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Given Islam=92s record on slavery, black Americans should think twice
about converting. And there are other considerations. Islam does not
permit music, though here and there folk music has been allowed. But
music having to do with religious wor****p is absolutely forbidden.
When black Americans convert, they are throwing out all of Gospel
music, doubly wicked in Muslim eyes: the music itself is forbidden,
and this particular church music takes its texts from Old Testament
stories (stories involving Jews, and the Promised Land).
It is curious that real Muslims regarded (and may still regard)
Elijah
Muhammad's Black Muslims as not the real thing, partly because of the
claims made on behalf of Elijah Muhammad himself, and partly because
of the music that occasionally was allowed (and may still be) at
certain gatherings of followers.
When black Americans discard Christianity for the sake of Islam,
because they are fooled into believing that Islam is somehow the
correct vehicle of protest, they manifest ignorance of the whole
horrible Arab slave trade. That trade began earlier and ended (where
it did end) later than the European slave trade. Also, it was,
because
it involved the castration on site of so many black African children,
much greater in scope.
The mortality rate was something like 90%, so that only 1 out of 10
black male children seized and castrated by the Arab slavers actually
made it to the slave markets of Riyadh, Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus,
Algiers, Istanbul, and similar centers of Islam. See "The Hideous
Trade" by Jan Hogedoorn.
Those Afro-Americans who are made the obvious target of a campaign of
Da'wa (as are immigrants from Latin America), and who choose to
embrace Islam, are unwittingly, with that "reversion" to Islam (one
in
which they are seldom presented with the full meaning, or texts, of
Islam), also turning their back on, discarding, jettisoning, the
place
of Biblical imagery and of the Bible in the history of black America.
Decades ago, when the Black Muslims first got started (and because of
Elijah Muhammad's own claims, and other doctrinal irregularities,
Arab
Muslims never considered them to be "real Muslims" and even today are
contemptuous of "Black Muslims"
Finally, let's talk about racism. Anyone who has spent even a week in
the Arab states of the Gulf, or taken a summer course in Arabic in
Cairo or Damascus, knows that the most racist, most skin-color aware
societies on earth, are those of the Arabs -- despite all thBruce
Lawrence of Duke University, to regard Islam as a great thing, then
spent a summer in an Arab country. He came back completely disabused
-- no greater racists, he insisted, had he ever met in his life. He
was from rural South Carolina.
Why this information is not more widely written about in the press,
including the black press, by black ministers is beyond me. And even
today Arabs continue to show their contempt and hatred for blacks,
not
only in the enslavement of black Africans by Arabs in Mali and
Mauritania, but by the Libyan mobs that attacked black African
students and lynched a black diplomat a few years ago; by the
Moroccans who have been known to deal with black African migrant
workers by taking them and dropping them in the middle of the desert
with no possible way of survival; and of course by the behavior of
that member in good standing of the Arab League, the government of
the
Sudan, which over 20 years, killed or starved to death nearly 2
million black Africans in the southern Sudan, with survivors often
enslaved. Ask Francis Bok, ask all the "Lost Boys" now in the United
States.
Now they have extended their genocidal campaign to fellow Muslims in
Darfur -- fellow Muslims, but black Africans, and so dispensable. As
the Egyptian Zaki Badawi recently said, "they were not real Muslims."
And that was the end of his comment -- apparently that was enough for
him to lose any interest in their being victims of mass murder.
Begin with slavery. Slavery was implicitly recognized by the American
Constitution. But it is so no longer. Fortunately, the Constitution
has always been subject both to formal modification
(amendments)through the express will of the people, and to judicial
interpretation ("It is a constitution we are expounding" wrote Chief
Jusice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison). There is no way to modify the
passages in Qur'an, the sayings and acts of Muhammad in the Hadith
and
Sira, that allow, permit, even offer rules for, the institution of
slavery. Muhammad himself, and his Companions, owned slaves -- the
slaves taken in battle. It is not possible, therefore, for any
Believer to denounce slavery as a moral evil, for that would be to
condemn Muhammad. And he is uswa hasana, the Model for All Mankind.
So
it just can't be done.
Within recent months, lest anyone forget, a leading Saudi imam wrote
that slavery is an essential part of Islam, recognized and accepted,
and to abandon that idea is an insult to Islam.
Believers know, though
they will not always talk about (they are engaged in deception about
the nature of Islam, concious or semi-conscious, round-the-clock --
sometimes not only to Infidels, but even to themselves), the fact
that
under Islam, slavery has a place that cannot be denied. Slavery has
received permanent textual justification -- and those texts, deemed
sacred by Believers, are also immutable.
After those it directly conquered in the Middle East and North
Africa
and Hindustan, the greatest victims have so far not been white
Europeans, but black Africans, hideously seized, castrated, dragged
to
the Muslim slave markets by coffle and dhow, with 90% of them dying
on
the way. Islam demands that converts ("reverts") simply regard with
indifference or hostility their entire non-Islamic past. That leaves
the non-Arab convert alone -- with no music, no art, no history, with
essentially nothing but Islam.
There are many available vehicles of protest -- of expressing,
articulately, discontent or dismay. The ballot box is possibly the
best. There are ways to protest effectively things as they are,
including the cult of Growth and of the "free market" as the answer
to
everything, and the grotesque elevation of Homo Economicus, Economic
Man, narrowly conceived, as the new Golden Calf. It is possible to be
enraged by illegitimate disparities of wealth (and nowhere are such
disparities of wealth more obvious than within the Arab Muslim
lands).
And practitioners of Da'wa in this country have, it should be
obvious,
certain identifiable target populations, starting with black
Americans
-- especially those in prisons, for whom a center of stability and
cultural life has been the church.
It is im****tant to keep in mind the nature of Islam as a vehicle of
Arab supremacism, of cultural and linguistic imperialism as well as
of
economic and poltical imperialism.
Look at the historic treatment of
black Africas by Arabs -- look at the slave entrepot of Zanzibar, the
seizure even today of black oil wealth in the Sudan, the massacres of
the Ibos in the Biafra War by Egyptian pilots strafing villages, the
history of Arab slavers over a thousand years, and the open, rampant
racism of Arab societies, which so surprised and horrified Malcolm X
during his stay in Algeria.
And the long history of Arab enslavement of black Africans that
continues to the present day and has no end, should not be put out of
sight, or out of mind
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