In response, the janjaweed are encouraging Arabs in eastern Chad to attack black Muslims there, in the hope of creating chaos and stemming the flow of weapons to the rebels.

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While many black Muslims follow a divergent strain of Islam, Vickers found a home in the Wahhabi-connected AMC and served as its executive director from June 2002 until February 2003, after he left the American Muslim Alliance.

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These black Muslims do not subscribe to the same brand of militant Islam that the Arab Islamist regime subscribes to, thus they are being attacked in a manner similar to that which occurred in the south of Sudan.

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These black Muslims do not subscribe to the same brand of militant Islam that the Muslim Brotherhood-inspired Arab Islamist regime subscribes to, thus they are being attacked in a manner similar to that which occurred in the south of Sudan.

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Now, it is becoming a consciously-chosen layer of identity, especially among immigrants, from British Muslims to black Britons and beyond.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The group also said it was fighting to reclaim "the lost dignity of Muslims of black Africa" and the creation of an Islamic caliphate from Niger to Cameroon and northern Nigeria.

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Muslims have been barred from a Black Eyed Peas concert next month sponsored by Guinness.

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Because many of its rooms directly overlook the Kaaba, the cubical building that houses the Black Stone, and towards which 1.5 billion Muslims turn in prayer, the complex can charge sizzling prices.

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The Prophet Mohammed's name was taken in vain and, a black marker scrawling on a tombstone screamed: "raghead, " a derogatory term for Muslims that stems from head coverings like turbans and kaffiyas.

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