Black Muslims aim for unity in challenging time for Islam

Associated Press ^ | Apr 15, 2017 11:29 AM EDT | Jeff Karoub, Sophia Tareen and Noreen Nasir

[Olog-hai]

In her job as a refugee case manager, Fatimah Farooq would come to work in a hijab and speak with her clients in Arabic. Nonetheless, she found herself being asked whether she was Muslim. It’s not easy, Farooq says, navigating her dual identities as black and Muslim.

“I’m constantly trying to prove that I belong,” said Farooq, who now works in public health. “It’s really hard not to be an outsider in a community — especially today, in the current times.”

Many Muslims are reeling from a U.S. presidential administration that’s cracked down on immigrants, including through the introduction of a travel ban that suspends new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries and is now tied up in court. But black American-born Muslims say they have been pushed to the edges of the conversations — even by those who share the same religion. They say they often feel discrimination on multiple fronts: for being black, for being Muslim and for being black and Muslim among a population of immigrant Muslims. …

[Olog-hai]

More lying propaganda and race-baiting, by three AP Mahometans. (Not about the NOI, which has been called “Black Muslims” by the press in the past.)

[A_Former_Democrat]

Another Pity Party from the least productive sector of our Nation

[kerry431]

ahhh, I guess we are supposed to feel sorry for them...

[boycott]

” .. dual identities as black and Muslim .... “

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A lot of blacks in the USA became muzzie because of their hatred for whitey. Unfortunately for them, it doesn’t make their false religion true.

If one studies religion, islam is the one with the most holes. There is just no sane reasoning for islam. It was spawn out of hate and evil.

[17th Miss Regt]

The refugees, who are mostly Arabic, want to know why she is not being sold as a slave at the local slave market. After all, muslims selling blacks as slaves is a very common sight in muslim countries! And what is she doing working? Where are her male relatives, that she can be out of the house?

[Leaning Right]

> “I’m constantly trying to prove that I belong” <

The members of the German-American Bund (a Nazi front organization) had the same sort of problem after Hitler declared war on the U.S.

[Olog-hai]

No wonder the Muslim organizations feel the same way. Many of the Middle Eastern Sharia countries they come from practice Islamic national socialism.

[ColdOne]

Let her go to Mecca.

[PIF]

Arab Muslims consider ALL blacks fit only to be their slaves - muslim or not. So they are unifying behind becoming slaves ... Oh the irony.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And everything they want that they don’t get is because of discrimination, obviously. But in my case, I must not want anything because I’m one of the privileged.

[ColdOne]

"We're seeing increasingly visible threats to Muslims across the country now......................What threats? Trump taking away taxpayer freebies for ya?

[caww]

......”navigating her dual identities as black and Muslim.
“I’m constantly trying to prove that I belong,” said Farooq”.....

That’s because you don’t....Islamic communities use blacks....unfortunately too many blacks try to find another place to belong that will feed and help them rather than look to their own communities for the answers to their problems.
Muslim recruit them because they too are a violent ridden culture.

[Pearls Before Swine]

A lot of blacks in the USA became muzzie because of their hatred for whitey. Unfortunately for them, it doesn’t make their false religion true.

Nor does Islam make Arabs think more of blacks. Nevertheless, it seems to be catching on in much of Africa.

[mainestategop]

HEY GUYS!!! CHECK THIS OUT...

***Muslim, Book 10, Number 3901: Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) on migration; he (the Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).

***Malik's Muwatta, Book 21, Number 21.13.25: Yahya related to me from Malik from Thawr ibn Zayd ad-Dili from Abu'l-Ghayth Salim, the mawla of ibn Muti that Abu Hurayra said, "We went out with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the yearof Khaybar. We did not capture any gold or silver except for personal effects, clothes, and baggage. Rifaa ibn Zayd presented a black slave boy to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, whose name was Midam. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made for Wadi'l-Qura, and when he arrived there, Midam was unsaddling the camel of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when a stray arrow struck and killed him. The people said, 'Good luck to him! The Garden!' The Messenger of Allah said, 'No! By He in whose hand myself is! The cloak which he took from the spoils on the Day of Khaybar before they were distributed will blaze with fire on him.' ..

Oh look at this!

Mohammad’s cruelty to a black slave called Mahran, who was re-named Safina (`ship') (by Muhammad) is recorded in text supposedly in the slave’s own words: He says: "The apostle of God and his companions went on a trip. (When) their belongings became too heavy for them to carry, Muhammad told me, `Spread your garment.' They filled it with their belongings, then they put it on me. The apostle of God told me, `Carry (it), for you are a ship.' Even if I was carrying the load of six or seven donkeys while we were on a journey, anyone who felt weak would throw his clothes or his shield or his sword on me so I would carry that, a heavy load. The prophet told me, `You are a ship"' (refer to Ibn Qayyim, pp. 115-116; al-Hulya, Vol. 1, p. 369, quoted from Ahmad 5:222).

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obamastuff.

[caww]

She's from Detroit....she and others will endeavor to make Detroit an Islamic city no doubt.

[caww]

Black women are the most eager to find a place to belong...as long as it’s not within their own community. She is just another black women thinking she will make a difference by moving away from those she should be helping most...and is why nothing changes in the black community until they focus on themselves and their communities.

[rhubarbk]

Boko Harram is ready when she is . . .

[I want the USA back]

“dual identities as black and Muslim”
You cannot have two identities. Just one. Maybe they mean “membership in government-certified victim groups”. Then, yes. You can belong to as many groups of the “oppressed” as you wish, but remember, Christian, White, male are the “oppressors”.

Both those groups are a drain on the resources of the productive world. Both are nihilistic, believing in nothing.

[trebb]

Let's give it another slant:

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