[Cicero]

The propaganda spread by Malcolm X and his ilk was that Christianity was the religion of the “plantation owners.” So any self respecting black had to reject Christianity and the West in favor of Islam.

What he failed to note, and unfortunately everyone else at the time failed to note loudly and clearly, was that the original slavers and slave traders were . . . Muslims.

It was Muslims who took those blacks and sold them in the first place. As they had been enslaving people for a thousand years previously, including white Americans and Europeans. American slave owners were relatively late to the game, and it was Christians, basically, who ended the slave trade and freed the slaves.

Things you won’t hear from the MSM or the academic historians. Nor will you hear that it was the Democrats who enslaved and Jim Crowed the blacks, and Christian Republicans who freed them.

Christians certainly were guilty, for a time, in the enslavement of blacks. But it was not Christianity who taught them to do it. In contrast, Islam DOES teach that it is good and virtuous to enslave your enemies, as Mohammed did.

[Canedawg]

Yes to your post, and as the article stated: "Few white Americans convert to Islam "because the tendency is to view Islam as foreign," he said. "For African-Americans, it's part of their African heritage. There's a long tradition (in Africa). ... It moves them away from the Christianity they saw as a slave religion, as the religion that legitimized their slavery."

That goes to the crux of the issue and of the current divide, imo. The history given in the article was cursory, and omitted that communists in America joined forces with the civil rights movement in the 50s.

There is a confluence within the Left of Islam, black liberation and communism/marxism.