White Muslims and Racism: Joining the Conversations

Last updated on: November 18, 2016 at 9:39 pm by NbAMuslims

White Muslims and Racism: Joining the Conversations 2016-11-18T21:39:21-04:00 NbAMuslims

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Editor’s Note: This piece is a guest post, written by Lindsay Angelow*.* Angelow is an international health / community health professional who accepted Islam in 1993. She is seeking to build a network of like-minded Muslims to strategize around engaging white Muslims in racial justice work both within the Muslim community and in society at large.

Angelow’s post the second in a 3-part series amplifying the voices and perspectives of NbA White Muslim women as members of the American Muslim culture.

By Lindsay Angelow

In the wake of the Trump election, I noticed many of my fellow White Muslims who don’t usually talk publically about racism initiating conversations about their shock and frustration that he won, and joining the conversations about the blatant racism of Trump supporters.

I am not only referring to White converts. Not all White Muslims in North America are converts. Apart from Muslims who are of European descent who come from European Muslim communities, there is also a small number of White Muslims born to White American/Canadian parents who were converts themselves. This article is for any of us who identify as culturally White American or Canadian, convert or not, and who do not usually engage in conversations about racism[1].

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