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	Five Percent
		The Five Percent began as an offshoot of the NOI (Nation of Islam) back in 1964 by Clarence 13X who was a minister in Mosque no. 7 under the tutelege of Malcolm X. The movement was started because Clarence 13X rejected the notion that Wallace Fard was God Incarnate (see NOI).
		Five Percenters also depart from NOI in their teaching of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathematics, an arcane system devised by Clarence 13X wherein each letter or numeral denotes a concept with an accompanying parable.
		The concentration of Five Percenters is believed to be the highest on the East Coast, not coincidentally to be the location of the birth of rap and hip hop music.
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	A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos
		The Five Percenters, a loosely knit organization, derives its name from the belief that only five percent of the population is righteous.
		Five Percenters do not consider their beliefs a religion but follow nontraditional variants of Islam.
		Five Percenters believe that fls are the original people of Earth, that they founded all civilization, and that in fact the "flman" is god.
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	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Because the designation of the Five Percenters as an STG was a rational response to a threat to prison safety -- a concern peculiarly within the province of penal authorities-- we affirm the judgment of the district court.
		Next, the Five Percenters contend that the application of the STG policy to their group is irrational because it is not "content neutral," inasmuch as it operates against the inmates on the basis of their group affiliation.
		The Five Percenters do not allege that these procedures have not been followed-- indeed, two inmates attest that they are receiving medication for their conditions, and another states that he has refused such attention.
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	The Nation of Gods and Earths - Definition, explanation
		The Five Percent Nation of the Gods and the Earths is a social movement, often classified as a religious sect.
		The academic advancement of a Five Percent member is based on his/her knowledge and mastery of various “lessons” as well as the Supreme Alphabet, and the Supreme Mathematics, teachings that in turn influenced the evolution of the Nation of Islam creed.
		The main beliefs of the Five Percent Nation are similar to that of the Nation of Islam, and for that reason, they are not viewed as Muslims by Orthodox Muslims.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/th/the_nation_of_gods_and_earths.php (990 words)

	NPR : God, the Black Man and the Five Percenters
		News & Notes, August 4, 2006 · Here's what the group called the Five Percent Nation believes: Ten percent of the people of the world know the truth of existence, and those elites opt to keep 85 percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb.
		In 1963, a student minister named Clarence 13 X founded the Five Percent Nation when he split with the Nation of Islam.
		Phrases and symbology of the Five Percent Nation endure in songs by some of the genre's best-known musicians, including Busta Rhymes, most of collaborators in the Wu Tang Clan, and Lord Jamar of the rap group Brand Nubian.
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	Gangs OR Us - Robert Walker - Gang identification expert
		Unlike the Muslims, who believe in Allah, members of The Five Percenters are taught and believe that the Black Man is the "true and living god" and there is no other God in whom people should base their faith.
		One such source that conveys how dangerous the Five Percenters are, is a video statement given by the current national leader of the Muslim Community, the son of Elijah Muhammad, W. Deen Mohammed.
		This action was appealed by to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals by attorneys representing the inmate plaintiffs and in March 1999 the Court of Appeals upheld the lower court decision in favor of the Defendants.
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	The Founding Of The Nation Of Gods And Earths
		One of the Five Percenters named Universal Shaamguadd presented Allah with an emblem that he designed and it was ordained as the Universal Flag of the Five Percenters.
		The young Five Percenters were fast presenting a growing problem among the City's fl youth.
		The Five Percenters rushed down to where their "father" was stricken.
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		In the years to follow, the Five Percenters gained a varied reputation, from being called an unruly group of Black teenage thugsâ”even categorized as a gang by someâ”to being known as outstanding members of and contributors to their communities.
		Five Percenters sometimes refer to themselves as scientists, implying their search for knowledge and proof, and not beliefs and theories.
		The advancement of a Five Percenter is based on his or her memorization, recitation, comprehension, and practical application of the Supreme Mathematics and the Supreme Alphabetâ”lessons written by Clarence 13X, and also 120 Lessons (a revised version of the Supreme Wisdom lessons of the NOI written originally by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad).
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	Comparative Index to Islam : FIVE PERCENTERS
		The term "Five Percent" originated in the 1930's with Elijah Muhammad and Fard Muhammad.
		Smith believed and taught that 85 percent of the population are deceived, 10 percent are the oppressors [or devils] who know the truth but refuse to accept it.
		The group became known as the "Five Percent Nation of Islam" and they currently call themselves "The Nation of Gods and Earths." The Five Percenters believe the fl man (the original man) is god, and that fl women are "earths".
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	5 Percenters
		Five Percent men refer to themselves as Gods and women as Earths, and the religion is commonly referred to as The Nation of Gods and Earths.
		Five Percenters depart from NOI in their teaching of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathematics, an arcane system devised by Clarence 13X wherein each letter or numeral denotes a concept with an accompanying parable.
		Five Percenter Bilal Allah noted in an article, "The task at hand is to maintain one's own righteous existence while teaching others to be righteous.
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	SPLCenter.org: Radical Religion in Prison
		Ironically, Five Percenters do not contend that they adhere to a religion at all, but rather to a way of life.
		Five Percent Nation is an offshoot of the fl supremacist Nation of Islam (NOI), which in turn is an offshoot of mainstream Islam.
		Across the river in New Jersey, federal courts have upheld restrictions on Five Percenters on the basis of their designation as a "security threat group," rather than as a religion.
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	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The Five-Percent rap
		These Lessons, which every Black Muslim had to memorize, asserted that 85 percent of humanity is mentally dead and ignorantly destroys itself through vice and immorality, while another 10 percent possess the truth but oppress the first 85 percent by convincing them to believe in a "mystery god" who cannot be seen in this lifetime.
		Under Five Percenter doctrine, a member does not become fully divine until he or she has memorized every word of the Lost-Found Lessons and every serpentine twist of the divine sciences.
		Gone was the Black Muslim approach of gradually initiating proselytes into the mysteries of the Nation of Islam; rather, Five Percenters aimed to "show and prove," or to immediately mesmerize listeners with their rap.
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	Five Percent / Nation of Gods and Earths
		Five Percent is a splinter group of the Nation of Islam, “Five Percent” is also known as the “Nation of Gods and Earths.” That phrase refers to one of the basic tenets of the Five Percent movement: fls are gods and women are earths.
		The Five Percenters are a splinter group that broke away from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1964, under the leadership of Clarence “Pudding” 13X.
		I have a family member that is a five percenter and I am trusting God for their eyes to be open to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior.
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	Five Percent / Nation of Gods and Earths - Research Resources
		Also known as Five Percenters, this offshoot of the Nation of Islam has employed commercial rap, or “God Hop,” to teach its beliefs, comment on relevant issues, and recruit new members.
		Such a kaleidoscopic approach is necessary given the Five Percent Nation’s complex theology—grounded in Black Muslim traditions, fl nationalism, Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) symbolism, Masonic mysticism, and Gnostic spirituality—its historical ties to major movements and moments in American history, and its deep involvement with popular culture.
		These techniques, she argues, are in service to the greater goal of Five Percenter rappers, who see themselves primarily as teachers and as bringers of a specific type of redemption and self-knowledge to benighted souls.
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	Poor Righteous Teaching
		The Five Percenter organization was formed in Harlem in 1964 by Clarence 13X Smith as a splinter group of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
		Having established the context of the Five Percenters and the FBI, it is prudent at this point to mention the theoretical framework employed in this study.
		As a result of press exposure of the Five Percenters in October of 1965, the FBI finally came to understand the meaning of the moniker and the source of Five Percenter strength.
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	Five Percenters at MENZ Issues
		The five percenters are a not interested in what’s best for the kids and I am sick of the rest of us being labeled the same.
		So if you’re five percenter start thinking about how you are going to remain an equal parent in your children’s life’s because the rest of us have had enough.
		“Five percent” is your estimate of fathers who don’t take an opportunity to remain involved in their children’s lives in a fair way.
	menz.org.nz /2007/five-percenters (2269 words)

	Marria v. Broaddus
		The concept of the "Five Percent" from which the Nation derives its colloquial name was first set forth by NOI leader Elijah Muhammad, who separated the world's population into three categories: the Five Percent, the Ten Percent, and the Eighty-Five Percent.
		This raises the possibility that "the Five Percenters" may somewhat uniquely connote both a religion and a gang in the New York State prison system (though the sincere religious adherents and gang members may not be the same inmates).
		Findings P 87, and "the Five Percenter newspaper is used as a tool by inmates to recruit other gang members and sometimes inmates are recruited into joining the Five Percenters without realizing that they may be asked to participate in violent or illegal activities." See id. P 91.
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	Are the Snipers Part of the "Five Percent Nation"? ("The Black Man is God" Among Teachings)
		Five Percenters also depart from NOI in their teaching of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathmatics, an arcane system devised by Clarence 13X wherein each letter or numeral denotes a concept with an accompanying parable.
		Five Percent concepts are often circulated as "lessons" that are printed in Xeroxed pamphlets and passed from hand to hand in urban neighborhoods.
		Well, the Five Percent Nation logo is a star, pointing in the same direction as the Nation of Islam Star (about 11 o'clock), a moon and a big "7" I assume because the Five Percent Nation was born in Mosque No. 7, as an offshoot of Nation of Islam according to the article.
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	firstamendmentcenter.org: news
		Although the court followed a magistrate's "assumption that the Five Percenters are a religion," it ruled the policy of solitary confinement did not unduly hamper the group's religious liberties.
		According to the corrections department, "the Five Percenters have been a very assertive group of inmates who try to undermine authority and try to establish control over other inmates." In its brief before the 4th Circuit, the corrections department argues that since 1995, Five Percenters have engaged in violent acts in several state prisons.
		If the Five Percenters were released from segregated confinement, there would be a potential for more violence within the prison system and inmates, staff and "the public would be less safe than they are now," Eckstrom argued.
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	The Five Percent Nation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Five Percent Nation or as its members call it, the Nation of Gods and Earths was founded by Clarence Jowars Smith or Clarence 13X around 1964.
		The 10% include the "grafted" white devil as well as the orthodox Muslims and Christian preachers who preach that god is a "spook" or a "mystery god." And the remaining 5% are the poor, righteous teachers, who are aver all of the ‘dealings’ of the 10% and their mission is to rescue the 85%.
		The percenters’ science is based on these, in which every number and letter has a further meaning, like the 7th (the “perfect number”) letter of the Supreme Alphabet, g, stands for God (Five percenters greed each other ?‘Wassup G?’, which is a commonly used statement in hiphop, too).
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		The origin of the Five Percenters can be traced to its founder, the late Clarence 13X Smith also known as Allah, a former member of the Nation of Islam.
		The name and the ideology of the Five Percenters are based upon the core doctrine of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
		In NOI teachings it was taught that the population consisted of three types of people referred to as "the 85%, the 10% and the 5%." 85% of the population were superstitious and ignorant of the truth of God.
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	Finger Lakes Times
		The name "Five Percenters" refers to the 5 percent of humanity who are believed to be truly divine, or god-like, according to Kiley, who lives in Clyde.
		By contrast, the Five Percenters cling to old fl supremacy theories and are mostly made up of gang members who are often violent and specialize in extortion, Kiley said.
		A song by the Jamaican reggae/rap group Brand Nubian has used the Five Percenter phrase "Word is Bond," a phrase used by the snipers in at least one of their letters, the Washington Post has reported.
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	A Different Drummer Commentary: Nicholas Stix
		We are now told that the snipers' letters were infused with the language of the Five Percenters (not merely the phrase "word is bond," which is widely used, beyond the hellish circles of the Five Percenters), particularly the phrase, "Call me God." This news has provided yet another opportunity to spread disinformation about fl supremacy.
		In reality, the Five Percenters are ultraviolent criminals who believe that all of the Earth shall perish, save for five percent, which suggests that at least half of all fls will die, in addition to all whites and Asians.
		Note too that the Five Percenter emphasis on "education" consists in scholarship such as a member being given a magic word, and walking around with a notebook "studying" the word all day long.
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	allAfrica.com: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York (Page 1 of 1)
		The Five Percenters are a group that do not like to be called a religion, yet their ties to Islam via the Nation of Islam (an African American organization that dates back to the 1930s) are deeply rooted and complex.
		According to the New York State commission on the 1971 Attica uprising, Five Percenters held a leadership role in the inmate rebellion.
		The salutation "G," while read as "gangsta" in today's rap, was originally used by Five Percenters to mean "God." To call something "the bomb" has roots in the Five Percenter dialogues, in which one member might "bomb" another with the lessons-a form of verbal jousting that may have also influenced freestyle battling.
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