Why Islam is my choice — Page 119
119 So, therefore, in my case, or I think in most Afro-Americans’ case who have become Muslims—that part of their life didn’t exist, because they don’t acknowledge that, and we feel— most of the people who are Muslim feel—that the Afro- American people at large, won’t really feel free until they get rid of that identity, because it gives enmity. As long as you can accept that, your knowledge has to be limited. I don’t care what position you hold in the world—this is my point of view—I don’t care what position you hold in the world, as long as you have that label on you, your knowledge is limited. You have to recognize what that is and what you’re carrying around. So I think that, the point you are missing about Mr. Turner, I think this is one of the points he was making, when he was saying how he’s sensing Isl ā m was through the [efforts of] Afro-Americans in the 1920s when Dr. Muft ī Mu ḥ ammad Ṣā diq arrived here for teaching Isl ā m—because it builds the Afro-American. W: I think we are stepping ahead because the remark that we had on that is not recorded. But let’s come to that, right now, I think it’s important. Br. Ra ḥ mat Jam ā l with some of the attendees of a West Coast annual convention held in San Francisco.