Anti-imperial solidarity framed Islam’s appeal during the 1920s Klan resurgence

Evidence

That Sadiq came to the United States in the 1920s, during the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and other White nativist movements, made his message all the more attractive to African Americans. Moreover, Sadiq supported Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which sought to establish an independent country in Africa as a refuge from White racism. Sadiq’s message that people of Asian and African descent were both victims of European imperialism caused some UNIA members to convert to Islam. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 583

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels to the reading on the holy war tradition being Western, and to Garveyism as a target of state surveillance later in US history. — connects to: Tennessee officials equated a mosque with the KKK while institutionalizing the actual Klan. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 415