thesmallestactofkindness:

One of the most annoying things to me when the topic of racism within the Muslim community is brought up, is that everyone repeats the same thing over and over. 

“Racism isn’t part of Islam”

“The Prophet (saws) said we’re not superior over one another”

The thing is, we all know that. We are all well aware that racism is not part of Islam and anyone that disagrees knows that they’re wrong - but saying that doesn’t change anything! Repeating a hadith or quoting some scholar on how bad racism is isn’t going to change anything. You have to let your actions speak louder than words and actually do something to actively fight racism in the ummah otherwise our grandkids will be having the same.exact.conversation. If you talk about racism being wrong but don’t point it out when you see it in the Masjid or when your Imam refuses to do a sermon on it or when a dark skinned woman is sitting by herself during Jummu’a prayers because the Arab/Desi aunties all have their clique and won’t let her in on it or when your Masjid only does their sermons in Arabic/Urdu knowing that there are people from other places inside that mosque or when you hear a little child say that they hate themselves because they’re skin is ugly or when you overhear the kids in your MSA/masjid class/wherever making “innocent” racist jokes - then you don’t mean it at all. 

thesmallestactofkindness:

I feel as if there are far too many Non-Somali people on my dash speaking about how Somalis should react, speak, and/or feel about issues regarding their treatment within not only the Muslim ummah but on a global scale as well. If you are not Somali and you make a post on here about how you support them and bring it back to your own oppression then in my opinion you’ve already put yourself on center stage and pushed them to the side once again. You’ll get hundreds of notes saying “THIS” and “Yes, so true!” because you’re being sympathetic to their struggle without actually allowing them to have the spotlight. If someone asks you why Somalis are upset on here, direct them to a Somali blogger that can explain. I’ve noticed that the majority of notes on posts by actual Somali bloggers were people either disagreeing, tone policing or deviating from the actual point of the post and turning it into the oppression Olympics. We need to sit back, shut our mouths and allow the Somali bloggers to express themselves without any interruptions or anyone telling them how to speak because it’s beyond ridiculous.