflict until Trump's trip to China is over.

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Rubio said that Epic Fury is over.

Dan Caine said that we won't retaliate further until Iran crosses a mysterious threshold that they haven't crossed yet, even though they have attacked a few US Navy ships.

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Wang listened to the proceeding through a Mandarin interpreter.

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Da fuq?

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But the dims said that Iran was not close to a bomb

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Actually, Tulsi Gabbard said that in testimony before Congress.

And then Trump said that we have "obliterated" their nuclear program.