During the 1930s and 40s, Arab immigrants began to establish communities and build mosques. African-American Muslims had already built their own mosques, and by 1952 there was [sic] more than 1,000 in North America. There were no more than a dozen mosques by 1940 in the U.S. The “African-American mosques” referred to are Nation of […]
PBS Backdating and Exaggerating the Muslim Presence in the U.S. (Part 1)
The PBS Series “The History Detectives” some years ago included a program on Islam in America – that is, on the history of Muslims in America, a history that we were asked to believe until recently had supposedly remained “hidden.” Here is part of the text for that program, available online. “When the first Muslims […]