U.S. Churches Have Failed African Americans According to New Book, S.O.S Saving Our Sons; Compelling Black Men to Convert to Islam
Nearly two million African Americans are Muslims, with at least 90% of these individuals identifying themselves as former Christians (Pew Research).
What's missing and how should the church respond?
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Radical Islam is pursuing the souls of African American men. S.O.S Saving Our Sons: Confronting the Lure of Islam with Truth, Faith and Courage (Imani Books) urges the African American community to wake up and take action now.
Consider these facts:
- Whether in their neighborhoods or prisons, African-American men are 150% more likely to convert to Islam than other Americans.
- One-third of African American men in prison convert to Islam during their incarceration.
According to Saving Our Sons author Carl F. Ellis, Jr. there are five pivotal questions African American Christians must ask and answer:
- What is Islam?
- Why has Islam developed so successfully in the African American community?
- How to protect our churches and communities from Islam's pursuit?
- How should the Christian community respond to Islam?
- What should be the Christian community's long-term goals?
S.O.S Saving Our Sons: Confronting the Lure of Islam with Truth, Faith and Courage is a direct examination of the issues and responds to these and other critical questions with facts, suggestions and ideas that will help readers begin to address Islam's ever-growing challenge to African American congregations and communities.
Daniel Pipes, the well-known expert on Islam writes, "Increasingly since 1980, African American converts to Islam have been engaged in Islamist terrorism. With its sound information and insights about the Nation of Islam and other Muslim groups serving as a conduit to such violence, Saving Our Sons can help those urban communities that stand between their young men and the dangers of radical Islam."
Saving Our Sons
Carl Ellis, Jr.
$17.95, 132 pages
6 x 9, Hardcover w/ dust jacket
ISBN: 978-1-934056-74-5
For more information, to receive a review copy or schedule an interview with Dr. Carl Ellis, Jr., contact Vicki Frye at 919.576.4061 or [email protected].
SOURCE Imani Books
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