No, America Has Never Been a Christian Country -- Why Does the Myth Persist? | Alternet

[alice malice]

Ishmael, as you'll recall,  is pure fiction, an amalgamation of
several "Others", he is royalty from an island not anywhere on the
map. As you say, he does have some of the rituals more often
associated with Islam, his Ramadan, but Ramadan is generally, aside
from the gift of the Koran, a fasting, so his fasting is not clearly a
Muslim thing. In any event there were Muslims in the Colonies, but the
claim that 20% of the Africans were Muslim is news to me. I'm not
expert in this or anything else, unless you count Rock Um Sock Um
Robots, but ....and I'm sure Monroe can beat me if he has my favorite
Blue Robot anywayz....so

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> my first thought too......but I know little....
>
> But Melville worked in the nation's mix of possibility via Ishmael.
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:33 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Manseau writes, that some 20 percent or more of Africans living in
>> America around the time of the Revolutionary War were Muslims
>>
>> I doubt this.
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>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> http://www.alternet.org/no-america-has-never-been-christian-country-why-does-myth-persist
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