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  Black Muslims - MSN Encarta
Black Muslims, followers of a predominantly fl religious movement in the United States, who profess Islam as their faith.
The origins of the Black Muslim movement are found in two fl self-improvement organizations that began shortly before World War I (1914-1918): the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded in 1913 by Prophet Drew Ali, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey.
Black Muslims advocated the establishment of a separate African American homeland in the United States.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560115/Black_Muslims.html   (801 words)

  
 Malcolm X - Nostalgia Central
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) was a leader of the Black Muslim movement whose separatist views were directly opposed by the non-violent civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King.
Discarding his surname, which he regarded as a legacy of slavery, he became a spokesman for the Black Muslim movement, but was suspended for referring to John F Kennedy's assassination as "the chickens coming home to roost".
Founded by Elijah Muhammad, the Black Muslims proclaimed the supremacy of fls and the evil of whites, and Malcolm X - a brilliant speaker and journalist - was their most effective organizer.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /pop/malcolmx.htm   (233 words)

  
 Black Muslims - Nation of Islam
Since he was white, the Black Muslim religion either lies, or one it claims to follow is a devil.
Black Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem says, "the hatred spewed by Louis Farrakhan is scurrilous and intolerable." Congressmen Owens (D.-NY) in a 10 page memo, and Reynolds (D.-Illinois) also stand against this.
Black Muslim leaders seem to say anything, even silly things, to get fls to join their ignorance and look to whites as neither saviors nor even friends; only devils to hate.
www.muslimhope.com /BlackMuslims.htm   (1306 words)

  
 The Black Muslims as antagonists of the American Society
The Black Muslims are a organisation of nationalist Afro-American extremists in the USA that teaches a self-modified form of the Islamic religion to his followers.
The Black Muslims had their most successful and most popular time during the 1960s, and most of the public attention they possessed during this period was a merit of Malcolm Little alias Malcolm X.
The Black Muslims believe that the Shabazz tribe, of whom they are the last descendants, were the writers of the Bible and the Qu´ran.
schultreff.de /referate/englisch/r0439t00.htm   (5660 words)

  
 A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Nation Of Islam | PBS
Most of Fard's initial followers were fl migrants from the southern United States who, because of prevailing racial policies and economic conditions, were clustered together in the fl ghettos of the great northern industrial cities.
Blacks were enjoined to give up Christianity, which was regarded as the white man's chief stratagem for the enslavement of nonwhite people.
Meanwhile fl people were urged to work together to reclaim their fallen (criminals, drug addicts, etc.), learn their true history, strive for economic independence, and prepare for the Battle of Armageddon, the final struggle between good and evil.
www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/nation_of_islam.html   (676 words)

  
 New Nationalism
Muslim Brotherhood is led by Talib Ahmed Dawud, husband of singer Dakota Staton.
To some extent the Black Muslims are a latter-day version of the Garvey Movement, with a new sounding dogma which is basically the same as Marcus Garvey's.
The Black Muslims, by contrast, are undeniably a mass movement.
www.africawithin.com /clarke/new_afro.htm   (3806 words)

  
 Dr. C. Eric Lincoln
I have studied the Black Muslim movement since 1956, when I was teaching courses in religion and philosophy at Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia.
I am the author of the book, The Black Muslims in America, which was first published in 1961, and is currently in its third edition.
Black Muslims are distinguished from Orthodox Muslims by their belief that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, directly commissioned by Allah himself, who came in person (under the name of Fard) to wake the sleeping Black Nation and rid them of the whites' age-old dominion.
www.muhammadspeaks.com /CEricLincoln.html   (1006 words)

  
 Aminah's World of Islam - Old Guestbook -
Muslims strongly critize Christians and say that Jesus is not the Son of God, YET they take personal offense at any criticism of Islam.
Muslim states are the most severe persecutors of Christians, and Muslim terrorist groups are the most vicious hijackers, kidnappers, bombers and assassins.
Muslim women can be kept prisioners in their own homes and denied the right to go outside the house if the husband orders.
www.muslimtents.com /aminahsworld/old_guestbook.html   (10324 words)

  
 Black Muslim Movement - Encyclopedia.com
The Movement expanded greatly in the 1950s when MALCOLM X became one of its spokesmen; by the 1960s, at the height of the BLACK POWER MOVEMENT, it probably had over 100,000 members.
With the suspension of Malcolm X from the Movement and his assassination in 1965, it lost some of its influence to the Black Panthers, but continued to establish separate Black enterprises and to provide a source of inspiration for thousands of Black Americans.
This led to disagreements within the Movement and in 1976 it split into the American Muslim Mission and the radical Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-BlackMuslimMovement.html   (385 words)

  
 El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
The message from this leader of the Nation of Islam was designed to de-inferiorize Blacks in the US who had been told repeatedly that their color and race condemned them to eternal damnation in America’s social system.
Entering the field of struggle around this time, Malcolm X taught Black Americans his master’s message: "Blacks and Whites cannot live together and agitation for integration is suicidal." This message reverberated in the firmaments of Black debates throughout the lifetime of Mr.
He was an African-American whose discovery of Elijah Muhammad’s teachings channeled his pent-up hostilities towards Whites in a manner which led to his self-discovery; and he was a man courageous enough to accept his mistakes, as reflected in his self reversal on the NOI view that the White man is the devil.
www.youngmuslims.ca /biographies/display.asp?ID=6   (2022 words)

  
 Black Muslims and Islam
I think Muslim leaders are in for a shock for turning innocent souls away from the true God (I Am/Yahweh/Jehovah/Jesus), to follow some fake god (Allah) with a little "g", that does not exist.
The story goes that in 1930 Allah appeared to the people of Detroit in the form of a mysterious man named “Fard.” Allah’s human form seemed to be of African and Arab descent and claimed to have been born in Mecca, a descendent of the prophet Muhammad.
Another sad aspect of Black Muslims is that many African-Americans are drawn to Islam out of racial pride, thinking that there is some sort of association with Africa.
bibleprobe.com /blackmuslims.htm   (2022 words)

  
 Malcolm X
(The Black Muslims' official name was the Lost-Found Nation of Islam, and the spiritual leader was Elijah Muhammad, with national headquarters in Chicago.) Malcolm began to study Muhammad's teachings and to practice the religion faithfully.
In 1957 Malcolm X met a young student nurse in New York; she shortly became a member of the Black Muslims, and they were married in 1958; they had six daughters.
At the same time he stated that his organizations were willing to work with other fl organizations and with progressive white groups in the United States on voter registration, on fl control of community public institutions such as schools and the police, and on other civil and political rights for fl people.
www.africawithin.com /bios/malcolm_x.htm   (1096 words)

  
 malcolm x - documents > the pierre berton interview
But the Muslim world rejected the Black Muslim movement as a bona fide Islamic group, so it found itself maneuvered into a religious vacuum–or a sort of religious hybrid.
At the same time, the government of the United States tried to maneuver the Black Muslim movement, with the press, into an image that was political instead of religious.
We set up the Muslim Mosque, which is based upon orthodox Islam, as a religious group so that we could get a better understanding of our religion; but being fl Americans, though we are Muslims, who believe in brotherhood, we also realized that our people have a problem in America that goes beyond religion.
www.malcolm-x.org /docs/int_pbert.htm   (1783 words)

  
 Islam's black slaves - Salon
What I find most outrageous is that the leadership of the Black Muslim movement has judged it necessary and defensible to attack Jews on the basis -- for which there is no historical foundation whatsoever -- that they masterminded the slave trade, by which I think they mean specifically the Atlantic trade.
Secular fl academics testify that in Black Muslim schools the emphasis placed on the history and dignity of fls in Africa has had a marked effect on the reading ability of fl children, who no longer feel disparaged and demoralized.
There is a great deal of truth in a man like Farrakhan's indictment of some of the fl middle class who flee the ghettos, for understandable reasons, but in the process think that they can turn their backs on those who are unable to buy new homes in these middle-class suburbs.
dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2001/04/05/segal/?pn=5   (1033 words)

  
  Religious Movements Homepage: Nation of Islam
Movements such as the Nation of Islam arise during periods of social change and the time period of its formation, circa 1930, was a crucially dynamic period in the United States.
Two of the Black Muslims' doctrines are at the heart of the controversy: their insistence that fls must separate themselves from the abhorrent and doomed race and their belief that it is the manifest destiny of the Black Nation to inherit the earth.
Black Muslims are also forbidden from eating certian foods such as pork and corn bread, not only because they contribute to a "slow death," but that they are unclean or foods that constituted part of a slave diet.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Nofislam.html   (5660 words)

  
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Farrakhan eventually gained control of the Elijah Muhammad faction, reorganized the movement, and moved it back to its original roots in the teachings of Fard and Elijah M. The Teachings of the Nation of Islam A. Though the leaders of the NOI often allude to muslim beliefs they adhere to very little of historic Islam.
The leadership of the NOI believes that white America owes reparation to the fls for slavery, and that this reparation should be in the form of their own state which they envision becoming an independent country with its own fl army and justice system.
Therefore, the fl man, who is by nature divine and good, must separate from the white man as soon as possible, lest he share the white man's hour of total destruction." B. The main appeal seems to be its socio-economic message.
www.fni.com /cim/briefing/noi.html   (1730 words)

  
 histcontext
In 1930 The Nation of Islam or Black Muslim Movement was officially founded in Detroit by Wali Farad Muhammad as a reaction to the oppression of fl people in America.
Black Muslim athletes and other prominent Black Muslims flocked to Malcolm X. This seemed to change when Malcolm X was punished by Elijah Muhammad.
Only about half of the autobiography is directly related to the 1960s Black Muslim movement, but the material describing this period is first-hand and explicit.
www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/hep2/hep2-histcontext.html   (2703 words)

  
 Adherents.com
Characterized as racial hate groups for their fl nationalist, fl supremacist, and anti-Semitic views, most of these groups are religious in nature, and are counterparts to Christian Identity.
This was a Bulgarian heretical movement, founded in the tenth century by a priest called 'Bogumil', which spread in subsequent centuries into Constantinople and other areas of the Balkans, including Macedonia and parts of Serbia.
Muslim community in western India whose members, for the most part belong to the Isma'iliyya sect of Shi'ism and recognize al-Must'ali (1094-1101) as Imam and successor to his father al-Mustansir, the Fatmid, against the claims of his brother Nizar.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_82.html   (3059 words)

  
 The Black Line
EU Referendum reports on a new instance of offence being caused to Muslims, this time by Ann Summers (This link probably isn't safe for work).
Towards the other end of the spectrum, there are the Muslim politicians of South East Asia, such as former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid ("Gus Dur"), who head the world's largest Muslim organisation and worked tirelessly in office for decentralisation and religious tolerance in that diverse nation.
Then, in the murky middle, we have those movements and individuals, who may be abhorent, but are nonetheless represent useful allies, if not friends.
blackline.blogspot.com   (4899 words)

  
 Islam: Muslims, Muhammad, the Quran, & the Hadith   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A Muslim is required, despite cost or hardship, to go on a pilgrimage to the Kabah (an edifice which at one time held over 350 idols one of whom was Allah) in Mecca at least once in his lifetime.
Muslim states are the most severe persecutors of Christians, and Muslim terrorist groups are the most vicious hijackers, kidnappers, bombers and assassins.
Muslim women can be kept prisioners in their own homes and denied the right to go outside the house if the husband orders.
www.jesus-is-lord.com /islam.htm   (10185 words)

  
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A Muslim is required, despite cost or hardship, to go on a pilgrimage to the Kabah (an edifice which at one time held over 350 idols one of whom was Allah) in Mecca at least once in his lifetime.
Muslims need not make accusations against us for pointing this out, their own scholars and Iman are the ones who gave us this information.
Islam is geocentric, that is, the whole universe is centered on the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in Mecca in Arabia, and all Muslims pray facing that direction; Jesus Christ is the center of all Christian worship and fellowship, for He is "in the midst" where his saints meet anywhere on earth.
www.investigateislam.com /whatisislam.htm   (11298 words)

  
 malcolm x - documents > the last interview
And these centers should be located at this time primarily in Black communities, because at this particular time the American Blacks are the ones showing the most interest in [the] true religion.
There are two groups of Muslims in America: (1) those who were born in the Muslim world and migrated here, and were already Muslims when they arrived here.
Thus, in my opinion, the Muslim religious leaders of today must re-evaluate and spell out with clarity the Muslim position on education in general and education for women in particular.
www.malcolm-x.org /docs/int_almus.htm   (1677 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | Islam's black slaves
What I find most outrageous is that the leadership of the Black Muslim movement has judged it necessary and defensible to attack Jews on the basis -- for which there is no historical foundation whatsoever -- that they masterminded the slave trade, by which I think they mean specifically the Atlantic trade.
Secular fl academics testify that in Black Muslim schools the emphasis placed on the history and dignity of fls in Africa has had a marked effect on the reading ability of fl children, who no longer feel disparaged and demoralized.
There is a great deal of truth in a man like Farrakhan's indictment of some of the fl middle class who flee the ghettos, for understandable reasons, but in the process think that they can turn their backs on those who are unable to buy new homes in these middle-class suburbs.
archive.salon.com /books/int/2001/04/05/segal/index4.html   (1277 words)

  
 Nation of Islam - religious cults, sects and movements
The movement's current leader is Louis Farrakhan, who is notorious for his racist and anti-semitic hate speech.
The still powerful Black Muslim organization is well known for its secrecy and for the rigid line its members draw between themselves and the outside world.
White said he believes that in those relatively early stages of the movement, Farrakhan was a sincere idealist addressing real problems of great significance to the fl community and the nation at large.
www.apologeticsindex.org /n06.html   (1349 words)

  
 The question of race
Biblical genealogists consider Ham to be the "father" of the fl races, and his brothers to be the "fathers" of the white and oriental races.
He was nominally Muslim, but it seems that he, and all the other Emperors of the Za Dynasty, somehow maintained a loyalty to the Jewish religion while exhibiting an outward veneer of Islam for commercial purposes.
Thus we see that Timbuktu, a fl city in the heart of "darkest" Africa, became a leading cultural and educational center, attained a literacy rate of nearly 100%, and was free of crime and violence.
www.ark-of-salvation.org /race.htm   (9125 words)

  
 Islam in America working paper
Because of the turmoil and dislocations of Muslims and Christians during the establishment of Israel, many of the post World War II Muslim immigrants have been Palestinian, and are classified as "refugees" rather than by a particular country of origin.
Throughout the 1960s, Black Muslim leaders were under surveillance by the U.S. government as potential or actual political subversives, and one was martyred, presumably by his former allies.
Black Christian writers such as Wilmore and Lincoln contended that, in the rhetoric of Black Muslims, "the Christian church was the tool of slavery."
home.att.net /~spmckee/mckee_islaminamerica.htm   (9877 words)

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