Do Black Muslims hold to the classic tenets of Islam?
They break from the Koran immediately — if we’re talking functionally about their crude and open anti-Semitism. That is in complete conflict with the special relationship that Islam established, while the Prophet was alive, with Judaism and Christianity. There has been no long historical conflict between Jew and Muslim, though there has been a conflict since the crusades between Christian and Muslim. There are exceptions, but overall Islam proved most hospitable, and certainly a great deal more so than Christianity, to the Jews. When the Jewish population was expelled in 1492 from Spain, Islam took in those Jews who couldn’t find havens in Christian countries. This isn’t to say there haven’t been tensions from time to time, but overall there is no comparison between the way Islam has behaved to Jews and the way Christianity has behaved to Jews. On what basis does the Black Muslim movement usually attack Jews? What I find most outrageous is that the leadership of the Black Muslim movem
