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Views the U.S. as a nation rife with racism and oppression of blacks Seeks to establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United States Demands reparations payments for slavery The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) describes itself as an organization of “Afrikans in America,” rather than “African Americans,” because it does not view black people in the United States as true Americans but rather as the descendants of forcibly transplanted Africans -- descendants whose very presence in North America is nothing more than an unfortunate legacy of slavery. In much of its literature MXGM makes reference to “amerikkka,” whose...

London - Malcolm X was born 80 years ago today, on 19 May 1925. But amid the commemorations, controversy is brewing. Some black activists are enraged by suggestions that their hero might have been gay - or at least bisexual. The controversy has been stirring since the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Station Hill, New York) in 1991. Based on interviews with Malcolm's closest boyhood and adult friends, Perry suggests that the US Black Nationalist leader was not as robustly heterosexual as his Nation of Islam (No. I) colleagues...

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Voters elected a black Democrat as the first Muslim in Congress on Tuesday after a race in which he advocated quick U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and made little mention of his faith. Keith Ellison, a 43-year-old lawyer and state representative, defeated two rivals, television networks said, to succeed retiring Democrat Martin Sabo in a seat that has been held by Democrats since 1963. Ellison, who converted to Islam as a 19-year-old college student in his native Detroit, won with the help of Muslims among a coalition of liberal, anti-war voters. He advocates an immediate U.S. withdrawal from...

Just last week, Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria started a bloody ruckus that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen people. Their actions were the latest examples of a hysteric strain in the Islamic community that has put the world’s head in a spin. For lack of a better term, what we mean by “the civilized world” has been stupefied by the violent reactions to a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad in an unflattering way. This hysteria has spread from continent to continent, showing itself to maintain absolute disdain for freedom of speech or separation of church...

OAKLAND, Calif. - They weren't your ordinary thugs. Dressed in bow ties and dark suits, nearly a dozen men carrying metal pipes entered a corner store, shattered refrigerator cases and smashed bottles of liquor, wine and beer, terrifying the clerk but stealing nothing. But the recent attack at San Pablo Liquor — and an identical vandalism spree at another West Oakland store later that evening, along with an arson fire there and the kidnapping of the owner a few days later — have injected religion into the debate.The two episodes highlighted tensions — and different interpretations of the Quran —...