Posted on 12/23/2007 2:03:37 PM PST by SmithL
His message that afternoon was a vow of defiance in the face of his arrest on charges of raping young girls entrusted to his care - defiance, and a refusal to submit to any authority other than himself.
The message was at the core of Bey's gospel of black empowerment and self-determination, a creed to live by.
"You do me wrong, I'm going to fix you up," he told the dozens of men and women attending the speech at the bakery, the business and religious seat of the multimillion-dollar empire Bey had founded. "I'll send some fearless soldiers out here.
"You lock me up if you want to, but I'm not going in with my head down," he declared in a videotape of the sermon obtained by The Chronicle.
"I'll be fighting all the way. I'll be scratching and fighting and putting anything in my hand for a weapon to defend myself. I want you to understand that. You ain't playing with no Uncle Tom and no house Negro. ... I don't turn no damn cheek."
Less than a year later, Bey was dead at 67, succumbing to cancer before his trial on sexual assault charges. But during his last year, while free on bail, he preached a new vision for his community, while seeking to reassure his worried followers in the face of unprecedented pressure from prosecutors and the press.
In his final sermons, Bey told his followers that God had specially sanctioned his actions and ideas....
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“See, I can teach peace, or I can teach war,” Bey declared. “I got young men behind me. If I say something, they will do it.”
That seems to be the very essence of Islam.
Religion of Peace, Aye!
Some people just need killing.
The guy was a criminal. Calling himself a Muslim militant doesn’t change that.
bkmarking for tommorow. Thanks.
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