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Black Americans and Islamic Da'wa
The strangeness of the phenomenon of black Americans converting to
Islam:
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 worship 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" as opposed to "black Muslims |