The Other Islam: How do America's black Muslims judge recent events?

Wall St Journal ^ | 11-9-01 | Tamar Jacoby

[SJackson]

If asked on Sept. 10 to identify a U.S. Muslim leader, most Americans could have named only one: Louis Farrakhan. We all know much more now than we knew then, but many still wonder: How do America's black Muslims feel about the terrorist atrocities and what has come after?

[Rubber Duckie]

They see it as an alternative to Christianity, a "slave religion" learned from whites.

I've always found this statement rather humorous considering it was Muslims who founded the African slave trade and are the only major religion still practicing it . . . in Sudan.

[Maceman]

Islam and slavery go together like a wink and a smile.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

Not only is the ongoing Moslem involvement in the slave trade ignored, but the fact that the abolitionists in both England and America were motivated almost exclusively by Christian principles is also studiously ignored.

It the U.S. had been Moslem, Blacks would still be slaves.

[stainlessbanner]

If these guys were really Muslim, they would be beating women, buying slaves, and killing people on the streets in the Mid-East. But, they love their freedom and comfort here in America. It's much easier to be a semi-Muslim in the US. These folks are disgusting.

[Virginia-American]

It the U.S. had been Moslem, Blacks would still be slaves.

I wanted to start a vanity on the question, "name an islamic abolitionist". Funny, the only abolitionists I can think of are Christian, Jewish, and 'none of the above'