Cult Members Who Forced Kids to Work 16-Hour Days Convicted in Kansas

Six Kansas-based former members of a cult called the United Nation of Islam (UNOI) have been convicted after forcing children to work 16-hour days for no pay while housing them in inhumane conditions. The people had told the children they would burn in “eternal hellfire” if they tried to escape.

The United Nation of Islam (UNOI) was a splinter group from the Nation of Islam, founded by Royall Jenkins in 1978. Officially labeled a cult by a federal judge back in 2018, UNOI housed children in overcrowded, rodent-infested facilities, brutally beat the children, and nearly starved them.

The children worked in a variety of UNOI-owned and operated businesses in Kansas City, including restaurants, bakeries, gas stations, labs, and factories—for no compensation.

During the trial, it was revealed that one child had become so thirsty that she drank toilet water. Another was so hungry that he resorted to stealing food. When UNOI members found out, they held the victim upside down over train tracks, trying to get him to admit what he’d done.

Kaaba Majeed, 50, Yunus Rassoul, 39, James Staton, 62, Randolph Rodney Hadley, 49, Daniel Aubrey Jenkins, 43, and Dana Peach, 60, were all convicted of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Majeed was also convicted on five counts of forced labor. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison as well as mandatory restitution, while the others each face a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nation_of_Islam

The United Nation of Islam (UNOI) is a black American religious movement based in Kansas City, Kansas. It was founded in 1978 as an offshoot of the Nation of Islam by Royall Jenkins, who continued to be the group’s leader until he died in September 2021 of complications resulting from COVID-19. He styled himself “Royall, Allah in Person”. Since its founding, the group has undergone numerous name changes and is currently known as the Value Creators.
The beliefs of the UNOI are based on the beliefs of the NOI with considerable modifications by Jenkins. While believing that Allah came in the person of Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the NOI, Jenkins claims that he himself is Allah in his own person who is more powerful and who is given the task of coercing the submission of all things and perfecting everything used to magnify Him, after which men [specifically males] will all be God,[3] or gods.[4]

Jenkins stresses the relations between different races and sexes, referring extensively to black man, black woman, and white man. Black men are said to be the real and original men,[5] whereas white people are claimed to have been created by a scientist named Yakub 6,000 years ago, the same belief held, at least in a metaphorical sense, by followers of the NOI prior to the death of Elijah Muhammad. Jenkins also claims that black men created black women as a natural pleasure, that women are inferior, and that following female guidance leads to Hell.[6] He believes that black women are in league with white men, whom he considers enemies, and condemns women seeking child support, custody, and alimony through courts.[7][8]

Jenkins also claims that the current NOI has been led astray by its leader Louis Farrakhan, whom he asserts is the most “formidable enemy to Allah,”[9] and that Farrakhan uses tricks and deceptive tactics to “silence anyone else’s voice” and “prepare the masses to fight for him,” through appearing “to be against the Whiteman [sic] and his government.”[10]

“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body”

“I think we shall be [virtuous], as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.”

— (both quotes by) Thomas Jefferson

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