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First off if you judge Islam by looking at what Muslims do, you're not going to get a proper picture of what Islam is, theres bad Muslims out there too that drink, do drugs, sleep around, kill people, etc., stuff that are immoral.
But I looked up Al-Jahiz (I can't read who the quote on the right is, its too small) about that quote, and someone wrote this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AAl-Jahiz#islamic_natural_selection?????
>'"Zanj" does not mean black, don't be ignorant. Their word for black was 'sudd', and is reflected in the name for the country Sudan, Bilad al-Sudan ("lands of the Blacks").. Zanj simply referred to an area in East Africa or Zanzibar and possibly its slaves.. After more research, I indeed believe that he was Zanj himself and that his criticism of them was merely satire.. He was mocking the silly views which were rampant at that time period.. The Zanj, as a way to keep unwanted meddlers away from their land, spread stories and rumors about themselves involving cannibalism, etc, in order to scare people away. Which didn't really work that well, but did to a certain extent.Taharqa 18:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)'
Furthermore I found that his grandfather was black, so it seems like he was part black. He's also quoted to have said this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jahiz
>Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people have a natural talent for dancing to the rhythm of the tambourine, without needing to learn it. There are no better singers anywhere in the world, no people more polished and eloquent, and no people less given to insulting language. No other nation can surpass them in bodily strength and physical toughness. One of them will lift huge blocks and carry heavy loads that would be beyond the strength of most Bedouins or members of other races. They are courageous, energetic, and generous, which are the virtues of nobility, and also good-tempered and with little propensity to evil. They are always cheerful, smiling, and devoid of malice, which is a sign of noble character.
He was also a Mutazila, a school of Islamic theology that held heretical beliefs, they believed that the Quran was created. So he didn't stick to orthodoxy when it came to Islam.
But Its clear in Islam that racism is immoral, our Prophet (PBUH) said in his last sermon:
>"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a White has no superiority over a Black nor a Black has any superiority over a White except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly."
I don't deny that there are Muslims today who hold racist beliefs, but those are due to the result of sociopolitics since times of European colonialism who corrupted much of the Islamic world and turned populations against each other.
