Wallace D. Fard (c. 1877-1934) was a traveling salesman who gathered followers during the Depression among the poverty-stricken African-Americans of
Detroit. He mysteriously disappeared in
June 1934 and was consequently identified as an incarnation of Allah. Under
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), Fard's Minister of
Islam, and Muhammad's lieutenant Malcolm X (1925-1965), the movement gained international prominence.
The Nation of
Islam's declared aim is the raising of the moral, social, and economic standing of non-whites. This has included the vilification of the dominant group, white Caucasians, even to the point of calling whites the personification of evil and maintaining that the white race is an aberration, the human race having originally been black. Therefore, according to this theory, blacks must pursue separate development. By turning
racist ideas around to oppose whites, the movement has attracted many adherents and has had particularly good success in converting prisoners, criminals, and drug users. Black Muslims have financed the construction of mosques, schools, apartment complexes, stores, and farms.
Elijah Muhammad taught that American blacks, a group that includes all people of color, were descended from the ancient tribe of Shabazz that had originally settled the holy city of Mecca, and that blacks and whites can share no real community. Malcolm X was his closest collaborator until a quarrel between the two men in 1964. Malcolm X then went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, where he saw
people of every race worshiping side by side, and he became convinced of the hopelessness of racism. He returned to the United States and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which preached black nationalism but not black separatism. He was shot and killed while speaking to a large gathering in New York City in 1965. After
Elijah Muhammad's
death in 1975, his
son Warith Deen Muhammad radically transformed the Black
Muslim movement, opening it to whites and renaming it the American
Muslim Mission. In 1979, Louis Farrakhan
broke away from the Mission, establishing the more radical Nation of
Islam, which restricts membership to blacks and advocates a separate black social structure.
(BTNH) ctonn what do think about this nation of
islam (ctonn) well BTNH im not very fond of it they have increased the hate in this
world.We need less hate (BTNH) tru dat how can white folks be the personification of evil oh wait the kkk and rednecks but others are
cool also 97% of white folks are pornstars and the rest are holding there race on their shoulders how can pornstars be evil (CTONN) IF i had someone build a time machine id go beat the living
shit of Wallace D. Fard then stitch that no good mawfawkas mouth shut.
