Beware of Christian Zealots Who Persecute Black Muslims – The Rest of Us Are Next

More on what the McCarran Act was later. First, I’ll share with BlackAmericaWeb.com readers an article a reader -- who was apparently hoping that I might devolve into some kind of right-wing religious fanatic -- sent me last week.

Our exchange started after I wrote a column about a group of Baltimore Muslims led by W.D. Mohammed, the son of the late Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
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But saying something positive about any group of Muslims offends that group of Americans who, since Sept. 11, 2001, have appointed themselves instant experts on the religion of Islam.

So, the reader sent me a string of emails insisting that all Muslims, everywhere, think alike and have the same agenda: the destruction of the state of Israel and the subjugation of America to Islamic rule.
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But she sent me a copy of an article entitled “Black Muslims: A Fifth Column Inside The United States?” A “fifth column” is any organization, group or people who actively work on the inside of a country to help its enemies. So the implication was clear: all black Muslims in America are, by definition, disloyal.

The article used Sgt. Asan Akbar as proof. A black Muslim in the U.S. Army, Akbar is alleged to have tossed hand grenades into his officers’ tents in Kuwait City back in 2003. So, because of the actions of one guy, all black Muslims in America are considered disloyal.

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Don’t be surprised if we see The McCarran Act revived, first targeting black American Muslims, and then the rest of us.

The original law -- also called the Internal Security Act -- was passed in 1950 and legalized several things. The most controversial may have been a provision giving the president of the United States emergency powers to send “potential subversives” -- simply another name for “fifth columnists” -- to internment camps.

That’s a fate I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Not even the right-wing religious loonies running rampant in America.

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