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After the death of Elijah Mohammad in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammad, brought the organization to a more mainstream Islamic position, which came to be known as the Muslim-American Society. Louis Farrakhan led a group of supporters who chose to rebuild the Nation of Islam, returning it to the more extremist positions, including separatism, institutionalized racism, and anti-Semitism.
 
After the death of Elijah Mohammad in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammad, brought the organization to a more mainstream Islamic position, which came to be known as the Muslim-American Society. Louis Farrakhan led a group of supporters who chose to rebuild the Nation of Islam, returning it to the more extremist positions, including separatism, institutionalized racism, and anti-Semitism.
  
==The Extreme of the extreme==
 
Many even more extremist groups than the generic Nation of Islam iself, have risen over time. 
 
===God Damn America Movement===
 
{{cquote|We will not only watch and enjoy the suffering of white people, as our Sun of God desires us to, but with our new generation, we shall see their end. By [[2012 apocalypse|2012]] the majority of them will successfully be spotted and shamed with The Curse of The Sun of God that they refer to skin cancer and melanoma. In the interim, we shall continue to watch their ill earned possessions be destroyed by our God of Righteousness.|||Elohim Belial<ref name=spring/>}}
 
  
The '''God Damn America Movement''', also referred to as the '''God Damn (White) America Movement''', is a [[racist]] black organisation based in the [[United States]]. It was founded in 2008 by a memeber of the Nation of Islam, who calls himself Elohim Belial; the group's name was taken from Jeremiah Wright's infamous sermon.<ref>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/</ref><ref name=spring>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/fulfilled-fargo-north-dakota-97-white-god-damn-white-america-spring-2009/</ref> Its rabid anti-white bigotry is shot through with weird sun-worship based on [[pseudoscience]] regarding the properties of light.
 
 
It does not appear to have its own website, but its activities are chronicled across various black seperatist blogs and anti separatists blogs addressing the horrors of this group.
 
 
The movement claims that the 2008 floods in [[Iowa]] were divine punishment on whites for breaking levees in New Orleans during [[Hurricane Katrina]];<ref name=spring/> it has also celebrated the 2011 Arizona wildfires<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/racist-state-of-arizona-on-fire-blacks.html</ref> and the death of a three-year-old white child in a tornado<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/05/blacks-against-white-america-bawa-god.html</ref> as just retribution against white "devils". The group has published a "Top 5 Damnation Wish List" outlining its most desired ways for America to be [[Bible|Biblically]] punished.<ref>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/</ref>
 
 
Belial regards white people as a "criminal race of devils who earned demonic prophesy foretold against them"<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/god-damn-white-america-movement-gdwam.html</ref> and encourages his followers to give them skin cancer by shaking hands with them.<ref>http://andgodmadelight.baywords.com/2010/08/10/ultraviolet-light-the-devils-skin-immune-system-pineal-gland-mental-faculties-senses-all-devils-to-have-some-form-of-skin-plague-by-2013/</ref> He claims that white children are particularly susceptible to this, and can develop skin cancer if a black person so much as looks at them.<ref>http://antiochhades.posterous.com/brian-green-melanoma-execution-whites-advised</ref>
 
  
 
==Theology==
 
==Theology==
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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.
 
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.
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==The Extreme of the extreme==
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Many even more extremist groups than the generic Nation of Islam iself, have risen over time. 
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===God Damn America Movement===
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{{cquote|We will not only watch and enjoy the suffering of white people, as our Sun of God desires us to, but with our new generation, we shall see their end. By [[2012 apocalypse|2012]] the majority of them will successfully be spotted and shamed with The Curse of The Sun of God that they refer to skin cancer and melanoma. In the interim, we shall continue to watch their ill earned possessions be destroyed by our God of Righteousness.|||Elohim Belial<ref name=spring/>}}
  
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The '''God Damn America Movement''', also referred to as the '''God Damn (White) America Movement''', is a [[racist]] black organisation based in the [[United States]]. It was founded in 2008 by a memeber of the Nation of Islam, who calls himself Elohim Belial; the group's name was taken from Jeremiah Wright's infamous sermon.<ref>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/</ref><ref name=spring>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/fulfilled-fargo-north-dakota-97-white-god-damn-white-america-spring-2009/</ref> Its rabid anti-white bigotry is shot through with weird sun-worship based on [[pseudoscience]] regarding the properties of light.
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It does not appear to have its own website, but its activities are chronicled across various black seperatist blogs and anti separatists blogs addressing the horrors of this group.
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The movement claims that the 2008 floods in [[Iowa]] were divine punishment on whites for breaking levees in New Orleans during [[Hurricane Katrina]];<ref name=spring/> it has also celebrated the 2011 Arizona wildfires<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/racist-state-of-arizona-on-fire-blacks.html</ref> and the death of a three-year-old white child in a tornado<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/05/blacks-against-white-america-bawa-god.html</ref> as just retribution against white "devils". The group has published a "Top 5 Damnation Wish List" outlining its most desired ways for America to be [[Bible|Biblically]] punished.<ref>http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/</ref>
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Belial regards white people as a "criminal race of devils who earned demonic prophesy foretold against them"<ref>http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/god-damn-white-america-movement-gdwam.html</ref> and encourages his followers to give them skin cancer by shaking hands with them.<ref>http://andgodmadelight.baywords.com/2010/08/10/ultraviolet-light-the-devils-skin-immune-system-pineal-gland-mental-faculties-senses-all-devils-to-have-some-form-of-skin-plague-by-2013/</ref> He claims that white children are particularly susceptible to this, and can develop skin cancer if a black person so much as looks at them.<ref>http://antiochhades.posterous.com/brian-green-melanoma-execution-whites-advised</ref>
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==
 
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The Nation of Islam is an American wakadoo chimera of Islam, Civil Rights and 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[1]. Unlike other forms of Islam, the Nation is messianic, believing Muhammad to have been the Son of God rather than a prophet. They also think that a fellow named Wallace D. Fard was God himself.

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" [2]. 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 created other races from the Blackman through a special method of birth control.[3][4] The scientist, Yakuba[5] decreed that his creations would rule for 6000 years over the Blackman.[3]

Contents

In the beginning...

In the 1930s a then-unknown preacher founded the Nation of Islam. Wallace D. Fard, a.k.a. 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, separated the "brown gene" from the "black gene" and "grafted" it into a white - after 600 years of this, the White man was made.[6] The White man would reign over the Blackman for 6000 years.[3] Official Nation of Islam doctrine is that the most effective way for the black man to regain power is to build their own nation on separate land in the United States.[7]

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 bringing 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 and attempting to form his own black Sunni Muslim group.

Louis Farrakhan

After the death of Elijah Mohammad in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammad, brought the organization to a more mainstream Islamic position, which came to be known as the Muslim-American Society. Louis Farrakhan led a group of supporters who chose to rebuild the Nation of Islam, 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,[8] as mentioned in Genesis.

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.[9] Under Elijah Mohammad, the converts followed the Five Pillars of Islam.[10] 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.[11]

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.[12].

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.

The Extreme of the extreme

Many even more extremist groups than the generic Nation of Islam iself, have risen over time.

God Damn America Movement

We will not only watch and enjoy the suffering of white people, as our Sun of God desires us to, but with our new generation, we shall see their end. By 2012 the majority of them will successfully be spotted and shamed with The Curse of The Sun of God that they refer to skin cancer and melanoma. In the interim, we shall continue to watch their ill earned possessions be destroyed by our God of Righteousness.
—Elohim Belial[13]

The God Damn America Movement, also referred to as the God Damn (White) America Movement, is a racist black organisation based in the United States. It was founded in 2008 by a memeber of the Nation of Islam, who calls himself Elohim Belial; the group's name was taken from Jeremiah Wright's infamous sermon.[14][13] Its rabid anti-white bigotry is shot through with weird sun-worship based on pseudoscience regarding the properties of light.

It does not appear to have its own website, but its activities are chronicled across various black seperatist blogs and anti separatists blogs addressing the horrors of this group.

The movement claims that the 2008 floods in Iowa were divine punishment on whites for breaking levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina;[13] it has also celebrated the 2011 Arizona wildfires[15] and the death of a three-year-old white child in a tornado[16] as just retribution against white "devils". The group has published a "Top 5 Damnation Wish List" outlining its most desired ways for America to be Biblically punished.[17]

Belial regards white people as a "criminal race of devils who earned demonic prophesy foretold against them"[18] and encourages his followers to give them skin cancer by shaking hands with them.[19] He claims that white children are particularly susceptible to this, and can develop skin cancer if a black person so much as looks at them.[20]

Footnotes

  1. Followers of more mainstream forms of Islam, better known as actual Muslims, regard the Nation of Islam with what might be charitably termed utter contempt.
  2. Quotes from Louis Farrakhan The Guardian
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Blackman is the original man. From him came all brown, yellow, red, and white people. By using a special method of birth control law, the Blackman was able to produce the white race. This method of birth control was developed by a Black scientist known as Yakub, who envisioned making and teaching a nation of people who would be diametrically opposed to the Original People. A Race of people who would one day rule the original people and the earth for a period of 6,000 years. Yakub promised his followers that he would graft a nation from his own people, and he would teach them how to rule his people, through a system of tricks and lies whereby they use deceit to divide and conquer, and break the unity of the darker people, put one brother against another, and then act as mediators and rule both sides." -Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America, Muhammad's Temple No. 2, 1965 & Dorothy Blake Fardan, Yakub and the Origins of White Supremacy, Lushena Books, 2001
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. Nation of Islam - Lesson Two
  7. http://www.seventhfam.com/intentionalcommunity/
  8. The Nation of Islam - Yakub, though it's possible the term "seeds" is metaphorical.
  9. NOI's Official Platform
  10. The profession of faith, 5 daily prayers, charity, Ramadan, and the hajj
  11. Is Andrew Schlafly a secret member of NOI?
  12. This is often used as a justification for NOI's anti-Asian stance
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/fulfilled-fargo-north-dakota-97-white-god-damn-white-america-spring-2009/
  14. http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/
  15. http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/racist-state-of-arizona-on-fire-blacks.html
  16. http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/05/blacks-against-white-america-bawa-god.html
  17. http://collectiveunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/god-damn-america-damnation-wish-list-celebrating-jeremiah-wright/
  18. http://underprivilegedjournalism.blogspot.com/2011/06/god-damn-white-america-movement-gdwam.html
  19. http://andgodmadelight.baywords.com/2010/08/10/ultraviolet-light-the-devils-skin-immune-system-pineal-gland-mental-faculties-senses-all-devils-to-have-some-form-of-skin-plague-by-2013/
  20. http://antiochhades.posterous.com/brian-green-melanoma-execution-whites-advised

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