>>10428324some do it in prison, there's a gang/group that started there or often recruits there iirc
I imagine the appeal is that it's not filled with white people who treat them differently as in other religions and generally open to newcomers
t. only non mena muslim I ever met was a white woman married to a moroccan
according to wikipedia:
>Historically, between 15% and 30% of slaves brought to the Americas from West/ Central Africa were Muslims.[citation needed] Most of these captives were forced into Christianity during the era of American slavery;[2] however, there are records of individuals such as Omar ibn Said living the rest of their lives as Muslims in the United States.[2][3] During the twentieth century, some African Americans converted to Islam, mainly through the influence of black nationalist groups that preached with distinctive Islamic practices including the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded in 1913,[4] and the Nation of Islam, founded in the 1930s, which attracted at least 20,000 people by 1963.[5][6] Prominent members included activist Malcolm X and boxer Muhammad Ali.[7] The Indian-originated Ahmadiyya Muslim movement also sought converts among African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s.[citation needed]Malcolm X is considered the first person to start the movement among African Americans towards mainstream Islam, after he left the Nation and made the pilgrimage to Mecca.[8] In 1975, Warith Deen Mohammed, the son of Elijah Muhammad took control of the Nation after his father's death and guided the majority of its members to orthodox Islam.[9] However, a few members rejected these changes, in particular Louis Farrakhan, who revived the Nation of Islam in 1978 based largely on the ideals of its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad.[10]
