Muhammad Ali was widely consdered one of the greatest boxers of all time, and one of the sport’s most well-recognized figures. Former member of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam movement, he was once barred from a fast-food restaurant because of his race. When he returned after winning the 1960 Olympic Games light-heavyweight title, he placed his gold medal on the table and ordered a burger.
“We still don’t serve niggers,” he was told. “That’s OK,” he is said to have cheekily replied. “I don’t eat ’em.”
Muhammad Ali is now mostly paralyzed by Parkinson’s Syndrome, but it hasn’t stopped him from standing up against bigotry in any of its forms.
He said in a statement on Wednesday night:
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so-called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion,”Ali said, specifically in response to Trump’s call to ban Muslim immigration.
Trump said on Monday that he backs “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
“We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda,” he added, pointing out that politicians ought to promote greater understanding of Islam and clarify that “these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is.”
Trump once called Muhammad Ali “my friend” in a Facebook post, apparently having forgotten that Ali is a Muslim who would take offense to being banned from America.
And with that statement, Mohammad Ali knocked out both radical Trump and radical Islam.
Mohammad Ali isn’t the first high-flying Muslim to backtrack on Trump; on Tuesday, an Arab billionaire withdrew his support from Trump’s campaign:
“I wrote an article supporting him [in a leading Gulf newspaper in August,” Khalaf Al Habtoor, who has featured on the Forbes rich list, told NBC News on Tuesday. “I said we are fed up with the politicians, they have destroyed the Middle East … I wrote we need a successful businessman like Mr. Trump.”
“When he was talking about Muslims, attacking them … I had to admit I made a mistake in my supporting Mr. Trump,” he said. “He is creating a hatred between Muslims and the United States of America.”
Trump owns businesses in Muslim countries…
Sources: The Free Thought Project, The Independent, CNBC
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It is *EXACTLY* the ***ignorance*** of Muslims (like that stated in this article) who believe this pacifist line of bull that gives *cover* to the *true* Muslims who practice Jihad *EXACTLY ACCORDING TO THEIR RELIGION!*
You want to be a good Muslim? Then follow your OWN BOOKS and practice Jihad!
You want to be a good Christian? Then find a way to love your enemy.
There is no such thing as “good” and “evil”, only “choices, actions and consequences.” So if you’re going to be a Muslim, you need to be prepared to face the consequences. If you’re going to be a Christian, then you need to be prepared to face the consequences. If you’re going to take another breath of air, then you need to be prepared to face the consequences.
I am so Sick and Tired of people like you who don’t even understand the WORD “Jihad” and use it as another meaning for Terrorism.
Jihad actually means that one is being faithful and working hard without cheating all for the sake of earning the favor of God, it has also a broad array of meanings one of which is defending your country.
HOWEVER None of what the ISIS is doing COULD EVEN BE CONSIDERED JIHAD, they are murdering innocent muslim and christian people alike, and in the Quran the Muslim was ORDERED by God to Not harm anyone who wouldn’t harm us, even when fighting to Let go and not even chase enemies who run away from battle, never kill a woman or a child or an elderly, never kill a man who hasnt harmed us,not to Destroy a tree that bares fruit or a home or even a church even in war.
Islam is a true Religion of peace but its image is being mutated and perverted from a long time ago by the USA first by creating the taliban, then alquida to fight the taliban, and now by creating ISIS.
the mindless murder by the ISIS has nothing to do with islam if it had the united states military wouldnt have supported them
So what are you going to believe once life is found on another planet? I mean every religion has their god they worship. But the fact is your faith will be questioned. I want everyone with a religion to ask yourself after its proven there is life I mean there are trillion of planets out there in space we are not the only life and each planet might have its own religion there is no one God I wish there was so we can all live a great life without any worries and trust thy neighbor but we cannot these days a few bad seeds ruin it for all it happens everywhere. The fact is religion has always been a killer to all over centuries and it always repeats itself throughout just in different ways like this. I hope one day we can have peace but it’s not 1 person that’s the problem it’s all people who bring hate. Trump does not mean what was said. We as America is fed up with the slaughter of innocent people and it is caused mostly by Muslims it’s bad for all because of the bad seeds but he is saying if we stop them from coming in at the moment until a process has came up with then let them back in. It is just a pause why is this a problem? If we say we’re going to stop all travel on jan’23 guess how many bad seeds will come over? It’s actually smart when you think about it and has nothing to do with the Muslim community if your good then why would it be a problem the crap your running from the killings and all from your country is following you. You came here to be free and freely walk down the road without worry of getting shot murdered it any so why would you not want to stop this from coming to the place you came to have a better life? The Muslim community needs to realize hey we understand why they need to stop at the moment so the terror is not brought to the place we want to life happily and our way as humans! TO STOP THIS IS TO STOP THE PROBLEM FOR THE MOMENT!!!!! THIS IS NOT HATE ITS A PERSON SAYING WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL AS I WOULD ALL BECAUSE OF THE BACKLASH OF PEOPLE AND NOT USING BRAINS!
For those of you who like to bash “religion” in general, remember this: “Religion” is simply a set of rules for living one’s life (as simply stated as one can distill it into a single thought.)
Here is the simplest rule I can think of (as a religion) for leading one’s life: “One heartbeat always follows another.”
If one breaks *THAT* rule (for one’s self) then one no longer has need of *any* religion, because one is no longer among the living. Granted, people undergoing heart operations may *suspend* that rule temporarily, but inevitably, another heartbeat will follow another.
I gave this simple rule to a renowned Imam and he asked me about the “ethics” of the rule. If something promotes another heartbeat, that is to be encouraged. If something prevents another heartbeat, then that is to be discouraged.
Pretty simple, if you ask me.
Your pathetic attempt at taqiyya (deception in the name of the propagation of Islam) in no way negates the historical fact that Jihad has been waged against us Kafirs (non-Muslims) for over 1400 years with no signs of stopping. Perhaps you think that just because westernized Muslims disagree with terrorist jihad that it (terrorist jihad) is a perversion of your religion? Bullshit!! Wake up and smell the shit you’re shoveling!
Is everything is taqiyya to you? you moron? you can’t accuse people of laying, you have to find evidence! speculations, speculations, speculations… you can’t read peoples minds!
Think of the word Jihad as ‘mission.’ Extremist are just coining a phrase. In Islam, Jihad has nothing to do with war or religious take over. It is merely a set goal or objective, like Peace.
Exactly, it represents ones struggle e.g., getting out of bed 😀
Jihad may certainly represent an objective, like peace, but make no mistake — it is diametrically OPPOSED to peace.