http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/20088/louis-armstrongs-first-influence-jewish-peddlers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=louis-armstrongs-first-influence-jewish-peddlers A New Read on Jewish Life Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:03:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/20088/louis-armstrongs-first-influence-jewish-peddlers/comment-page-1/#comment-20451 MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:20:52 +0000 http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=20088#comment-20451 IN THE NAME OF ALLAH - THE BENEFICENT - THE MERCIFUL:SAY:HE,ALLAH IS ONE.ALLAH IS HE ON ALL DEPEND.HE BEGETS NOT,NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN.AND NONE IS LIKE HIM.[QUR'AN:112]-LOUIS AMRMSTRONG'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPEAN JEWS WAS STILL APPLICABLE FOR A LOT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN IN AMERICA.MY FIRST JOB'S AS A LITTLE BOY IN LOS ANGELES WAS WITH JEWS.THIS WAS 1960-61. SAM AND HIS SON MARSHALL AT SAM'S MARKET AND ACROSS THE STREET WITH JACK AT THE LIQUOR STORE.WHEN I BECAME A MUSLIM MOST PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES AND IN THE JAILS AND PRISONS OF CALIFORNIA ONLY KNEW ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM AND THERE WAS A VERY NICE JEWISH COUPLE WHO HAD THE STORE ON CRENSHAW AND SANTA BARBARA NOW MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD.AND THEY HAD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES FOR SALE AND THEY WERE ONE OF MY BEST TOOLS TO PROPAGATE ISLAM BECAUSE THE MAGAZINES HAD PEOPLE WHO WERE MUSLIMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND I WOULD CUT OUT THE ARTICLES AND MAKE MY OWN POSTERS AND THAT WOULD CAPTURE PEOPLE EVERYTIME TO SEE THAT ISLAM EMBRACED PEOPLE OF ALL RACES.SEEING IS BELIEVING WAS A REALITY WITH THOSE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES FROM THOSE TWO ELDERLY JEWS WHOSE NAME I FORGET BUT THAT HAS TO THIS DAY BEEN ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE TOOLS FOR ME IN COMPLIMENTING MY PRESENTATIONS ON ISLAM AND WORLD AFFAIRS.MAY ALLAH BLESS THEM WITH PARADISE.TAIF'TUL'ISLAM-P.O.BOX 338-COMPTON,CA.90223 IN THE NAME OF ALLAH – THE BENEFICENT – THE MERCIFUL:SAY:HE,ALLAH IS ONE.ALLAH IS HE ON ALL DEPEND.HE BEGETS NOT,NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN.AND NONE IS LIKE HIM.[QUR'AN:112]-LOUIS AMRMSTRONG’S RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPEAN JEWS WAS STILL APPLICABLE FOR A LOT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN IN AMERICA.MY FIRST JOB’S AS A LITTLE BOY IN LOS ANGELES WAS WITH JEWS.THIS WAS 1960-61. SAM AND HIS SON MARSHALL AT SAM’S MARKET AND ACROSS THE STREET WITH JACK AT THE LIQUOR STORE.WHEN I BECAME A MUSLIM MOST PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES AND IN THE JAILS AND PRISONS OF CALIFORNIA ONLY KNEW ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM AND THERE WAS A VERY NICE JEWISH COUPLE WHO HAD THE STORE ON CRENSHAW AND SANTA BARBARA NOW MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD.AND THEY HAD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES FOR SALE AND THEY WERE ONE OF MY BEST TOOLS TO PROPAGATE ISLAM BECAUSE THE MAGAZINES HAD PEOPLE WHO WERE MUSLIMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND I WOULD CUT OUT THE ARTICLES AND MAKE MY OWN POSTERS AND THAT WOULD CAPTURE PEOPLE EVERYTIME TO SEE THAT ISLAM EMBRACED PEOPLE OF ALL RACES.SEEING IS BELIEVING WAS A REALITY WITH THOSE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES FROM THOSE TWO ELDERLY JEWS WHOSE NAME I FORGET BUT THAT HAS TO THIS DAY BEEN ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE TOOLS FOR ME IN COMPLIMENTING MY PRESENTATIONS ON ISLAM AND WORLD AFFAIRS.MAY ALLAH BLESS THEM WITH PARADISE.TAIF’TUL’ISLAM-P.O.BOX 338-COMPTON,CA.90223

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