RAMADAN IS A PART OF AMERICAS TRADITION.THE SLAVES WERE MUSLIMS AND SOME OF THEM FOLLOWED THEIR RELIGION IN THE NEW LAND. ========================= My friend has written this article urging us to discuss during the Month of Ramadan, our History here in United States. Remember the First Muslims who Celebrated Ramadan in this new land even though they had no Rights or Freedoms. They were Slaves from Africa. We need to make sure our Children know this History and this Struggle for Freedom. THE HISTORY OF RAMADAN IN AMERICA INCLUDES THE SLAVES PRACTICING THEIR FAITH. Below the ending of the short article. ---------------------------------- Rewriting the history of Ramadan in the US Muslim America was almost entirely black during the antebellum Era. Today, it stands as the most diverse Muslim community in the world. Today African Americans comprise a significant part of the community along with Muslims of South Asian and Arab descent. Latin Americans are a rapidly growing demographic in the community, ensuring that Muslims in America are a microcosm of their home nations overall multiculturalism. In the US today, Ramadan dinner tables are sure to include staple Arab or Pakistani dishes. Yet, many Muslim Americans will break the fast with tortas and tamales, halal meatloaf and greens. Muslim diversity in the US has reshaped Ramadan into a multicultural American tradition. The breadth of Muslim Americas racial and cultural diversity today is unprecedented, making this years Ramadan - and the Ramadans to follow - new in terms of how transcultural and multiracial the tradition has become. This Muslim American multiculturalism comes with many challenges: Namely, intra-racism, Arab supremacy, and anti-black racism prevents cohesion inside and outside of American mosques. These deplorable trends perpetuate the erasure of the Muslim slave narrative. Integrating this history will not only mitigate racism and facilitate Muslim American cohesion, but also reveal the deep-rootedness of the faith, and its holiest month, on US soil. This Ramadan honouring the memory of the first Muslim Americans and their struggle for freedom and sharing their story with loved ones at the iftar table, seems an ideal step towards rewriting this missing chapter of Muslim American history into our collective consciousness.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:41:39 +0000
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