Mkangano pakati pa Asilamu ndi anthu omwe si Asilamu ku America wakhala woonekeratu. Ndiyenera kudziwa, kuyambira pomwe ndinapanga chojambula chokhudza kuwunika chamutu wakuti "Aliyense Ajambule Tsiku la Mohammed," ndakhala ndikukumana ndi kusamvanaku.
Pafupifupi tsiku lililonse, ndimamva za anthu akutola mizikiti komanso Asilamu akuzunzidwa. Pa nthawi yomweyo, Akbar Ahmed Ulendo wopita ku America: Chovuta cha Chisilamu wafika.
Malingaliro a a Ahmed ndi akuti America iyenera kupanga chizindikiritso chatsopano. Mwa kubisa mbiri yathu yaukapolo kapena mwina kumamatira ku nthano za Mayflower ndi Plymouth Rock, Achimereka ambiri akhala akudziwikiratu zomwe zadutsa kale tsiku lake.
Izi, Ahmed akusonyeza kuti, zimathandizira kuti dziko lathu likhazikike m'mavuto azachuma, amakhalidwe abwino komanso aluntha pomwe timayimba mwakhungu "Ndife oyamba!"
Malinga ndi Bambo Ahmed, kubwerera kwa America ku ulemerero kumadalira mwachindunji ngati midzi yathu ya Muslim ndi yosakhala ya Muslim ingagwirizane.
Wapampando wa Islamic Studies ku American University ku Washington, DC, yemwe kale anali mkulu wa bungwe la Pakistani ku United Kingdom ndi Wapampando Wolemekezeka wa Middle East ndi Islamic Studies ku US Naval Academy - Bambo Ahmed ndi womasuka kwambiri pa nkhani moti ngakhale wowerenga amene , mofanana ndi ine, wakhala wokana kulandira chipembedzo kotero kuti chooneka ngati chachilendo chikhale chotseguka kotheratu ku chidziŵitso ndi chitsutso.
Werengani ndemanga yonse mutatha kulumpha.
Wolembayo adanditsogolera kumalo komwe Ndinakhala wodzichepetsa ponena za choonadi chokhudza dziko langa ndi mbiri yake. Zoonadi monga malamulo athu okhudzana ndi anthu othawa kwawo asanafike pa 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, kapena kuti Purezidenti Andrew Jackson ndi Theodore. Roosevelt "zinathandizira kutanthauzira choyambirira amadziwikira pa kusakaniza ndi chilombo. "
ulendo analemba wolembayo ndi ena mwa ophunzira ake pamene akupitiriza kufufuza za chikhalidwe cha anthu, kuyendera mizikiti zana limodzi m'mizinda makumi asanu ndi awiri mphambu zisanu pa nthawi ya chaka. Ogwira ntchitowa amafunsa mafunso ndikupereka mafunso pomwe Ahmed amakambilana za ubale wa Asilamu ndi Asilamu panjira. Mwa kuphatikiza malingaliro a ophunzira ake, wolemba amasunga nkhaniyo kukhala yatsopano.
Gululo limayendera Asilamu ndi osakhala Asilamu, Ayuda, Amormoni, Asilamu ochokera ku Middle East ndi Southeast Asia, ndi Amwenye Achimereka, pakati pa ena. Amafunsa malingaliro pamitu monga kuchuluka kwa anthu, mfundo zakunja, uchigawenga, chipembedzo komanso zochitika zodziwika bwino zaku America. Atsikana Athawa! Wolembayo akupereka mitu yonse ya maubwenzi ambiri mwa maguluwa ndi Asilamu, akuwonetsa gawo lalikulu la anthu aku America omwe zithunzi zawo zidakonkhedwa m'bukuli.
Bambo Ahmed amachita kafukufuku wawo wa Asilamu aku America m'magulu atatu a anthu aku America: oyambira, ochulukitsa ambiri komanso odya nyama. Iye akulemba kuti, “Zizindikiro zitatu za ku America izi zimadutsana ndipo zimachokera ku gwero lomwelo - kutanthauza, azungu oyamba kukhala ku Plymouth, ndipo mpaka ku Jamestown. […] Nkhani ya America iyenera kuwerengedwa ngati nkhani ya anthu awa komanso kulimbana kwawo kuti apange nkhani yayikulu. ”
Wolembayo akulemba mwachikondi za mfundo zomwe Abambo Oyambitsa adalemba m'malamulo oyendetsera dziko lino komanso ambiri a m'nthawi yawo omwe ali ndi chidziwitso chochuluka, mwachitsanzo, kukhazikitsa maziko a ufulu wachibadwidwe wamtsogolo, kumenyera kulekanitsa tchalitchi ndi boma komanso kuteteza ufulu wa Native. Achimerika. Dziko likuyang'ana kwa ife, wolembayo akulemba kuti, "...chifukwa cha masomphenya apadera a America pa anthu omwe adapangidwa ndi Abambo ake Oyambitsa komanso olembedwa m'mabuku ake oyambira."
Mutu uliwonse uli ndi zambiri zokhudza Asilamu zomwe sindinali kuzidziwa. Chochititsa chidwi kwambiri ndi mutu wakuti "African-Americans as First Muslim." Asilamu aku Africa-America amakonda kutsatira kumasulira komasuka kwa Chisilamu motsutsana ndi Asilamu ochokera ku Middle East ndi Southeast Asia, omwe matanthauzidwe awo amatha kukhala okhwima. Asilamu othawa kwawo nthawi zambiri sakhala nawo ku America. M'malo mwake, wolembayo akunena kangapo momwe amadabwitsidwa ndi kuchuluka kwa Asilamu osamukira kumayiko ena omwe amadziwa za chikhalidwe cha ku America. Kumbali ina, Asilamu aku Africa-America omwe ali ndi chidwi ndi omwe ali okonzeka kugwira ntchito pazinthu zamagulu monga umphawi, kusankhana mitundu komanso mavuto amkati mwamizinda.
Zochitika zovutitsa m’bukuli zikuphatikizapo ulendo wopita ku Universal School ku Buffalo, New York, sukulu yachisilamu yokhala ndi atsikana pafupifupi 100 ndi anyamata, kumene ophunzirawo amafotokoza chikhumbo chawo cha malamulo a Sharia ku United States. Chinthu chinanso chokhudza chochitikacho chimachitika pamene gululo likufunsana ndi Msilamu wa Salafi yemwe amayankha funso lawo "Wchipewa chikutanthauza kukhala Amereka?" ndi “Palibe…malo atatu ofunika kwambiri padziko lapansi kwa ine ndi Mecca, Medina ndi Jerusalem. America ikhoza kukhalanso dziko lina. "
Wolembayo analemba kuti: “Sitikuzindikira kufunika kwa dziko la America chifukwa ndilo lokha lomwe lingathe kulimbikitsa dziko kuti lichite [zimenezi] ntchito zovuta kwambiri. Koma sichingachite zimenezi popanda kuthetsa funso la kudziwika kwake. Vuto la Chisilamu ndikuthandiza Amereka kupeza chizindikiritso chimenecho ndi kuwathandiza kukwaniritsa mathero ake.”
Kodi muchita chiyani kuti mulumikizane ndi Asilamu ndi omwe si Asilamu lero? Ine amati kugawana chakudya, kuti kwambiri zokoma mtundu wa kukonda dziko lako.
Yolembedwa ndi Molly Norris, wolemba pawokha komanso wojambula zithunzi yemwe amakhala ku Seattle.
(cityarts magazine)
