Daily Verse | 1 Kings 8:61
“But your hearts must be fully committed to the Lord our God,
to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time.”

Happy Thursday Broadsiders. It seems like wherever you turn these days, you find another shot of crazy begging for attention. It’s like living inside a blender trying to avoid getting cut by the blades while you watch it slice up everything around you.

The most recent idiocy comes as the State Department designates this April, “Arab American Heritage Month.” In making the announcement, spokesman wokeperson Ned Price said that Arab American contributions (and I quote), “are as old as America itself.”

Next, today the Department of State is proud to recognize April as National Arab American Heritage Month. The United States is home to more than 3.5 million Arab Americans, representing a diverse array of cultures and traditions. Like their fellow citizens, Americans of Arab heritage are very much a part of the fabric of this nation, and Arab Americans have contributed in every field and profession. Many of them, in fact, serve here at the State Department and throughout the interagency, and their careers are as diverse as their backgrounds. We mark National Arab American Heritage Month noting these contributions that are as old as America itself.

Apart from that last sentence I don’t have much in the way of concerns about what was said. Yes, Americans of Arab descent do reside here and contribute in a wide variety of professions and fields. And, yes, they work at the State Department and have diverse careers.

But Arabs have not been making contributions since the beginning of “America.” Classic far-left twiddle-twaddle. Considering that the original 13 colonies were settled long before our country was officially founded in 1776 with our declared independence from England, and that Arabs did not start emigrating here until the late 1800s, Price’s statement is a bald-faced lie. Robert Spencer, who has been banned from Great Britain for his writings on Islam, had a lot to say about Price’s comments.

As for Price’s claim that Arab-American contributions to the U.S. “are as old as America itself,” the same claim was made many times by none other than Barack Hussein Obama. As many times as it is repeated, however, it remains fictional, just another example of the left’s relentless Islamopandering. Arab Americans’ contributions to the U.S. are as old as America itself? Really? There were Arabs at Jamestown? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony? At Roanoke?

Ned Price’s statement is so wildly ridiculous that it doesn’t just invite parody; it pleads for it. Remember the Arabs among the Founding Fathers, Yahya al-Adams and Iskandar Hamilton? Remember the Arabs who told Yaqub Madison about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina so that he could lay out the foundations of a republic in the U.S. Constitution? Remember the Arabs who fought so valiantly in the Revolutionary Jihad, and the Jihad of 1812, and the Mexican Jihad, and the Civil War, aka the Jihad Between the Caliphates? Remember all the controversies about whether Muslim soldiers in the Civil War could make sex slaves out of the wives and daughters of Confederate commanders? The jihad suicide attacks that broke the Germans’ will to fight on during World War I?

He’s right—the claim is laughable. But Price probably thinks it’s safe to make a garbage comment like that because in our easily-offended society, no one wants to be seen as opposing “Arab American Heritage Month” because that would mean you’re a racist and an Islamophobe and a nationalist and a xenophobe, you hater. So why not declare it, make it part of the official record and build on it from there?

The broader goal here is to diminish Euro-American (white) culture which is to say, the Judeo-Christian values upon which the country was founded. Saying that Arabs have been contributing to American life and culture since the beginning is an attempt to undermine the obvious White Anglo-Saxon Protestant composition of our founding. It’s a rewriting of history, much like the discredited 1619 Project that attempted to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”

I don’t mind if we want to recognize a particular ethnic group like Arabs who have made their home here in the United States and contribute to our collective life as Americans. But don’t lie to me, you woke Marxists, to somehow and for some reason enhance their standing. The answer is not to exaggerate Arab presence or contributions in America, but to recognize their participation in our melting pot salad bowl, just like we do with the Irish, African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics and others.

Anti-American progressive liars like Ned Price shouldn’t be in positions of power.