Posted on 11/01/2002 10:39:29 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ROMULUS NY- Deacon Gregory Kiley, the Roman Catholic chaplain at Five Points Correctional Facility, believes Muhammad is a member of a cult founded in the New York state prison system.
"I'm quite sure that he belongs to a cult ... called the Five Percenters," said Kiley, who works with prisoners of all faiths at the maximum security facility.
"They are not a part of 'Al-Islam,' the worldwide Muslim community. The references to 'I am God'; the five stars on the letters to police; the phrase [used in the letters] 'Word is bond.' All these suggest a connection."
The Five Percenters spun off from the Nation of Islam in the early 1960s. The Nation of Islam was and is a black nationalist group, founded in 1930. Ted Swedenburg, an anthropology professor at the University of Arkansas, says on a Web site about Five Percenters that much of the Nation of Islam ideology is based not on mainstream Islamic beliefs but on theories of black supremacy.
The founder of the Five Percenters was a man who called himself Clarence 13X. Like his mentor, famed black activist Malcolm X, Clarence 13X became disenchanted with the Nation of Islam and decided to form his own organization.
13X adopted most of the Nation of Islam race theory, adding the doctrine of "I am God." According to this doctrine, a man who masters himself takes control of his own destiny, effectively becoming God. Women are referred to as "Earths," and the religion itself is commonly referred to as "The Nation of Gods and Earths."
The name "Five Percenters" refers to the 5 percent of humanity who are believed to be truly divine, or god-like, according to Kiley, who lives in Clyde.
"A true Muslim would never say 'I am God.' That would be blasphemy, a horrible sin," Kiley said. "Even a person who flies planes into buildings would never say such a thing. Muslims say the prayer, 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.'
"Also, a convert to true Islam would change his first name, not his last name, like Mr. Muhammad did. Changing the last name shows disrespect for the convert's father, according to Islam."
John Muhammad's former name was John Allen Williams.
Kiley said he has worked with Five Percenters, Nation of Islam members, and orthodox Sunni Muslims. He says that today's Nation of Islam, headed by Louis Farrakhan, is moving closer to the worldwide Islamic mainstream. By contrast, the Five Percenters cling to old black supremacy theories and are mostly made up of gang members who are often violent and specialize in extortion, Kiley said.
Investigators believe that one of the purposes of the sniper killings was to extort $10 million from the government. A note left by the snipers in Manassas, Va., demanded that $10 million be left in the account of a stolen credit card. The same note said, "Your children are not safe anywhere, at any time."
The Five Percenter ideology has been embraced by members of the modern rap music community, according to Kiley, Swedenburg and the hip-hop music site, www.africana.com. A song by the Jamaican reggae/rap group Brand Nubian has used the Five Percenter phrase "Word is Bond," a phrase used by the snipers in at least one of their letters, the Washington Post has reported.
Rapper Busta Rhymes, members of the highly influential Wu-Tang Clan, are also reported to be active Five Percenters. Kiley speculated that this is how Muhammad learned of the movement and adopted some of its teachings.
When reached yesterday at the command center in Montgomery County, Md., where the investigation into the sniper case is headquartered, Capt. Nancy Demme said investigators had no knowledge of Muhammad's possible connection to the Five Percenters.
But yet, young and old alike are being forced to swallow the myth of "diversity" and how it is of supreme importance to accept whatever actions "diverse" cultures decide they want to do....
Agreed, this IS puse B.S. It's no more true than the fiction of Moose "solving" the case. He did more to screw it up than to solve it, with all of his PC "we're looking for a middle aged white guy in a white van crap.
On another note, my mother heard this morning that Mohammad and Malvo were murdering ALL THOSE PEOPLE, just to terrorize Mohammad's ex-wife, whom SHE says threatened to kill her if she divorced him. Which is ALSO B.S. Not the threatening to kill his ex part, just the part about murdering 12 people just to scare her, WHEN SHE WAS ALREADY GONE.
This is Islamist extremism, and nothing else.
Who says he's lying? He COULD just be INCORRECT in his assumptions.
The AUTHOR of this tale is presenting PURE CONJECTURE as a FACT of the sniper case. THAT is B.S.
They believe that there is a distinction between a "real" and a "mystical" religion. That is, if you believe God is a spirit, you are caught up in a fake, mystical religion. If you believe that your physical, black man's body is part of God and that you are physically God then your religion is "real" and you are, in the popular black phrase "keepin' it real".
They believe that Allah is a secret acronym which stands for Arm Leg Leg Arm Head - which, to their minds, clearly proves that the physical existence of the Black Man is God.
They say that of the total black population, 85% are ignorant of the truth, 10% know the truth but are afraid to embrace or teach it and that they, the remaining 5% know the truth - "know what time it is" - and are willing preach and live it - to "represent".
They believe that it is permissible to smoke, drink and eat pork, and that traditional Islamic restrictions on these behaviors are silly. Some of them are vegetarians, however and some shun all drugs except marijuana. There is a definite area of crossover between Rastafarians and 5%.
They have no organizational structure, since they are all Gods, and they have no form of organized worship, since they are themselves God. Some of them read the Bible or the Koran or both because they believe them to give insight on their own nature and destiny.
They believe that no laws apply to them, and that laws are the invention of white people who are actually animals with no divinity in them. White people are usually called "The Devil" or "snakes" by them as a collective and individual term. For example, if they wanted to say "white people like to watch 'Friends' on TV", they'd say "The Devil watches 'Friends' on TV".
The example I used above, of their parsing of the word "Allah" is a methodology they use constantly to read into things. They call it "breaking it down". They famously parse "his story" as "HIS story" meaning the Devil's version of events. They call the USA the "United Snakes of America" since the snake is the Devil. Rappers like Poor Righteous Teachers, devout 5%, consistently use this approach in their lyrics. One of their signature songs is the eponymous "Poor Righteous Teachers":
As the mind gets hot the brain gets like a heater.
Wise Poor Righteous Teacher.
Truth I'm gonna teach ya
>From knowledge is born
My word is bond
From dawn to dawn . . .
Check as the Wise get going
The thoughts are flowin'
Alone the marvelous god
is mackin' da microphone
I'm wearin' out n' tearin' it up
The snakes are jealous
Yeah but so what
Gimme some room some physical space
The capital "G"
Wise god is in da place
Teachin' the poor
Cuzz I'm the chief speaker
Turn it around
GET DOWN POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHER!!!
I'ma level above all the brothers that disrespect
If your name is on my list believe it's checked
The king I quote I believe has made his mark
PRT...
Poor Righteous Teacher sparks
Light of the insight show the third eye
Ya tamper with god conceived a dis you Die!
The mic's in my hand
I'm provin' I can
I'm running the snakes up outta Divineland
As I get wise I watch ya get weaker
Eyes on the prize
[Culture Freedom]
And you're who?!
[Wise Intelligent]
Poor Righteous Teachers
Alive and well here. That's hispanarepublicANa.
The boundaries between the Nation of Gods and Earths (5%), the Nation of Islam, the Temple of Moorish Science, and standard issue Islam are pretty blurry in black America.
Most strict Saudi-style Muslims who are black Americans used to be in one of these groups. Many of the people in these groups used to be strict Saudi-style Muslims. It's a continuum.
What the deacon probably said was, legitmate converts to Islam change their first names to Mohammed, not their last names. The goofball Nation of Islam-type converts use the spelling "Muhammad" and only as a last name, as in Elijah Muhammad.
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Spot on.
"We are the people that are causing the killing in your area," the caller said to a police operator in Rockville, Md. "Look on the tarot card. It says, 'Call me God. Do not release the threat.'"
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