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  johnpi 1:40 pm on October 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: African-Americans (9), Black Islam, black muslims (5), Blackamerican Muslims (8), blacks (4), Luqman Ameen Abdullah (29)

  USA Today: ‘Blacks still drawn to Islam despite FBI raids.’

  Sekou Jackson is used to the questions: Why does he need to leave a work meeting to pray? Don’t black Muslims convert to Islam in jail? Why would you even want to be Muslim?

  “It’s kind of a double whammy to be African-American and Muslim,” said Mr. Jackson, who studies the Navy at the National Academy of Science in Washington. “You’re going to be judged.”

  Mr. Jackson’s struggle may have gotten harder when the FBI on Wednesday raided a Detroit-area warehouse used by a Muslim group. The FBI said the group’s leader preached hate against the government, trafficked in stolen goods and belonged to a radical group that wants to establish a Muslim state in America. The imam of the group’s mosque, a black American named Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed in a shootout with agents. The FBI says he resisted arrest and fired a gun.

   

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  johnpi 5:31 am on June 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam (8), Black Islam, Darul Islam (3)

  AR Muhammad uses his blog to locate the grave of “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman, one of four Muslims slain in a Brooklyn masjid shootout in the bad old days of 1974.

   
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  johnpi 9:22 pm on June 1, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: american islam (8), Black Islam, Darul Islam (3), H. Rap Brown (2), Jamaat al-Fuqra (5), Jamaat ul-Fuqra (5), Jamil Alamin, Riverhead Sniper, sufi (9), sufism (24)

  AR Muhammad has talked to the daughter of “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman, one of four Muslims killed in the 1974 shootout at the Ya Sin Masjid in Brooklyn, NY.

  Sr. Sayyidah grew up in the Darul Islam movement, which dissolved in 1983 with half the membership following Imam Jamil Alamin (H. Rap Brown) and half going to Jamaat ul-Fuqra. She lost two of her brothers to violent death, one went crazy and did an attempted killing spree, the other was gunned down by police.

  The life and death of Sr. Sayyidah’s father had been kept from her until well into adulthood, and to this day she does not know where her father is buried. If anyone knows where “Big Bilal” Abdullah Rahman is buried, go to AR Muhammad’s blog and let him know so he can pass it on to the sister.

  Umar Lee doesn’t think much of AR Muhammad and called him all kinds of names, (ally of Muslim haters, neo-con, Limbaugh wanna-be, etc.) Umar is the last person who should be calling anyone a “Limbaugh wanna-be.” Maybe the fact that Umar’s wife grew up in the Fuqra and Muhammad doesn’t have anything nice to say about it has something to do with it. Call it Umar’s “secret Sufi sympathies,” since Umar is the last akhi in the world who would make sectarian fitnah.

   
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  aziz 10:17 am on July 29, 2008 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Black Islam

  One of the things that disturbs me about the ills in the black community is the lack of a strong moral (not judgmental) voice calling against these ills.

  Where are the people (even in the faith community) that are saying that the out of wedlock birth rate is a sign of moral decay and leads to other social pathologies?

  – Tariq Nelson, who it seems to me is exactly the kind of voice that he says the black community needs more of.

  The question that I have though is whether such moral voices are only found within the context of the African American muslim context. Is it true that religion is literally the solution here?