Nation of Islam, What They Actually Teach

Kyle Rogers
CoCC
July 29, 2013

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America must be burned” – Louis Farrakhan, 2008

“By devil, we mean the Caucasian people” – Louis Farrakhan, 1989

The Nation of Islam [NOI] is a large religious cult that forms the core of the American “Black Power” movement. They own several large properties that serve as regional headquarters. They run numerous Mosques and businesses around the nation. They even have several black only private schools that receive taxpayer support. Prior to the US war on Libya, they had a major foreign sponsor. The man whom Obama describes as his “mentor” is closely tied to the group. Major black celebrities, such as Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and Dave Chapelle are members.

The NOI was founded by Wallace Fard. He was born in Hawaii to a white father and a Hawaiian Native mother. He was also a convicted drug dealer. He started the NOI in Detroit in 1929 and claimed to be a prophet of Allah. He vanished in 1934, and was never seen again.

Elijah Muhammad took over the NOI. He “revealed” to followers that Wallace Fard had been Allah, and that Fard had left in a space ship. Today the NOI teaches that Fard was the “Grand Mahdi” of Islam and was “all knowing.” Fard, according to NOI, was “an Arab from Mecca.” NOI teaches that Elijah Muhammad was a prophet of Allah.

Muhammad wrote several books, which the NOI treats as holy books. His book Message to the Black Man explains the origin of the races. The entire book can be read online.

It says that black people were building space ships before the creation of white people.
White people were created by an evil wizard 6,000 years ago.
White people are literally devils and demons.
Monkeys, Dogs, and Swine are descended from white people.
Black people taught white people how to walk on two legs and be civilized.
White people have tormented black people relentlessly since their creation.

Elijah Muhammad also wrote Fall of America. This book details an apocalyptic race war. Muhammad says that Allah will burn America with fire and the white race will be exterminated from North America. He says that eventually all white people will be exterminated from the earth.

The NOI surged during the 50s and early 60s with a charismatic spokesman named Malcom X. However, after Malcom X visited Mecca, he split with the Nation of Islam. He said that he had met “white Arabs” and decided that not all white people were bad. He was gunned down in a crowded Mosque shortly after.

The son of Elijah Muhammad, Warith Deen Muhammad, took over the NOI for one year after his father’s death. His father had excommunicated him repeatedly for disputing the divinity of Wallace Fard, but always let him back in. In 1976 Warith Muhammad renounced NOI theology and led a group of NOI followers in a mass conversion to Sunni Islam. He formally disbanded the NOI.

Louis Farrakhan started a new NOI with himself as the leader. Farrakhan is usually accused of being behind the murder of Malcolm X. In 1993, Farrakhan gave a speech in which he appears to accept responsibility for and justifies the killing on Malcolm X for “treason.”

Farrakhan is well known for his belief in UFOs. He says “they follow me wherever I go.” Farrakhan claims that a giant ship known as “the mother plane” is orbiting the earth. He says it was built by black people before the creation of the white race. Sitting on top of the mother plane is New Jerusalem. Inside the giant ship are1,500 UFO bombers. These bombers will destroy the United States military and aid in the extermination of all white people.

​Farrakhan has his own uniformed elite guard known as the “Fruit of Islam.” They are sometimes seen wearing matching suits with bowties and sometime in matching uniforms with “FOI” on their hats.

There are numerous groups associated with the NOI. One is the 5% Nation of Gods and Earths. This is an NOI splinter group that also counts major black celebrities as members. Rap stars Busta Rhymes, Nas, and the members of Wu-Tang Clan belong to the 5% Nation.

However, the most high profile group is the New Black Panther Party [NBPP]. The NBPP advocates NOI theology and calls Louis Farrakhan their “spiritual father.” The group was taken over by Dr. Khallid Muhammed in the 90s. He was the former National Youth Minister of the NOI. Its current leader is Malik Zulu Shabazz, who says “there is no division between the NBPP and the NOI.”

Khallid Muhammed called himself “Farrakhan’s Flamethrower” and was notorious for violent rhetoric. Numerous leaders of the NBPP have been recorded calling for violent race war.The groups claims that it is involved in paramilitary training. Despite their rhetoric, the group has no problem getting black celebrities to associate with them

Al Sharpton spoke at a NBPP rally in Harlem in 1998. Rap star Master P provided financial support for the rally. In 2010, grammy winning pop star Andre 3000 spoke at a NBPP conference in Atlanta, GA. Former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney also spoke at the 2010 conference and has numerous connections to the group.

There are also associated groups. Rev. Jeramiah Wright, who Obama calls his “mentor,” has close ties to the NOI. Wright studied Islam in college. His masters’ degree is in Islam, not Christianity. He preaches something he calls “Black Liberation Theology.” Christianity is second to the goal of “Black Liberation.” Wright is a follower of James Cones, who started Black Liberation Theology and wrote Black Theology and Black Power. Malcolm X is widely credited as being Cone’s biggest inspiration.

Wright is part of Louis Farrakhan’s inner circle and accompanied Farrakhan to meet Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi twice.

There are also multiple “Jewish” versions of the NOI. The Black Hebrew Israelites and the Nation of Yahweh are militant Black Power religious cults based around Judiasm instead of Islam or Christianity. Members of the Nation of Yahweh have been convicted of fourteen murders in Florida. These groups preach that blacks are “Gods’ Chosen People,” and that an apocalyptic race war is coming.

The greatest proliferators of NOI theology, including its belief in a race war, are black celebrities in the hip hop and ganster rap music genres. The greatest offender is probably rap star and actor Ice Cube. Not only did he place NOI theology and race war lyrics in many songs, he gravatated towards the most extreme personalities. In the early 90s, he brought then NOI Nation Youth Minister Dr. Khallid Muhammad into the recording studio. He recorded voice overs of Khallid making derogatory statements about white people for at least two of his albums. Both albums reached #1 on the R&B/HipHop charts and reached #2 and #5 on the Billboard 200.

In the song “Enemy,” Ice Cub lays out the NOI belief in a coming race war. It starts off with a voice over from Khallid Muhammad calling white people “the Enemy” and calling the rhetoric of Martin Luther King “sick.”The following are some lyrics from the song.

​bust a gloc, bust a gloc, devils get shot [“devils” means white people]
nappy-headed, no-dreded look where ya read it
​buck the devil, buck the devil, look who said it
listen what I say after 1995 not one devil will be alive
god will survive, him protect the civilized [“civilized” means a black Muslim]
who really cares if the enemy lives or dies?

with the boom ping ping is the ring from the fire
me not afraid, cause me know Elijah [Elijah Muhammad, prophet in the NOI]

I know that Farrakhan is your baby Jesus
devil don’t you know I’m a soldier?

now it’s Judgement Day, and Allah’ll never play
“freedom got an AK,” them Guerilla say
Bobby Seale said, “please make it rough, bro” [Bobby Seal was a Black Panther Leader]
when God give the word, me herd like the buffalo [Waiting for a sign to begin murdering white people]
through your neighborhood, watch me blast
tribe of Shabazz, get in that ass [Tribe of Shabazz are the original black people in NOI theology]

sent me a subpoena
cause I kill more crackas then Bosnia, Herzegovina

now you treat me like a germ
cause your scared of the super sperm
please don’t bust til you see, the whites of his eyes
the whites of his skin, the whites of his lies

Ice Cube brought the Nation of Islam, and its belief in an apocalyptic race war, into the homes of an entire generation of black youth.

Nation of Islam theology has inspired atrocities. The San Fransisco Bay area “Zebra Killers” are among the most prolific serial killers in US history. They were a group of NOI followers who wanted to start the race war early. They formed a cell called the “Black Angels of Death.” They awarded points for killing white people. Several members eventually went to prison for the murder of twelve whites, and several attempted murders, during 1973 and 1974. However, local police believed them to be responsible for many more.

Retired SFPD Lt. Lou Calabro was an officer who investigated the Zebra Killers. I brought him to speak in Greenville, SC back in 2007. He said that police believe the Zebra Killers claimed seventy two victims or more. In 2011, three more Nation of Islam followers were convicted for three murders. One was a random white man. The triggerman was an admirer of the Zebra Killers and wanted to “earn his death wings.” Another victim was a black newspaper editor, they accused of being a race traitor.

One of the DC snipers was a former member of Farrakhan’s “Fruit of Islam.” In fact, he served as a bodyguard to Louis Farrakhan during the “Million Man March.”

​The Nation of Islam presents a serious problem for US race relations. Since race war is a religious tenet, the group must show that race relations are getting worse. If race relations improved, it would undermine the group’s theology.

Farrakhan recently concluded a speaking tour. He hinted that the prophesied race war is coming.At the University of Arkansas he said that he knew how long white people “were set to live.” Then he said “unless you [white people] change, your end has come.” At another speech he stated “let me acquaint you [America] with your destruction.”

It looks like a “post-racial” America is a long way off.