“Muslim. Black. Women.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-black-women_us_57dc212ae4b0d5920b5b2a58

Okay.  First of all, this article was published before the attacks in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey last weekend, and it was presumably written several days earlier than that.

So, yes, the author’s opening complaint about anti-Muslim violence rings a bit off key at the moment, but it wouldn’t have done so quite as obviously when she wrote those lines.

And, yes, even I sometimes think that elements in the American Muslim community spend too much energy and time lamenting “Islamophobia” in the United States (after all, it’s been, on the whole, far more mild than I’ve feared and frankly expected, given the provocations offered by some professed Muslims) and perhaps too little lamenting and combating the extremist violence that has led so many Americans to regard Islam and Muslims with fear and, sometimes, loathing.

That said, bigotry against Muslims is a problem, and it’s not even helpful in the battle against Islamist terrorism.

In any case, I enjoyed reading these profiles of accomplished black Muslim women.