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IslamAndRace.com (I&R) is the brainchild of author Amir Makin featuring Muslim news, Black news, politics, racism and Islam in the Quran. It provides a point of view never sought when discussions arise. The Muslim African American is routinely ignored and discounted even though a 2007 Pew Study of all American born Muslims that choose to practice Al Islam stated nearly 60% are African American. It is increasingly clear this voice must be heard to prevent further misrepresentations arising from this important vantage point.
IslamAndRace.com provides in depth analysis on politics,Islam and racism. Black news and Muslim news will be presented. For understanding Islam on these issues there is also understanding from the Quran. We will offer products and services designed to champion causes of justice that go unheard of in the corporate controlled media. We are 100% independently owned. We pride ourselves in reporting on events that some choose to ignore, including those in the Islamic community and outside of it.
IslamAndRace.com will cover Muslm news and Black news on a global level with particular focus on the impact that race, religion and politics have. I&R will use its voice to deconstruct, educate and plainly state a very different perspective.
Six Point Platform
1. End mandatory minimum sentencing as it has caused people of all colors to be jailed without due process. The application of mandatory minimums have given prosecutors the power to selectively charge people with crimes carrying the harshest of sentences for minor offenses which should be reserved for the worst of offenders. A 2011 Congressional United States Sentencing Commission report for Black news stated, "Black offenders were subject to the mandatory minimum penalty . . . 60.6 percent of their offenses carrying such a penalty, followed by Hispanic (41.0%) and White (36.3%) offenders."
2. End the war on drugs as it has been used a pretext to justify racial profiling on Black people primarily. The federal funds used in this endeavor should be redirected in the creation of youth vocational after school activities, neighborhood development projects, in conjunction with substance abuse rehabilitation programs.
3. End racial profiling in law enforcement as it has resulted in too many false arrests, imprisonment, exonerations and deaths of mostly African Americans, Latinos and some poor Caucasians for crimes they never committed. This has given rise to the current stop and frisk program openly practiced by the NYPD, spying on Muslims as admitted by the NJ attorney general, and several others which is an aspect of Muslim news. Federal law should classify this as a criminal offense, rather than a civil act violation. Federal funding should be withheld from those agencies that are shown to regularly engage in this practice.
4. End all military conflicts and wars for profit (the control of another nation's natural resources to include oil, gold, diamonds, and natural metals). Both democratic and republican parties have supported wars for oil (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia) instead of spending the monies for war on empowering those beset by poverty and disenfranchisement in America.
5. Provide immediate tax credits to independently funded educational programs and homeschooling parents so the income they are forced to forego in paying tax dollars into a public education system which often ill prepares Black children for future success. It also restricts access to college prepatory and entrepreneurship based curriculums.
6. Create an international campaign to identify, address, and account for the events caused through centuries of institutional white supremacy and racism. The greatest social problem in America has been institutional white supremacy and racism as it has played a role in everything from the structuring of neighborhoods, electoral politics, to the implementation of state and federal laws. In Black news like this, the effects cannot be ignored. The American society must commit itself to only understanding the origins of this problem, but work tirelessly in all attempts to confront it with the same veracity demonstrated in movements to deal with cancer awareness.