Intro
I have already covered the story in terms of Alexander Russel Mohammed Webb as a colonial prophet, a fake Muslim and a racist. However, it should be noted that Webb’s usage of the word “Nigger” was only found in Webb’s diary, of which snippets were published almost 100 years after Webb died in the book “A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb” by Umar F. Abd Ullah in 2006.
Who was Webb calling a Nigger? It was a well known Ahmadi named Maulvi Hassan Ali (See Webb’s diary entry of 8 December 1892)(via “A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb” by Umar F. Abd Ullah). Webb also used the term “nigger” for some Hindu’s whom he thought had stole his oranges (See Webb’s diary entry of 12 December 1892)(via “A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb” by Umar F. Abd Ullah). Webb exclaimed: “Went to my cracker box where I left two oranges and found that one of them had disappeared—niggers who slept in the wash-room must have nipped it.”
Knight told us that Webb, “treated his new religious affiliation like other white men of his time treated entire nations: he marched in and immediately claimed to own it. (…) Webb argued that South Asian Muslims, whom he sometimes called “niggers” in his journals, were so caught up in “ignorance and superstition” that they understood Islam no better than cows or horses. (…) Over a hundred years later, it’s still a problem. (…) When a white guy wears the hats of brown guys and talks about “reviving the Islamic spirit,” it might be time to run fast” (Knight 2013b)(See Juliette Galonnier – When ‘White Devils’ join the Deen). According to Knight, white American converts’ intentions to reform Islam are condescending and dangerous, reproducing the patterns of white imperialist projects. In a similar vein, white convert Umar Lee fustigates on his blog the “white liberals” who converted to Islam with a view of reforming the religion: “there seems to be a breed of white liberals and leftists who accepted Islam after 9-11 and immediately after taking shahada were already trying to reform the religion. (…) Sorry, but this to me smacks of a form of cultural imperialism by white westerners” (Lee 2009b).
In 1916, when Webb died, Webb’s memorial service was held at the Unitarian Church, conducted by Reverend Elizabeth Padgham, the Knights of Pythias of the Rutherford Lodge were the pall bearers (See The Light of April, 8, 1944)(See The Light (16 April 1944) — www.alahmadiyya.org). This proves that Webb was always a fake Muslim and simply masqueraded as a Muslim for money and to protect the interests of the US Government. The death story was given by Webb’s daughter (Mary Caroline Alyea) to Nadira Osman in 1944.
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Links and Related Essay’s
Alexander Russel Mohammed Webb was a colonial prophet, a fake Muslim and a racist
Alexander Russell Webb Journals, 1892 – Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries
https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/webb
Who is Maulvi Hassan Ali Bhagalpuri? – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
Click to access nd_2015_01.pdf
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