{"id":42800,"date":"2015-09-19T02:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42800"},"modified":"2015-09-19T02:15:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T02:15:42","slug":"why-some-muslims-dont-want-ahmed-mohameds-blackness-to-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42800","title":{"rendered":"Why some Muslims don\u2019t want Ahmed Mohamed\u2019s blackness to be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/09\/17\/why-some-muslims-dont-want-ahmed-mohameds-blackness-to-be-ignored\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why some Muslims don\u2019t want Ahmed Mohamed\u2019s blackness to be ignored<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbydphillip\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Abby Phillip<\/strong><\/a>, General Assignment Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2015\/09\/16\/us\/ap-us-texas-muslim-student-arrested.html\" target=\"_blank\">After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school<\/a> to impress his teachers, the ninth-grader has become symbolic of the worst skeletons in America\u2019s closet: growing hysteria and over-criminalization in American schools, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamophobia\" target=\"_blank\">Islamophobia<\/a> and racism.<\/p>\n<p>As the news of Mohamed\u2019s plight spread, some of the earliest accounts associated the teen, who is of Sudanese descent, with the word \u201cbrown,\u201d a fuzzy bit of racial jargon that typically refers to non-black people of South Asian or sometimes Latin American descent.<\/p>\n<p>And others <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherErin\/status\/644565731456233472\" target=\"_blank\">openly wondered<\/a> how the world might have reacted to Mohamed\u2019s story <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CamChapo_\/status\/644513996557676544\" target=\"_blank\">if he had been black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Mohamed\u2019s racial identity is as complex as the country of his descent. The African nation of Sudan is predominantly Muslim and is comprised of some 600 ethnicities. Arabs and indigenous Africans have intermarried and mixed there for centuries and most speak Arabic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/09\/17\/why-some-muslims-dont-want-ahmed-mohameds-blackness-to-be-ignored\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why some Muslims don\u2019t want Ahmed Mohamed\u2019s blackness to be ignored The Washington Post 2015-09-17 Abby Phillip, General Assignment Reporter Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card. After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,8,820,20],"tags":[21127,21126,21128,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-42800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-abby-phillip","tag-ahmed-mohamed","tag-islam","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42801,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions\/42801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}