<div dir="ltr"><span title="2016-07-14">July 14, 2016</span>
<h1>Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter</h1>
<span><a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/william-kilpatrick" target="_blank">William Kilpatrick</a><br><a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/islam-revolution-black-lives-matter" target="_blank">http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/islam-revolution-black-lives-matter</a></span> <img src="http://3m7ajlsrzj92lfd1hu16hu7vc.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Muslims-in-solidarity-with-Black-Lives-Matter-Photo-CIJnews-660x350-1468472626.jpg" alt="Muslims-in-solidarity-with-Black-Lives-Matter-Photo-CIJnews" height="350" width="660"> <div>
<p><b>In a speech delivered to the Annual MAS-ICNA</b> (Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America) Convention in December 2015, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263458/dallas-and-leftistislamic-alliance-robert-spencer" target="_blank">Nihad Awad</a>,
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), urged Muslim Americans to take up the cause of Black Lives
Matter. “Black Lives Matter is our matter,”</b></span> he said; “Black Lives Matter
is our campaign.”</p>
<p>At the same conference, Khalilah Sabra, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>another activist, told the
Muslim audience, “Basically you are the new black people of America…</b></span> We
are the “community that staged a revolution across the world. If we
could do that, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>why can’t we have that revolution in America?” “That
revolution” is apparently a reference to the “Arab Spring” revolutions
which were inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and which brought death
and destruction</b></span> to wide swaths of the Middle East and North Africa.</p>
<p>Do CAIR and other activist groups merely want to support Black Lives
Matter, or do they hope to recruit blacks to their own cause? In 2014,
ISIS used the protests and clashes in Ferguson, Missouri as an
opportunity to<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> attempt to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/21/even-islamist-fighters-in-syria-and-iraq-are-obsessing-over-ferguson/" target="_blank">recruit blacks</a>
to radical Islam</b></span>. But ISIS is a known terrorist organization while
CAIR, despite its shady history, is considered by many to be a moderate,
mainstream Muslim organization. Thus, if it wanted to convert blacks,
it would presumably want to convert them to a moderate version of Islam.</p>
<p>Or would it? According to Paul Sperry and David Gaubatz, the authors of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106?ie=UTF8&ascsubtag=shopzilla_mp_1492-20%3B14683458161360863191710070302008005&creative=395105&creativeASIN=1935071106&linkCode=df0&ref_=asc_df_19350711064376011&smid=AEON1732N3DEF&tag=shopz0d-20" target="_blank"><i>Muslim Mafia</i></a>,
the supposedly moderate CAIR acts like an underworld cospiracy. In
fact, it (along with numerous other prominent Muslim groups) was named
by a U.S. court as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist funding
case. In addition, CAIR has been designated as a terrorist organization
by the United Arab Emirates. Moreover, CAIR is a direct outgrowth of the
Muslim Brotherhood, which is also listed as a terrorist group by the
UAE, as well as by Egypt and Saudi Arabia. That’s the same Muslim
Brotherhood that fomented the “Arab Spring” revolutions, the likes of
which Khalilah Sabra wants to bring to America.</p>
<p>The move to bring black Americans into the Islamic fold actually
predates CAIR and ISIS by quite a few generations.<b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> Black Muslim
organizations such as Louis Farrakhan’s The Nation of Islam have been
recruiting blacks to their unorthodox brand of Islam for decades.</span></b> The
vast majority of blacks have resisted the temptation to join, perhaps
because of NOI’s overt racism, its anti-Semitism, and its criticism of
Christianity. In any event, it seems that the Black Muslim movement is
being gradually displaced by traditional Sunni Islam. That’s because
Sunni Islam has a much better claim to legitimacy—it being a worldwide
religion that traces its roots back not to a 1930s Detroit preacher
named Wallace Fard Muhammad, but to a seventh century prophet named
Muhammad.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Will Islam catch on with black Americans?</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>A great many blacks in
America have a strong commitment to Christianity, which serves to act as
a buffer against<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>conversion to Islam. Still, it’s likely that Islam
will make more inroads into the black community than it has in the past</b></span>.
For one thing, traditional Islam doesn’t have the “kook” factor which
keeps most blacks at a distance from The Nation of Islam. The NOI belief
system includes giant space ships, an evil scientist who created a race
of “white devils,” and, most recently, an embrace of Dianetics.</p>
<p>By contrast, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">traditional Islam looks much more like … well, like a
traditional religion. Indeed, when approaching Christians, Islamic
apologists like to play up the similarities between the two religions.
Each </span>year around Christmastime, <a href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3584/the_spirit_of_christmas_and_the_spirit_of_islam.aspx" target="_blank">Ibrahim Hooper</a>, CAIR’s Public Relations Director, sends out a Christmas letter with the message, “We have more in common than you think.”</p>
<p>One of the common elements is Jesus, who is honored as a great
prophet in Islam. The self-proclaimed leader of the Black Lives Matter
protest in Dallas on July 7, 2016 once wrote of feeling called to follow
Jesus into Islam. In November 2015, the Reverend Jeff Hood, a white
leftist pastor, <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/leftist-pastor-behind-dallas-black-lives-matter-protest-wrote-of-becoming-muslim" target="_blank">wrote</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px">I have no question that Jesus is so
intimately incarnated with and connected to our Muslim friends that he
has become one. If we want to walk with Jesus in this moment of extreme
oppression and marginalization, we will too.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>I<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">slam is an equal-opportunity recruiter. It is open to white leftists
and black boxers alike. But Islamic proselytizers may see the present
moment as an opportune time to concentrate on blacks. Why is that?
Perhaps mainly because our educational system has managed to convince
both black and white students that America is a racist society that was
built on the back of slavery. Almost all students have been
indoctrinated in the narrative that America has a shameful history and
heritage</span></span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. </span></b></span>For blacks, however, this version of American history is more
plausible because their ancestors actually did suffer from the ravages
of slavery and the humiliation of Jim Crow laws. Nevertheless, during
the Civil Rights era and afterwards, both blacks and whites worked hard
to heal racial divisions. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Racism</b></span>—<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>both black and white—seemed to be dying
a natural death </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>until leftists, with the aid of the media and the Obama
administration, managed to resuscitate it. Despite the two-time
election of a black president and the appointment or election of black
Attorney Generals, black Secretaries of State, black Supreme Court
justices, a black chief of Homeland Security, black mayors, and black
police chiefs, a number of blacks seem convinced that white racism is
the number one factor that is keeping them down.</b></span></p>
<p>Enter CAIR and <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>other Muslim “civil rights” groups that are only too
happy to reinforce this narrative. They profess to understand the plight
of American blacks because they claim to be victims of a similar
oppression—victims of colonialism, racism, and Islamophobia. Part of
their pitch is that there is no discrimination in Islam. That might seem
a hard sell if you’re familiar with the history of the Arab slave trade
or with Islam’s own version of Jim Crow, the <i>dhimmi</i> system.
The trouble is, those items have been dropped down the memory hole. The
same teachers and textbooks that excoriate the Christian West tend to
present Islam as though it were the font of all science and learning.</b></span></p>
<p>It might be hoped that blacks who convert will choose some milder
form of Islam—something like the Sufi version practiced by Muhammad Ali
after he left The Nation of Islam. Unfortunately, that’s not likely
because CAIR, ISNA, and similar Islamist groups are practically the only
game in town. They have successfully managed to present themselves as
the official face of Islam in America, and ISNA, along with the Muslim
Brotherhood-linked North American Islamic Trust, controls a majority of
the major mosques.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>In backing Black Lives Matter, CAIR and company run the risk that
their own radicalism will be revealed. Apparently, they don’t consider
that to be much of a risk. They know that the court eunuchs in the media
will do their best to mainstream Black Lives Matter as a peaceful
movement, just as the media has accepted the premise that CAIR itself is
a mainstream, moderate organization.</b></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>CAIR can also count on President Obama to take the side of Black
Lives Matter. Recently, he went so far as to compare it to the
Abolitionist Movement against slavery. CAIR is no doubt confident that
Obama has its back too. After all, the president made it clear from the
start of his administration that he supported the Muslim Brotherhood</b></span>—the
“Mothership” (to borrow an NOI term) out of which CAIR sprang.</p>
<p>At the MSA-ICNA Convention, CAIR and associates felt safe to reveal
their revolutionary side. They understand that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Obama has a penchant for
revolutionary causes—provided that they are leftist (the Castro brothers
in Cuba) or Islamist (the “Arab Spring” revolutions) in nature. Before
his first election, Obama promised a fundamental transformation of
American society. CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are also interested in
a fundamental transformation. Indeed, the chief theorists of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, were heavily influenced
by Lenin and by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Muslim-Mind-Intellectual-Islamist/dp/1933859911" target="_blank">communist revolutionary thought</a>. So was Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Asian equivalent of the Muslim Brotherhood. “Islam,” <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Muslim-Mind-Intellectual-Islamist/dp/1933859911" target="_blank">wrote Maududi</a>,
“is a revolutionary ideology and programme which seeks to alter the
social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its
own tenets and ideals.</b></span>” He added, “‘Muslim’ is the title of that
International Revolutionary Party organized by Islam to carry into
effect its revolutionary program.”</p>
<p>That statement has to rank fairly high on the
fundamental-transformation scale, and it bears<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> a striking resemblance to
the tear-it-down-to-build-it-up leftist school of thought to which
Obama belongs. Whether or not the fundamental transformation that Obama
desires is the same as that sought by Islamists, he does seem anxious to
effect one before his term in office runs out.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The emerging confluence of interests between radical Muslim groups,
radical black groups, and a leftist president bent on a radical
transformation of America should give us more than pause; it should
alarm us. Does Obama intend to speed up the leftward movement of
American society during his remaining months in office? Does he hope to
accelerate the Islamization of America through a coalition of radical
black, leftist, and Islamist groups? </b></span>Or does he even care what the
change is, as long as it’s revolutionary in nature?</p>
<p>Most Americans tend to assume that we are still operating under the
same rules that have governed our society since its founding. They have
not come to terms with the possibility that some of our leaders are
operating under a completely different set of rules—what leftist
activist Saul Alinsky called “rules for radicals.”</p>
<p><i>(Photo credit: CiJnews)</i></p>
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<p>William Kilpatrick taught for many years at Boston College. He is the
author of several books about cultural and religious issues, including <i>Psychological Seduction; Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right From Wrong;</i> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Islam-Atheism-Struggle-Soul/dp/158617696X" target="_blank">Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a> and the forthcoming <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Jihad-Guides/dp/1621575772/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467592202&sr=1-1&keywords=the+politically+incorrect+guide+to+jihad" target="_blank">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad</a>. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including <i>Catholic World Report, National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Saint Austin Review, Investor’s Business Daily,</i> and <i>First Things</i>. His work is supported in part by the Shillman Foundation. For more on his work and writings, visit his website, <a href="http://turningpointproject.com/" target="_blank">turningpointproject.com</a></p>
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