What are the external threats to the future of Islam and the Muslim Ummah in America?
We can definitely see that in America there are groups that dont wish Muslims well. We have already heard a number of leading evangelists attacking Islam very viscously and accusing Islam of all types of crime. And while these attacks reveal the ignorance of a few evangelical ministers of the Islamic faith, they, nonetheless, are a source of concern to American Muslims, given the fact that these views are spoken by people of great influence and high authority. American Muslims are greatly disturbed when they see little efforts by mainstream leaders to rebuttal the misrepresentation of Islam. So one group that has really been trying to take advantage of post 9/11 situation is evangelists. The other group consists of right-wing Zionists, who stand firmly behind Sharons policies of continued occupation and systematic marginalization of Palestinians. Some American Zionists, such as Stephen Steinlight of the Center for Immigration Studies, have argued openly that the Muslim presence in the
