Citaat door hamidu:De geschiedenis van moslims in New Orleans.En de criminele activiteiten van sommige blanke racisten jegens die moslims en de Amerikaanse indianen.
Bron:http://www.islamonline.net/English/ArtCulture/2005/09/article05.shtml
Die "criminele activiteiten" (slavenhandel) hebben kennelijk gezorgd
voor het zaaien van de Islam in New Orleans:
Citaat:
According to Dr. Clyde-Ahmad Winters, former professor of African and Islamic studies at Iowa State University, “thousands of Muslims from the Senegambia and Sudan were kidnapped or captured in local wars and sold into slavery. In America, these same Muslims converted other Africans and Amerindians to Islam.” He tells of just one such man, Ibrahima Abdur Rahman, a Fula prince, who became well known in New Orleans, petitioned the president for his freedom, and returned to Africa after 46 years of slavery. Dr. Winters notes that many of the African Muslim slaves wrote the entire Qur’an down from memory and “remnants of these writings still exist today in museums in parts of the once slave-holding south.”
Er wordt hier trouwens over "local wars" geschreven.
De mensen zijn dus door de eigen bevolking verkocht
volgens dit artikel.