Let’s Talk Real History!

Among all the enslaved people who were forcefully shipped to America, the masters preferred the Muslim enslaved folks. The enslaved Muslims were multilingual, they didn’t drink, they were good at math, and above all, they were clean because they washed five times a day before praying, called “ablution.” Those enslaved Muslims were Black, BTW.

15-30% of enslaved African Americans were Muslims.
28% of Muslim Americans are Black, and only 14% of American Muslims are Arabs.
The Muslim population in West Africa is as large as the Muslim population in the Middle East.

If you want to learn about people, hear their stories. It will be the truest version of the story.
Black Muslim History should be included in Black History Month in public schools to remove the public ignorance and shift the negative public narrative regarding Islam and Muslims. Islam has always been in the very fabric of American history.
Black Muslim History should be the Islamic history in America. It should be taught to immigrant Muslims who live in the Western world where the Islamic culture was deliberately erased, and Islam is negatively portrayed. It’s the most relevant type of history, every Muslim living in the West, should learn.

If you are ignorant of the past, you will be lost in the future. I took some of these classes along with my teenage son. It’s a crucial supplemental education as important as learning Islamic theology and creed to build unbreakable bonds in communities and maintain as well as restore your misrepresented Muslim identity.

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One of my recent publications in collaboration with artist Khaled Mohammed from Nigeria.

• The Talking Tree. Children Story book

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