Islamaphobes can forget how much Muslim-Americans have contributed to our country. And while we don’t condone intolerance of any religion, it is nice to remind ourselves of the famous and great Muslim-Americans who have changed the United States for the better.
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Hmmm let’s see.
Snoop Dog is a Rastafarian if ANYTHING, since technically he doesn’t think of himself as religious at all nor does he support any religion. Last I remember he was pretty AGAINST organized religion.
Steve Jobs is a Buddhist. He was originally Lutheran if I recall. He was in no way a Muslim. Just because his father came from Syria does NOT make him a Muslim, that’s a religious CHOICE. For a bunch of people who claim to be Muslims and want equality…. Tyt y’all don’t seem to understand the difference in a genetic bloodline and choice of religious worship.
Muhammad Ali converted in order to avoid going to Vietnam (a brilliant method of gaming the system still used today) and when speaking about religion always held on the side of Christianity.
Ellen Burstyn “affiliates herself with all religions” in her own words. She isn’t anything, she’s everything. She thinks all religion worships the same god, and so she likes all of them equally, and does not actively align herself with any single one of them. She’s not a Muslim.
Daver Chappelle is damn near the only one on that list that IS actually Muslim. Anyone else on the list beyond these mentioned individuals no one knows about.
This America land of FREE SPEECH, However, There is a point of respect and tolerance here also. In America you better not talk about anyone’s MAMA. We will BECOME stark raving VIOLENT. (Every last one of us). Even if we don’t like our MAMA. Maybe that is how they feel about their GOD. How about that?
While I completely agree with the premise of this video, it does require some fact-checking. Neither Steve Jobs nor Snoop Dogg were or are Muslim. Jobs was raised a Lutheran, before converting to Zen Buddhism in his adult life; many of his friends and family have expressed just how much his Buddhism influenced his later life. Snoop Dogg was raised irreligious, and while he has expressed some sympathy for Islam, he is most decidedly a Rastafari, having converted after his time in Jamaica in 2012.
Prophet Noble Drew Ali established the first Islamic organization in the United States named the Moorish Science Temple of America. From the M.S.T. of A. came the Nation of Islam, then the 5%ers and in between, many other organizations. Islam in the West birthed the u ique message in early Hip-hop as well. Americanized Islam ain’t going nowhere. Peace.