@Chinkkie. Excuse me friend. Who told you all my knowledge of Islam comes from books and furthermore what is there to say the books are incorrect? What about the radio,television and speaking to or meeting people.What about books, particularly when written by people with intimate experience of the thing in question. My friend, I have good freinds and contacts in many parts of the black/African world who are Muslims, [bornMuslims]and my one of my closest buddies was born a Muslim and renounced it,because of the destructive effects of Islam in countries like Senegal to mention but one.

By the way I have never seen Muslims eg Syrians and their ilk and the mess they are spreading in the Caribbean? You friend need to travel, study and broaden your horizons me thinks.

By the way who said I was ignorant of millions of quietly and passively acceptors of Islam. Indoctrinated and defeated people are inclined to accept many things quietly including the Arab's relligion. If the Nation Of Islam can get people to believe passionately in flying saucers and that Arab Fard, what make you think If I had the power and the degree of violence and wickedness those Arabs imposed on our people, they would not believe anything I could conjur up. Forced conversations were the most popular forms of spreading Islam in Africa my friend, in the same way Jews used forced conversions against our people in the Caribbean.

Who said Iwas not familiar with theAfrican influence on Islam. DidI not mentionBillal and if I really cared for this religion I would go in further depth, but I don't and to be honest I rarely enter religious discussions and have so only because this thread isslightly deceptive and is not about the Nation Of Islam at all, but worshiping the Arab's relgion. Heyfriend if you claim there is any connection betweenAfrican Islam and its practices why do you speak the Arabs langauge and not yourown as I have already mentioned? Because what you are promoting isyour Arab master's ideology.

What did god say to you Africans practicisng yourbeliefsthat it would only haveauthenticity if you promote ourArab enemy's language and other things and not your own? Too many of you Muslim brothers arequite frankly lame and tired and come out with the sameweak arguments. No Islam is not Arab, but then go on and contradict yourself withthose camel bashing ethos,credo and language.

Like those Christians who willsay do you know Christianity has Afican roots and then go on and promotewhite foolsihness thathas littleto do with us.

Fredsmoking-devil