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US Muslims draw inspiration from Ali's fight for his faith
Associated Press ^ | Jun. 5, 2016 1:26 PM EDT | Jeff Karoub

Posted on 06/05/2016 10:48:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Even in his final months, Muhammad Ali was speaking out on behalf of Islam, the religion he so famously embraced in the 1960s by changing his name and refusing to fight in the Vietnam War.

In December, the boxing legend issued a statement criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Ali called on fellow Muslims to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.”

Ali, who died Friday at 74, endured public scorn when he joined the Nation of Islam as a young athlete. Decades later, long after he had achieved worldwide renown, he kept advocating for Muslims in the U.S. who felt their religion made them political targets. …

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: barf; muhammadali; rop; waronterror
Very cute. Jihad is not a “personal agenda” but a collective agenda. So the author here is blaming terrorism on Ali, essentially.
1 posted on 06/05/2016 10:48:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

repatriate them ASAP or lose our country
(and become their servants in accordance with Islamic Sharia law)


2 posted on 06/05/2016 10:56:42 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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3 posted on 06/05/2016 11:04:45 AM PDT by wtd
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To: faithhopecharity

You speak a truth few would consider.


4 posted on 06/05/2016 11:04:45 AM PDT by Shark24 (.)
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To: Olog-hai

Cassius Clay never had a “fight for his faith”

he had an excuse to fight to dodge the draft..


5 posted on 06/05/2016 11:08:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Olog-hai

So he embraced the violent death cult till the end. Good riddance.


6 posted on 06/05/2016 11:09:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

The black muslims kept their meal ticket fighting and he developed Parkinson’s!


7 posted on 06/05/2016 11:29:55 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: faithhopecharity

One does not “repatriate” an imperialist agenda. That is just putting far away the evil day.


8 posted on 06/05/2016 11:39:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: wtd

First link: that’s typical Islamic sophistry. Comes right out of the Koran. When he says “God”, he means Allah.

Second link: racist by any standard.


9 posted on 06/05/2016 12:03:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

What garbage - muslims are not pacifists.


10 posted on 06/05/2016 12:43:51 PM PDT by cassiusking
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You take note of Ali’s claim that terrorists are pursuing a “personal agenda”? In the face of the jihad doctrine (plainly collective and incumbent on all Muslims), that was just a bald-faced lie.


11 posted on 06/05/2016 12:50:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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“American Muslims would be well-served to look at the challenges that Muslims such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali had to deal with,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
So Hamas tells people to focus on Ali’s “challenges”, and why? This only serves to make Ali look even more closely linked to terrorism, of course.
12 posted on 06/05/2016 10:49:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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“US Muslims draw inspiration from Ali’s fight for his faith”

Translation : Muslims draw inspiration to carry on their childish,sexist, destructive campaign to annihilate Europe, Whites and every other non-jizzlamic land where the people have the brains and sense not to worship a mass-murdering pedophile,libertine,and oppressive mysogynist, whose words were RETARDED


13 posted on 06/06/2016 10:39:05 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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