Here in the US we have a group known collectivly as the “Nation of Islam”.
I admit that I know very little about this group. All I know is that it at least claims to adhere to Islamic teachings, and that it is a primarily “African-American” organization.
What I’m curious about, is that the Fundamental Islamist think of NOI… how much would Farrakhan get right in a discussion with Prince Abdullah of Jordan?
What’s the dope, folks?
Tristan: Here’s a link that should begin to answer some of your questions:
http://www.bible.ca/islam-nation.htm
The key point to take home from that page, is that in the period of 1975-1985 most former members of the Nation Of Islam modified their views and came into line with Sunni orthodoxy. Farrakhan’s ( blatantly bigoted ) views are very much a minority position among Black Muslims these days.
The Nation of Islam (the original NoI, not the reformed orthodox branches) is to Islam as Christian Identity is to Christianity. Even very “fundamentalist” Christians would consider the Identity Christians to be heretics at best, if only because their theology is incorrect by the standards of traditional Christian orthodoxy. I imagine orthodox Muslims–even politically and theologically radical or extremist ones–feel the same way about the racist branch of the Black Muslims. Both the Identity Christians and the original Black Muslim movement teach doctrines of racial superiority and inferiority–they just disagree on which race is which–and racial separatism; whereas both mainstream Christianity and Islam are universalist religions which teach (even in their extreme elements) that all mankind are essentially brothers and should share a common faith in God; i.e., Christianity or Islam, respectively.
MEBuckner: A very apt comparison 
. Islam was not originally universalist, but has been so since the mid-8th century.