In the first centuries conversion to Islam followed the rapid growth of the
Muslim world created by the conquests of the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphs.
These Indo-Aryans or near white Caucasian people (mainly Turkish, Persian,
Asians and Byzantines) converted to Islam in the hundreds of thousands ( later
on millions ) and adopted the Black skinned kinky haired Arab culture,
eventually outnumbering the original Black skinned founders politically,
militarily, intellectually, and religiously and in the process through successive
generations managed to influence some aspects of what has been presented
as Islam into a culture of traditional Indo-European superstition, mythology,
intolerance, misogyny as well as a racist anti-black mentality.
This is certainly not a generalization of all Muslims from that region or to deny
the beneficial, progressive and brilliant scholarship and knowledge that the
region has produced over several centuries but rather an insight into why and
how racist attitudes and intolerant cultural practices have crept into the minds
of many Muslims worldwide under the guise of Religion, a attitude which is
contrary to the peaceful, progressive and global message appeal of The Quran.
It is safe to say that some aspects of this shift in Muslim schools of thought
back then has to some degree had an influence on the justification for acts of
terrorism or religious extremism committed today by groups all over the
Muslim world regardless of their colour or ethnicity or geographical location
which has resulted in conflicts between Muslims and people of other faiths as
well as amongst Muslims themselves.
This process of mass conversion changed the initial demographic face of the
Muslim world in general from black to mainly Indo-European....and as a
consequence the Black Arab Prophet Mohamed, like the Black Hebrew Prophet
Jesus was found offensive in and to the new order. Thus we find narrations like
the following;
‘Anyone who says that The Prophet was Black should be killed, he was not
black’
Qadi Iyad (al-Shifa)
The above declaration of course raises its own set of questions, like: Why would
such a fatwa even be necessary except there was in circulation the claim that
the Prophet was black in the first place?
On what was such a claim based? And why would describing The Prophet
Mohamed as black, whatever its historical merits, be so offensive as to warrant
death?