I am a revert to Islam, and my grandmother was born and raised in North Dakota. Her mother worked in the State archives when she was a teenager. I wish I could have shared this piece with both of them. Aymann Ismail's earlier work was an important part of my journey to Islam.
There were mosques EVERYWHERE. America is the true old word. Corporate owned PBS is trying to steer a narrative. They're lying about history because it's happening in real time. Take care.
This is a new discovery of Muslim Americans in the United States. A lady who had Muslim roots does not know that she was from Muslim ancestors and has done a great job to preserve her family history of Muslim origin by building a mosque on the same place where her great great grandmother had built a mosque also preserve the cemetery of her ancestors. This is very impressive for me as I am also a Muslim from India.
Approximately 40% of slaves brought to Americas were Muslims but they were forced to leave their religion. Also 5% of Spaniards that came to South America were also conversos, meaning they were Muslims that were forced by Spaniards to change religion. That's why names like Omar, jamal, khadija, Fatima and Nadia Jasmine etc are there.
There was a mosque in New York started in 1906 which was converted church. It was started by POLISH-BELARUSSIAN TATARS! interestingly it still operates as a mosque untill now! الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام
My grandfather was an honourable man, descended from muslim Indians who migrated to British Guiana (now Guyana) in the 19th century. He and his family worked their way up from poverty and owned seven plantations on the island of Leguan and many properties in Georgetown before he passed away. He built a nice mosque which still exists and is buried in the mosque yard. Muslims, hindus, christians or whatever, all are buried next to each other in his graveyard.
As a Unitarian Universalist Midwesterner who is all about historic preservation, it touched me deeply when Aymann decided to pray in the reconstructed Mosque.
No thanks we don't want you. This was one mosque in a huge country, the Muslim population was negligible. By comparison there were hundreds of Buddhist temples at the time. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
I understand that you tried to be respectful by saying first "purposeful" mosque but even that isn't true. The history of American Muslims began with the Africans who sailed with the Spanish and Portuguese to the "New World." The second wave came as enslaved Africans who built "purposeful" mosques in wooded areas near where they were enslaved. Their presence is very well documented in Servants of Allah written by Dr. Sylviane Diouf at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University who is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.
Muslims were not allowed to sail to the Iberian colonies at all so stop lying 🤣 they had to convert to Christianity in order to be able to head to the Americas and settle there.
@@Bklyn112 and we would love to hear your story!!! We have been describing this series as a transmedia project, part of which we envision will introduce a community-driven oral history archive of our American Muslim stories!
What a great value. Thanks to all of you who managed to bring up American history from US gov records where Muslim pioneers were present since 1800s and 1900s. They built roads hand to hand shoulder to shoulder with European immigrants for this beautiful land. Even far up in N Dakota and Nevada.
This is one of my favorite stories ever told. it tells us about the early history of Lebanese immigration to the USA. It tells us also about the history of what is or is not White. the tensions that Arabs like me experience everyday, a constant negotiation between the margins of what is or is not "white".
What is problematic is why people wanted to be within the margins of whiteness. Whiteness came with privilege and being the opposite meant second or even third class citizenship.
@@Bklyn112 I dont disagree in the slightest. I studied ethnic demography for a college paper, and I wrote about what it is to be "white", particularly for my people.
@@samiral-alami186 Great to hear, so you probably have a better understanding than most. My thesis was related to this subject. Lisa Halaby's (Queen Noor) great grandfather Elias Halaby had to prove his whiteness in order to immigrate to the US in 1891. It is not widely known that the term Arab up until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to describe the people from Arabia and not all Arab speakers. Hispanic and Latino are modern terms too.
@@Bklyn112 The fascinating part too is that I know Syrians/Lebanese crossed the border and faked being Mexican in the late 19th, early 20th century to get in, and that case Dow vs. USA that allowed Lebanese to get in to the country easier than others (like Yemenis)
It’s unfortunate that the following generation lost Islam and their grandchildren had no idea she was Muslim - this is very sad for the grandchildren to lose their faith and scary for next generations to lose their faith and are not Muslim
Not all but some of them In California I can show you the great grandchildren of a pashtoon immigrant (1890 ) they are not just Muslim but speak Pashto
I grew up in South Florida (in West Palm Beach). One day, as my brother and I were walking to my grandparents' house, we were stopped by these two black guys. They stopped and said they noticed you two walking down this street (Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, aka 13th St). Where are you going? We told them we were going to our grandparents' house. They began telling us about black history beyond America. The funny part was they kinda favored Colin Kaepernick (the former San Francisco 49ers QB). So, we would visit their homes and they took interest in us because we were always together, getting along (never arguing or fighting). They taught us about their family's origin in Afghanistan and their Muslim faith. It always seemed normal to learn more things about this country's history that weren't really that abnormal. They showed us pictures of black people in Afghanistan. They told us about the black people who served on the kings' royal guards in different countries in the Middle East. They instilled a belief, dignity, and pride in us besides what our family taught us, we learned that we have been both the best and the worst, no different than any other group, people, race, or tribe around the world. These individuals treated us like relatives, even getting to know our family and parents. I would see them driving home in their new late 80s or early 90s Corvettes (red and yellow) and think I am going to get a Corvette. I do not remember when they moved, but I remember being very sad because they were moving away from West Palm Beach, Florida. I never saw them again. This is just one of the many people from somewhere else in the world who has taught me to love being American and, separately, to love being part of a larger (Black) African diaspora.
Thank you for telling this story, and especially for not glossing over the historical context. It is important to directly confront and understand our history as it is, not through rose-colored glasses. For example, the details you included about homesteaders acting as unwitting agents of the U.S. government's land grab policy are not typically mentioned in the stories I've heard of early Arab Muslim immigrants. Isn't it interesting, though, that now Native Americans are the ones who can perhaps best sympathize with the Palestinians? We need to learn from our collective history and help each other.
Very appreciative of this new series; I'm pairing it with readings from Sylviane Diouf's Servants of Allah for a General Education religion course. Looking forward to each episode and my students will value this!
🫠🙏 Thank you for the beautiful broadcast. Shining light on the Muslims who Arrived. way early in America. They cultivated, they built they thrived. Heartfelt. And to see at the end that they honored the place with another monument of the mosque.♥️🙏
Imagine being kicked out of your ancestor's land and then watch that same governemt allowing foreigners to settle in there... The natives have endured so many injustices
Anyone that tells you Americans don’t have culture This actually proves a very rich and diverse history it may not be ancient history, but it’s still recent history
1t 19:20 she said Muslims were here long time ago, in fact they found Muslim ruins on the eastern shore of the US that dates back 100s of years before Colombo's came to America. They crossed from Spain to USA
Al hamdallah! I'm a muslim American with orgins to Greater Syria! And I'm proud of the Muslims who build history in the U S. And no American can say it's a Christian Anglo American because this is proof!
@J4RMAMS Yeah, it's called colonialism that still exists in the present! Brush up on your history before you make a one-sided comment. The big point is America can't say they trace their history as a nation of only Anglo Christian.
North Dakota is one of the closest windiest states...compared to the Mediterranean climate of most the Middle East has...no olives , grapes or citrus groves here! Strong determined folks! Dee
I love the life story of Zarif Khan, the Pakistani immigrant who became the tamale king of Sheridan WY. And he too had his American citizenship challenged more than once.
I wish you would have mentioned the fact that among the slaves brought to America, a sizable percentage were Muslim… That always gets overlooked and hardly talked about The focus on Muslims tends to revolve around Arab Muslims, partly due to history, America’s involvement in the Middle East, their prevalence in some cities, and the media’s inherent bias towards Islam It’s a complicated history that needs to be talked about and I applaud you for bringing history to light
Thanks for the feedback. It’s a six-part series and each episode is about a specific community, so that story is coming (in a couple of the episodes actually)
There are a hundred documentaries about that already. It does not get overlooked. These short 20 minutes were about these people and their ancestors, and that is ok.
@@Pakestine the title literally has “American Muslims” in it…it’s going to be a series though, so I look forward to hearing about other American Muslims Also can you give me a recent example of a documentary covering Muslims in America that is all encompassing?
My parents grew up two counties east of Ross. My dad talked about the peddlers that went from small town to small town and farm to farm even in the 1920s and ‘30s. He knew the regular peddlers by name. In the late 1950s the grandson of one of those Lebanese peddlers became our family dentist in Bismarck, ND (we lived in Fort Yates, ND). I have been through Ross a couple of times and even camped there on a bicycle trip.
It's not a revelation. It's cherry-picked history. One mosque happened to be built, by comparison there were hundreds if not a thousand Buddhist temples in the country at the time. There was almost certainly a Hindu temple as well The Muslim population was negligible at the time.
History is still full of mysteries and discoveries to be made. What we are usually taught isn’t the whole truth, far from it. Islam has been in the US from before Columbus. In fact, some of his navigators might have been Muslims who’d done that journey before. There’s native history speaking of Muslims and Islam being there far before what we know. Moreover, no force was involved with those natives who took on the faith. There’s documented evidence that some natives practiced Islam and even had Arabic names. There’s also Muslims who fought in the civil war, FOR the US. As for the slaves brought over, Islam was and is strong amongst many west Africans, the place where the blues comes from and is played to this day (Ali Farka Toure (now gone) and other artists). I’ve heard numbers of between 40-80% of the slaves being Muslims. Some were highly educated, spoke Arabic and other languages. One was even regularly “displayed” in the center of town because they thought it funny that he could sing-song something no one around him could seemingly comprehend. He was a scholar from West Africa who knew the Quran by heart and was reciting just that.
Prove to me Islam is superior to the Book of life.. the Bible.abraham did have Ismael and sons after issac but Issac was the one who The almighty promised to Abraham to redeem The world through Yeshua Moshaich came through issac not any other son of Abraham.
I just posted somewhere here and in another video about Muslim African slaves, about the natives who communicated with Muslims who arrived in this huge land (later named as America/USA) much much earlier.
Thank you for creating this insightful documentary. It's important for everyone to know that Muslim Americans have been an integral part of this country since its early days. This piece of history is crucial for understanding the diverse roots of America. Great work!
This isn't an integral part of American history. It's one place of worship that happened to be built in a huge country. The Muslim population was negligible at the time. There were also hundreds of Buddhist temples in America at the time and almost certainly a Hindu temple as well.
May ALLAH bring me and my brother Muslim all around the world to this mosque and fill it with dakwah, taalim, ibadat and khidmat just like it was in Medina during the time of our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Please make dua for us so that ALLAH will open a way.
A little known history fact is that before America existed and it was still just colonies, there are a lot of a Muslim Americans + Americans imported them so when he constitution was written already a lot of Muslims lived in the country
Anybody else feeling kinda weird about the homesteading, in light of Palestine? I mean, it’s crazy how we bully countries just redistribute wealth / property like we own everything. 😢
Did you heard the of Abu Zarr Al-Ghifari? The companion of prophet pbuh was a bandit before take shahadah and the rest history before are unfaded even become the real Muslim. Because of that, it’s showed us how Islam change ours aspect of life…
⚡️The injustice done to the Native Americans is heartbreaking. If only we were this aware back then. May Allah keep us on straight path & make us honest & just towards orhers. Free Palestine.🫡🇵🇸
Learn about Anglo-Saxonism and Anglo-Israelism. The English puritans were in fact the earliest Zionist in history and believed they were the new chosen ones. This justified their ethnic cleansing of the native populations.
@@PlayWaves1 The crimes against humanity that the English and Scots-ulster Protestants did to the indigenous populations of the Anglosphere, Africa, India, China, and West Asia is truly sickening. From the ethnic cleansing of the Irish catholic of Northern Ireland to the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people of North America and Australia, truly truly horrifying.
I am quite knowledgeable, but also quite ignorant at times. Until about 5 years ago, I was unaware of, for example, the Lebanese/Arab influence on Mexican food ( I believe it’s mostly Yucatan, but could be wrong). May be PBS could do a deep dive into Lebanese/Arab food and its’ influence on American culture. Some people seem to think that hummus and falafel were created by usurpers to the Middle East rather than the indigenous populations.
I am a revert to Islam, and my grandmother was born and raised in North Dakota. Her mother worked in the State archives when she was a teenager. I wish I could have shared this piece with both of them. Aymann Ismail's earlier work was an important part of my journey to Islam.
As Salaamu Aleikum! May Allah makes it easy for all of us! Ameen.
@@Grace-E-21 Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life. John 14:6
@@HontuZindabad Ameen! Wa Alaikum Asalaam!
Jesus said come to me ye burdened and I will give you peace because Iam the truth the light and the life
تقبّل الله عباداتك و زادك علما و أسعدك في الدارين ..
That's beautiful. I am a Muslim American and I appreciate to know that we are part of this country and Society. Thank you for making this documentary❤
Don’t vote for Harris
Same. 💚💚💚 Makes me feel more belonging in my country. Beautiful story.
America was discovered on Muslim treasury. So basically it belongs to Nation of Islam.
Of course you are! Muslims contributed to this country
Diverse and Multicultural , try to be Tolerant. All sides - get along and live and let live 🙏 .
Out of everywhere, I would have never imagined the first mosque would be in North Dakota. Indeed Allah can make things happen that cannot be imagined.
You’re wrong bro, Islam was spread all over Americas before Columbus ,Europeans scripted history on their behalf
There were mosques EVERYWHERE. America is the true old word.
Corporate owned PBS is trying to steer a narrative.
They're lying about history because it's happening in real time.
Take care.
Thank you, as an American Muslim I find it inspiring to learn more about those that came here to make a new life, a new beginning.
I loved how you prayed in the mosque! ❤
Trouble is We are two peas in à pod!
WeAre more alike than you know!!!
Same here, that was beautiful
Always do!
Even if you are done with your fard, pray nafil or sunnat.
i have prayed that mosque when visiting the ND, Peace!
Maşallah
I was planning to. Let’s pray for those burried there.
👍🏻Where is it exactly?
This is a new discovery of Muslim Americans in the United States. A lady who had Muslim roots does not know that she was from Muslim ancestors and has done a great job to preserve her family history of Muslim origin by building a mosque on the same place where her great great grandmother had built a mosque also preserve the cemetery of her ancestors. This is very impressive for me as I am also a Muslim from India.
Approximately 40% of slaves brought to Americas were Muslims but they were forced to leave their religion. Also 5% of Spaniards that came to South America were also conversos, meaning they were Muslims that were forced by Spaniards to change religion. That's why names like Omar, jamal, khadija, Fatima and Nadia Jasmine etc are there.
@@shahrukhkhan8307 like saying those were people peacefully converted to mus lims. hello? it was before "is lam or the sword"?
Bro learn your history, Islam was in americas long before Columbus
This presents a fascinating story of determination of Muslim families to settle in North Dakota. .
There was a mosque in New York started in 1906 which was converted church. It was started by POLISH-BELARUSSIAN TATARS! interestingly it still operates as a mosque untill now!
الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام
Which ome is This ?
@fashrevo Powers Street Mosque, Brooklyn
Tatar=Türk
The tough hollywood guy was one of them!
الحمدلله رب العالمين
My grandfather was an honourable man, descended from muslim Indians who migrated to British Guiana (now Guyana) in the 19th century. He and his family worked their way up from poverty and owned seven plantations on the island of Leguan and many properties in Georgetown before he passed away. He built a nice mosque which still exists and is buried in the mosque yard. Muslims, hindus, christians or whatever, all are buried next to each other in his graveyard.
Love you from indian muslim
Same with me. My great grandfather also built the first mosque in Guyana, which later my grandfather migrated to Canada.
⚡️Love from fellow Indian Muslim.
As a Unitarian Universalist Midwesterner who is all about historic preservation, it touched me deeply when Aymann decided to pray in the reconstructed Mosque.
For anyone curious the oldest purpose built mosque that is still standing is in cedar rapids Iowa.
Allhu Akbar. May Mary & Hassan jumma souls Rest in paradise forever and Ever Ameeeeeennnn ya Allah 🤲🏼 ( All love from oakland California )
This is beautiful. I’m in tears. Thank you.
ah, me too
Seeing him pray in that “lonely” mosque brought tears to my eyes
Such a heart warming vedio, been living in US for over 10yr now and hopefully inshalla Monday I will become a proud American Muslim
No thanks we don't want you. This was one mosque in a huge country, the Muslim population was negligible. By comparison there were hundreds of Buddhist temples at the time. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Subhana Allah, this gave me goosebumps. May Allah's mercy and peace upon them. May He also forgive their shortcomings. Allahuma amin
I'm so grateful for PBS and all that it allows us to learn! 💖💐🙏🏾
الحمد لله علي كل حال. فعلا العلم نور يضي ظلام الجهل. جزاكم الله خيرا واحسن اليكم ونفعنا بعلمكم
I understand that you tried to be respectful by saying first "purposeful" mosque but even that isn't true. The history of American Muslims began with the Africans who sailed with the Spanish and Portuguese to the "New World." The second wave came as enslaved Africans who built "purposeful" mosques in wooded areas near where they were enslaved. Their presence is very well documented in Servants of Allah written by Dr. Sylviane Diouf at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University who is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.
Muslims were not allowed to sail to the Iberian colonies at all so stop lying 🤣 they had to convert to Christianity in order to be able to head to the Americas and settle there.
Yes Prof. Diouf and those communities are profiled in upcoming episodes of this series!
@@drmaytha NEW SUB!!!!!!! Thank you. My family descends from community of Muslims who Africans enslaved in Georgia.
@@Bklyn112 and we would love to hear your story!!! We have been describing this series as a transmedia project, part of which we envision will introduce a community-driven oral history archive of our American Muslim stories!
Yes, totally agree.
In African-american museum there was names of writing of Muslim Africans who were brought as salves.
What a great value. Thanks to all of you who managed to bring up American history from US gov records where Muslim pioneers were present since 1800s and 1900s. They built roads hand to hand shoulder to shoulder with European immigrants for this beautiful land. Even far up in N Dakota and Nevada.
This is one of my favorite stories ever told. it tells us about the early history of Lebanese immigration to the USA. It tells us also about the history of what is or is not White. the tensions that Arabs like me experience everyday, a constant negotiation between the margins of what is or is not "white".
I meant to say Syrian/Lebanese. Sorry haha
What is problematic is why people wanted to be within the margins of whiteness. Whiteness came with privilege and being the opposite meant second or even third class citizenship.
@@Bklyn112 I dont disagree in the slightest. I studied ethnic demography for a college paper, and I wrote about what it is to be "white", particularly for my people.
@@samiral-alami186 Great to hear, so you probably have a better understanding than most. My thesis was related to this subject.
Lisa Halaby's (Queen Noor) great grandfather Elias Halaby had to prove his whiteness in order to immigrate to the US in 1891. It is not widely known that the term Arab up until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to describe the people from Arabia and not all Arab speakers. Hispanic and Latino are modern terms too.
@@Bklyn112 The fascinating part too is that I know Syrians/Lebanese crossed the border and faked being Mexican in the late 19th, early 20th century to get in, and that case Dow vs. USA that allowed Lebanese to get in to the country easier than others (like Yemenis)
Well done, Masha’Allah.
It’s unfortunate that the following generation lost Islam and their grandchildren had no idea she was Muslim - this is very sad for the grandchildren to lose their faith and scary for next generations to lose their faith and are not Muslim
I can see racist pressure on the children forcing them to blend in with the local population.
It's not scary at all. But eternal life is only through Jesus Christ.
@@alex4given808 We believe in the prophet Muhammad PBUH, save yourself from the lies of Christianity.
@@alex4given808dude your Christianity is gone
Not all but some of them In California I can show you the great grandchildren of a pashtoon immigrant (1890 ) they are not just Muslim but speak Pashto
Thank you for such beautiful stories of the human spirit, community connection and contributions.
I grew up in South Florida (in West Palm Beach). One day, as my brother and I were walking to my grandparents' house, we were stopped by these two black guys. They stopped and said they noticed you two walking down this street (Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, aka 13th St). Where are you going? We told them we were going to our grandparents' house. They began telling us about black history beyond America. The funny part was they kinda favored Colin Kaepernick (the former San Francisco 49ers QB). So, we would visit their homes and they took interest in us because we were always together, getting along (never arguing or fighting). They taught us about their family's origin in Afghanistan and their Muslim faith. It always seemed normal to learn more things about this country's history that weren't really that abnormal. They showed us pictures of black people in Afghanistan. They told us about the black people who served on the kings' royal guards in different countries in the Middle East. They instilled a belief, dignity, and pride in us besides what our family taught us, we learned that we have been both the best and the worst, no different than any other group, people, race, or tribe around the world. These individuals treated us like relatives, even getting to know our family and parents. I would see them driving home in their new late 80s or early 90s Corvettes (red and yellow) and think I am going to get a Corvette. I do not remember when they moved, but I remember being very sad because they were moving away from West Palm Beach, Florida. I never saw them again. This is just one of the many people from somewhere else in the world who has taught me to love being American and, separately, to love being part of a larger (Black) African diaspora.
Very nice! Muslim women have been very strong, MashaAllah!
Thank you for telling this story, and especially for not glossing over the historical context. It is important to directly confront and understand our history as it is, not through rose-colored glasses.
For example, the details you included about homesteaders acting as unwitting agents of the U.S. government's land grab policy are not typically mentioned in the stories I've heard of early Arab Muslim immigrants. Isn't it interesting, though, that now Native Americans are the ones who can perhaps best sympathize with the Palestinians? We need to learn from our collective history and help each other.
Very informative, never herd this story. Thank you fir making this documentary
Yer, ver intellugent two….
Loved it! - Thanks PBS
Very appreciative of this new series; I'm pairing it with readings from Sylviane Diouf's Servants of Allah for a General Education religion course. Looking forward to each episode and my students will value this!
🫠🙏 Thank you for the beautiful broadcast. Shining light on the Muslims who Arrived. way early in America. They cultivated, they built they thrived. Heartfelt.
And to see at the end that they honored the place with another monument of the mosque.♥️🙏
Imagine being kicked out of your ancestor's land and then watch that same governemt allowing foreigners to settle in there... The natives have endured so many injustices
You can only imagine the challenges they had (& joys ) . I wish there were more pictures of the family . Amazing American 🇺🇸 history
So informative and interesting
Thank you for this historical account.
Anyone that tells you Americans don’t have culture This actually proves a very rich and diverse history it may not be ancient history, but it’s still recent history
It's one of the best videos I've watched in a long time. I would definitely try to visit that area one day.
this would be a great streaming series..
1t 19:20 she said Muslims were here long time ago, in fact they found Muslim ruins on the eastern shore of the US that dates back 100s of years before Colombo's came to America. They crossed from Spain to USA
A great and spectacular documentary on the early existence of Arabic / Muslim decent in the US
I am Proud North Dakotan... Thank you North Dakota.
That mosque looks beautiful and is totally integral to it's surroundings of beautiful nature. Thank you for this great series.
Al hamdallah! I'm a muslim American with orgins to Greater Syria! And I'm proud of the Muslims who build history in the U S. And no American can say it's a Christian Anglo American because this is proof!
Yes it is!!! We are overwhelmingly a Christian nation not muslim.
@J4RMAMS Yeah, it's called colonialism that still exists in the present! Brush up on your history before you make a one-sided comment. The big point is America can't say they trace their history as a nation of only Anglo Christian.
Subhan-Allah this broke my heart, what a beautiful documentary. ❣
North Dakota is one of the closest windiest states...compared to the Mediterranean climate of most the Middle East has...no olives , grapes or citrus groves here!
Strong determined folks!
Dee
Love learning more history about my country.
Such a beautiful and touching story. Thank you all!
Wow what fantastic historical documentary
Informative as always by PBS ❤
Thanks, PBS. For this video, we learned about Muslim settlers in America.
Beautiful story.
Its nice of PBS to do stories about Muslims.
Indeed a great series of PBS & Aymann, being an Indian muslim in NJ i was surprised that first mosque was built in N, Dakota.
I love the life story of Zarif Khan, the Pakistani immigrant who became the tamale king of Sheridan WY. And he too had his American citizenship challenged more than once.
There was no pakistan back then. It was afghanistan, and judging by the name khan he was probably a pashtun.
I wish you would have mentioned the fact that among the slaves brought to America, a sizable percentage were Muslim…
That always gets overlooked and hardly talked about
The focus on Muslims tends to revolve around Arab Muslims, partly due to history, America’s involvement in the Middle East, their prevalence in some cities, and the media’s inherent bias towards Islam
It’s a complicated history that needs to be talked about and I applaud you for bringing history to light
@@SullyAfgarshe then they were forced into "christianity" of the powers that be
Thanks for the feedback. It’s a six-part series and each episode is about a specific community, so that story is coming (in a couple of the episodes actually)
@@MalikaBilal that’s great, y’all have done a great job so looking forward to the rest of the series 🫡
There are a hundred documentaries about that already. It does not get overlooked. These short 20 minutes were about these people and their ancestors, and that is ok.
@@Pakestine the title literally has “American Muslims” in it…it’s going to be a series though, so I look forward to hearing about other American Muslims
Also can you give me a recent example of a documentary covering Muslims in America that is all encompassing?
I've been fighting tears Brother. Pakistan loves family
SUBHANALLAH
I am here to be educated. I am never disappointed. Thank you for shedding a light on this subject.
ALHAMDULILLAH..
LOVE AND RESPECT FROM MALAYSIA💚🇲🇾
Alhumdolellha. it's a nice history. thanks PBS
This is so beautiful and wonderful work! Thank you! ❤❤
Amazing thank you for making this documentary
I enjoyed watching this story.
Very moving
Amazing piece of American and American Muslim history. Thank you PBS and Aymann.
Very,very excellent & informative series,It was a very enlightened .Thanks a lot PBS,Moin of NJ.
I want to visit this mosque. This is just so beautiful to me ..I love this. And it's surely a lovely one. America....be proud of who we are.
My parents grew up two counties east of Ross. My dad talked about the peddlers that went from small town to small town and farm to farm even in the 1920s and ‘30s. He knew the regular peddlers by name. In the late 1950s the grandson of one of those Lebanese peddlers became our family dentist in Bismarck, ND (we lived in Fort Yates, ND).
I have been through Ross a couple of times and even camped there on a bicycle trip.
Fascinating.
Very interesting revelation.
It's not a revelation. It's cherry-picked history. One mosque happened to be built, by comparison there were hundreds if not a thousand Buddhist temples in the country at the time. There was almost certainly a Hindu temple as well The Muslim population was negligible at the time.
Bless these people.
PBS is actually so cool! I love all the work u guys do, like the be smart channel especially but also lots of your other series'!
History is still full of mysteries and discoveries to be made. What we are usually taught isn’t the whole truth, far from it. Islam has been in the US from before Columbus. In fact, some of his navigators might have been Muslims who’d done that journey before. There’s native history speaking of Muslims and Islam being there far before what we know. Moreover, no force was involved with those natives who took on the faith. There’s documented evidence that some natives practiced Islam and even had Arabic names.
There’s also Muslims who fought in the civil war, FOR the US.
As for the slaves brought over, Islam was and is strong amongst many west Africans, the place where the blues comes from and is played to this day (Ali Farka Toure (now gone) and other artists). I’ve heard numbers of between 40-80% of the slaves being Muslims. Some were highly educated, spoke Arabic and other languages. One was even regularly “displayed” in the center of town because they thought it funny that he could sing-song something no one around him could seemingly comprehend. He was a scholar from West Africa who knew the Quran by heart and was reciting just that.
Prove to me Islam is superior to the Book of life.. the Bible.abraham did have Ismael and sons after issac but Issac was the one who The almighty promised to Abraham to redeem The world through Yeshua Moshaich came through issac not any other son of Abraham.
Great and beautiful history. Love it
Ma sha Allah
I wish there was more discussion of how Native Americans were impacted by this and how the Arab community responded
I’d also like to know more about the Moors in America.
I just posted somewhere here and in another video about Muslim African slaves, about the natives who communicated with Muslims who arrived in this huge land (later named as America/USA) much much earlier.
This made my eyes tear
I’m not gonna lie…I got emotional by the end when I saw the mosque that was built in 2005! I guess only Muslims would understand how I felt
Beautiful and amazing story, thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you for creating this insightful documentary. It's important for everyone to know that Muslim Americans have been an integral part of this country since its early days. This piece of history is crucial for understanding the diverse roots of America. Great work!
This isn't an integral part of American history. It's one place of worship that happened to be built in a huge country. The Muslim population was negligible at the time. There were also hundreds of Buddhist temples in America at the time and almost certainly a Hindu temple as well.
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You made me cry. Do more of these. Anytime doing Columbus Ohio ?
Stay at our place kiddo.
Just imagine how painful it is those people don't even know that dear and sister used to be Muslims😢
What a beautiful series.
I need to visit that place. Amazing history.
May ALLAH bring me and my brother Muslim all around the world to this mosque and fill it with dakwah, taalim, ibadat and khidmat just like it was in Medina during the time of our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Please make dua for us so that ALLAH will open a way.
As a Muslim American in Minot AFB ND I LOVE THIS
Same here . Not much muslims I see around here
@@notyourmomma7663 are you on base or in town
On base 👌🏽i seen some hijiabs , but no brothers, unfortunately. @Halalshawty
U in service ?
@@notyourmomma7663 no I’m a spouse and did FCC on base!
Brilliant story! I am so glad that this knowledge is being shared for us to learn of!
A little known history fact is that before America existed and it was still just colonies, there are a lot of a Muslim Americans + Americans imported them so when he constitution was written already a lot of Muslims lived in the country
Thank you. This is such a great series.
Anybody else feeling kinda weird about the homesteading, in light of Palestine? I mean, it’s crazy how we bully countries just redistribute wealth / property like we own everything. 😢
Did you heard the of Abu Zarr Al-Ghifari? The companion of prophet pbuh was a bandit before take shahadah and the rest history before are unfaded even become the real Muslim. Because of that, it’s showed us how Islam change ours aspect of life…
⚡️The injustice done to the Native Americans is heartbreaking.
If only we were this aware back then.
May Allah keep us on straight path & make us honest & just towards orhers.
Free Palestine.🫡🇵🇸
Learn about Anglo-Saxonism and Anglo-Israelism.
The English puritans were in fact the earliest Zionist in history and believed they were the new chosen ones. This justified their ethnic cleansing of the native populations.
The injustice the Arabs did to the native Berber and Egyptian population after the Muslim conquests is heartbreaking. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 FOREVER.
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The crimes against humanity that the English and Scots-ulster Protestants did to the indigenous populations of the Anglosphere, Africa, India, China, and West Asia is truly sickening.
From the ethnic cleansing of the Irish catholic of Northern Ireland to the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people of North America and Australia, truly truly horrifying.
Great reporting
I am quite knowledgeable, but also quite ignorant at times. Until about 5 years ago, I was unaware of, for example, the Lebanese/Arab influence on Mexican food ( I believe it’s mostly Yucatan, but could be wrong). May be PBS could do a deep dive into Lebanese/Arab food and its’ influence on American culture. Some people seem to think that hummus and falafel were created by usurpers to the Middle East rather than the indigenous populations.
Thank you for this inspirational peice
What a documentary. Fabulous. I actually thought the first mosque was in Iowa Des Moines, that what I was told.
I understand that this is a 6 part series. Please could you put all 6 episodes on RUclips? So far, I can only find 2 episodes!
New episodes are coming soon!
Wholesome video
And informative of course ❤
Subhanallah, although its sad that most american are ignorant about islam
Amazing story! I just learnt something about American History I did not know existed!