Mar 30, 2025 5:00 am By Robert Spencer
The Nevada State Assembly’s Committee on Government Affairs recently met to deliberate on one of the burning questions of our age: whether to establish a Muslim Heritage Month in the state, with July being the lucky month to get the honor. Now, if you didn’t realize that Nevada had any Muslim heritage to celebrate, you’re not alone. Anyone inside Nevada or outside of it would be hard-pressed to name a single prominent Muslim who hails from Nevada, or point to any significant Muslim heritage in the state. So what’s going on here?
As it turns out, Muslim Heritage Month in Nevada and the states that have already adopted it, which include Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, and Utah already have Muslim Heritage Month, established the month not because they really have any Muslim heritage to recognize, but in order to further the left’s DEI agenda. In a recent article about a hearing on the state assembly bill AB278, which would establish the month, Citizen Portal made that clear, saying that Nevada lawmakers who support the measure “highlighted the bill’s potential to foster inclusivity and celebrate the contributions of Muslim Americans to the state and the nation.”
You might be wondering exactly what contributions Muslim Americans have made to Nevada and the nation, and yet no one seems interested in filling in that part of the story. Citizen Portal noted that one “Austin Daly, representing the University of Nevada, Reno,” spoke in support of the bill, “stressing the need to honor the historical contributions of Muslim Americans to the local community.” Unfortunately, Citizen Portal didn’t deem it necessary to tell us whether or not the learned Daly actually enumerated some of those historical contributions. Was there a hero of World War I or World War II or Korea or Vietnam or any other war who hailed from Nevada and proclaimed his Islamic faith? Was there a prominent Muslim businessman or accomplished Muslim athlete who called Nevada home? Was there a notable Muslim governor of Nevada? A congressman? A senator?
In reality, there are only 7,400 Muslims in Nevada, and that is less than half of one percent of the state’s population. The real purpose of Muslim Heritage Month is that it “represents a low-cost opportunity to showcase the progressive values of Nevadans, illustrating how the state embraces various nationalities, ethnicities, and religions.” So it’s not really about Muslims at all. It’s an opportunity for the left to show its commitment to “diversity,” and to force everyone else to accept it as well.