{"id":10166,"date":"2021-01-23T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:40:50","slug":"african-americans-and-religious-freedom-the-struggle-for-religious-freedom-from-thomas-jefferson-to-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/african-americans-and-religious-freedom-the-struggle-for-religious-freedom-from-thomas-jefferson-to-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"African Americans and Religious Freedom &#8211; The Struggle for Religious Freedom from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Director Rahmah A. Abdulaleem, Esq. was quoted in article &#8211; &#8220;The Struggle for Religious Freedom from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter&#8221; published on salon.com on January 23, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important to focus on the fact that after 9\/11 so many Americans were asked, &#8216;Do you know any Muslims?&#8217; and most African-Americans could say, &#8216;Yeah, I know Muslims. I grew up with them. They&#8217;re in in my family.&#8217; We weren&#8217;t others,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So African Americans really need to focus on the fact that we always welcome others. It&#8217;s always been important to us because we know what&#8217;s like to be in the minority. We know what it&#8217;s like to be otherized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandmother was blessed with 11 children and she considers herself a Universalist but not as a Universalist for the Universalist Church. She&#8217;s like, &#8220;I&#8217;m universalist because my oldest daughter was a Buddhist, I have a daughter who is a deaconess in the Baptist Church, I have a son who&#8217;s an imam, I have two sons that are Catholic.&#8221; It&#8217;s so important that for her they&#8217;re all her children and they all are having some kind of connection to something bigger than them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/01\/23\/the-struggle-for-religious-freedom--from-thomas-jefferson-to-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the Article\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Director Rahmah A. 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