Posted on 07/01/2009 2:28:43 PM PDT by Califreak
A black African, Rudolph Okonkwo, talks turkey to one of the black American converts to Islam, a guy carrying a newspaper put out by the Nation of Islam:
"Why are you a Muslim?" I asked him at one point. "Because my people were Muslims before the blue-eyed white devils bought us and brought us to America as slaves and forced us to be Christians and to worship a blue-eyed Christ." "O' yeah." "Yes!" "But I am from Africa and my grandfather was never a Muslim nor was he a Christian."
He was shocked when I said that.
"It is OK if you want to be a Muslim and follow Elijah Muhammed and changed your name to Muhammed, too. But don't tell me you are trying to be like your forefathers," I said.
And for four years, we continued our debate. Like some members of the Nation of Islam, he became a convert to Muslim while in prison on drug charges. He had accepted the myths of the Nation of Islam. He told with all the seriousness in his bones that the white man was made in a laboratory in Egypt by a black scientist named Yakub.
...First of all, I came from a country where there are Muslims. Those who have Arabic features assume superior position over those who are black. In many instances, the black Muslims are totally disregarded, treated as inconsequential.
I have asked black Muslims mad at how white people treated black slaves to ask themselves were the millions of slaves the Arab world took from Africa were? They disappeared. They were used and disposed of. If not, the Arab world would be booming with its own share of black men and women.
I have asked black Muslims mad at the "war" between the West and Islam to look at the genocide in Darfur and find out how Muslims treat their black brothers and sisters.
In Africa, the homeland of all black people, Islam came from the Middle East and Christianity came from Europe and they all exerted inordinate damage. But where Islam touched, there is no recognition of the ways of life of the people. Islam, being a way of life, swallowed all that was African in the people.
All black people must think before they jump from frying pan to fire. And before you pick up arms to fight for those Talibans dying in Afghanistan, spare a minute for two million children who die of malaria each year in Sub-Saharan Africa. Those are your people. For real!
Guess who takes in the black Muslim refugees from Darfur? That would be those evil Israelis, not Arab Muslims, who only care about other Muslims (Palestinians) if they're white and provide a really excellent excuse for hating Jews .
It must be some form of mass battered-wife syndrome.
I used to be in the prison ministry. If you are islamic and follow it’s rules, anything bad that happens to you is someone elses fault. That is a very effective way to convert people in prison.
Also, people tend to like clear rules. People who cannot deal with ambiguity cand find comfort in a religion that tells you when to pray, which foot to use to enter a room, which hand to wipe your butt with, etc. It takes away the need to make decisions, and most people in prison have shown they are really bad at making good decisions.
I’ve just scratched the surface, but you get my drift: Islam gives a black man in a US prison on drug convictions something to help control his life because he knows he can’t. It is different from Christianity in that Christianity offers autonomy and freedom, something they LITERALLY fear.
In Africa, the homeland of all black people, Islam came from the Middle East and Christianity came from Europe and they all exerted inordinate damage.”
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To claim Christianity caused “inordinate damage” as opposed to the indigenous religious beliefs is disingenuous to put it mildly.
I took issue with that statement as well.
Blacks think Islam is not “white”. Actually, the Arabs who started Islam were “white” in the commonly used sense of the term. Blacks also believe muslims are third-World brothers, which is of benefit to the muslims, if not the blacks.
Wow. That was an experiment that backfired! Talk about the law of unintended consequences.
So have them explain Bosnia.
On that note, I heard that Malcolm X didn't even know there were white Muslims until he went to Mecca.
For someone that was purported to be so smart, he didn't know something that could have easily been known by reading a 2 dollar almanac.
I always thought it was a “Whitey is the devil thing”.
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