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Nation Of Islam Minister Sees `Universal' Approach
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 28, 2009

Posted on 02/28/2009 6:16:03 PM PST by Steelfish

Nation of Islam minister sees `universal' approach

By SOPHIA TAREEN

Associated Press Writer Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- A top Nation of Islam minister said Saturday that while the Chicago-based movement has primarily focused on blacks since its creation, he envisions expanding a racially universal approach across the globe.

"You can see God's message and the good in that message is for all human beings," Ishmael Muhammad, the religion's national assistant minister, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "If we don't change, then we sentence ourselves to death."

Muhammad, 44, said the Nation of Islam has been on an "evolutionary course." He appeared at an annual Saviours' Day event in a Chicago suburb, where Minister Louis Farrakhan was expected to address a crowd of thousands on Sunday.

The Nation of Islam religion has embraced black nationalism since it was founded in the 1930s, but in recent years has moved to include other groups, including immigrants, Asians and Native Americans.

Muhammad, who has lived in Mexico, has been a major part of that push, appearing at numerous immigrant rights events and addressing crowds in both English and Spanish.

The Nation of Islam does not release its membership numbers, but leaders at the conference said membership growth continues overseas, with mosques in the Caribbean, the African nation of Ghana and parts of Europe, including France, England and Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicago; democrats; globalislam; globalnoi; illinois; islam; muslims; nationofislam; noi; saviorsday

1 posted on 02/28/2009 6:16:03 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
“In recent years has moved to include other groups, including immigrants, Asians and Native Americans.”

What? No Caucasian Americans? Oh wait, I forgot. They are the Oppressors who need to be removed. Never mind.

2 posted on 02/28/2009 6:21:39 PM PST by TCats
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To: Steelfish

The “god” he follows is definitely hoping for a “universal” approach....


3 posted on 02/28/2009 6:22:20 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: TCats

No whiteys allowed in the Mothership.


4 posted on 02/28/2009 6:23:10 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Steelfish

Think I will pass Ishmael. You go on chasing the white whale of socialist utopia. Alone. And you are ALONE.


5 posted on 02/28/2009 6:23:26 PM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: Steelfish

The leftist dream of a race and sexual-orientation based rainbow alliance is just that, a dream. Blacks and Hispanics generally don’t like each other, and neither group is fond of gays.


6 posted on 02/28/2009 6:25:29 PM PST by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: Steelfish

“You can see God’s message and the good in that message is for all human beings,”

I agree, if the message is followed with “ if you believe in his son, Jesus Christ”.


7 posted on 02/28/2009 6:29:18 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Steelfish

“W. D. Fard taught that the white man is the result of genetic manipulation by an evil black scientist named “Yakub.” Through a special method of birth control, Yakub bred the black out of his experimental creatures until they were white. This took about 600 years to accomplish.

According to the theology of Elijah Muhammad, black really is the symbolic color of good and white symbolic color of evil. His reasoning is that all colors are present in black, and all colors are taken out of white. His conclusion is that the whiter Yakub’s creatures became, the less good there was in them and the more evil there was in them. The final product was so evil, they became devils.

Black Muslims call the white man Blue Eyed Devils and blame all of the suffering in the world upon them. The creation of the white man occurred some 6,600+ years ago.”


8 posted on 02/28/2009 6:30:15 PM PST by research99
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To: Steelfish

From the Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam website, FinalCall.com...
Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We are happy today to be standing side by side with the Nation of Islam. We believe, like the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believe, in a nation of our own. We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology. We don’t worry about the criticism. We love all of those who labored in the Panther Party from the ’60s. Many are with us today."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."... "Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html
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Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says
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"Minister Farrakhan and his delegation met privately with President Fidel Castro of Cuba."
http://www.finalcall.com/media/cuba/
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Excerpt from The American Thinker
Article:
Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx
May 28, 2008
Understanding that black liberation theology is Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity helps explain why there is no conflict between Cone's "Christianity" [James Cone is the father of Black Liberation Theology -etl] and Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam." They are two prophets in the same philosophical (Marxist) pod, merely using different religions as backdrops for their black-power aims.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html
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Obama and his "Black Liberation" pastor of twenty years.
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's pastor and spirtual advisor "crazy uncle" of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg
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[that's Michelle Obama with Mrs. Farrakhan. Mrs. Farrakhan is at center bottom wearing white]
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/03/michelle-obama-and-louis-farrakhans-wife-together-in-photo/

Or,
http://conservativepolitics.today.com/2008/06/03/michelle-pictured-together-with-wife-of-louis-farrakhan/

Original piece from Jet Magazine itself available (apparently) with a free trial subscription to HighBeam Research:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-120033408.html

From: Jet [Magazine] | Date: July 26, 2004 | Author: | 700+ words
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition holds 33rd annual conference in Chicago.(National Report)
"Read the rest of this article with a FREE trial. Sign up below..."
https://www.highbeam.com/reg/reg1.aspx?full=yes&origurl=/doc/1G1-120033408.html
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Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23333598/

Video of Farrakhan's Obama endorsement at the above 'annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008'. Hear him call Obama "The Messiah" And speak of "universal change":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=farrakhan+messiah+obama&aq=0&oq=Farrakhan+messiah
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Much more on Marxist Black Liberation Theology here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/#Section%204

9 posted on 02/28/2009 6:39:20 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: TCats

“Asians and Native Americans.””

I wonder if these idiots understand the contempt in which many Asians hold blacks in general.


10 posted on 02/28/2009 6:41:19 PM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: Steelfish; TCats; anniegetyourgun; Mr. Mojo; JillValentine; GrouchoTex; research99

Kin’ you say “Ash heap of History” boys and girls?

I knew you could.

All of my fellow half-breed “Asian-Americans” raise your hands.

Methinks the Nation of Islam is running short of recruits.


11 posted on 02/28/2009 6:54:28 PM PST by sinanju
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To: sinanju
“Methinks the Nation of Islam is running short of recruits.”

Nah, they have a ready and growing supply from the Prison System. It will only increase over time.

12 posted on 02/28/2009 7:27:36 PM PST by TCats
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To: sinanju

I’m a half-breed “Hispanic-American.” I’m just feeling the love from the Nation of Islam. Not.


13 posted on 02/28/2009 8:15:38 PM PST by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: Niuhuru

It goes both ways. Lots of blacks hate Asians. Remember the Rodney King riots? I was there, in Los Angeles. I could see smoke from the fires from my house.

Blacks who blame Asians for all their problems are just as bad and wrong as blacks who blame whitey for everything.


14 posted on 02/28/2009 8:19:12 PM PST by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: Steelfish
"If we don't change, then we sentence ourselves to death."

Dang, we wouldn't want that to happen, would we?

15 posted on 03/01/2009 5:53:49 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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