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thabet

• 09:45:00 am on September 3, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: African-Americans, books, Identity, muslims, united states

  [T]he complete absence of a non-migrant (or distant migrant) African-American Muslim voice in [Melody] Moezzi’s book [War On Error: Real Stories of American Muslims] is troubling. There is much bitterness among African-American Muslims about what many see as the dominance of migrant Muslims from the Middle East and Asia in Muslim religious and community affairs. African-American Muslims – whether of the more heterodox “Nation of Islam” variety or from more mainstream denominations - are a growing force in American Islam. America’s first two Muslim Congressmen are both African-American. It seems curious that Moezzi could not find a single African-American Muslim prepared to talk about his or her faith on the record.

   

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  razib 11:23 am on September 3, 2008 | #

  once i was given a preview to a muslim dating site. i noticed that the group picture with all sorts of muslims (hijabis, non-hijabis, brownz, middle easterners, whites, etc.) didn’t include any black muslims. wonder why?

  (they ended up drafting a really dark skinned tamil guy with a shaved head from what i recall! a friend of a friend)

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  thabet 11:58 pm on September 3, 2008 | #

  Yeah, we’re such racists.

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