What happens after the three month rent help ends? Do they then transition easily into welfare and section 8 housing etc.? I hope someone follows up on this. Also how many relatives do they bring in? How many babies do they have?
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I asked Grok:
Provide the so-called steel man argument against this post in the same format as the Muslim-critical post. To the highest degree possible, answer the criticisms point-by point. Then provide a balanced opinion at the conclusion of your answer as to which of the two arguments is most consistently compelling.
Following is Grok's reply:
I want to shake the hand of the person who actually opened the archives instead of forwarding a chain letter.
Have you ever seen a Muslim hospital or clinic? Yes. UMMA Community Clinic in Los Angeles, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network clinic in Chicago, and dozens of free or low-cost clinics started by Muslim physicians exist across the United States.
Have you heard a Muslim orchestra? Yes. The National Arab Orchestra has performed at the Kennedy Center. The New York Arabic Orchestra and Turath Ensemble have toured American venues for years. Even the Nation of Islam formed a 48-piece symphonic ensemble.
Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade? Yes. Mosque-sponsored Scout troops and community bands appear in Fourth of July and Memorial Day parades in Dearborn, Minneapolis, Houston, and Northern Virginia.
Have you witnessed a Muslim charity? Yes. Islamic Relief USA, ICNA Relief, Helping Hand, Zakat Foundation, and Life for Relief and Development operate food pantries, disaster relief, and medical programs inside the United States and abroad. Researchers at Indiana University estimated American Muslim households gave about $4.3 billion in a single recent year.
Have you shaken hands with a Muslim Girl Scout? Yes. All-Muslim troops and mixed troops exist in Texas, Minnesota, California, New York, and Virginia. Girl Scouts of the USA lists official Islamic recognitions administered by the Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting.
Have you seen a Muslim candy striper or volunteer in a hospital? Yes. Muslim medical students and physicians volunteer in the same hospitals as everyone else; many of the clinics listed above were founded by them.
The answer is not “no.” The answer is that the letter’s author never looked.
Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech, said: “I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s history.”
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN’S RESPONSE TO THE CHAIN LETTER
Dear author of that letter:
Were those Muslims in America when the Pilgrims landed? Not as a community of free settlers. But Estevanico, a Moroccan-born Muslim, walked across what is now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the 1530s—decades before Jamestown and a century before Plymouth. Enslaved West African Muslims were already on the continent in the 1500s and 1600s. “Always” does not mean “as founders.” It means “present from the colonial period onward.” That is what the record shows.
Were those Muslims at the first Thanksgiving? No. That does not erase the earlier presence or the later one.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the Constitution, Declaration, or Bill of Rights? No. You also cannot show a Jewish, Catholic, or atheist signature on every page either. Thomas Jefferson owned a Quran, defended the civil rights of “Mahamedans,” and the first country to recognize American independence was Morocco, a Muslim state. The 1786 Treaty of Friendship is still in force. Presence is not the same as authorship of the founding texts.
Did Muslims fight for this country’s freedom from England? A small number did. Muster rolls list Bampett Muhamed in the Virginia Line and Yusuf Ben Ali (Joseph Benhaley) as an aide to General Thomas Sumter. The numbers were tiny. They existed.
Did Muslims fight in the Civil War? Documented names number in the low hundreds, including Nicholas Said (Muhammad Ali ben Said), who rose to sergeant in the 55th Massachusetts. Some enslaved African Muslims fought for the Union. That is not “none.” It is also not a large share of either army.
The claim that “Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery” is a slogan, not a census. The Arab-Muslim slave trades lasted far longer than the Atlantic trade and moved a comparable total of Africans over many more centuries; castration and concubinage were distinctive and brutal features. Modern slavery still exists at high rates in parts of the Sahel and Gulf. It also exists in India, China, North Korea, and the United States. Walk Free’s recent global estimate put roughly 14.6 million of the world’s enslaved people in majority-Muslim countries—not “all of them” and not “only them.” Obama’s half-brother Malik converted to Islam; public records do not show him “advocating slavery.” That line in the letter is unsupported.
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era? Not marching in large numbers beside King. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam were a separate, often hostile current. After 1965, immigrant and African-American Muslims entered the same professional and civic spaces as other Americans. Absence from 1963 photographs is not absence from the country.
Where were Muslims during women’s suffrage? Not leading it. Islamic family law in many countries still treats women unequally. American Muslim women, however, vote, practice medicine, run businesses, and lead Scout troops. The letter treats every Muslim woman as if she lives under the most restrictive reading of fiqh. That is not how the United States works.
Where were Muslims during World War II? Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, met Hitler, broadcast Nazi propaganda, and recruited for Waffen-SS units. Historians agree he collaborated and shared eliminationist antisemitism. They also agree he did not decide the Final Solution; that decision was already underway. At the same time, at least 1,500 Muslim Americans served in the U.S. military in that war. One man’s alliance with Hitler does not cancel every other Muslim who wore an American uniform.
Where were Muslims on September 11, 2001? Nineteen men murdered nearly 3,000 people. Some crowds in the Middle East celebrated. American Muslim organizations issued condemnations the same day and in the years after Fort Hood and Boston. Silence from some overseas “moderates” was real and damning. Collective guilt for every American named Ahmed is not how law or history works.
The Barbary Pirates were Muslim. The United States fought them. That is part of the record, not the whole record.
Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood and the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston were Muslims acting on an Islamist reading of the faith. Those facts are not in dispute. Neither is the fact that thousands of Muslim Americans serve in the same armed forces Hasan attacked. Pentagon figures have put self-identified Muslims in uniform in the thousands; surveys have found military service rates among American Muslims comparable to other groups.
That, Mr. Letter-Writer, is the actual heritage: a small early enslaved and soldier presence, a long record of Islamic slave trading and jihad raiding, a 20th-century collaboration by a prominent cleric with the Nazis, a post-1965 immigrant community that built clinics, charities, and Scout troops, and a persistent minority current of Islamist violence that has killed Americans on American soil.
EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ BOTH VERSIONS.
Balanced judgment
The original letter is rhetorically effective and correctly names real costs: Barbary piracy, the Mufti’s Nazi collaboration, 9/11, Fort Hood, Boston, and the long Islamic slave trades. Those are not inventions. Its method, however, is collective absence-as-proof. Several of its opening claims—“no hospital, no orchestra, no charity, no Girl Scout”—are simply false. “No one fought in any war” is false at the margins. “Always part of America’s history” is a stretch if it means founders, but it is not a lie if it means presence since the 1500s.
The steelman is more consistently accurate on the specific factual charges of total non-existence. It is weaker if the question is scale, timing, and compatibility. Most visible American Muslim civic institutions arrived after 1965 immigration, not with the Pilgrims. Islamist violence and illiberal legal traditions remain live problems that individual doctors and Scout leaders do not erase.
If the test is “did any Muslims ever do any of these American things,” the steelman wins. If the test is “has Islam as a civilizational package been a net constructive force in the making of the United States comparable to the Protestant, Enlightenment, and Anglo-legal traditions the letter implicitly defends,” the original letter’s skepticism is the more consistently compelling argument. Presence is not the same as founding. Contribution by individuals is not the same as compatibility of doctrines. Both letters flatten that distinction; the original flattens it in one direction, the steelman in the other.