A number of them are probably not newcomers, but native-born black converts. And they’re even crazier - how any black person could be a Muslim, considering that Islam is an Arab superiority cult that has always despised black Africans and regarded them as nothing but slave material, is beyond me. But Islam appears to be all the rage out there in many black neighborhoods.
That's because of the "hate whitey" philosophy preached by the Muzzies.
Actually, the Black Muslim thing goes back to the sixties and the Countercultural Revolution, interrelated to the Martin Luther King freedom movement.
A lot of blacks were persuaded that Christianity was a “plantation religion” imposed on them by their southern white masters. So they invented the Black Muslim movement and various offshoots.
This was, of course, complete ignorance of history, since it was Catholic Christianity that did away with the slavery Europe inherited from the ancient world, and English Christianity that did away with the slave trade, and New England Christianity that motivated the emancipation movement in the civil war.
During the Age of Exploration, Europeans went out and found slavery in other parts of the world. Some Europeans jumped at what they found as a nice source of profit. But the Pope argued against it and forbade it in South America, and English Protestants finished that job.
It was, in fact, mainly Muslims who were engaged in the slave trade. Islam not only condones slavery, but advocates slavery through the example of Muhammed. And slavery is still practiced in Muslim countries, wherever they can get away with it.
Sheer ignorance, not only on the part of the blacks who founded the Black Muslims, but on the part of white liberals who egged them on and helped them rewrite or ignore history.
>>A number of them are probably not newcomers, but native-born black converts. And they’re even crazier - how any black person could be a Muslim, considering that Islam is an Arab superiority cult<<
I did a vanity once about a plumber I met who was black and raised Baptist just a few miles from where I grew up and the attitudes he had as a converted Muslim.
It blew my mind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1617260/posts
You bring up a good point. I have a friend that recently converted to Islam (or reverted to Islam if you believe what they teach) and I asked him the same question....how can you endorse a religion that condones slavery for infidels?
I never really got a good answer.