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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And, it is not “...crapping on the graves....” as you put it. It is merely making a statement in opposition to the dishonest statements made in his favor. Burn me in a cage, you’ll not be able to break my will or change my mind.
“I thought that Muslims did not recognize the Nation of Islam as true Islam.”
Bingo! American Black Muslims are a weird, made-up hybrid, very different from the Middle East version, a fact which was discovered by Malcolm X, and which led to his assassination.
Muhammad Ali seemed to have reservations about Islam in recent years; he was quoted renouncing jihad after 9/11 and after the San Bernadino attack.
Trump would do well to point out some of Ali’s anti-jihad quotes, and ask very pointedly, why aren’t Muslims coming out publicly in grey numbers to denounce the violence, as Ali did?
Trump could seize an opportunity here to put them on the defensive. Make them respond.
Cassius Clay was a draft dodger !!!
Glad someone else finally said that.
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And, it is not “...crapping on the graves....” as you put it. It is merely making a statement in opposition to the dishonest statements made in his favor. Burn me in a cage, you’ll not be able to break my will or change my mind.
I'll bite, what did he stand for and what was his behavior.
Without facts, your posts are every bit as dishonest as those who you disagree with.
Like it or not, you did take some Charmin to the graveyard - standing firm may make one feel good, but surely you act the ham when you get so dang dramatic over this..."you'll not be able to break my will or change my mind"........Sheesh and Lawd Almighty, but surely this guy jests.
His behavior was childish and immature and he was racist against whites. You can name call me all you want. Absolutely no kidding. You guys never get it...until it’s too late. Foolish on your part.
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Unless they had good legal representaion and wanted to be allowed to box again.
LOL! I read my mail first and now understand why you told me not to keep responding to you and how you "will not be goaded" - you made another statement w/o opting to take the challenge and cite anything relevant. Drama Queen.
Do you mean too late as in after the person is dead? Do you have proof he was racist against Whites?
As far as foolish for being too late, what does that make your decision to crap on his grave after not crusading against "what he stood for and how he lived"???
Enquiring minds want to know - please use some o dat stage queen language - I find it entertaining....
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