Why Islam is my choice — Page 111
111 and also from the communists that said, You people claim to be this, you claim to be that, look what goes on in your country. You don’t treat your people right, you use segregation. Because during World War II the army was segregated—I don’t know if people knew that or not—but the army and the navy and the marines were all segregated in World War II, and, it was President Truman, and not President Roosevelt, who was the president during World War II, and the military forces were segregated. You had your colored regiments and your white regiments, all done under Christianity. W: I understand what you are trying to say. I want to just highlight the situation that exists today in the world, where again a predominantly Christian society is massacring a huge number of people simply because they do not have the mechanisms within Christianity to recognize the rights of people who are different from them, whether it is on a racial basis or on a religious basis. And I had in mind, particularly, the situation in Bosnia, for example. And I have yet to hear a Christian organization stand up and say, and take and promote effective measures to bring that genocide to an end. A group photo from a west coast convention held in the early eighties.