Joe Biden sent Muslims greetings for Ramadan on Monday, and apparently Old Joe’s handlers are worried that maybe the Syria bombing or the appeasement of Iran have alienated the president’s largely Sunni (and Muslim Brotherhood) base of support, as whoever wrote the greeting for him went heavy on the Islamopandering. The statement started out well enough: “Jill and I send our warmest greetings and best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.” That’s “have a noble Ramadan,” you racist Islamophobic yahoos. Let Old “Despacito” Joe teach you how to be truly multicultural!

Biden’s Ramadan statement immediately went into the victimhood mode so favored by Islamic groups in the U.S. such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “As many of our fellow Americans begin fasting tomorrow,” the statement continued, “we are reminded of how difficult this year has been. In this pandemic, friends and loved ones cannot yet gather together in celebration and congregation, and far too many families will sit down for iftar with loved ones missing.”

Has Biden issued a statement on any occasion or in any context lamenting how difficult it was for Christians to gather for Easter and attend church? Anyway, after that Biden’s ghostwriter laid it on even thicker: “Muslim Americans have enriched our country since our founding. They are as diverse and vibrant as the America they have helped build.”

“Diverse” and “vibrant”! You can tell that whoever wrote this hasn’t had an original thought in this century, and probably not in the last one, either. Was Biden’s ghostwriter anxious to knock this thing out and break for lunch, and so loaded it up with leftist buzzwords and called it a day?

And there it is again: “Muslim Americans have enriched our country since our founding.” State Department wonk Ned Price recently said this as well, claiming that Arab-Americans’ contributions to the US “are as old as America itself.” Obama started this particular ball rolling, claiming in 2016 that “Islam has always been part of America. Starting in colonial times, many of the slaves brought here from Africa were Muslim. And even in their bondage, some kept their faith alive. A few even won their freedom and became known to many Americans.”

Repetition won’t make this claim true. The claim that the slaves were Muslims, or a significant percentage of them were Muslims, is increasingly common. In fact, however, this is unlikely, as the African slavers were Muslims, and a Muslim generally does not enslave a fellow Muslim, just the Qur’an’s prohibits a Muslim from killing another Muslim (4:92). (There are Muslims who are born into slavery in countries such as Mauritania, but that is a different phenomenon from capturing and enslaving someone.)  There is more.