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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Muslims in Liberia


aammar
10-02-2013, 08:27 AM
In 1827, the US established the black American colony in Liberia on the west coast of Africa. Forty-six thousand of the children of freed black African-American slaves were transported to the colony, and Monrovia was established to be its capital.

Liberia was meant to be the starting point and launching pad for the occupation of Muslim lands in West Africa and converting its people into Christianity. The US occupied the Liberian coastal area, and its people were confined to inland areas. In 1847, the Muslims were compelled to use the English language and were forced to change their Muslim names into English ones. They were ruled according to the US Constitution, and African Americans dominated the rule of the country.

In 1980 President Samuel Kanyon Doe - one of the indigenous people – led a military coup with which he ended the monopoly of the black Americans; however, Charles Taylor - an African American - proclaimed his rebellion against the rule of Samuel Kanyon Doe, to dethrone him.