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African American Muslims vs Islam?

What's the difference? I know that there is a difference, I'm just curious. Before I was Christian I used to date an African American Muslim and was told that it is different than like Middle Eastern Islam. I think it's called Nation of Islam. Can someone help clarify for me....

I'm being serious.

Update:

My friend was Nation of Islam and followed the Quran.

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  • 2 decades ago
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    You people must quit being so silly. If you really wanted some kind of answer to this question you're educated enough to find it.

    The 'Nation of Islam' is Not Islam

    There is a great deal of confusion about the group known as the Nation of Islam, currently led by Louis Farrakhan. Although the group's name implies that it is part of the Islamic religion, its beliefs diverge so greatly from Islam that most Muslims consider it to be a different religion.

    I could start a group and call it "The Christian Church of Jesus" but unless my beliefs matched those of Christianity, the name wouldn't mean anything. It's the same with the Nation of Islam.

    The Nation of Islam should be understood as an independent religious tradition that has adopted Islamic elements rather than as an Islamic sect.

    Source(s): http://www.muhajabah.com/noi.htm - here are links to articles by Muslims about the Nation of Islam, including point-by-point comparison of NOI beliefs and Islamic beliefs to show that the two are mutually contradictory.
  • 2 decades ago

    The difference is...African-American Muslims or The Nation of Islam,(which aren't all African -American)would never perform terroristic acts or suicide bombings.The Nation of Islam stands for the basic form of Islam.Such as basic rules and regulations ,prayer etc...(as with any religion).They also teach their followers a different,self-sufficient,more productive way to live in this"predominately caucasian" america.In other words you will never find a Muslim in The Nation of Islam on welfare,unmarried,children born out of wedlock un-employed,arrested for any reason.Not even a traffic ticket.Now,I'm talking about devout Muslims.Unlike the Muslim who dated you.A true follower would not have dated you.........and for the person who said something about it being a black power movement.That's incorrect!If it was a black power movement,YOU would never know about it!!!!!

    Source(s): Many people in my family .
  • 2 decades ago

    Islam is the same no matter what time what race or what part of the world it is practiced the pillars of Islams are the same to believe in Allah and his prophet to pray , fast Ramadan and do pilgrimage and read and fallow the Quaran

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    5 years ago

    Europe grew to become into Islamic top as much as Spain in the process the keeping back of the Christians. the great library of Toledo grew to become right into a mosque in the commencing up and that's the place the Islamic pupils and various the main appropriate of the international got here. It grew to become into an incredible era for technological know-how and arithmetic formerly Europe grew to become Christian and grew to become into plunged into the dark a while.

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    the nation of islam are not muslims(they are a black power group not islamic.becuz islam was created for ever race).they dont even take the quran for guidance.most of my muslim friends(iam also a muslim) are black and they consider themselves to be like muslims all around the world.

  • 2 decades ago

    I can't wait to see the answers to this one, I am curious as well.

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