African American Muslim Leaders and the War in Iraq

Two of the most prominent African American Muslim leaders in the U.S., Imam Warith Deen Mohammed of Mosque Cares Ministry and Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam both have critical views of the war in Iraq. However, they differ in the severity of their criticism. Imam Mohammed has adopted a more accomodationist and mainline conservative stance toward U.S. culture whereas Minister Farrakhan has assumed a more radically oppositional stance. Thus, Minister Farrakhan's stand against the war, and that of the Nation of Islam, is much more heightened than that of Imam Mohammed and the Mosque Cares Ministry

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