The fastest-growing sector of Muslims in the United States is among African-Americans. African-Americans have been receptive to Islam, which they see as an anti-White and anti-Christian religion. The Nation of Islam was founded in the 1930’s by a white silk merchant Wallace Fard, who urged African-Americans to dress like Arab Muslims and buy his robes and apparel. Islam became the “lost-found nation of Islam in the wilderness of North America.” Today, many African-Americans are lured into Islam while in prison after learning that Allah’s laws reject those “man-made” laws that got them into prison in the first place. There is no clearer and sadder case in history of the exploitation of a group of uninformed people in the name of Islam than the Black Muslim movement in America.
Islam and Slavery
While slavery was common throughout the world until the 19th Century, but the legacy of Black slavery is much older and persist in Islamic countries to this day. Islam’s imprint on Black slavery is extremely deep and indelible. Two comprehensive books on this subject are “The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa” by Professor John Alembillah Azumah and “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam” by Dr. Peter Hammond. This YouTube video gives a glimpse of Dr. Azumah’s findings on Islamic slavery of Black Africans:
Here are the principal “talking points” about Islam’s ties with slavery, which should be particularly repulsive to African-Americans:
- The prophet of Islam, Muhammad, owned Black slaves and called them “raisin heads.” (Bukhari, Vol. 9, No. 256)
- The Arabic word for a Black person is abed, the same word that used for “slave”.
- The Quran calls women slaves booty, and men are entitled to have sex with them in addition to their own wives and even if the slaves were married. (Surah 33:50)
- While Muslims might earn favor with Allah by releasing a slave, this was rarely done in actual practice. A slave was effectively worth 10 dinner meals. (Surah 3:89)
- More African slaves were sold in the Middle East (28 million) than in the Western hemisphere (12 million). Only 645,000 slaves were actually imported into what is now the United States. (Hammond, p. 2)
- The death rate for African slaves headed for the Middle East was about 80% due to the male slaves being castrated and marched across the Sahara Desert, while the death rate for African slaves sent to the Western Hemisphere was about 10 percent. (Hammond, p. 2)
- There are relatively few Blacks living today in the Middle East because the male slaves were castrated and the female slaves’ children were fathered by the slaveholders. By contrast the most American slaves survived, married, and had families. Today their descendants constitute 12% of the U.S. population.
- Slave trade was abolished in England in 1807, and slavery was abolished in the United States in 1963 primarily due to the recognition that all people are equal. The last countries to officially abolish slavery were Saudi Arabia (1962), Yemen (1962), and Mauritania (1980)—all thanks to Western pressure. Slavery continues today unofficially in Mauritania, the Sudan, and in parts of the Middle East. It is estimated that there are 27 million slaves around the world today.
- Muslim exploitation of African Blacks is most pronounced today in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania where 500,000 Blacks are still in slavery. That amounts to 20% of the population. Mauritania’s population is 30% Moor (Berber/Arab), 30% Black, and 40% (Moor/Black mix). The country is officially 100% Muslim, and it has a constitution that states in Article 10, “Freedom can be restricted by law.”
More Reasons Why Islam Should Be Repulsive to African-Americans
Islam is not a Black African Religion: Islam is often promoted to African-Americans as a Black, African religion. It is neither. Islam originated in Saudi Arabia, which is part of the Middle East, not Africa. Arabs are of the Semitic race, distinct from Black Africans.
There are no Civil Rights in Sharia Law: African-Americans value the civil rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights and the several Amendments ensuring the right to vote. Sharia Law preserves no rights for individuals, but rather obligates individuals to actions and abstentions mandated by Allah in the Quran and by Muhammad in the hadith. The Quran is quite clear about this: “Therefore give judgment among men according to Allah’s revelations and do not yield to their fancies or swerve from the truth made known to you… Is it pagan laws that they wish to be judged by? Who is a better judge than Allah for men whose faith is firm?” (Surah 5:48-50)
Parental Responsibility is Diminished in Islam: One of the issues African-Americans struggle with today is parental responsibility. Seventy-two percent of African-American children grow up in single parent homes. Parental responsibility in Islam is one of the lowest of any culture, which, sadly, may make it attractive to some African-American men. A husband may have up to four wives and an unlimited number of temporary wives or concubines. A husband (but not a wife) can divorce his spouse just by saying, even texting, “I divorce you” three times. There are no joint property rights in Sharia Law, and parental custody and child support laws are non-existent. If a Muslim wife disputes a requirement of Sharia Law, she would be committing an act of apostasy, punishable by death. (See Reliance of the Traveler, Section f1.3, and Section n.)
Islam is a Racist Ideology: Sharia Law says Black Muslims (as well other races) are unsuitable mates for Arab women, because “Allah has chosen the Arabs above others. [Reliance of the Traveler, Section m4.2(1).]
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Note: The principal source document for Sharia Law in the United States is The Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-Salik) written by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 1368). This volume, translated into English by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, is called the Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, and it was approved by Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1991 and the U.S. International Institute of Islamic Thought in 1990 to provide “a sound understanding of Sacred Law.” While this volume represents Shafi’i school of Islamic law, it is identical with 75 percent of the provisions of the other three Sunni schools of Islamic law. The references above are to the provisions of this document. The manual can be read on-line.