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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
"Islam, revolution and racism" by Federica Mereu III “The
natural religion of the blacks”: the Islam
The apparition of the Islam was again something for
America: in the complex and variegated black and white religious tradition
of the United States not you n'era traces. In 1913 it was Noble Drew
Wings, founder of the social-religious movement of the Moorses (Moor), to
use for the first time in America an Islamic ideology [cfr. Lanternari,
1967: 244/257].
If the Islam, that the religion of his/her/their Fathers was not, entered
all of a sudden scene making numerous proselytes in the community
Afro-American it was because its fundamental prinćpis responded to their
more urgent appeals in that particular historical moment. Better of the
others, the street of the Islam was suited for the situation of the
Afro-Americans, it is this the sense in which their conversion must be
intended.
Religion exclusive and antagonistic, Islam
spiritually made the independent blacks from the whites; anti-burgeois
and revolutionary, its purpose was of the religious structure to make
better, social, economic and politics of the United States of America; the
Islam, one of the most diffused religions in the continent African and in
the countries of the South of the world, it spiritually reunified the
Afro-Americans with their brothers in Africa, Asia and Latin America in
name of a commune demand of liberation from the same imperialistic
oppression; the Islam, for its vocation universalistica, was the religion
of the brotherhood among oppressed and internazionalizzava their struggle;
Islam encouraged its believers to the struggle rather than to the
subjugation:
“In our book, the Koran there is not any teaching
to pacifically suffer. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. You
are pacific, kind, you obey to the laws, you respect whoever, but if
someone gets out of hand against you, send him/it to the cemetery... eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, head for head, life for life...” [Giammanco
1994: 133].
Mohammed it was the example to
imitate: he had chosen to affirm him with human means, resorting to the
violence if necessary, while Jesus Cristo, that had chosen to die as man,
to sacrifice and to suffer, was the example to abandon. With the Islam in
the heart they would have fought one Jihad,
a War Saint against the American society for the ransom of the black
people. In the due confusion to the loss of identity, Islam was not only a
shelter but a cry of battle.
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