In The Light Of 9-11 How Have The Various 'black Muslim' Groups In The Usa Fared?

[sandyRoe]

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[Clanad]

Not sure what you mean by 'Black Muslim groups' sandy. There are numerous mosques and associated populations throughout the U.S., with the exception of here in the intermountain west with our small population.

The area in and around Dearborn, Michigan has a large concentration and appears (at least to an outsider) to be fairing well. Most of them are immigrants or their descendants and mostly from the MIddle East rather than American Black converts...

[humbersloop]

do you mean groups like the nation of islam sandy?

[Clanad]

Thanks, humbersloop... I forgot about Minister Farrakhan and his group. They've always been considered militant first and Black Muslim second since their variety of Muslim is distinctly removed from the middle eastern types...

[jake-the-peg]

More or less removed than oh say Mormon-ism is from Catholicism?

[humbersloop]

I think it started out in the '30's as fairly othodox sunni, jake, but has ploughed an idiosyncratic furrow since then, so probably yes

sandy, it seems some believe there's not been an easy relationship between the american state and american muslims for some time

http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/07/05/for-american-muslims-everything-did-not-change-after-911/

[sandyRoe]

I was thinking more of the Nation of Islam, and Malcolm X's group, rather than mainstream American followers of Islam.
I'd guess the radicalism of the 1960s has largely dwindled away to near nothing.