Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best

The research I did on Black Muslims in Canada showed that our communities experience both Islamophobia from people who aren't Muslim, and anti-Blackness from people who are Muslim but aren't Black. The experience of anti-Black Islamophobia is dehumanizing, and it ignores the fact that enslaved Black people were most likely the first Muslims to arrive in Canada 400 years ago. This is a part of our collective Islamic history.