Why is there no diversity in Islam?

Question

Ive been to several mosques in detroit...every single person was middle eastern.

Pick-up Islamic magazines, page through them...see any non-middle eastern people? Nation of Islam of course is founded by people of African decent, but they are a very small sect and are all black...no diversity.

DONT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT....GO TO A MOSQUE AN PEEK IN. LOOK AT PICTURE IN MAGAZINES, SEE THEIR GATHERINGS.

I saw browsing through an "American Muslim" Magazine, the token white people were conspiciously plastered on the front. Look for the issue...this months...youll see what I mean...

NO DIVERSITY...NONE.....NONE NONE NONE....

Of course, there are Indonesian Muslims...their mosques have no diversity as well...and talk to them...they hate arabs and try to deflect criticism of Islam by blaming arabs. Islamic racism is funny...I mean, churches are burned down regularly in Indonesia. They have massive terrorist groups...and its all "arabs" according to them..

Answer 1

First of all I am a Muslim. Perhaps it's just too much pride. We're all guilty of it one time or another. We should never let it rule us to the extent we ignore others. I always do my best not too. Sometimes I fail.

Answer 2

I've known Muslims of various colors, from lily white to dark black.
I'm not Muslim myself (I'm panthiest), but living in a big city I've met African American converts to Islam (not Nation of Islam, more of a mainstream Islam), a few White women who married MidEast or African American Islam men and converted, etc.
Malcolm X converted to Nation of Islam while in jail, shortly after teaching himself to read and corresponding with Elijah Mohammed, spokesperson of that breakaway sect NOI. It was the first thing he'd read in his life that he could relate to, and it fed into his anger and resentment against oppression by the White-run establishment. However, when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he saw Muslims of every race and color praying side by side, and he had a change of heart toward White people. He no longer believed, as NOI taught, that White people are intristically evil; instead, he said it is the degenerate materialistic system that rewards racist oppression and shapes people that way. For this he was demoted as NOI spokesman, and some say this is why he was killed, although no one knows for sure.
I knew an African American woman, who had converted to Islam after being raised very strict Christian. She said she was happy with Islam because "everything makes sense". Knowing her, and where she had come from, and how she was living as a Muslim woman, I can see what she meant by that. She and I could be friends even though I'm (mostly) White (ok, I got a little Native American blood, too), because as she said, "I'm real Islam, not that Nation stuff. I know that God made the different kinds of people so that we could get to know each other."
So before you jump to conclusions about who you see in certain mosques or in certain magazines, get to know a few real Muslims and find out that people are people anywhere you go, and we're all just doing the best we can to make sense out of life's mysteries and be good people.

Answer 3

I understand.

But accept this.
I am a African American-German Muslim.
I embraced Islam six years ago. In our Mosque, we have Nigerian Muslim, African American Muslim, and White American Muslims and Asian Muslim, Arabs...Turkish, Palestine, and much more....
Not all places house one type of Muslims, Alhumduillah (all praises due to Allah, that the Mosque i am at house all backgrounds.)

Answer 4

Because that's where Islam originated.....(Personally, I am caucasian, and I am a Muslim.)

Answer 5

I'm half-Russian and I'm a Christian. I know Chinese people who go to my church. I'm pretty sure Islam has diversity too.

Answer 6

I don't think that's the case because your enthic background doesn't matter when your religion comes into play.

Answer 7

I'm not from the middle east and i'm a muslim. so there you go.

lol why are people giving me thumbs down!!!???

Answer 8

because muslims dont like ppl who arent muslim. o boy, and i know that this will be reported