An Open Letter in Support of the Black American Muslim Conference (BAMC) Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem As-salaamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu We at Islam4Europeans fully support the Annual Black American Muslim Conference. The Black American Muslim community has several issues that are unique and specific to them. Who are we to provide advice on how to handle issues such as[Read More…]
White Muslims are tired of being chosen as “white saviours” for the immigrant community. We will reject these stations unless we advocate that Black Muslims should be given the same types of positions at the masjid. The White Muslim sub-community wants to be known as a group that does not support White Supremacy in any way, only the preservation of[Read More…]
Isn’t it funny that white converts connected with the Warith Deen Muhammad community (also known as The American Society of Al-Islam), or even with past in the Nation of Islam, speak about the problems of white Muslims in the U.S. today? Although I lived on the other side of the Earth, for me as a white European interested in Islam,[Read More…]
“Our problem as Muslims is not that we have commitments to different collective identities; our problem is that we tend to treat our collective identities as if they represented ultimate truth, as if they were Islam itself, as if they were an idol though whose appeasement we derive some sense of psycho-spiritual well-being or fulfill some cosmic mission. Our collective[Read More…]
The nation-state and nationalism are both modern phenomena. In his article for Renovatio, Zaid Shakir writes that Islam contains clear arguments against the most important elements of nationalism. This conversation explores the contents of his article, Where Islam and Nationalism Collide, to be published in Vol I, Issue II of Renovatio: the Journal of Zaytuna College.
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