[erelvenewmeva]

It's very important to understand that many of the African slaves that were transported to North America in the transatlantic slave trade were Muslims. There is plenty of documentation of many of our ancestors trying to preserve our deen.

Some extracts which were mentioned in Deeper Roots by Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick:

The History of Abu Bakr Sadika, known in Jamaica by the name of Edward Donlan.
Taken from “A twelvemonth’s residence in the West Indies: during the transition from slavery to apprenticeship;
By Richard Robert Madden, 1835
http://books.google.com/books?id=vUB...put=text#c_top

LETTER XXXI. THE SCHERIFE OF TIMBUCTOO. To J. Buckingham, Esq. Kingston, Sept. 29,1834

” My name is Abu Bakr Sadika, born in Timbuctoo, and brought up in Geneh. I acquired the knowledge of the Al Quran in the country of Gounah, in which country there are many teachers for young people: they are not of one country, but come from different parts, and are brought there to dwell for their instruction. …..My father’s name is Kara-Mousa, Scheriffsay…..Some of Gounah’s people were obliged to fly to Cong, and on that very day they made me a captive. As soon as I was made prisoner, they stripped me, and tied me with a cord, and gave me a heavy load to carry, and led me into the country of Buntocoo,—from thence to the town of Cumasy, where the king of Shan tee reigned, whose name is Ashai,— and from thence to Assicuma,—and from thence to Agimaca, which is the country of the Fantees; from thence to the town of Dago, by the sea-side (all the way on foot, and well loaded there they sold me to the Christians in that town—there one of the ship’s captains purchased me, and delivered me over to one of his sailors: the boat immediately pushed off, and I was carried on board the ship. We were three months at sea before we arrived in Jamaica, which was the beginning of bondage.—I have none to thank but those that brought me here. But, praise be to God, who has every thing in his power to do as he thinks good, and no man can remove whatever burden he chooses to put on us. As he said, ‘Nothing shall fall on us except what he shall ordain; he is our Lord, and let all that believe in him put their trust in him.’ My parents’ religion is Islam: they are all circumcised, and their devotions are five times a day; they fast in the month Ramadan; they give tribute according to the law; they are married to four wives, but the fifth is an abomination to them. They fight for their religion, and they travel to the Hedjaz (those that are capable.) They don’t eat any meat except what they themselves kill. They do not drink wine nor spirits, as it is held an abomination so to do. .They do not associate with any that worship idols, or profane the Lord’s name, or do dishonour to their parents, or commit murder, or bear false witness, or wno are covetous, proud, or boastful; for such faults are an abomination unto my religion. They are particularly careful in the education of their children, and in their behaviour, but I am lost to all these advantages: since my bondage I am become corrupt; and I now conclude by begging the Almighty God to lead me into the path that is proper for me, for he alone knows the secrets of my heart and what I am in need of.
” Abon Becr Sadika.
” Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 20, 1834.”

The above was written in Arabic. The man speaks English well and correctly for a negro, but does not read or write it. I caused him to read the original, and translate it word by word; and, from the little knowledge I have of the spoken language, I can safely present you with this version of it as a literal translation. ……,

Yours, very truly,

R.R. M
Shortly after Donlan procured his liberty, I received a letter from a Mr. Angell of Manchester parish, a gentleman whom I have not the honour of knowing, but I understand is one of the most respectable inhabitants of his parish. His letter gives an interesting account of another case similar to that of Donlan, where the negro is a man of education, and was of some rank in his own country. He is now seventy-six years of age, fifty-six of which he has passed in slavery on one property in Manchester. The curious part of the case is this: he writes a letter, in Arabic, to Donlan, and states to Mr. Angell that the purport of the letter is to convert Donlan from Mahometanism to the Christian faith; and for this purpose the old African requests of me to be the medium of communication between them. But what is my su rprise at finding the letter of the old man, who is so anxious to convert his countryman from the Mussulman creed, commencing in these terms, “In the name of God, merciful and omnipotent, the blessing of God, the peace of his prophet Mahomet!” So much for the old African’s renunciation of Islamism:

« Sir,

” You will be gratified to learn that Jamaica contains more than one proof of the civilized condition of part of Central Africa, and of the capacity of the negro for learning. The enclosed is written by Robert Peart (or Tuffit,) late a”slave belonging to Spice-Grove Plantation in this parish, to Abon Beer Sadiki, (which he pronounces ‘ Bou Bakin Sedaik,’) with whom he has for some time past carried on a correspondence, inviting him to abjure Mahometanism and embrace the true religion. The purport of the letter is to advise him to request you to be the medium of communication between them.

‘The short and simple annals’ of Robert Peart may not be uninteresting to you. He was born in a place called Bouka, in the Mandingo country, nine days’ journey from the sea-side, and near the country of the Fouhlahs, the capital of which is Timbo. His father, Abon loo de Kadri, was a substantial jeoman, possessing 140 slaves, several cows and horses, and grounds producing quantities of cotton, rice, and provisions, which he exchanged for European and other commodities brought from the coast by Higglers. His family were Mohammedans, as most of the Mandingoes are. He was named Mohammed Kaba: the first son, he says, is always called Mohammed. He was educated partly by his father, but principally by his uncle, Mohammed Batoul, who was a great lawyer, and had designed him for the same profession. He pursued his studies until he was twenty years of age, when he was seized one day, as he was walking some distance from home, by a party of robbers, carried to the sea-side, and sold to the captain of a slave-ship.

[Dweplyododo]

Yes I agree with you brother Mujahid that the majority of converts in america and UK are our afro carribean friends. It is actually a great miracle of ALLAH that these brothers of ours convert even though they are not given much dawah and once they convert they don't get special help. I guarantee you that if any practicing muslims or white converts got the treatment they received then they would leave islam in droves. This is a credit to all our afro carribean brothers. Also most of them when they become muslim don't adopt this new age approach which is almost gay in nature. They usually mould their viewpoints according to islam unlike many of the white converts who come and try to impose their viewpoint on islam (obviously umar from italy is an exception)

I've witnessed it so many times that whenever a white guy converts the community makes a big hoohah etc and some are ready to appoint the guy as some sort of spokesman for the community (then a year later the guy finds out islam deals with gays harshly and he cannot tolerate it so leaves islam or becomes non-practicing or some universial sufi type). The black brothers however do not receive the same treatment. Many of the black brothers convert in prison and when they come out there is no support network for them so many of them go back to drugs, gang culture etc and I don't blame them one bit. If anybody sees these black converts please be extra nice to them and take them to your house for food and become their friends etc. Trust me they have a lot of potential much more than most other races for sure. They are people of mujahidah. Once their mind is set on something they do it...weather it's good or bad and it's up to us to utlize this in a good way.

[Eromereorybig]

It's very important to understand that many of the African slaves that were transported to North America in the transatlantic slave trade were Muslims. There is plenty of documentation of many of our ancestors trying to preserve our deen. I believe that groups like the the Moorish Temple of Science, NOI,etc. were certainly outside the fold of Islam however it appeared to be an attempt of many of our ancestor trying to go back and return what was taken from us and Allah knows best

Very true.
Everyone should read "Roots".

[Eromereorybig]

http://drabutamim.blogspot.com/2011/...in-zambia.html
Everyone does not seem to be ignoring Africa. May Allah bless the philanthrophists in the Middle East for their efforts.

[Eromereorybig]

Yes I agree with you brother Mujahid that the majority of converts in america and UK are our afro carribean friends. It is actually a great miracle of ALLAH that these brothers of ours convert even though they are not given much dawah and once they convert they don't get special help. I guarantee you that if any practicing muslims or white converts got the treatment they received then they would leave islam in droves. This is a credit to all our afro carribean brothers. Also most of them when they become muslim don't adopt this new age approach which is almost gay in nature. They usually mould their viewpoints according to islam unlike many of the white converts who come and try to impose their viewpoint on islam (obviously umar from italy is an exception)


I've witnessed it so many times that whenever a white guy converts the community makes a big hoohah etc and some are ready to appoint the guy as some sort of spokesman for the community (then a year later the guy finds out islam deals with gays harshly and he cannot tolerate it so leaves islam or becomes non-practicing or some universial sufi type). The black brothers however do not receive the same treatment. Many of the black brothers convert in prison and when they come out there is no support network for them so many of them go back to drugs, gang culture etc and I don't blame them one bit. If anybody sees these black converts please be extra nice to them and take them to your house for food and become their friends etc. Trust me they have a lot of potential much more than most other races for sure. They are people of mujahidah. Once their mind is set on something they do it...weather it's good or bad and it's up to us to utlize this in a good way.

Quite right and to the point, hadrat London.

[intorkercet]

Bismillah
Br. London786 completely ignores why some cocasian convert becomes this way. First of all these converts are generally from middleclass and is not exposed to urban culture as that of our Black brothers where abnormal sexual orientation is frowned upon. the middleclass cocasian on the other hand are not exposed to ideas so sudden change of ideas comes as a shock. .The fault is actually lies with the people who is mentoring them. It is more important for these people to connect them with a scholar who can slowly guide them. The african brothers on the other hand had to be made calm down. They often project the same thuggish cut throat culture using relegion. Hence it makes sense why some african brothers gravitate towards madkhali type where as educated cocasina gravitate towards sufis (orthodox and non orthodox).
In absense of competent shepherd, sheep goes to wolf

Allahualam

[VowJoyday]

I personally am aware of rather more white reverts RECENTLY. At first it was alhamdolillah mainly African brothers originally from Caribbean who converted. Now the tide seems to be turning.

[agiopwer]

I personally am aware of rather more white reverts RECENTLY. At first it was alhamdolillah mainly African brothers originally from Caribbean who converted. Now the tide seems to be turning.

Ive noticed the same over here in the US - the whites are on the rise - finally us white folks are breaking the shackles imposed on us for centuries - no more will we let the brown man oppress us.

BUt seriously, each convert is different, we cant really apply a blanket stereo type to each race of people in the west who convert - Every generalzation I see posted here I want to disagree with. A lot of it has to do with where the individual grows up. For example, Where I grew up, Colorado, there arent "black" neigborhoods or "white" neigborhoods - everything is pretty integrated. In fact, growing up, all of my African American friends came from upper middle class famlies - they made more than my family.

BTW, why hasnt anyone asked where is all the East Asian converts at? I know only one korean American kid who has taken shahadah - you Tablighis need to get your butts over to Korea.

[Eromereorybig]

- you Tablighis need to get your butts over to Korea.

Only us poor Tablighis?

[agiopwer]

Only us poor Tablighis?

I got my hands full with the US

[Eromereorybig]

I got my hands full with the US

Oh well...one country less for us...

[unmalryAlalry]

I got my hands full with the US

We Indians have our hands full with Indians.
Pakistanis should be exported to China.
Afghans to Koreas.
Arabs to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Indo-China.
Africans to Africa.
And we should set a target of doing atmam-e-hujjat (whatever is the Arabic equivalent)-conclusion of the argument in favour of Islam.
Anybody left out?
Wassalam

[Eromereorybig]

We Indians have our hands full with Indians.
Pakistanis should be exported to China.
Afghans to Koreas.
Arabs to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Indo-China.
Africans to Africa.
And we should set a target of doing atmam-e-hujjat (whatever is the Arabic equivalent)-conclusion of the argument in favour of Islam.
Anybody left out?
Wassalam

Who is going to the Eskimos?

[unmalryAlalry]

Who is going to the Eskimos?

I'll not ask Kashmiris to handle that part. They'll naturally fall, by extension, in the account of people like Hazrat Mujahid Abdulla Damatbarkatuhum and co.
Wassalam

[Eromereorybig]

I'll not ask Kashmiris to handle that part. They'll naturally fall, by extension, in the account of people like Hazrat Mujahid Abdulla Damatbarkatuhum and co.
Wassalam

Since the Catholic Church managed to convert the eskimos to their brand of xtianity and then in one fell stroke lost practically the entire eskimo nation, I think that the time is ripe for some da'wah to them.

[Eromereorybig]

Inspite of the growing demonisation of Muslims and Islam in large sections of the American media, Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the USA today. Besides a large number of Muslim immigrants from countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, there is a rapidly expanding Muslim presence among American blacks, also known as African Americans. As in the case of similarly oppressed and marginalised groups in many other parts of the world, blacks in America have found Islam not simply a more spiritually satisfying religion but, equally importantly, a means for a more positive self-identity and dignity in a racially-divided society. Large-scale conversion of blacks to Islam in recent years is, then, both a religious as well as social protest movement at the same time.

Contrary to what is popularly imagined, Islam has had a long history of almost two hundred years among the blacks of the USA. Many slaves brought to the Americas from the West Coast of Africa were themselves Muslims. Over time, however, this Muslim heritage was lost, as the slaves were forced to turn Christians. In a sense, then, the rapid conversion of blacks to Islam in the USA is, as some blacks see it,an effort to revive what they believe are their long-forgotten cultural roots.

Interest in Islam as a means for social emancipation of the blacks dates back to the early years of the present century. Not having access to mainstream Islamic authorities, some of these early efforts resulted in the birth of sects that, although claiming to be Muslim, were greatly at odds with the teachings of Islam itself. The first of these efforts was the ‘Moorish Science Temple’ movement started in New Jersey in 1913 by one Noble Timothy Drew Ali. Ali claimed that he had been commissioned by Allah to restore to African-Americans the knowledge of their true identity which had been stolen from them by their white Christian masters. He contended that the blacks were actually descendants of the Moors of Morocco, a Muslim people who at one time had established a vast and flourishing empire, extending even over Spain. Ali laid out his teachings in a sixty-page booklet which he called the Quran, which is not to be confused with the actual Quran of orthodox Islam. While affirming some traditional Islamic beliefs, it consisted mainly of a variety of non-Islamic sources, including the Bible and the teachings of black nationalists. Although completely heretical from the point of view of orthodox Islam, Ali’s Moorish Science Temple was the first organisation to spread awareness among blacks of an Islamic alternative to the dominant Christian tradition.

Following close on the heels of the Moorish Science Temple, emerged another similar black group that claimed association with Islam, although, like the former, its teachings, too, were actually at great variance with those of orthodox Islam.This was the movement known today as the Nation of Islam, and it emerged in the throes of the Great Depression of the 1930s which hit black Americans particularly harshly. In July 1930, one Wallace Fard appeared in the black ghettos of Detroit, claiming that he had come from the holy city of Makkah, and that he had been appointed by God to prepare the black people for the great battle that would herald the end of the world and to free them from the oppression of the whites, whom he called as ‘blue-eyed devils’. Like Ali before him, Fard maintained that the blacks were actually Muslim Asiatics of an ancient and once-powerful race and that they had been enslaved by what he termed as ‘American trickology’. Accordingly, he instructed his followers not to pay any allegiance to the American flag.

Fard rapidly began making a large number of followers. In a span of a few years, he set up several organisations such as the Temple of Islam, a place of prayer for blacks, and the University of Islam, where young blacks were instructed in the tenets of the new cult. Fard was later succeeded by his close disciple, Elijah Muhammad, as the leader of the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad went even further than Fard in claiming that Fard had actually been no less than an incarnation of Allah Himself, and that he, Elijah Muhammad, was his appointed messenger.

In numerous books that he wrote, including The Supreme Wisdom, The Message of the Black Man in America and The Fall of America, Elijah Muhammad taught his followers that the blacks were actually the descendants of the lost tribe of Shabazz, who, he claimed, had founded the city of Makkah. The white people, he argued, had actually been invented as devils through genetic engineering by an evil scientist called Yakub. He claimed that Allah had allowed the ‘white devils’ to rule the world for six thousand years, after which there would be a great war in which the black race would be victorious and would then be appointed by God as rulers on earth.

In the late 1940s Elijah Muhammad found an energetic convert called Malcolm Little, who was then serving a sentence in prison for burglary. Later, adopting the name of Malcolm X, this new convert to the Nation of Islam grew to become one of its foremost leaders and certainly its most popular and powerful orator. It was in 1964, however, that Malcolm X made a clean break with the Nation of Islam and set in motion a process of conversion of tens of thousands of American blacks to orthodox Islam. In that year, Malcolm X made the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah. There he saw for himself Muslims from all over the world, from all races—white, black and brown— both rich as well as poor, rub shoulders as brothers in faith as they circumbulated the Ka’aba. It was this that convinced him that the racial hatred taught by the Nation of Islam group and other similar American black organisations that claimed to be Muslim, actually had no room in true Islam. It was this overpowering spiritual experience in Makkah, where for the first time, as he later wrote in his autobiography, he was treated in a spirit of true brotherhood and equality, that made him distance himself completely from Elijah Muhammad and his cult,and fully embrace orthodox Islam, now taking up the name of Malik al-Shahbaz. Following his return to the USA, where he now emerged as an ardent missionary of orthodox Islam, scores of other blacks followed in his footsteps, a process that continues till this very day.

http://www.islamicvoice.com/october.97/whyi.htm

[Eromereorybig]

http://www.whyislam.org/muslim-world...merican-islam/

[Eromereorybig]

Sekou Jackson is used to the questions: Why does he need to leave a work meeting to pray? Don’t black Muslims convert to Islam in jail? Why would you even want to be Muslim?

“It’s kind of a double whammy to be African-American and Muslim,” said Mr. Jackson, who studies the Navy at the National Academy of Science in Washington. “You’re going to be judged.”

Mr. Jackson’s struggle may have gotten harder when the FBI on Wednesday raided a Detroit-area warehouse used by a Muslim group. The FBI said the group’s leader preached hate against the government, trafficked in stolen goods and belonged to a radical group that wants to establish a Muslim state in America. The imam of the group’s mosque, a black American named Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed in a shootout with agents. The FBI says he resisted arrest and fired a gun.

On Friday, the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, where Mr. Abdullah served as prayer leader, dismissed as “utterly preposterous” the FBI’s allegations that Mr. Abdullah was part of a radical Islamic group. Mr. Abdullah was a “recognized and respected member of numerous mainstream Muslim organizations and leadership bodies,” the mosque said.

“The slanderous allegations of his being a national leader of a radical Islamic sect is utterly preposterous. … These allegations are contrary to what we as a community stand for,” the mosque said.

Although the FBI was careful to say those arrested in Detroit were not mainstream Muslims, it has accused other black Muslims of similar crimes, most recently in May, when four men were charged with plotting to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down a military plane.

Yet the Muslim faith continues to convert many average black Americans, who say they are attracted by Islam’s emphasis on equality, discipline and family.

“The unique history African-Americans have faced, we’re primed for accepting Islam,” said Mr. Jackson, 31, who grew up in a secular home and converted to Islam when he was about 18.

“When someone comes to you with a message that everyone is equal, that the only difference is the deeds that they do, of course people who have been oppressed will embrace that message,” he said. “It’s a message of fairness.”

It was a message of black pride in the face of dehumanizing prejudice that launched Islam in America in the 1930s.

Created by a mysterious man named Wallace Fard, the “Lost-Found Nation of Islam” strayed far from the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, but its mixture of self-reliance, black supremacy and white demonization resonated with many blacks. Some 30 years later, Malcolm X began the black movement toward traditional Islam when he left the Nation of Islam, went on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and proclaimed that all whites were not evil.

In 1975, the Nation split into two factions: a larger group that embraced orthodox Sunni practices, and another, led by Louis Farrakhan, that maintained the Nation’s separatist ideology.

Today, it is difficult to determine the number of Muslims in America. A 2007 Pew survey estimated 2.35 million, of whom 35 percent were black. Lawrence Mamiya, a Vassar College professor of religion and African studies and an expert on American Islam, said Muslim organizations count about 6 million members, a third of them black.

Most black Muslims are orthodox Sunnis who worship in about 300 mosques across the country, Mr. Mamiya said. The second-largest group follows Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, which has about 100 mosques in America, abroad and in U.S. prisons, Mr. Mamiya said.

He said the third-largest group is the Ummah, founded by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the black activist formerly known as H. Rap Brown. The group has about 40 or 50 mosques. The organization targeted in the raid near Detroit was part of the Ummah, the FBI said.

“The vast majority of African-American Muslims are using the religion to strengthen their spirituality,” said Mr. Mamiya, who has interviewed many black Muslim leaders and congregants. He said the number of black Muslims is growing, but not as fast as before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Few white Americans convert to Islam “because the tendency is to view Islam as foreign,” he said. “For African-Americans, it’s part of their African heritage. There’s a long tradition [in Africa]. … It moves them away from the Christianity they saw as a slave religion, as the religion that legitimized their slavery.”

[10traistintarry]

Inspite of the growing demonisation of Muslims and Islam in large sections of the American media, Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the USA today. Besides a large number of Muslim immigrants from countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, there is a rapidly expanding Muslim presence among American blacks, also known as African Americans. As in the case of similarly oppressed and marginalised groups in many other parts of the world, blacks in America have found Islam not simply a more spiritually satisfying religion but, equally importantly, a means for a more positive self-identity and dignity in a racially-divided society. Large-scale conversion of blacks to Islam in recent years is, then, both a religious as well as social protest movement at the same time.

Contrary to what is popularly imagined, Islam has had a long history of almost two hundred years among the blacks of the USA. Many slaves brought to the Americas from the West Coast of Africa were themselves Muslims. Over time, however, this Muslim heritage was lost, as the slaves were forced to turn Christians. In a sense, then, the rapid conversion of blacks to Islam in the USA is, as some blacks see it,an effort to revive what they believe are their long-forgotten cultural roots.

Interest in Islam as a means for social emancipation of the blacks dates back to the early years of the present century. Not having access to mainstream Islamic authorities, some of these early efforts resulted in the birth of sects that, although claiming to be Muslim, were greatly at odds with the teachings of Islam itself. The first of these efforts was the ‘Moorish Science Temple’ movement started in New Jersey in 1913 by one Noble Timothy Drew Ali. Ali claimed that he had been commissioned by Allah to restore to African-Americans the knowledge of their true identity which had been stolen from them by their white Christian masters. He contended that the blacks were actually descendants of the Moors of Morocco, a Muslim people who at one time had established a vast and flourishing empire, extending even over Spain. Ali laid out his teachings in a sixty-page booklet which he called the Quran, which is not to be confused with the actual Quran of orthodox Islam. While affirming some traditional Islamic beliefs, it consisted mainly of a variety of non-Islamic sources, including the Bible and the teachings of black nationalists. Although completely heretical from the point of view of orthodox Islam, Ali’s Moorish Science Temple was the first organisation to spread awareness among blacks of an Islamic alternative to the dominant Christian tradition.

Following close on the heels of the Moorish Science Temple, emerged another similar black group that claimed association with Islam, although, like the former, its teachings, too, were actually at great variance with those of orthodox Islam.This was the movement known today as the Nation of Islam, and it emerged in the throes of the Great Depression of the 1930s which hit black Americans particularly harshly. In July 1930, one Wallace Fard appeared in the black ghettos of Detroit, claiming that he had come from the holy city of Makkah, and that he had been appointed by God to prepare the black people for the great battle that would herald the end of the world and to free them from the oppression of the whites, whom he called as ‘blue-eyed devils’. Like Ali before him, Fard maintained that the blacks were actually Muslim Asiatics of an ancient and once-powerful race and that they had been enslaved by what he termed as ‘American trickology’. Accordingly, he instructed his followers not to pay any allegiance to the American flag.

Fard rapidly began making a large number of followers. In a span of a few years, he set up several organisations such as the Temple of Islam, a place of prayer for blacks, and the University of Islam, where young blacks were instructed in the tenets of the new cult. Fard was later succeeded by his close disciple, Elijah Muhammad, as the leader of the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad went even further than Fard in claiming that Fard had actually been no less than an incarnation of Allah Himself, and that he, Elijah Muhammad, was his appointed messenger.

In numerous books that he wrote, including The Supreme Wisdom, The Message of the Black Man in America and The Fall of America, Elijah Muhammad taught his followers that the blacks were actually the descendants of the lost tribe of Shabazz, who, he claimed, had founded the city of Makkah. The white people, he argued, had actually been invented as devils through genetic engineering by an evil scientist called Yakub. He claimed that Allah had allowed the ‘white devils’ to rule the world for six thousand years, after which there would be a great war in which the black race would be victorious and would then be appointed by God as rulers on earth.

In the late 1940s Elijah Muhammad found an energetic convert called Malcolm Little, who was then serving a sentence in prison for burglary. Later, adopting the name of Malcolm X, this new convert to the Nation of Islam grew to become one of its foremost leaders and certainly its most popular and powerful orator. It was in 1964, however, that Malcolm X made a clean break with the Nation of Islam and set in motion a process of conversion of tens of thousands of American blacks to orthodox Islam. In that year, Malcolm X made the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah. There he saw for himself Muslims from all over the world, from all races—white, black and brown— both rich as well as poor, rub shoulders as brothers in faith as they circumbulated the Ka’aba. It was this that convinced him that the racial hatred taught by the Nation of Islam group and other similar American black organisations that claimed to be Muslim, actually had no room in true Islam. It was this overpowering spiritual experience in Makkah, where for the first time, as he later wrote in his autobiography, he was treated in a spirit of true brotherhood and equality, that made him distance himself completely from Elijah Muhammad and his cult,and fully embrace orthodox Islam, now taking up the name of Malik al-Shahbaz. Following his return to the USA, where he now emerged as an ardent missionary of orthodox Islam, scores of other blacks followed in his footsteps, a process that continues till this very day.

http://www.islamicvoice.com/october.97/whyi.htm

I just find it interesting that whenever the history of Islam in America is discussed the role of Imam WD Mohammed(May Allah have Mercy on him) is rarely mentioned

[unmalryAlalry]

I just find it interesting that whenever the history of Islam in America is discussed the role of Imam WD Mohammed(May Allah have Mercy on him) is rarely mentioned

Please give more details brother.