ditto

Thank you all for the warm welcome.
I hope you're enjoying these last days of Ramadhan and may Allah end it for us with his forgiveness and peace and tranquility on all muslims everywhere.

welcom Abayd, were are you originaly from Saudi or UAE? just curious :D

welcome to you khostai. I'm not from either of those countries. I'm from New York. I became Muslim in 1992 wal hamdu lillah.

abayd, are you muslim muslim or noi, 5%, nuwabian, etc.?

Sunni Muslim. Noi, %5 and nuwaubians aren't muslims. In the case of %5 and nuwaubian, they dont even call themselves muslims and NOI is really nation of kufr because they believe faraz muhammad was "god in person" and that elijah muhammad was a messenger.
Anyway I'm not black, and the groups you mentioned are racially based.

thank you for clarifying.

the reason i asked was because it appears to me that more americans are familiar with those groups than they are with sunni islam.

I think that was more so in the 90s when lots of rappers were %5ers. Nowadays you don't find them that much. They're mostly old and faded away.
More Americans know what they see and are told in the news, which features muslims of the world in a bad light.

oh yes i was talking about the pre-terrorism period of Islam in America of course.

Ow oke :D