Dawud Chapelle - “Checking His Intentions”
Published by Haseeb May 15th, 2005 in Current News
For the past couple of weeks everyone has wondered about what happened to Dave Chappelle. Many thought he had drug problems, and it was rumored over the past couple of days that he checked himself into a mental institution in South Africa. However, many, including myself, thought he took a break from his show because he was questioning how appropriate his lifestyle with his Islam, since he was in fact a Muslim. Alot of ppl in the Muslim community in NYC have spotted Chappelle in NYC area Masjids- and this was rumored quite heavily (although not publicly in the media of course) - these rumors however, were correct.
Chappelle did in fact go to South Africa, not to a psycho ward, but rather to spend some time with a close Muslim friend. He took a leave from the show because:
My personal feeling is I didn’t like the direction of the show. I was trying to explain it to people, and no one was feeling me. There’s a lot of resistance to my opinions, so I decided, Let me remove myself from this situation. You hear so many voices jockeying for position in your mind that you want to make sure that you hear your own voice. So I figured, Let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone—stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as the brakes.
In fact, he took a prior leave in December from the show to go on Hajj (he eventually got stuck in Turkey as he was unable to get a Visa in time to go to Saudi Arabia).
So to clear up all rumors and doubts, Dave Chappelle IS Muslim, and has been since 1998! Right now Chappelle is taking a break and spending some time with a close spiritual Muslim friend with whom he is “filling up his spirit”, as his corporate TV life, especially since his recent $50 million dollar contact signing, isnt very helpful towards the person he wants to be.
“If you don’t have the right people around you, and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself. Everyone around me says, ‘You’re a genius, you’re great, that’s your voice,’ but I’m not sure that they’re right.”
And regarding why he hasnt been so public about his faith in Islam…
“I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It’s a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard. Coming here [South Africa] I don’t have the distractions of fame. It quiets the ego down. I’m interested in the kind of person I’ve got to become. I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I want to be well balanced. I’ve got to check my intentions, man.”
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28 Responses to “Dawud Chapelle - “Checking His Intentions””
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He is on a spitual quest, a rihla…
cool.
im NOT on CRRaaaaaakkke bytch!!
mad old news
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Dave is NOT Muslim, stop spreading all the lies you towelheads do!
dave ain’t muslim. not like your terrorist bastards. he eats yummy pork, drinks winer and beer and he is black. not a sand nigger
i hate all muslims.
dave is not a REAL muslim
What are you talking about? He IS Muslim. A REAL Muslim. He said it in time magazine.
“dave ain’t muslim. not like your terrorist bastards. he eats yummy pork, drinks winer and beer and he is black. not a sand nigger”
Quit stereotyping you white supremacist. Have you even talked to him directly? Are you an Islamic scholar? Huh?
Imagine my surprise to see posts by people with names as clever as “fuck all muslims” spewing hatred. Islam has been around for more than 1000 years and for the vast majority of that time has been responsible for the uplifting of the poor and the oppressed (abandoning ideas that blacks are slaves because of their skin colour), giving women the right to own property and dispose of their own affairs (women got the vote in North America less than 100 years ago) and advancing the fields of mathematics, astronomy, medicine and art.
I will be the first to admit that Muslims in general have done a bad job in explaining what is normative in our faith, but the fact remains that if you get your information about Islam from bad hollywood movies, then you are either too lazy or too comfortable with your own stereotypes to find out for yourselves what is really going on. I’ll bet fans of Shareef AbdurRahim don’t seem to mind it when he carries his team to the playoffs.
Abandon hypocrisy.
SALAAMU ALAYKUM SURROUNDEDBYIGNORANCE,
YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH. I JUST BECAME A MUSLIM ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO. I’M FILIPINO AND I LOVE BEING A MUSLIM. ONE OUT OF THE MANY REASONS WHY I LOVE ISLAM IS BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY RELIGION I KNOW THAT TRIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND.
TO ALL OF Allah
’S(GOD’S) CREATIONS(HUMAN BEINGS), THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SAYING NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT MUSLIMS AND ISLAM, PLEASE DO ME AND YOURSELF A FAVOR, TAKE A LITTLE TIME IN YOUR 50 TO ABOUT 90 YEARS OF LIFE INSHAALLAH(GOD WILLING), AND READ A LITTLE ABOUT ISLAM. BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL SEE WHY MANY PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF, MALCOLM X, HAKEEM OULIJUWAN, CHINESE, INDIAN, SPANISH, AND ANGLO(WHITE SKINNED) PEOPLE EMBRACE ISLAM. AND YOU WILL ALSO LEARN IF TERRORISM IS PART OF OUR RELIGION OR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR MANY OF YEARS LIKE THE TRAGEDY OF THE 6MILLION JEWS THAT HITLER KILLED.
SALAAMU ALAYKUM(MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL)
Hatred is Ignorance. So if it’s hatred you’re spewing…know this, you have a lot to learn. NO intelligent person worth the faculties God gave him would utter such evil. You hate all Muslims? Well guess what? God hates you. Learn a thing or two. Educate yourself…it’s the best artillery.
Hatred is Ignorance. So if it’s hatred you’re spewing, you’ve got a lot to learn. NO intelligent person worth the faculties God gave him would utter such evil. You hate all Muslims? Well guess what? God hates you. Learn a thing or two. Educate yourself. It’s the best artillery!
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