Summary Of By The Dawn's Early Light By Abdul Rauf

On September 29th, 2014, a raucous Kansas City Chief’s stadium dismantled Tom Brady and the Patriots on Monday night football as an audience of over nine million viewers watched Hussain Abdullah of the Chiefs seal the game away with a “pick-six”. As Hussain ran into the end zone, he then proceeded to slide onto his knees and then performed Salaat with a dome of fans cheering around him. Despite being a truly spectacular display, Hussain was rewarded instead by getting penalized for excessive celebration. This being said, although many avid sports fans may remember this result purely as one of the greatest deficits ever faced by the legendary New England Patriots, others may recall this event at a time that America showed how little we still

Rauf grew up in Gulfport Mississippi without a father figure during the 1970’s all while having Tourette Syndrome. During this time, Rauf’s life would revolve around basketball. In By the Dawn’s Early Light, Rauf is interviewed and emphasizes that he would practice by himself under extreme conditions. He also emphasizes how it was the sport of basketball that raised him. As he progressed in his years, Rauf ended up going to LSU for college basketball, and extremely well known college in regards to the area of basketball. In one of the interviews, Rauf recalls the moment that made him decide to declare to go pro. During this moment, he had come home after being on the road for basketball, and had looked into the fridge to see hardly anything there. As a result, he recalls that his decision to go pro was purely to help his family for economic reasons. With this being said, in 1990 Rauf ended up going as the third pick overall to the Denver Nuggets. What many don’t know though, was that during his time at LSU, Rauf had become very engulfed in Malcom X’s biography, so much that he was inspired to read the Quran, which was the first book he had ever finished reading at the age of 22. As a result, in 1991, Rauf converted to Islam. This being said, in March 1996, Rauf refused to stand for the flag and national anthem, being suspended by the NBA as a result. Rauf says “what caused me not to

According to Carl Ernst, “The effect of colonialism on the concept of Islam has to rearrange priorities and religious identities worldwide because of the us-versus-them character of colonial ideologies.” We definitely see this in the case of Muhammad Ali and his relationship to the Nation of Islam, but at the same time we also see instances such as Ibtihaj Muhammad and the effects of these teachings bringing her to find a way in which she can integrate within modern society while still following her beliefs. Besides this, we even have Mahmoud Abdul Rauf who sways away from all of this and chooses to identify with no one else’s beliefs but his own, giving us an incredible array of impacts to look at. Despite this, it is extremely important to not to generalize the influences of these teachings and readings, but instead recognize how they all play unique roles relating to the sports that all of these athletes participate in. Once one begins to categorize the influences, the same individual begins to de-emphasize the exclusive mindsets that each person has in relationship to these readings and teachings and the way that these very same athletes chose to interpret them. As a result, it is important to recognize that in search of answers there is no source better than speaking to the athlete him or herself. This being said, one thing that all of these athletes do have in common is that these