Absolutely awful. Are unpleasant aspects, sects, and outgrowths of Islam a new BRTD Obsession?
I usual don't defend Islam, but in this case I will do so, the Nation of Islam have nothing to do with Islam, it's a just Black Nationalist version of New Age bullsh**t, where a group of westerners steal religious teachings of a exotic religion and used it outside the context it was born in.
As an aside, the intersection between African-American culture and Islam has never made much sense to me. What draws black nationalists to it?
In my opinion, it's the same reason that when some hick Baptist grow up and rebel, they becomes obnoxious atheists (the vast majority of atheist are non-obnoxious, but atheists who have grown up in very religious homes tend to be very obnoxious). It's a rebellion, but while the hick Baptist rebel against his family and community, African American rebel against western culture. Here is Islam a very good choice. Islam have always been the Other, Muslims are the only group who have ever really been a potential existential threat toward Christianity and Western culture, in fact Western culture have been created in opposition to Islam after the areas where a majority of Christians lived had been conquered by Muslims.
There's also the fact that Islam was a widespread religion in Africa and several groups which African Americans (and White American) in the past saw as Black (Egyptian and other North African people) practiced the religion.
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