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

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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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