Nation of islam - Farrakhan

I chose a brief video which shows Minister Louis Farrakhan (leader of the Nation Of Islam) talking about the White Man as being the devil. I already knew who Farrakhan was but after watching "Malcom X" by Spike Lee I learned more about the organisation in which he has power over at this time.

The Nation of Islam believe in separatism as opposed to Martin Luther King's "dream" of integration. Seperation is seen as a kind of last resort if no terms of equality can be reached:


In an 13 April 1997 interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Louis Farrakhan to explain the Nation of Islam's view on separation:

Tim Russert: "Once a week, on the back page [of your newspaper] is The Muslim Program, 'What the Muslims Want' [written in 1965]. The first is in terms of territory, 'Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.' Is that your view in 1997, a separate state for Black Americans?"

Minister Louis Farrakhan: "First, the program starts with number one. That is number four. The first part of that program is that we want freedom, a full and complete freedom. The second is, we want justice. We want equal justice under the law, and we want justice applied equally to all, regardless of race or class or color. And the third is that we want equality. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society. If we can get that within the political, economic, social system of America, there's no need for point number four. But if we cannot get along in peace after giving America 400 years of our service and sweat and labor, then, of course, separation would be the solution to our race problem."

Instead of promoting equality between races the Nation of Islam is an organisation based on Islam which believes that the black man is the superior race, this view can be seen as understandable becasue of the turmoil in which their race has been sujected to in America's history but this is just driving a bigger divide between people of different colour than bringing them together.

Belief	Traditional Islam	Nation of Islam
God	Allah is one, who has no partners	Wallace D. Fard came as God incarnate (God is the black man)
Muhammad	The final prophet of Islam, no one comes after him	Elijah Muhammad is the prophet to tell about incarnation of Fard
Race	All are equal regardless of color of skin, judged on behavior	The original black race of man is superior
Creation	Allah created the universe, first humans were Adam and Eve	Black scientists created the plan which repeats every 25,000 years
Qur'an	Revealed to Muhammad from God through the Angel Gabriel	Black scientists created and revealed the Bible and the Qur'an
Sharia law	Sacred rules and laws of Islamic life, based on Qur'an and Sunnah	Not followed, created own, such as 4-6pm meal or avoid white-flour cake meals