Blacks still drawn to Islam despite FBI raids

By now, Sekou Jackson is used to the questions: Why does he need to leave a work meeting to pray? Don’t black Muslims convert to Islam in jail? Why would you even want to be Muslim?

“It’s kind of a double whammy to be African-American and Muslim,” said Jackson, who studies the Navy at the National Academy of Science in Washington. “You’re going to be judged.”

Jackson’s struggle may have gotten harder when the FBI raided a Detroit mosque Wednesday, saying its leader preached hate against the government, trafficked in stolen goods and belonged to a radical group that wants to establish a Muslim state in America. The mosque’s imam, a black American named Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed in a shootout with agents.

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2 comments on “Blacks still drawn to Islam despite FBI raids

  1. Br_er Rabbit says:

    A huge segment of black Muslims (that is, blacks who are descendants of American slaves) have learned their lessons about violent radicalism and are now quietly biding their time until the Revolution. Black women, in particular, are heavily pressured not to marry men of the ruling (white) class, but black women in general are put off by Islam’s attitudes towards women. Whitey is still not to be trusted. I speak as one who has been closely in contact with these adherents.

  2. Ad Orientem says:

    In my opinion is Islam is [self deleted what the Elves would have gotten rid of].

    And that all I have to say on Islam.

    ICXC NIKA
    John