"Many say they do not like Minister Farrakhan because all they have heard is various soundbites," Pfleger said, praising the
Nation of Islam for "raising up strong, clean, nonviolent black men" and "saving lives."
She was familiar with the term: After tweeting about Farrakhan's anti-Semitism, she had noticed several
Nation of Islam supporters using it in their replies.
(28) Due to the efforts of the
Nation of Islam, the Dar ul-Islam Movement, the Moorish Science Temple of America, the WCIW, and other movements, Islam has become a highly influential and well-established force in the Black community.
Farrakhan's
Nation of Islam is considered an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), a civil rights organisation.
New York, NY, August 15, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Journalist Leila Wills, author of Farrakhan, The Movie, has been researching the life of Louis Farrakhan for ten years and documenting the shocking “marriage” between the
Nation of Islam (NOI) and the Church of Scientology (COS).
A history of the
Nation of Islam; race, Islam, and the quest for freedom.
And at a public meeting in the town of Sanford where 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot last month, officials from the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and the
Nation of Islam urged residents to remain calm but demand that the shooter, George Zimmerman, be arrested.
Manning also consulted the FBI reports on Malcolm, and notes the massive number of converts, frequently former soldiers and convicts, to the
Nation of Islam in the postwar 1950s, and calls our attention to the arrival on the East Coast of a Caribbean calypso artist named Louis Walcott who joins, and remains with, the
Nation of Islam even after its decision to ban performers from membership.
A leader of the
Nation of Islam, Malcolm dared tell whites they were inferior to blacks and that they were a "race of devils" created by an evil scientist.
It follows Malcolm X's troubled youth, his parents' activism and his own involvement in the
Nation of Islam, and is based on extensive interviews with Louis Farrakhan and others, as well as previously unseen FBI files and details from the
Nation of Islam's own records.
They were members of the
Nation of Islam, a radical black rights group which Malcolm X had quit two years before.