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n. (Black Muslim English)
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Black Muslims may describe any black people who are Muslim, but historically it has been specifically used to refer to African-American Black nationalist organizations that describe themselves as Muslim. Some of these groups are not considered to be Muslim within mainstream Islam.
These include:
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Nation of Islam
- United Nation of Islam
- Five-Percent Nation
- Nuwaubian Nation
- American Society of Muslims
In a more general sense it can describe,
- Islam in Africa
- Islam in the African diaspora
- Islam in the United States
Usage examples of "black muslims".
The teenage black punks, twisted by lives of poverty and suffering in the well-intentioned welfare state, twisted again by the circulated agit-prop of the Black Muslims and the Death's Angels, became the roving shock troops of race war by random terror.
An agent of the KGB, the CIA, the Black Muslims, the Albanians, or the Salvation Army?
They are very similar to those used by black militants in the 1960s, most notably the Black Muslims and the Black Panthers.
The techno-societies, far from being drab and homogenized, are honeycombed with just such colorful groupings--hippies and hot rodders, theosophists and flying saucer fans, skin-divers and skydivers, homosexuals, computerniks, vegetarians, bodybuilders and Black Muslims.
Do them good, they can learn Moghrabi Arabic and be black Muslims or something.
The group was led by black ministers and the local leader of the Black Muslims.
But not to outlaw motorcyclists: they seemed as out of place as a crowd of Black Muslims at the Georgia State Fair.
He'd done some research on Africa a few years back, when two branches of the Black Muslims had started killing each other over doctrinal points.
His learning had consisted of long night sessions arguing radical philosophies, and weekend retreats with Black Muslims, listening to their theories.