Tariq Nelson

African immigrants are proud to see one of their own (Barack Obama) rise to such prominence in American politics.

From coast to coast, Somali, Ethiopian, Nigerian and Kenyan Americans are knocking on the doors of their fellow African immigrants, registering new citizens to vote, raising money and preaching Obama’s mantra of hope and change. They hope that his prominence will change their status as one of the nation’s least-recognized immigrant groups, and that he will one day provide aid to help ease the turmoil and poverty in countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.

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Kalimaat has an excellent article on the naivete displayed by converts when they go overseas to get married with romantic visions of “one Ummah” dancing in their heads.

I really despise this lie that we are simply all one Ummah and that our sole identity is Islam. It’s a myth being perpetrated by some Western Muslims and all Islamists. Muslims in the West like to evoke it when it comes to issues like Palestine or gatherings in Islamic events. These are meaningless empty words with no substance, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The Islamists like to shout about it in order to unify us under one ideology that only serves their political aims. I believe God has created us to be different; we are a product of our cultures and upbringing. We can be unified under the principles of Islam but that is not the be all and end all of our identity. It does not mean we become homogenous and adopt or confine to one culture or way of behaving. Faith is an act of worship and it is a personal and private matter first and foremost, it is not sufficient enough to create marriage, friendship or bridge the massive cultural gap.

I am at a point now where I admittedly get irked when I hear of a brother (or sister) running off overseas to get married because I know that more than likely someone has fed them a bunch of egalitarian fantasies that these overseas marriages are perfect. This type of dishonesty (or hiding the whole truth) is pervasive and extends to more than just ’selling’ a prospective bride to an unsuspecting young male convert (or middle aged female convert) with that prized US Citizenship.

That for another day.

Who knew that “JJ” Walker was friends with Satan’s sister

An interesting radio program by America Abroad Media about Islam and Muslims in the West. Click here to listen. Summary of the show is below Read more »

Looks like another mentally disturbed convert…You have to be mentally disturbed to leave a fake bomb on a bus in the name of a religion. Unless it was some insane joke Read more »

I don’t have a problem with that. It would be even better if it were regarded as a mental illness

Allan Burnett wants to introduce rehabilitative measures similar to addiction support to prevent youngsters from becoming radicalised by fundamentalists, instead of sending them to prison.

Except that they should go to prison if they have genuinely been involved in plotting murders

Ebony magazine recently had an article (not online) about the tensions between Somalis and black Americans in Columbus, Ohio. Charles and Jamerican Muslimah (part one and part two) have both commented on the situation since they live in Columbus, OH and Minneapolis (respectively) which are home to the two largest populations of Somalis in the US.

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This is sad proof that the terrorist mad men attract the mentally deranged into their ranks. This child is not even a Muslim and is quite apparently disturbed, but was drawn to the equally deranged maniacs that claim to speak in the name of Islam Read more »

Using Western technology to promote murdering and maiming all Westerns, the terrorists have allegedly built an impressive internet propaganda wing to recruit more Muslims into becoming irrational killers or inspire naive Muslim converts like these two to throw their lives away for a murderous organization of criminals and thugs rather than cleaning up, getting their lives together and living life as a decent and productive citizen. Somewhere in a cave the leading nutballs are reading about this and laughing at these “stupid blackies”(”abeed”) Read more »

Dr Jeffrey Lang has a good article on IslamiCity. It is essential that we seize the initiative back from the nuts who claim to speak for Islam by murdering, raping and pillaging. Many converts and second generation Muslims are confused and are finding noone to talk to about their crises of faith. We can not continue to be in denial about this. I excerpted the article below, but please read it all Read more »