Q-News on Malcolm X and ‘Dirty Kuffar’
Q-News magazine has a big feature on Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) this month, including pieces by his assistant Benjamin Karim, and by Yuri Kochiyama, in whose arms he died in 1965. There's also a piece by one Nabila Munawar, who made a visit to the mosque/temple in Washington DC in which he had briefly served as a minister.
Ms Munawar noted that on the way there, people warned her that the people at that centre were not real Muslims, and when she asked them about Malcolm X, they were unwilling to talk about him. "You don't need to learn about him … he did some bad things." Nabila appears to draw the wrong conclusion:
Years later, it became obvious that this kind of response was part of the racism that prevented us from learning about our heroes. He was black. He went to jail. Enough said.
There could be two reasons, in fact, why the people at this building wouldn't talk about Malcolm X. One (the more likely) is that they were members of the Nation of Islam which Malcolm left in order to join mainstream Islam. Elijah Poole's condemnation of him is recorded, in fact, in his autobiography. So these were the followers of Elijah Poole, who rejected Malcolm. (The less likely explanation is that these people were Salafis, and regarded Malcolm X as someone with the wrong aqida, minhaj or whatever.)
There's also a piece by Mehrak Golestan (about whom no information is given) about the notorious Dirty Kuffar rap video, about which the anti-Muslim bloggers raved a year and a bit ago. The article reproduces four lines of embarrassingly bad rapping, which doesn't appear to rhyme, and refers to the identified enemies (Bush, Blair, Sharon, Saddam Hussain, the BNP and the French National Front). Apparently the total of "victims of US violence since 1945) is only 56, which seems to make this yet another operation by Bin Hidin's "idiot jihadis".
Golestan compares this atrocity to the work of Public Enemy, in which Chuck D calls Elvis Presley a "racist simple and plain" and said "he never meant sh*t to me". The difference is that Public Enemy's raps make some effort at a positive message, while this lot seem to embody the worst stereotypes of bigoted extremist Muslims. And the art form is not approved of by strict Muslims, and it's not characteristic of jihadi productions (like those issued by Azzam Publications in the 1990s, for example). As for the claims about its wide distribution, Thebit at Muslims Under Progress reported last February that he'd never seen it and no Muslim he'd ever spoken to about it had either. I wonder if this video's a hoax.
