User:Alexander Kummerfeld Brinitzer/sandbox

Harlem is living through a new cultural change where a large population on African Muslims have migrated and settled down. African Muslims from Western Africa ,such as Mali, Nigeria and Senegal, have and are still migrating to Harlem that is historically and still today a mainly black neighbourhood and the center of African American culture. Many of the African Muslims in Harlem are Suffi West Africans. Many black Americans believe that the African Muslims have immigrated there without taking in account and respecting Harlem's culture but this has been slowly changing. There has been more actions of brotherhood and respect between black Americans and African Muslims and there is a better feeling of sharing nowadays between both communities. African Muslims have had a hard time growing economically and becoming more financially comfortable due to their language barriers leaving them with low status jobs. Through their own struggles, African Muslims have built their own religious and cultural space in Harlem making Islam very present in their lives and a sacred place for them. Because many are not able to get the jobs they imagined when immigrating to the United States, they have jobs by opening their own stores for example as a way of following their Islamic values of hard work and actions for human beings. African Muslims immigrated to Harlem in order to earn barakah. The large number of Mosques in Harlem ,such as the Masjib Malcom Shabazz, are places where African Muslims can share their cultural space and stuggles in the United States and also recover their spiritual stability before Allah.