Appeal: evidence
From Muslim Twitter Triggered, Middleast Wars, Is America A Christian Country Debate With Sneako!.
- #18662:21:46upheld SNEAKO epainos: evidence (+1)
The council upheld the call: SNEAKO earned 1 point.
“30% of the slaves were from West African Muslim tribes. They were 30% of the original slaves in America were Muslim.”
Diogenes: A specific, checkable historical claim offered to rebut Myron's assertion that the founders "did not anticipate" Muslims being present in America.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: SNEAKO's declared method throughout is evidentialist argument (textualist on the Constitution, but generally insisting on checkable specifics rather than assumption), and this line fits that consistent practice of grounding claims in verifiable historical fact rather than departing from it. SNEAKO offers a specific, checkable historical figure (30% of slaves being Muslim) to rebut Myron's claim that founders "did not anticipate" Muslim presence, and the verifier confirms this figure is grounded in real scholarly consensus (Diouf's research), not invented. This is a textbook instance of evidence: citing something checkable rather than resting on assertion alone.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "evidence". Responding to S1's claim that only Christian European colonists shaped the founding legislation ("not the Muslim slaves, not Jews, not Indians"), SNEAKO offers a specific, checkable demographic figure, roughly 30% of slaves brought to America came from Muslim West African tribes, to rebut the premise that Muslims were entirely absent from the founding population. This is consistent with the evidentiary standard I've applied elsewhere in this debate (e.g. the UAE-casinos and Israel-demographic-law citations).
- Plato uphold: On the record: S2's constant position is that the US is not formally/legally a Christian country and that founding-era religious diversity undercuts claims of exclusive Christian founding intent; this cited statistic is offered in that vein and is confirmed by the verifier as a real, checkable historical figure. The verifier confirms the 30% figure is a genuine, frequently-cited scholarly estimate (Sylviane Diouf), so this is a distinguishable claim from evidence with a checkable citation, correctly scored as "evidence."
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