{"id":1550,"date":"2013-02-22T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-identity-of-african-american-muslims.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T11:52:00","slug":"the-identity-of-african-american-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-identity-of-african-american-muslims.html","title":{"rendered":"The Identity of African American Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Muslim American of African descent has a cultural and religious identity that has survived in spite of external and internal assaults.<\/span><\/div>\n
Indeed, no other socio-ethno-religious minority in America has had its sense of \u2018being\u2019 so challenged.\u00a0 The African American Muslim nonetheless managed to carve out an identity and culture that is unique and specific only to African American Muslims.<\/span><\/div>\n
Truly the African American Muslim cultural distinctiveness is found through name choice and spellings, dress of men and women, artistic development, marriage rites and practices, politics and spirituality.\u00a0 Even something as simple as \u2018the bean pie\u2019<\/em>\u00a0is distinct and unique to the African American Muslim.<\/span><\/div>\n
The influence of African American Muslims in the outer society is often seen in attempts at Islamic names in the Black community, music and spoken word with political and uplifting messages, Afro-centric clothing like kufi caps or turbans and even slang as inner city youths refer to their friends as their \u2018sahaab\u2019.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Muslim American of African descent has a cultural and religious identity that has survived in spite of external and internal assaults. 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