With islams image in the world right now it’s hard to believe anyone would convert other than to oppress, deceive, conquer, and kill.
Probably not in his case but at that time many converted and changed their name to avoid the draft.
I am a people watcher. I noticed for years that black people tend to go to the black identity section of a bookstore. Sure, I have seen exceptions, but this is overwhelmingly the case. This is a result of that narrow mindedness.
Sounds like he has black guilt real bad.
And he did so in a country that does NOT practice sharia law......that makes a huge difference
DILLIGAFF.
Do I Look Like I Give A Flying F***?
If you let your wife be 'free', you are not a real Muslim. Do you have Christian and Jewish friends? When you behead them, then I'll listen to you WHY you converted to Terrorism.
“And while I realize that many Christians risked their lives and families to fight slavery and that it would not have been ended without them, I found it hard to align myself with the cultural institutions that had turned a blind eye to such outrageous behavior in direct violation of their most sacred beliefs.”
But you have no problem with aligning yourself with a cultural institution that mass murders and enslaves thousands of people today?
I'm sure "white America" didn't think twice about Lew Alcindor's life, but to him, he and his people are at the center of white America's minds. I read some time ago where a survey showed that to whites the topic of race occupies their thoughts about 5% of the time, where as race occupies about 95% of blacks' thoughts. (I don't really recall the exact percentages, but it's along those lines).
Actress and blaxploitation star Pam Grier was his live in girlfriend during his conversion to islam.
She says in her auto-biography that she found herself going from his equal partner to being treated like a second class citizen. When they had guests over at their home, he expected her to make sandwiches and refreshments, and then make herself scarce. And not enter the room where kareem and his guests were having their little party.
She complained about this unequal treatment of her, but all he did was lecture her about the proper way a girlfriend or a wife of a muslim man is supposed to act around their men, especially when they have guests. He would assure her that she could be herself when they were alone and after they marry, things would be just fine between them.
She dumped him.
Somewhere along the way KAJ must have stopped studying the teachings of this deathcult.
No rational person would convert to the cult of death.
“Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the manifestation of my African history, culture and beliefs.”
Good then we will expect him to move to the continent of his
dreams and not let the door hit him on the ass on the way
out. Sits there and whines “the pale reflection of what white America expected”
and made millions out of it.
If he feels so intimidated by America then he needs to leave.
We really don’t care. This falls into the category of “Why I used to believe Islam was a religion of peace.” category. Publishing or republishing this stuff should be punishable to imprisonment. Anything he says again has no credibility.
Won’t even read the article. For him to adopt a anti-American, anti-Semetic last name is disgusting. He’ll be Lou Alcindor forever as long as I need to identify him with a name.
“Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the manifestation of my African history, culture and beliefs.”
Just a corner of Africa, actually...that being Egypt. They’re the only serious Arab country north of the Sahara, at least when he was converting. Most of Africa is black, and is south of the Sahara...details, details.
To his credit, he did play some serious ball, and Islam hadn’t nearly developed the reputation that it now (legitimately) has in the West, back when he converted. Back then you could make fun of it, such as I Dream of Jeannie...without worrying about getting your head lopped off.
islime is a demonic infection. lucifer thanks him.
I don’t care or want to know why he converted. As far as I am concerned, he can go over there and stay.
“Being 7-foot-2 and athletic got me there, not a level playing field of equal opportunity.”
He shouldn’t be so angry. Yes, being 7-2 and extremely talented didn’t hurt, but if the playing field wasn’t level (or at least close), he would have never got past the basketball equivalent of the Negro League (baseball’s top league for blacks, prior to Jackie Robinson breaking into the Majors). Obviously things had opened up in basketball. Yes, since most fans are still white (which makes sense as whites have more spending money and there are many times more whites in the country), there is a tendency to have a token white or two on every team, even if there were better blacks...but that is certainly is not due to racism on the part of the owners - it’s just trying to keep revenue up.