Comments on: The Racist Muslim Ummah? How can 1,000 be greater than 100,000 or 1,000,000?

By: Abu Yazid

Abu Yazid — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:06:18 +0000

The answer……. because they are black skinned and not white

By: btilly

btilly — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:26:42 +0000

Christians and Jews are feeding black Muslims in Africa. One Musli man was crying because he was fed by Jews and was taught to hate them all of his life. I use to send money to Darfur but found out how they were taught to hate non-muslims. How unreaL,, wE USED TO SEND OUR SCHOOL money to feed the children of Darfur only to find out the Arab Muslims stole it and called the black children gorillas and raped them and cut off the breast of black mothers who were not able to feed babies. The Arab said it was Allah’s will that black Muslims usffer as Allah created Blacks to be slaves to white fols and then die and go to hell fire. Young black escaped and are telling Americans about it and it is like the KKK and NAZI felt about Blacks.

By: Muhhamad GP

Muhhamad GP — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:08:50 +0000

I think we Black africa muslim have just forgot ourselves, I do not c any point in depending on other nation within islam to solves african problems, it its up to us to start sorting our selves out by taking our own initiatives, it is true that some of our fore father has sold our deen in exchange for food pasel but not this 21st century muslims.

These kind of racisim has been going on for decades and it is about time our leaders particularly in back desadvantage communitity stop depends on other peple to solve their problems and sustain them.

We might not be readly to do that but wa ALLAHI the next generation of muslim ” our children ” will be able to rise back the flag of islam in africa and restore african pride wich has been lost along the way because of the bluring and racisim that happened in the name of islam.

By: Abu Prahbu

Abu Prahbu — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:50:58 +0000

It is really sickening that people only care about innocents dying when it happens to their own group, religious or otherwise. Where is your outrage at the fact that 40,000 people around the world die of starvation every day? Why do you only care when it is “your brothers and sisters?”

In my view, we are ALL brothers and sisters. Put aside your divisive religious perspective for a moment, and see this truth.

By: lia

lia — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:02:02 +0000

word.

By: Naeem

Naeem — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:08:28 +0000

AA- MR,

My contention is not that the media is the sole (or even primary) reason for our collective negligence of our African brothers. I’m simply stating we are an emotional people easily egged-on by whatever is thrown in front of our faces and thus the heavy media coverage is one of the many reasons we have been drawn to Gaza.

Iboo made another valid point that the ‘Yahud’ make a very convenient villain in the Muslim community.

If racism in the Muslim community is the prime motivator for all the attention given to Gaza and the scant attention to Africa, what explains our silence on the plight of Chinese Muslims or the oppression of Muslims in Thailand or the suffering of Sri Lankans as their civil war rages on?

“The Arab news don’t cover as much as the non-Arab news covers in Africa.”

Not true based on my limited experience. Al-Jazeera English does so many more stories covering the ‘South’ (Africa, South America, Southeast Asia) than western media outlets.

Bro, if you’re trying to prove that Arabs (especially the Gulf variety) are racists, I’ll be first in line to admit that. I’ve been on the receiving end of such abhorrent behavior many times here in Saudi. Additionally, many Indo-Pakistanis are similarly racist.

However, to extrapolate that reality into every socio-political analysis forces us into a corner where we become blind to other equally tenable explanations.

By: Iboo

Iboo — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:55:51 +0000

SubhanAllah we were just having this discussion at our masjid. I concluded that there are 2 reasons why I think people focus on the Palestine issue more than issues like those in Africa. 1) It is dealing with Arabs, and 2) It is dealing with Jews.

It needs to be an issue because it deals with Muslims and Oppressors and I can’t make a blanket statement that everyone is emphasizing it because of the former intention, but we see masajid doing Qunoot an-Nazilah for Ghazza when they did not do so for other regions of the world going through hardships, military or otherwise.

Iboo

By: awesome

awesome — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:43:19 +0000

I agree and I think its off putting to lots of people. I think the next step though is to pick a cause, any cause and do something consistently for people in need. I think people should wed themselves to causes like they do spouses, you cant marry everyone, likewise you can’t do much for every cause. If everyone fixed one thing, the planet could be in better shape by tuesday.

By: Marc Manley

Marc Manley — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:04:14 +0000

I think the point that people here have not gotten is that we cannot simply blame the Media for the reasons why we place our emphases on certain topics and on certain people. But rather, we are the culpable ones. There are very concrete psycho-historical reasons why Muslims prefer to place this emphasis on some peoples and not on others. To fall victim to this ideology is not only simply untrue but dereliction of duty as to what's really behind this. Everything else is either lip service or self-made brainwashing.

By: Muslim in America

Muslim in America — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:58:25 +0000

What often happens is that Iraq and Afghanistan are things that are covered in the media perhaps more than anything else. The events in Gaza are covered so much more than anything going on in Africa that our minds automatically forgets the suffering of the millions of people in Africa. I am not saying it is right, that’s just the way it is.

Our minds have become so numb to the suffering of people in Africa and other places in the world, that we don’t even realize what is going on. In the Congo over 45,000 people are killed every month, that’s 1,500 everyday, that’s 1 EVERY MINUTE. It is sad to see that something so violent and so terrible goes on and yet nothing is being done to stop it.

Yes I agree that we need to focus more attention on the other areas of the world that are also in ruins and we need to help the people that need to be helped. We should be organizing protests and fundraisers for that as well. It is just that people are more easily able to relate to what’s going on in the Arab world / Asia and are so fixed on only helping that part of the world that we often forget that there is a rest of the world.

- Muslim in America
http://www.musliminamerica.org