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other countries.]
ANALYSIS OF TENDENCIES AMONG
AMERICA'S
MUSLIMS
'ISLAM IN AMERICA' is the Fun and Games of the
RICH and the POWERFUL
CRITICISM IS UNKNOWN IN 'ISLAMIC' PUBLICATIONs in
USA
New Trend sees America's Muslims divided into
two tendencies, both going
against the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh). The
terms we used were:
1. Assimilationist. These are Muslims who want to
be Americans first and
Muslims second. They dress, talk, eat, behave
like non-Muslim Americans. Many of
them are married to non-Muslims. They condemn all
those forces which the White
House condemns. [An interesting example: A
'Muslim' working for the FBI is
complaining that the FBI is showing distrust of
him. He is willing to work
against the Muslim community but the FBI is
suspicious that he might be a real
Muslim!] For them, Islam is a religion of "peace"
and all Islamic movements which
fight are "terrorists."
ia. The assimilationists have already done
serious harm to the Muslim
community by attempting to legitimize voting for
non-Muslim parties. They called for
a bloc vote for
BUSH
and have not apologized to
the Muslim community for the
disaster. They are unable to learn lessons in
strategy. Next time they will
probably vote for the Democratic Party candidate
or perhaps Ralph Nader. [A
drowning man will grab at any straw.]
ib. These groupings do not have the moral courage
to face the fact that
PROPHET MUHAMMAD (pbuh) WOULD NOT, UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES, ACCEPT BECOMING PART OF
AN OPPRESSIVE POWER STRUCTURE.
2. GHETTOIZED. The second major tendency among
America's immigrant Muslims is
that they have mosques which are little more than
social clubs. These Muslims
live in a world of their own. There are areas of
New York, parts of New
Jersey, Detroit and Chicago where a little
Pakistan or
Egypt
or Yemen seems to have
emerged. These are Muslims who interact only with
their own kind. They seem
to have achieved a Nirvana where they are at
peace, dressing like Pakistanis,
Arabs etc, eating their own food, speaking their
own language. They have their
own newspapers, often copied wholesale [without
permission] from Pakistani or
Arab newspapers. Their influence on America is
ZERO.
2a. The ghetto Muslims include African-American
Muslims too who have formed
racial organizations with a religious veneer.
They too stay with their own
kind. The biggest Muslim group among
African-Americans is intensely ghettoized to
the extent that they look with suspicion at
African-American Muslims who
have rejected Anglo-American clothing. They are
ineffective in American society
but are quite happy because they are doing
business with the U.S. government
and are used by the U.S. as examples of patriotic
American Muslims.
MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO FOLLOW THE
QUR'AN
and THE
SUNNAH must reject both
assimilation and ghettoization. The correct way
was outlined by the Prophet (pbuh)
when he taught that the Muslim is in the world
but not of it. We come from Allah
and are returning to Allah. This world is nothing
as compared to the next.
Unfortunately, most Muslims in America are only
interested in getting richer and
having 'fun.' Islam in this country is controlled
by the rich and the
powerful. It has become another name for FUND
RAISING for million dollar mosques.
Even
Juma' khutbas
have becoming hidden spiels
for appeals for donations.
CRITICISM is not tolerated by the rich and
the powerful. Look at the
publications of ANY big Muslim organization in
America: One thing they have in
common: There is absolutely no place for
criticism. Look at the
MUSLIM JOURNAL
(W.D. Muhammad's outfit), or
ISNA's
paper ISLAMIC
HORIZONS or
ICNA's
magazine
MESSAGE. These are all public relationing outlets
totally unrelated to
journalism. Criticism of the leaders of these
organizations is not allowed in the their
papers, not even in the "letters" columns. Read
'back numbers' of these
publications: YEAR AFTER YEAR, there is no letter
of criticism. These people have
destroyed the Islamic potential of the Islamic
ummah of America, yet their
publications pretend that they are EVER ON THE
UPSWING, moving forward to conquer
America for Islam! [Recently Siraj Wahhaj's group
decided to publish his
African-American version of ISNA. The very first
issue of his paper, GRASSROOTS, 20
pages, had PHOTOS OF SIRAJ WAHHAJ on SEVEN
DIFFERENT PAGES plus an invitation
to do Islam in the vicinity of Disney.]
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