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1. Let's visit the only town in America named for an Islamic hero. Sounds like they don't suffer fools being fools.

Reply to rurallib (Original post)

Thu May 29, 2025, 10:00 AM

May 29

I think I first heard the Elkader story in IPTV years ago. VOTE BLUE

https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-09-15/the-odd-story-of-how-elkader-iowa-got-its-name

• In 1845, the town's first settler, Timothy Davis, read admiringly of el-Kader's stand against the French, and decided to name the site of his new flour mill after the Sufi scholar and guerrilla leader. In 1860, el-Kader became an international hero for his role in saving a Christian minority in Syria from tribal violence. Even Abraham Lincoln sang his praises, and sent him a gift: a pair of fancy Colt pistols. But by the time the rest of the world caught on to el-Kader, tiny Elkader had already been honoring him for fifteen years.

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Let's visit the only town in America named for an Islamic hero. Sounds like they don't suffer fools being fools. IA8IT May 29 #1

Whaaaa? progressoid May 29 #2

i have been to waterloo. very middle class. why they think the GOP is on their side...... pansypoo53219 May 29 #3