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Muslim men Derives from the Hindi/Urdu for 'cut' referring to circumcision, a common practice among Muslim men. Used to mock Muslims, often in the context of religious tensions. It is often associated with the Islamophobic and communal rhetoric that has been a part of online discourse in India in recent years, especially in religious polarization.
A waiting attitude towards the kafir was recommended at first for Muslims; later, Muslims were ordered to keep apart from unbelievers and defend themselves against their attacks and even take the offensive. [22] Most passages in the Quran referring to unbelievers in general talk about their fate on the day of judgement and destination in hell. [22]
The term has its etymological roots in the Arabic word kāfir (كافر), usually translated as "disbeliever" or "non-believer". [5] The word is primarily used without racial connotation, although in some contexts it was particularly used for the pagan zanj along the Swahili coast who were an early focus of the Arab slave trade. [6]
African-American Muslims, also known as Black Muslims, are an African-American religious minority. [1] African-American Muslims account for over 20% of American Muslims. [ 2 ] They represent one of the larger Muslim populations of the United States as there is no ethnic group that makes up the majority of American Muslims. [ 3 ]
The Nation of Islam teaches that black people are the aboriginal people and that all other people come from them. Louis Farrakhan has stated "If you look at the human family—now, I'm talking about black, brown, red, yellow and white—we all seem to be frozen on a subhuman level of existence. In Islam and, I believe, in development.
Medieval Arab attitudes to Black people varied over time and individual attitude, but tended to be negative. Though the Qur'an expresses no racial prejudice, ethnocentric prejudice towards black people is widely evident among medieval Arabs, for a variety of reasons: [2] their extensive conquests and slave trade; the influence of Aristotelian ideas regarding slavery, which some Muslim ...
According to a major Shia Islam website, al-Islam.org, Hellfire is the eternal destination of unbelievers, [176] although another essay on the site states that there is a set of unbelievers known as ‘Jahil-e-Qasir’ (lit. ‘inculpable ignorant’), who "will attain salvation if they are truthful to their own religion" because the message of ...
A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...