Category: Blog
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Rashid Nix: On Caribbean Muslims and anti-blackness across the Ummah
‘An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab; a white has no superiority over a black, nor does a black have any superiority over a white; [none have superiority over another] except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to…
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Ibrahim Osei-Bonsu: Reflections on Islam and race from a Ghanaian Muslim
My first experience of Islam was with a friend of mine called Kola Wale who now goes by Tajudeen. I was 21. Even though I’ve always known that he is from a Muslim background, we’ve never really discussed that. From 18 years old he was at college and he started meeting a lot of Muslims…
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Iqbaal Abdi: Somalia, Colourism and Arab supremacy
I was born and raised in London but I’m from Greater Somalia. I identify as black when in the UK and the western world, however when I go abroad to neighbouring African countries, ‘Somali’ has its own identity that overrules the collective black identity. I didn’t face racism growing up in the UK Muslim community…
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