Talk:List of North American Muslims
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[edit] Sources
I have sourced the list in accordance with Wikipedia's Original Research and Verifiability policies. Basically, anyone described by a reliable source as "Muslims" or "Muslim-American" is on the list. Here are the few people I couldn't find anything for. If you have a reliable source that fits that please restore the names:
- Shohreh Aghdashloo - Academy Award-nominated actress - can't find a source that she is currently Muslim
- Akon - R&B singer - can't find anything except Wikipedia
- Hala Gorani - CNN
- Muhsin Muhammad - NFL, Chicago Bears
- Brandon Toropov - author
Mad Jack O'Lantern 18:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mushin Muhammad
Removed. According to http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/87890,CST-SPT-moose08.article, his father changed the name when Mushin was four.
[edit] Removed the list of "terrorists"
1. The list was derogatory and is not something "notable" about Muslims as a whole, this page was meant for accomplishments and a sense of pride, not to put down a religion.
2. If you want to call those invididuals terrorists then we should open a page of "Christian terrorists" and include Bush, Charlemagne, and many others. I do not want to do this because it would be a POV war, and this is not what wikipedia is about.
3. I will however compromise if you decide to make a "terrorist" list for every other list of North Americans out there, that way we can have a balanced playing field, but to throw out a "terrorist list" on a page dedicated to Muslims in America, is more than islamophobia, it's inciting hatred and not necissary, nor does it pertain to the religion.
Lastly, feel free to make a wikipedia section entitled "Radical Muslims" or "Terrorist Muslims" and list names until your blue in the face, but to slam something like that on a list of American Muslims was very inappropriate. If you have a problem with this, message me. Haramzadi 06:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- I disagree. Wikipedia is about neither enhancing Muslim pride nor putting down Islam. If there are biographical articles in Wikipedia that describe their subject as 1) American, 2) Muslim, and 3) a convicted terrorist, and they're numerous to warrant their own subcat, I see no reason to disinclude such a subcategory. Likewise, someone like Tim McVeigh would totally belong in an American anti-federalist terrorist category... if only I could figure out who else would be in the category with him. Ford MF 04:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
