Transcript MUSLIMS IN AMERICA

MUSLIMS IN AMERICA
THE
NATION OF
ISLAM
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THE NATION OF
ISLAM-FOUNDED BY
WALLACE FARD IN
1930
JUXTAPOSED
GARVEY’S MILITANT
BLACK NATIONALISM
WITH NOBLE DREW
ALI’S ISLAMIC
THEOLOGY
TALKED OF ASIATIC
BLACK MEN WHO
RULED THE EARTH
UNCHALLENGED FOR
76 TRILLION YEARS
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SAID AFRICAN AMERICANS COULD OBTAIN
SUCCESS THROUGH DISCIPLINE, RACIAL PRIDE,
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND PHYSICAL
SEPARATION FROM WHITE MEN.
DISAPPEARED IN 1934
REPLACED BY ELIJAH MUHAMMED
PURCHASED LAND IN DEEP SOUTH
INVESTED IN BUSINESS VENTURES
CREATED OWN PARAMILITARY FORCE
ADVISED BLACK MEN TO NOT REGISTER FOR
DRAFT DURING WWII-WAS CHARGED WITH
VIOLATING SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT-JAILED
FROM 1942 TO 1946
DESCRIBED AFRICAN AMERICANS AS CHOSEN
PEOPLE
URGED ADOPTION OF RELIGON BASED ON
WORSHIP OF ALLAH
CALLED FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SEPARATE
NATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
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ELIJAH
MUHAMMED’S
STAR CONVERT TO
THE NATION OF
ISLAM, NOW
BEING REFERRED
TO AS THE BLACK
MUSLIMS, WAS
MALCOLM LITTLEKNOWN AS
MALCOLM X
NUMBERS
INCREASED IN
1950’S AND 60’S
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BORN MALCOLM LITTLE-MAY 19, 1925
1940-DROPS OUT OF SCHOOL
1946-CONVICTED OF BURGLARY-PRISON
TIME
1949-51-STUDIES NATION OF ISLAM
1952-DEDICATES SELF TO NATION OF
ISLAM-CHANGED NAME TO MALCOLM X
1958-MARRIES BETTY X
1963-SUSPENDED FROM NATION OF ISLAM
1964-STARTS MUSLIM MOSQUE, INC
1964-MAKES HIS HAJJ-BECOMES EL-HAJJ
MALIK AL-SHABAZZ
1964-FORMS ORGANIZATION OF AFROAMERICAN UNITY
SPEAKS AT ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN
UNITY IN CAIRO
STATE DEPT AND JUSTICE DEPT NOTICE
HIS INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN LEADERS AT
U.N.
1965-ASSASSINATED IN NEW YORK
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“THE FUTURE BELONGS TO
THOSE WHO PREPARE FOR
IT TODAY”
“BE PEACEFUL, BE
COURTEOUS,OBEY THE
LAW, RESPECT EVERYONE;
BUT IF SOMEONE PUTS
HIS HAND ON YOU, SEND
HIM TO THE CEMETERY”
“…..BY WHATEVER MEANS
NECESSARY”
“USUALLY WHEN PEOPLE
ARE SAD, THEY DON’T DO
ANYTHING. THEY JUST
CRY OVER THEIR
CONDITION. BUT WHEN
THEY GET ANGRY, THEY
BRING ABOUT A CHANGE”
MALCOLM X HAD INFLUENCE WITH
MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, WHICH
OFTEN WORRIED NOT ONLY THE
GOVERNMENT, BUT MEMBERS OF HIS
OWN GROUP.
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INTERNAL JEALOUSY AND
REVELATIONS OF ELIJA
MUHAMMED’S SEXUAL IMMORALITYMALCOLM X LEFT BLACK MUSLIM
ORGANIZTION
MET DR. MAHMOUD YOUSSEF
SHAWARBI WHO TOLD HIM “NO MAN
BELIEVED PERFECTLY UNTIL HE
WISHED FOR HIS BROTHER WHAT
HE WISHES FOR HIMSELF”
BORROWED MONEY FROM HIS
SISTER AND MADE A HAJJPILGRIMAGE TO MECCA
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“EVERY ONE OF THE
THOUSANDS AT THE
AIRPORT, ABOUT TO LEAVE
FOR JEDDAH, WAS
DRESSED THIS WAY.
SOME POWERFUL
PERSONAGES HAD ON THE
SAME THING I HAD ON.
ONCE THUS DRESSED,
WE ALL BEGAN
INTERMITTENLY CALLING
OUT “LABBAYKA
(ALLAHUMMA) LABBAYKA.
PACKED IN THE PLANE
WERE WHITE, BLACK,
BROWN, RED AND YELLOW
PEOPLE, BLUE EYES AND
BLOND HAIR, AND MY
KINKY RED HAIR—ALL
TOGETHER, BROTHERS.
ALL HONORING THE SAME
GOD, ALL IN TURN GIVING
EQUAL HONOR TO EACH
OTHER.
THE AWAKENING OF MALCOLM
X
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WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THE TRUE
MUSLIM WAYS, HIS ATTITUDE BEGAN TO
CHANGE.
RECEIVED RESPECT AND RECOGNITION
FROM ALL RACES
“THE TRUE ISLAM SHOWED ME THAT A
BLANKET INDICMENT OF ALL WHITE
PEOPLE IS AS WRONG AS WHEN WHITES
MAKE A BLANKET INDICMENT OF BLACKS,
I WILL NEVE BE GUILTY OF THAT AGAIN”
THE NEW MESSAGE
POST HAJJ
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“SINCE I LEARNED THE TRUTH IN MECCA, MY DEARIST FRIENDS HAVE
COME TO INCLUDE ALL KINDS—SOME CHRISTIANS, JEWS, BUDDHISTS,
HINDUS, AGNOSTICS, AND EVEN SOME ATHIESTS. I HAVE FRIENDS
WHO ARE CALLED CAPIALISTS, SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS. SOME
OF MY FRIENDS ARE MODERATES, CONSERVATIVES, EXTREMISTS—SOME
ARE EVEN UNCLE TOMS. MY FRIENDS TODY ARE BLACK, BROWN, RED,
YELLOW AND WHITE.
WAS MOVING CLOSER TO M.L.K.
FEB. 21, 1965-ASSASSINATED BY 3
BLACK MEN.
3 MONTHS SHY OF 40-THE AGE OF
MATURITY ACCORDING TO THE QUR’AN
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ELIJA MUHAMMAD DIED IN 1975
PLACE WAS TAKEN BY SONWALLACE(LATER WARITH DEEN
MUHAMMAD)
PREACHED FAR LESS
INFLAMMATORY FORM OF ISLAM
MOVED TOWARD SUNNI PRACTICES
RENAMED WORLD COMMUNITY OF
ISLAM IN THE WEST AND OPENED
TO ALL RACES
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IN 1977-GROUP
BROKE OFF UNDER
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
BECAME NATION OF
ISLAM-RETURNED TO
STYLE OF ELIJA
MUHAMMAD
RIVALRY ENDED
IN200
MUHAMMAD REIGNED
AS HEAD OF
AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF MUSLIMS
CREDITS
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPY OF MALCOLM X
AS TOLD TO ALEX HALEY
ARCSTUDIES.ORG
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