Enlightened Commentary on Islam

Asalamu Aliakum.

"I think everything on this earth is being modernized; religious principles and practices, as well as politics..."

Malcolm X remains one of the best examples of the African-American's struggle for a political and cultural independence within the American milieu. His example is always valued, even in these times. Recently, none other than a top leader of Al Queda attempted to lecture President Obama about his authenticity as a black man in America. Image that! Indeed, a figure of backward humanity, female oppression, and violent insurrection would make such narrow comments about race relations in America. Why? Because (some) Arabs have the same paternalistic ideas about Africans that (some) Whites held -- here and in places like South Africa.

Sadly, too many people, of all races, including muslims, have little familiarity with the true dictates of Islam, as evidenced by the Quran. Were African Americans to be influenced by such comments from Islamic extremists, or others who think like them, our fate would have been not unlike those people of the Sudan or Tanzania - where Africans moved toward an invader's interpretation of Islam, but not toward brotherhood among our people and those around us.

Thank Allah for Malcolm's example. Allahu Akbar!