Originally Posted by mike pain

From African Marxist groups to African-western sponsored dictatorial generals
To African American revolutionary groups…. Each cause has said to have been righteous, real and necessary…

..but what about ‘black muslim terrorists’ ? .how can or do you reconcile an ideal with an identity. ? Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari ( Jamaican born IMAM AND convert and those of his ilk ) might SAY THAT
it’s so much about an appropriation of an alien cause, but a diversifying of reason d’etre , or reason to live… an appreciation that they were more than their colour ( ? ) or that their beliefs and causes could transcend race based issues ( after all no body questions the loyalties of Christian afro-Caribbean’s.

Presuming of course there is a agreement on what black opinion is …or which types of people make up the African Diaspora: are Egyptians and Moroccans part of the Diaspora, how light skinned can’t you be? Does the one drop of blood apply ?

Some might argue that this means being more loyal to Islam over the African Diaspora?

But when it come s to ( AND I BEING A PERSON OF NIGERIAN AND JAMAICAN HERITAGE CAN attest TO THIS) ‘blacks’ of different nationalities, domestic and regional imperatives take precedence over the wider African diasporal imperatives every time.

Can you be a muslim and black most definitely….can you be a muslim extremist and still be black I know what my response is what s yours