NATION OF ISLAM HATE
The Nation of Islam’s Revealing History
FEB 25,
2021 11:00 AM BY ANDREW HARROD
February 21
marked 56 years since the 1965 New York City assassination of the
former Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Malcolm X by NOI members.
The anniversary offers an occasion to reflect upon the bizarre, hateful history
of this African-American cult and its disturbing implications for Islamic politics
globally.
A valuable
study resource on the NOI is the 2001 book The Nation of
Islam: Understanding the “Black Muslims” by the Christian
seminary professor Steven Tsoukalas.
He examined the NOI’s “counterracist
anthropology” that emerged under the shadowy Wallace D. Fard,
who founded the NOI in 1930 in Detroit amidst a viciously racist American
society. Fard only briefly led the NOI before disappearing in 1934, whereupon his
“Messenger” Elijah Muhammad assumed
NOI leadership until his death in 1975.
Under
Muhammad, Tsoukalas explained, the NOI developed into
what civil rights leader Martin Luther King in
1959 listed among America’s “black supremacist hate
groups.” The NOI has the “basic premise that anything black is good
and anything white is evil,” including Christianity, slandered by the NOI
as the “white man’s religion.” The NOI’s “central
myth” is that millennia ago the “infamous evil scientist
Yakub” created the white race.
NOI racial
separatism meant that Muhammad advocated the creation of a blacks-only state in
America, Tsoukalas noted. To this end he, like Fard previously, organized planning meetings with Ku Klux
Klan leaders, white supremacists who ironically shared Muhammad’s goal,
albeit from opposed racist premises. Muhammad additionally had a “strange
relationship” with American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell,
whom Muhammad invited along with other Rockwell followers to attend NOI temple
services.
If all this is
not weird enough, Tsoukalas examined how the
“NOI’s doctrine of God is confusing and contradictory, fluctuating
between monotheism and polytheism.” Accordingly, a “string of
finite gods who each exist for about one to two hundred years” followed
the first black god who created himself from an atom. Fard
is the “present god of this cycle” who is still alive, a claim
supposedly substantiated by NOI members who asserted to have seen him in the
1970s and 1980s.
The
NOI’s theological farrago presents all manner of contradictions with Islamic
beliefs and realities, as Muhammad’s 1959 tour of the Middle East and
North Africa with his two sons revealed. With great public fanfare, the
trio toured Islamic sites in Istanbul, Damascus, Beirut, Jerusalem, and
Khartoum. In Cairo, President Gamal Abdel Nasser invited
the Muhammad family to stay in his palace.
Yet
Muhammad’s travels upended the NOI’s black/white dichotomy of
Africans and other non-white people such as Arabs struggling against a
“devil white race,” as Tsoukalas noted.
What Muhammad found was not the history Fard taught
him. Africans exploiting other Africans for wealth and power, the fruits of the
Arab slave trade of the nineteenth century; and Ethiopia’s slavery system
all threatened Muhammad’s idealistic views. Muhammad was also unaware of
Saudi Arabia’s enslavement of more than one hundred thousand Africans.
Shortly
preceding Muhammad with his consent to the Middle East that same year, his NOI
deputy Malcolm X had similar experiences, Tsoukalas
observed. As with Muhammad, Nasser’s deputy Anwar Sadat and his entourage
hosted Malcolm X as a dignitary at several social gatherings. But with Saudi
Arabia’s legal enslavement of Africans, he “was rudely awakened to
the first seeds of contradiction” with “Fardian
Islam.”
Perhaps out of
deference to Muhammad, Malcolm X refrained from traveling to Mecca. This
allowed the “Messenger” to be the first NOI leader to enter
Islam’s holy city, for he had announced before embarking that he and his
sons would pilgrim to Mecca. However this travel would occur outside
Islam’s hajj season and therefore qualify only as the al-umrah “lesser
pilgrimage.”
Muhammad’s
intentions to visit Mecca, a city closed to non-Muslims, raised grave
theological questions, Tsoukalas noted. “After
all, a most central, if not the central tenet, of traditional Islam was treaded
upon and kicked in the waste bucket by Elijah Muhammad.” Contrary to all
Islamic doctrine about a distant god beyond
human comprehension and incarnation, he believed that “Fard is Allah in the flesh.”
Yet Muhammad
entered Mecca without hindrance. Tsoukalas wondered
why the “world of orthodox Islam would welcome someone whom it considers
a blasphemer to make the sacred pilgrimage to the holy city.” Given the
desire of Muslim state leaders to promote the anti-American NOI,
“politics seems to have overruled the sacred.”
Muhammad and Malcolm
X likewise suppressed any criticism upon returning to America, Tsoukalas noted. “Elijah made sure that major
magazines and newspapers throughout the United States picked upon the
successful trip, emphasizing his acceptance by the Muslim world.” Meanwhile
“Malcolm X returned to America with glowing news from his excursion to
the East” and, despite Saudi enslavement of Africans, “boasted
about the lack of racial prejudice.”
Muhammad
returned in 1972 to Islamic countries, this time accompanied by boxing
star Muhammad Ali and
several NOI leaders, Tsoukalas observed. A trip
highlight was a personal invitation to visit Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gadhafi, whose
regime, along with other Islamic countries, had financed NOI with
millions of interest-free dollars. Despite the NOI’s “stark
contradiction” to Islamic doctrine, Muslim leaders once again promoted
NOI radicalism.
The NOI
reception in the broader Muslim world, despite numerous NOI heresies such as
its exclusion of whites, stands in stark contrast to mainstream Muslim treatment
of the Ahmadis. Orthodox Muslims
denounce this fringe group for
claiming that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908)
is an additional prophet after Islam’s prophet Muhammad, a violation of
Islamic doctrine concerning Muhammad’s prophetic finality. Ahmadis must conceal their beliefs in order to
avoid a Saudi prohibition on Ahmadis in Mecca.
The NOI
encounter with the wider Muslim world in turn has helped dispel myths that Islam is a
more natural faith for non-whites than Christianity. Notwithstanding universal
doctrines in both Christianity and Islam, sins of bigotry can occur among all
faiths, not just in Jim Crow America. Indeed, Christianity provided the main
impetus to abolish slavery around the world, from which Africans suffered so
dearly, while Islamic doctrine perpetuated human bondage.
Nonetheless,
NOI’s amicable relationship with self-professed orthodox Muslim regimes
and individuals continues. American political activist Linda Sarsour has
heaped praise upon the current NOI leader, Louis Farrakhan, a fellow
anti-Semite. Dictatorships in Muslim countries such as Libya and Iran’s Islamic Republic have
also welcomed Farrakhan on several occasions.
The NOI and its
Muslim fellow travelers can only provoke cynicism among objective observers.
Theological axioms and historical realities seem to matter little when various
haters of Western societies make common cause. May the truth set NOI’s
duped followers free.
Noah Green: 5
Fast Facts You Need to Know
by Jessica
McBride, Heavy, April 2, 2021:
Noah Green, a
former college football player and Nation of Islam adherent, was named as the knife-wielding,
now-deceased suspect who rammed a car into a U.S. Capitol
barricade, exiting with a knife and killing one Capitol police
officer while injuring another.
Green’s
Nation of Islam beliefs emerged through a review of his now-deleted Facebook
page by Heavy, although police have not specified a motive and say they
don’t believe the attack was terrorism-related. On Facebook, as recently
as March 2021, the suspect expressed admiration for Elijah Muhammad, the
now-deceased Nation of Islam leader who was a mentor to Malcolm X. Green
referred to himself as “Noah X.”
The
25-year-old former multi-sport athlete with ties to Virginia also indicated
that he was facing many difficulties in his life that were adding up in recent
months, including unemployment and hunger, writing, “I haven’t had
much to lean on” because he faced “fear, hunger, loss of wealth,
and diminution of fruit.” In another post, he said there was “much
confusion in this day and age in my perspective,” citing “the
ongoing COVID crisis, unemployment, rising National Debt, division within the
political sphere, rumors of war and the like.”
He wrote that
“my faith is one of the only things that has been able to carry me
through these times and my faith is centered on the belief of the Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan as Jesus, the Messiah, the final divine reminder in
our midst.”
For a time, he
wrote, the Nation of Islam teachings helped him “graduate with distinction,
earn a well-paying job straight out of college, and pursue my graduate degree,
despite not growing up in the best of circumstances. My ultimate goal was to
learn business.” He said he wanted to improve “the communities of
the black and brown” in the United States. However, he wrote that he was
no longer on that path, saying, “the path has been thwarted, as Allah
(God) has chosen me for other things. Throughout life I have set goals,
attained them, set higher ones, and then been required to sacrifice those
things.” That post was on March 17, 2021.
Britannica calls Muhammad the
“leader of the black separatist religious movement known as the Nation of
Islam (sometimes called Black Muslims) in the United States.” Farrakhan is a
Nation of Islam leader noted for his Black separatist teachings and
anti-Semitic comments.
The Southern
Poverty Law Center considers the Nation of Islam a hate group,
writing that it considers whites “devils,” and indicating,
“Since its founding in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has grown into one
of the wealthiest and best-known organizations in black America. Its theology
of innate black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, antisemitic and
anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders have earned the NOI a prominent position in
the ranks of organized hate.”
The Facebook
posts reviewed by Heavy did not mention any presidents or political parties;
they seemed fixated instead on Nation of Islam religious teachings and a sense
of a troubled world.
The suspect
was first named by MSNBC’s Pete Williams and other NBC journalists, who
said he was 25 years old and from Indiana. Authorities have not yet confirmed
the name.
The slain
officer was named by Capitol police as 18-year veteran William “Billy”
Evans. Read a tribute to him here.
“NBC’s
Pete Williams reports on @MSNBC: The suspect in Capitol Police incident is a 25 year old Indiana man named Noah Green. May have lived in
Virginia. On his Facebook page, he notes that he is a follower of the Nation of
Islam. Suspect is now dead,” MSNBC’s Jesse Rodriguez
wrote on Twitter. MSNBC reported that it had confirmed the page was
Green’s. Heavy has also identified the Facebook page; Heavy saved photos
and posts from it before it was deleted, and you can read some of them later in
this article.
“BREAKING
/ NBC News: Multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the
investigation say Noah Green, 25 year old male, from
Indiana is the person who attacked the Capitol today,” wrote NBC journalist Tom Winter.
Earlier in the
afternoon, acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda
Pittman delivered grim news: That Evans died in the attack.
It’s not clear whether he was injured by Green’s car or his knife;
police said the suspect used both as weapons against the law enforcement
officers.
Pittman said
in a news conference, “It is with a very heavy heart that I announce that
one of our officers has succumbed to his injuries.” A procession for the
slain officer unfolded through the Washington D.C. streets.
Earlier in the
afternoon, acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda
Pittman delivered grim news: That Evans died in the attack.
It’s not clear whether he was injured by Green’s car or his knife;
police said the suspect used both as weapons against the law enforcement
officers.
Pittman said
in a news conference, “It is with a very heavy heart that I announce that
one of our officers has succumbed to his injuries.” A procession for the
slain officer unfolded through the Washington D.C. streets.
The latest
attack happened on the afternoon of April 2, 2021, and led to a lockdown of the
Capitol as debate continues to swirl in Congress about security measures at the
historic building. It comes as the Capitol police have faced significant trauma
since the January pro-Trump riots that injured multiple officers. Officer Brian Sicknick died
shortly after being bear sprayed on January 6, and others have committed
suicide. The death of Evans also comes during the first week of former police
officer Derek Chauvin‘s trial
in Minnesota for the death of George Floyd, which sparked ongoing anger toward
law enforcement.
Here’s
what you need to know:
1. Green
Shared Videos by Farrakhan & a ‘Certificate of Completion’ From
the Nation of Islam, Writing That He Was Currently Unemployed
On March 17, Green
posted a “certificate of completion” from the Nation of Islam. It
was labeled “Saviors’ Day Gift 2021” and was presented to
Noah X of Norfolk, Virginia for “recognition of your sacrifice in making
your word bond and completing your 2021 saviors’ day gift in the amount
of $1,085.”
On his
Facebook page, Green shared a video of the Reverend Louis Farrakhan. It was a
YouTube video called the “Crucifixion of Michael Jackson.”
According to the
SPLC, the Nation of Islam’s founders “held that over
6,000 years ago, the black race lived in a paradise on earth that was destroyed
by the evil wizard Yacub, who created the white
‘devil’ through a scientific process called
‘grafting.'”
They
“preached of a coming apocalyptic overthrow of white domination,
insisting that the dominion of evil was to end with God’s appearance on
earth. … Following this, NOI predicts an epic struggle in which the
Nation of Islam will play a key role in preparing and educating the Original
People, who ruled the earth in peace and prosperity until …
‘blue-eyed devils’ came along to gum things up.” It adds,
“The Nation of Islam teaches that intermarriage or race mixing should be
prohibited.”
“I
encourage everyone to study Revelations, study the signs of end times, study
who the beast is, study who the anti-Christ is, study who the false prophet is,
and study the created images during those times,” Green wrote on Facebook
on March 17, 2021.
“The
Minister is here to save me and the rest of humanity, even if it means facing
death. Be willing to deny yourself and follow him, pick up your cross. The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad (his teacher, the exalted Christ) is alive and in
power (I bear witness). Study the Minister, watch his lectures, study Elijah
Muhammad, study the mother wheel (which is present here in America [I bear
witness again]). We have a little time.”
In another
post, also on March 17, Green indicated that he was having myriad difficulties
in his life, which he called “some of the biggest, unimaginable
tests.”
He said he was
“currently now unemployed after I left my job partly due to afflictions,
but ultimately in search of a spiritual journey.”
On March 21,
Green wrote, “Satan’s rule over us is up.”
He cited
Elijah Muhammad’s teachings again, writing, “ALLAH SAID, ‘I
have prepared for My righteous slaves as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has
ever heard…”
Green shared a
link to an Elijah Muhammad article titled “Lull Before The Storm.” That story starts, “I am afraid for
you, that you will receive what the people before you did receive. Allah (God)
is very angry with America and the tricknology that she uses on the dead to
keep them dead. You are very disappointing to Allah (God) and to the original
Black man who knows himself (a very few) of course.”
The article
continues, “America wants to destroy God and me, and she wants to destroy
you by deceiving you against following me. America lifts up all of my
hypocrites and advises you to follow them, while she knows that you will be the
loser.”
Green also
published a post about “self-proclaimed”
herbal healer Dr. Sebi.
2. Green Once
Played Football for a University & Was a Multi-Sport Athlete for a Division
II School; Police Say He Lunged Toward Them With a
Knife & They Shot Him Dead
Green once
played football for Christopher Newport University Athletics, according to
their brief online biography of him.
The website
says he was a defensive back, who was 5-foot-11 and weighed 180 pounds. He was
a junior at the time of the bio. His hometown was listed as Covington,
Virginia, and his high school was listed as “Alleghany.”
The website
says that in 2016, Green “appeared in nine games during his first season
with the Captains…Made 22 tackles, including 16 solo stops…Broke up
a pair of passes and recovered a fumble…Posted his finest performance
against Kean when he registered four solo and two assisted tackles for a
season-high 6 stops…Also picked up three solo tackles against TCNJ and
Rowan…Recovered a fumble and made three stops against Frostburg
State.”
Before CNU he
was a “multi-sport athlete at NCAA Division II Glenville
State…Played in 10 games as a defensive back for the Pioneers, making
five tackles…Also a sprinter on the Glenville State track & field
team, seeing action in six events…At Alleghany HS, played both ways for
the Mountaineers as a running back and defensive back…Earned
All-District, All-Conference, and team MVP honors in 2013…Also a member
of the track team, earning All-District and All-Conference honors in two
events.”
Capitol police
chief Pittman said that the attack started with the suspect ramming his car
into two officers.
“The
suspect rammed his car into two of our officers and then hit the north
barricade barrier,” she said in a press conference.
“The suspect exited the vehicle with a knife in hand. Our officers then
engaged that suspect. He did not respond to verbal commands. The suspect did
start lunging toward U.S. Capitol Police officers at which time U.S Capitol
Police officers fired upon the suspect. The suspect has been pronounced
deceased.”
Two officers
were taken to the hospital, where Evans died.
“This
has been an extremely difficult time for U.S. Capitol Police after the events
of January 6,” said Pittman.
Capitol police
later wrote on Twitter, “Due to the external security threat
at the North Barricade of the U.S. Capitol, the following road closures are in
effect: Constitution Avenue between Second Street NE and First Street NW. First
Street between Constitution Avenue NE and Independence Avenue SE.”
3. The
University Bio Says That Green Wished He Could Have Met Malcolm X, Majored in
Business & Has 9 Siblings
The CNU biography gives
some details about Green, including that he wished he could have met Malcolm X.
“Personal
— Noah Ricardo Green was born in Fairlea, W. Va…Son of Mazie and Newotn
Green…Has seven sisters and two brothers…Favorite sports
personality is Russell Westbrook…Dream vacation is a trip to
Jamaica…Person in history he’d most like to meet is Malcolm
X…Most impressive person met is his grandmother…Favorite movie is
Spiderman…Majoring in Business,” the brief biography reads.
Chief Robert
Contee of Washington Metropolitan Police said in the afternoon press conference
that the homicide unit is taking over the investigation in connection with the
“shooting death that occurred as well as the officer’s
death.” He said there was not an “ongoing threat.”
Capitol
Police initially wrote
on Twitter: “CRITICAL INCIDENT: USCP is responding to the
North Barricade vehicle access point along Independence Avenue for reports
someone rammed a vehicle into two USCP officers. A suspect is in custody. Both
officers are injured. All three have been transported to the hospital.”
4. Green
Wasn’t Known to Capitol Police & Authorities Don’t Believe the
Attack Was ‘Terrorism-Related’
Contee said it
doesn’t appear Green was known to the Capitol police previously. He said
it doesn’t appear that the attack was terrorism-related, but he said
police will continue to investigate.
MSNBC reported
that police don’t believe Green was tied to a larger plot, at least
preliminarily.
In addition to
his posts about the Nation of Islam, Green also posted an episode of a Facebook
sports talk show called “For the Record,” captioned, “five
black female coaches sit down to talk about a real issue: The racial divide in
NCAA coaching.”
The incident
made for a frightening day at the U.S. Capitol as reports broke out first of
gunfire, then of the car-ramming and then the officer’s death.
It was a
traumatic day for Congresspeople still recovering from the effects of the
January 6 riots. The House and Senate are on recess this
week, but lawmakers shared messages about the attack on social media.
Representative
Ro Khanna wrote on Twitter, “I’m safe and locked down
here at the Capitol. Thankful today & every day for the US Capitol
Police.” In a later post
he wrote, “When I was elected to Congress, I never once
thought it would be a dangerous place.”
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi tweeted that Evans is “a martyr for our democracy”
and called his death “tragic & heroic.”
Senator Mitch
McConnell wrote on Twitter that he was
“heartbroken” and asked his followers to “pray for healing
for the surviving officer, comfort for Officer Evans’s family, and for
all the officers and families of the United States Capitol Police.”
Representative
Ro Khanna wrote on Twitter, “I’m safe and locked down here at the
Capitol. Thankful today & every day for the US Capitol Police.”
5. Police Shot
Green Dead at the Scene
Pittman said
officers shot Green to death at the scene. That explained early reports of
gunfire.
NBC also
reported: “A spokesperson for the Washington D.C. Fire
and EMS Department says at least one person has been shot near the U.S.
Capitol.” That person turned out to be Noah Green.
You can see a
roundup of videos from the scene here.
A fence was
erected around the Capitol building after the January 6 attack, but USA Today
reported that it remains “contentious.”
Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader, leads 'Death to America'
chant in Iran
By Caleb Parke | Fox News
November 5, 2018
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite who recently
compared Jewish people to termites, led a "Death to America" chant
Sunday during a solidarity trip to Iran.
Farrakhan's trip came ahead of the Trump administration's re-implementation of
U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic on Monday.
Speaking to law school students at the University of Tehran, the 85-year-old
Farrakhan said “America has never been a democracy,” and also led a
“Death to Israel” chant at the end of his talk, according to
Iranian news agencies.
“Today, I warn the American government that sanctioning Iran is a big
mistake,” he said at a meeting with the Secretary of Iran’s
Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaei. Farrakhan noted his belief America is
conspiring against Iran.
Farrakhan's trip coincided with the 39th anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the
U.S. embassy in Tehran, when more than 50 American diplomats and civilians were
held hostage for 444 days. The incident kicked off the Islamic Revolution, and
Farrakhan told an Iranian audience that black Americans should be considered
among the revolutionaries. The infamous activist cited the actions of Iran's
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeni, who ordered the
release of black Americans among the 1979 captives.
Video of Farrakhan leading a “Death to America” chant once again
sparked calls for Democratic leaders to distance themselves from the controversial
figure. Several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama,
have interacted or taken pictures with Farrakhan.
Donald Trump Jr. slammed Democrats Monday on Twitter.
“When will the democrats disavow this guy? Answer: NEVER,” Trump
Jr. tweeted.
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz called on “all decent people”
to condemn Farrakhan after he tweeted he wasn’t
anti-Semite but “anti-termite.”
"Nazis use the word 'termites' to dehumanize Jews and accuse them of
destroying everything good about the world," Dershowitz explained on
"FOX & Friends."
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, known as America’s Rabbi, also called on leaders
to condemn him.
“A new low for arch Jew-hater Farrakhan,” Boteach tweeted.
“Who has heard of an American going to a foreign country and chanting
‘Death to America?’ Where is Bill Clinton who appeared with him
recently, and Barack Obama, photographed with him, and Cory Booker to condemn
him?”
Farrakhan has previously said “powerful Jews are my enemy” and
“white folks are going down.”
Linda Sarsour, a Women’s March co-founder and
pro-Palestinian activist, has repeatedly praised Farrakhan and refused to
condemn him. Tamika Mallory, another Women’s March leader, called him the
“GOAT” or “Greatest of all time,” and served as a
national organizer for his “Justice or Else” rally in 2015.
Israeli activist, Hen Mazzig, tweeted out video of
the "Death to America" chant.
"Nothing, Linda Sarsour?" Mazzig wrote.
Thousands chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ for
Farrakhan in Detroit
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
BY KYLE OLSON
The Nation of Islam had its annual gathering in Detroit over the weekend and
thousands of attendees chanted “Allahu Akbar” as Louis Farrakhan
made his way onto the stage.
During his appearance at Joe Louis Arena, Farrakhan denounced Jews and told
them they are not God’s “chosen” people.
“I want to disabuse the Jews today of the false claim that you are the
chosen of God — that Israel or Palestine belongs to you,” he said.
“I want to disabuse you of that. I’m going to tell you about your
future. You that think you have power to frighten and dominate the peoples of
the world. I’m here to announce the end of your time,” Farrakhan
said, slamming his hand on the podium.
He blamed the world’s ills on white people.
“For 6,000 years, the people of the earth have suffered under a
mischief-making rule. Bloodshed and war, hatred and strife, all because a man
with a new color — or the lack thereof — thought that he was better
than all of those who inhabited the earth before he was even a thought,”
Farrakhan said.
“But I am here to announce today the end of his world and the beginning
of a brand new reality that all human beings will
enjoy peace, freedom justice and equality under the rule of Allah.”
Farrakhan said he wants to work with Barack Obama to curb Chicago’s
out-of-control violence.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Farrakhan also directed remarks to former President Barack Obama:
“Let’s have coffee” to talk about ways to help Chicago and avoid
having to bring in troops.