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Muslim American History By Imam Benjamin Bilal |
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BEING “STRAIGHT UP” A Teenager’s Guide to Understanding The History of Our Community Part One
The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (NOI) was established in 1933 by two men who would make a tremendous impact upon the course of African American history. In doing so, they would in fact, change the course of both race relations and religion in America. One was an immigrant from (what is today known as) Pakistan, India, named Wallace D. Fard (pronounced “Fa-ROD”). He was also called, Wali Fard Mohammed, Professor W.D. Fard and Master Fard Muhammad, among other aliases. The other was his student, Elijah Poole. |
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BEING “STRAIGHT UP” A Teenager’s Guide to Understanding The History of Our Community Part Two
Mr. Fard considered blacks to be “Original People” who, as in past history according to his eschatology, would again rule the world with justice–after the “destruction of the white man’s civilization” . Whites of America and Europe, according to Mr. Fard, were considered to be “grafted devils” who were genetically cloned by a “black scientist named Yakub approximately 6,000 years ago on the Greek island of Patmos”. Mr. Fard developed a slew of such myths and presented them as literal facts. (These myths would later be interpreted by Imam W. D. Mohammed as “picture language” which spoke great wisdom through its symbolism). |