Arabs, Muslims and Race in America(Middle East Report 224, Fall 2002)Back to 224 Table of ContentsJihadis in the Hood Race, Urban Islam and the War on TerrorHisham AidiHisham Aidi, research fellow at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, works on the university’s Islam in New York Project, sponsored by the Ford Foundation. A longer version of this article will appear in Hisham Aidi and Yusuf Nuruddin, eds., Islam and Urban Youth Culture. New York street. (Edward Grazda/powerHouse Books) In his classic novel Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed satirizes white America's age-old anxiety about the "infectiousness" of black culture with "Jus...
