[Michael2001]

Akbar graduated from Locke High School in Los Angeles. He also studied at the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center, a predominantly African American mosque in South-Central Los Angeles.

This guy is not NOI, if he was the mosque he attended would be all African-American.

[SarahW]

He's a "bilalian" - The mosque he goes to is Bilal Islamic Center. It's part of the larger, and more orthodox, network of African American mosques known as the American Muslim Mission, which is led by W.D. Muhammad, the son of the black Muslim's founder, Elijah Muhammad.

[LauraJean]

I still think he's noi. I also wonder if he had any gang affliations. I have taken several workshops on gangs and I believe there are two tiers of gang affliations. The first tier is the everyday ''soldiers'' They have the tattos, wear the gang colors and wave the signs. They are the ones we see on the streets. The second tier keep their gang affiation secret. That way the gangs can inflitrate non-gang life i.e. the army perhaps. I would make a wager that he is second generation, his mother and stepfather being first.