美國穆斯林社群內部，黑人穆斯林與中東裔移民的穆斯林有緊張關係在。
When weary Muslims gathered in
Toronto in December for an annual retreat, marking the end of a tumultuous U.S.
election year, they probably didn’t expect the event
to turn into a referendum on racial tensions within the American Muslim
community. But it did.
One session was led by Hamza Yusuf, a well respected white scholar
who co-founded Zaytuna College, which claims to be America’s first Muslim
liberal-arts college. At the end, he was asked whether Muslims should work with
groups like Black Lives Matter. “The United States is probably, in terms of its
laws, one of the least racist societies in the world,” he replied. “We have
between 15,000 and 18,000 homicides per year. Fifty percent are black-on-black
crime, literally. … There are twice as many whites that have been shot by
police, but nobody ever shows those videos.”
He went on. “It’s the assumption
that the police are racist. It’s not always the case,” he said. “Any police now
that shoots a black is immediately considered a racist.”
The backlash on social media was swift
and immense. “For black Muslims, hearing this from somebody we’ve all come to
love and trust—it was a cold slap in the face,” said
Ubaydullah Evans, the executive director of the American Learning Institute for
Muslims, who is black.
