Suhaib Webb – Islam & Social Change #communitystrength #religion #revival #islamicjurisprudence #malcolmx #genx
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Speaker 1 discusses how people in the early 90s found value in Islam due to the catastrophic endemic problem of race relations. They also mention their past experiences with Malcolm International and their mother's journey to Islam. They attribute their success to their own "will" for Islam and their mother's love for Islam.
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That's why many of us who converted in
the nineties,
we embrace Islam because of Malcolm.
Because through Malcolm we saw
a remedy
to the catastrophic
endemic
problem of race relations in America.
And Malcolm said,
go to Islam.
Just go there.
Hit Islam.
Hit go, hit Islam. So we found the
value. That's why many of us from the
early nineties, you find us actually we're in
interracial marriages.
Because we were impacted
by Malcolm's thinking.
Rahimullah.
We found value in Islam. Those of us
who came from violent
street experiences,
we found peace.
As one brother told me, I went from
selling crack
to sitting in a university classroom
because of Islam. My own mother my own
mother who said to