Mohamed Ali

Furthermore, instead of this single negative story, there are many positive stories, many Muslim examples in our modern time here in USA such as Mohamed Ali, Ahmed Zewail, and Moustapha Al Akkad. They are just a sample among enormous successful Muslim figures in the USA. Mohamed Ali was an amazing dignified man and a hero by all human definitions. He was a man of principle and he stood against the system by refusing to serve in Vietnam War saying: “My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America, and shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and
… Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.” He accepted to be stripped from all his medals, and title as the Heavy Weight Champion Boxer of the World. His passport and boxing license were taken from him because he took a stand and refused to compromise his religious principles no matter what the material cost was to him personally. He died on June 3, 2016, and his funeral was televised on many channels including Fox, which has a track record of promoting bigotry and prejudice attitudes towards Muslims. Even Fox had to depart from their normal decisive rhetoric and pay homage to his passing from among us. Muhammad Ali had a massive positive effect on the entire American society and on humanity at large because of his characters and his humanitarian