ICNA Attempts to Rewrite Jamil Al-Amin’s Violent History
8th June 2021
“Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.”
“If America don’t come around, we’re going to burn America down.” These are the words of a young African American man known as H. Rap Brown. What began as a life involved in the nonviolent civil rights movement spiraled downward to violent crime and murder.
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) would have you think otherwise. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, ICNA’s Council for Social Justice is repackaging the story of H. Rap Brown, aka Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, as a persecuted political prisoner set up by a corrupt justice system.