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While professing to be followers of Islam, they hold little to no connection to the beliefs of Sunni or Shi'a Islam.  Nation of Islam has traditionally been xenophobic and racist to the point of naming all people of European descent "White Devils" and only "potential humans" <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/jul/31/race.world1 Quotes from Louis Farrakhan] The Guardian</ref>.  They believe the [[Jew]] is responsible for much of the evil done in this world including off the cuff statements by members regarding [[AIDS]] being intentionally designed or administered onto the "Blackman" by Jewish doctors.  
 
While professing to be followers of Islam, they hold little to no connection to the beliefs of Sunni or Shi'a Islam.  Nation of Islam has traditionally been xenophobic and racist to the point of naming all people of European descent "White Devils" and only "potential humans" <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/jul/31/race.world1 Quotes from Louis Farrakhan] The Guardian</ref>.  They believe the [[Jew]] is responsible for much of the evil done in this world including off the cuff statements by members regarding [[AIDS]] being intentionally designed or administered onto the "Blackman" by Jewish doctors.  
  
In the "[[Alien]]s, [[Bigfoot]], and [[Creationism]]" category, Nation of Islam teaches that a mad scientist infected the Blackman with a virus or germ that turned the Blackman, white, and made him evil.<ref>How this matches with the whole 'White man is a potential human being' theology, I have no idea.  But since when did any religion remain internally consistent?</ref>  The scientist, Yakuba<ref>Yakub or Yakuba are closely related to the Hebrew name Jacob, and is likely an indirect referent to [[Jacob]] the father of the 12 tribes.</ref> decreed that his creations would rule for 6000 years over the Blackman.
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In the "[[Alien]]s, [[Bigfoot]], and [[Creationism]]" category, Nation of Islam teaches that a mad scientist infected the Blackman with a virus or germ that turned the Blackman white, and made him evil.<ref>How this matches with the whole 'White man is a potential human being' theology, I have no idea.  But since when did any religion remain internally consistent?</ref>  The scientist, Yakuba<ref>Yakub or Yakuba are closely related to the Hebrew name Jacob, and is likely an indirect referent to [[Jacob]] the father of the 12 tribes.</ref> decreed that his creations would rule for 6000 years over the Blackman.
  
 
==In the beginning...==
 
==In the beginning...==

Revision as of 11:10, 30 January 2009

The Nation of Islam is an American wakadoo chimera of Islam, Civil Rights, "Black Power" movements, and Scientology.

While professing to be followers of Islam, they hold little to no connection to the beliefs of Sunni or Shi'a Islam. Nation of Islam has traditionally been xenophobic and racist to the point of naming all people of European descent "White Devils" and only "potential humans" [1]. They believe the Jew is responsible for much of the evil done in this world including off the cuff statements by members regarding AIDS being intentionally designed or administered onto the "Blackman" by Jewish doctors.

In the "Aliens, Bigfoot, and Creationism" category, Nation of Islam teaches that a mad scientist infected the Blackman with a virus or germ that turned the Blackman white, and made him evil.[2] The scientist, Yakuba[3] decreed that his creations would rule for 6000 years over the Blackman.

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In the beginning...

In the 1930s a then-unknown preacher founded the Nation of Islam. Wallace Fard Muhammad (also believed to be American-born Wallace Dodd) spent three years in Detroit where he opened the first NOI mosque. Three years after he began teaching, he disappeared, passing along the leadership of the NOI to Elijah Mohammad, who then proceeded to deify the Master Fard Muhammad, claiming he was God's physical return to the earth from Mecca.

Elijah Mohammad

It was under Elijah Mohammad that the Nation of Islam fully realized its distinctly non-Sunni beliefs. His religious affiliations as a boy were traditional southern black Christian. He did not speak Arabic, nor view Arabic to be an important part of his Islam. His familiarity with the Qu'ran has been debated, and certainly he was not part of an Imam community to discuss its use at any length. Certainly, one of the appeals of Islam in the early 30s - 50s was its threatening exoticness to white Christian Americans more than the actual theology of Islam.

Under Elijah Mohammad, the Nation of Islam became primarily a socio-political black activist and separatist group, guided and informed by the new religion. Elijah Mohammad taught that blacks were the first people, and were the original Muslims. He taught that the Blackman was not only tricked out of his place of power, but that a mad scientist, Mr. Yakub, planted an evil germ inside the Blackman that created the White man who would rule for 6000 years. Offical Nation of Islam doctrine is that the most effective way for the Blackman to regain power is to build their own nation on totally separate land in the United States.

Malcolm X

One of the greatest African American leaders began his religious teachings as a Nation of Islam convert. He was responsible both for popularizing the NOI and brining it to the forefront of the American consciousness in the 1950s. After actually visiting Mecca, Malcolm soon realized that the NOI had nothing to do with Islam and began practicing a more mainstream version of the faith. He was eventually murdered for speaking out against Elijah Mohammed.

Louis Farrakhan

After the death of Elihah Mohammad in 1975, the NOI moved to a much more mainstream Islamic position. Louis Farrakhan revitalized the movement in the early 1980s, returning it to the more extremist positions, including separatism, institutionalized racism, and anti-Semitism.

Theology

Interestingly (or ironically), most of Elijah Mohammad's teachings about the Blackman and his role on the earth come from Biblical quotes, including the idea that the Blackman is in fact the seed of Abraham, as mentioned in Genesis.[citation needed]

The Nation Of Islam officially follows the writings of Elijah Mohammad's works Message to the Blackman in America published in 1965, which contains two telling platforms What Muslims Want and What Muslims believe.[4] Under Elijah Mohammad, the converts followed the Five Pillars of Islam.[5] Modesty and abstaining from alcohol are also prohibitions gathered from traditional Islam. Prayers were usually in English, of course.

On the Bible: Quoted from What Muslims Believe: WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.

Cosmology: The NOI believe that the Sun and the Moon were once one source of light, and that the Earth itself is over 70 trillion years old. They also believe in UFOs, and claim that Ezekiel is describing a UFO in 1:15-18. Japan is the original source of the Evil Scientists and the UFOs.[6].

About a decade ago they published a book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which blames international Jewry for the slave trade. The book is credited only to The Nation of Islam, with no author's name given.

Footnotes

  1. Quotes from Louis Farrakhan The Guardian
  2. How this matches with the whole 'White man is a potential human being' theology, I have no idea. But since when did any religion remain internally consistent?
  3. Yakub or Yakuba are closely related to the Hebrew name Jacob, and is likely an indirect referent to Jacob the father of the 12 tribes.
  4. NOI's Official Platform
  5. The profession of faith, 5 daily prayers, charity, Ramadan, and the hajj
  6. This is often used as a justification for NOI's anti-Asian stance
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