And in breaking news...
Muhammad Ali...still dead.
Posted on 06/06/2016 4:48:14 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
The death of boxing great Muhammad Ali cost American Muslims perhaps their greatest hero, a goodwill ambassador for Islam in a country where their minority faith is widely misunderstand and mistrusted.
"We thank God for him," Talib Shareef, president and imam of the Masjid Muhammad mosque in Washington, told a gathering of Muslim leaders who honored Ali in Washington on Saturday, a day after he died in a Phoenix hospital at age 74. "America should thank God for him. He was an American hero."
From the turmoil of civil rights and black Muslim movements of the 1960s to the darkest days after Sept. 11, 2001, Ali was a hero that U.S. Muslims could share with part of the American mainstream.
Muslims remembered Ali for many familiar reasons, hailing him as a champion of social justice, a lifelong supporter of charitable works and an opponent of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Moreover, they said, he was a Muslim that a largely Christian country came to admire, even if Ali shocked and scared much of U.S. society after he joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay in 1964.
"When we look at the history of the African-American community, one important factor in popularizing Islam in America is Muhammad Ali," Warith Deen Mohammed II, son of the former Nation of Islam leader, said in a statement.
With some 3.3 million adherents in the United States, Muslims make up about 1 percent of the population, largely immigrants and African-Americans who have embraced the religion.
Although they have integrated into society better than some of their brethren in Europe, American Muslims face hardships even as the United State grows demographically less white and less Christian.
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He let his daughter box professionally, immodestly dressed before millions. See what happens if you try that in the Middle East.
Muhammad Ali was a very bad person worthy of zero praise. None. To see who is praising him tells the WHOLE story.
And in breaking news...
Muhammad Ali...still dead.
How does conversion to Islam equate to Conscientious Objector status?????
I thought that muslims did not recognize the Nation of Islam as true islam.
So peaacefulll.
LOL
To be an American hero, 1st you have to fight for OUR country in the US military...
Cassius Clay was a draft dodger !!!
Honestly speak your mind on “Ali” openly and risk ridicule...or worse...
Oh, I have not "widely misunderstand" it since I first heard of it.
and mistrusted.
I trust them....they are here to kill us.
Ingesting that our enemies are willing to tell the truth that Ali was a follower of a “religion” that wants to cut my head off. The skunks in msm will never say that.Their articles are not worth reading.
“American Muslim”
No such animal. There are only Muslims in America, loyal to Sharia and not to the Constitution.
Really? I don’t remember him talking much about “faith”. Besides, he didn’t make his daughter walk around in a potato sack.
I believe Ali was Nation of Islam. A lot of “real” Muslims don’t believe NOI to be muzzie.
Just more tripe from Leftist Yahoo.
Muslims don’t recognize NOI but why should facts matter to the media?
Joe Bruno on Boxing – Muhammad Ali is Not a Hero.
| June 4, 2016 | Joe Bruno
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3436853/posts
He done LOVED him his Viet Congs, dint he?
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