Is it fair or self hatred?

I am Muslim. I bear withness that there is but one Allah, azza wa jal, and that Prophet Muhammad,

is the final messenger of that one Allah, azza wa jal, that there is a heaven and a hell and there will be a day of accounting and a time when wee will all be called to answer for what we did wrongly, what we should have done and did not do, that we will be rewarded for the right and punished or forgiven for the wrong.

I acknowldege that the human race is one race and that race does not make one person better that another person. I believe in the human family and that we are all descendents from the one Adam, meaning that all people are brothers and sisters and of like nature, that a Black is not better than a White and an Arab is not better than a non-Arab, that the nature of human being are basically the same, but I am frustrated of late, especially with those of us in the Afrocentric Cultural Community whose ancestors, like mine, are descendent from the slavery experience because it seem that we are quick to condemn, castigate and socially lynch those in our community who make effort to do dawah and seek to teach and uphold Islam, especially those who do not give allegiance to  or give credit to or say the 'Shaikh said' this or that, particularly the foriegn shaikhs.

I think far to often we are judgmental and extremely critical and condemnatory of those from the African Cultural upbringing as opposed to those 'foreign' to this experience.

We seem so quick to say, 'Oh he don't know anything,' or 'his Islam is flawed' or 'he is on bidah.' while to the 'foreigner' we say, 'oh he is heavy. He is shaikh. His deen is tight.' 

It just seem that we are quick to condemn and difficult to acknowledge, especially when it is someone we know, someone of out ethnicity or someone who have come from our cultural experiences. Of course we must oppose try and correct wrong and oppose it if it is destructive but we see so quick to look outside of ourselves for leadership and for direction and for knowledge and reject what is within our community....often time even when it is within our own family or extended family and I wonder if it is some of the trapping and hangover from the days of self hatred which was instilled in captured African slave and bred during the slavery experience. This is a disease and a sickness in thinking when we do not 'take from' those who have more that we have.

This disease is ever worse when we say that there is not American Scholars of Islam or no scholars of Islam from the West. Shame on those who think such a way because they set themselves up to become slaves to those claiming scholarship from 'outside' the west.

We think it would be very difficult for one who have not 'experienced' the West, its cultural morals, its influences, its mode of communication, manners of dress, especially amonst women, the social environment and the like to adequeately advise one on how to live and apply Islam is such and enviornment. We do not say that it is impossible but just that the shaikh, Imam, Mufti, Qadir or Ameer without such experiences is behing the eight ball and not positioned to give the 'best' advise because of his lack of experience with the Western Mentality.

There is not disrespect intend here, and we say take from whomever have good to give but be careful of those trying to give advise who have never lived in or experienced the full cultural experience of Western Society.

I think such a person is as much, if not more handicapped, especially those from Saudi, where women are not alllowed to drive, travel without a mahram, many who have never seen a woman without hair covered in khimar, or in a bathing suit, mini dress, showing legs, feet, arms, back and buttocks as well as hair,  have never had to deal with a society based on interest, movies and television flooded day and night with sexuality, homosexuals moving about in society freel and expressing themselves by holding hands and even kissing in public, as an advisor as someone trying to give advise about family, raising children, managing a household and dealing with a wife or husband who has never been married or had a family life experiece with a wife demanding hers, children demanding theirs, rent having to be paid or mortgage note due or car payment due.

We admonish you and ourselves to look to Islam and take from 'where' there is truth and right and stop this foolishness that there is no knowledge in the West, and besided you can have all the knowledge or scholarship in the world but without proper conduct you and I and our families will all be condemned to hell and hell fire.

May Allah, azza wa jal, guide us all to what is right and help us in the doing of good and help us in right conduct and help us against those who stand against faith