Farrakhan's Nation of Islam

Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam was founded in the 1930s by Wali Fared (or W.D. Fard), who disappeared in 1934. The leadership passed to Elijah Robert Poole who changed his name to Muhammad and taught a racist theory of black-white separatism. After Elijah Muhammad’s associate, Malcolm X, denounced the Nation of Islam and rejected black racism, he was murdered by Nation of Islam members in 1965. Louis Farrakhan led a break-away group in 1979 after Elijah Muhammad’s son also rejected black separatism and opened the organization to whites. Farrakhan claims that the original and superior race was black and that an inferior race of white people was created by a renegade scientist known as Yacub. Farrakhan calls for America to provide blacks with a separate territory for their own nation and to fund it for 25 years “until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.”

(Friday Church News Notes, August 21, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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