Why Islam is my choice — Page 125
125 of Allah be on him) has said that the Arab is not better than the Jew, the Jew is not better than the Arab, the non-Arab is not better than the Arab [and vice versa], black is no better than the white [and vice versa]. He has pointed out all these things, and the Holy Qur’ ā n backs him up and the Ḥ ad ī th and the sunna—the things he said and the things he did—all back him up. You don’t have racism in Isl ā m because Isl ā m deals with racism. Christianity does not deal with racism because Jesus was not sent to do that business. Jews don’t deal with racism because Judaism was not sent for that purpose. Moses was sent to free the Jews from the Pharaoh, and that’s what he did. Jesus was sent to add some things to the Jewish religion, and to compile what was there, and to allow them some things that they weren’t allowed before, and to put some restrictions on what they already had. That is what Jesus’ mission was and that’s why he was given the Inj ī l (Gospel). That is why you find racism in all places and countries. They don’t do it publicly anymore, they do it southerly. An African American goes to get a job, but they don’t say “whites only” but they just take the application and say, we’ll give you a call. We have a lot of applications, if we decide to hire you, we’ll call you. But that application goes right into the waste can after you leave. These kinds of things—that’s what they call subtle racism but it still is [racism]. W: I understand. There is still a lot of effort being pulled by legislation or by legislators, by the political forces that exist, into trying true legislation to control and remove and eliminate such abuse—such unfairness. Only recently, I was listening to where other new legal efforts to eliminate unfairness in the labeling policies of banks, for example, to visible minorities. And daily you hear of these efforts. Do you not think that we can’t through legislation eliminate all forms of racism?